Unfortunately I can't attend, so I'll leave my dating app idea here for amusement's sake.
There was a study published where they studied the stated versus revealed dating preferences, and "smells good" was the item rated fourth, above "honest", "understanding", and "attractive". A combination of gas chromatography and machine learning clustering should be able to find the principle components by which human scents are distinguished for a recommender system (eg. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.01.504602v4.full). There's also a free bonus in that the odor sample drop-off and initial smell sampling will need to take place in a physical location, so you can also do things like verify the stated height and other physical characteristics while you are at it.
Lol yeah, I don't really take the smell thing thaaaat seriously, it's more signaling a particular direction that I think would appeal to current dating app haters.
There are a population of people who want to have essentially an arranged marriages but do not actually want an actual arranged marriage (for some reason like they don't think people they are compatible with are in the arranged marriage pool, or they don't think their parents or matchmaker actually understands them and their preferences). So they want something like a technologically-mediated matchmaking instead. This is the underlying motivation for something like the OKCupid style compatibility score. But just like compatibility by picture (Tinder) doesn't fully cover everything, neither does matching only by values. There's something that is missing, a je ne sais quois. Smell could be sold as that missing item, something in addition to questionnaire-derived values, personality type, and physical attraction, all combined together in order to create a more complete compatibility matching (more data points for our eventual AI overload-matchmakers).
One of the big problems with coupling, IMO, is that most people would never want to be part of a club that would have them. Especially if they have to put themselves out there to get into the club. Matchmaking solves this
Unfortunately I can't attend, so I'll leave my dating app idea here for amusement's sake.
There was a study published where they studied the stated versus revealed dating preferences, and "smells good" was the item rated fourth, above "honest", "understanding", and "attractive". A combination of gas chromatography and machine learning clustering should be able to find the principle components by which human scents are distinguished for a recommender system (eg. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.01.504602v4.full). There's also a free bonus in that the odor sample drop-off and initial smell sampling will need to take place in a physical location, so you can also do things like verify the stated height and other physical characteristics while you are at it.
Lol, that's amazing. I do think a lot of matches don't work out and it basically comes down to smell or something like that
Lol yeah, I don't really take the smell thing thaaaat seriously, it's more signaling a particular direction that I think would appeal to current dating app haters.
There are a population of people who want to have essentially an arranged marriages but do not actually want an actual arranged marriage (for some reason like they don't think people they are compatible with are in the arranged marriage pool, or they don't think their parents or matchmaker actually understands them and their preferences). So they want something like a technologically-mediated matchmaking instead. This is the underlying motivation for something like the OKCupid style compatibility score. But just like compatibility by picture (Tinder) doesn't fully cover everything, neither does matching only by values. There's something that is missing, a je ne sais quois. Smell could be sold as that missing item, something in addition to questionnaire-derived values, personality type, and physical attraction, all combined together in order to create a more complete compatibility matching (more data points for our eventual AI overload-matchmakers).
One of the big problems with coupling, IMO, is that most people would never want to be part of a club that would have them. Especially if they have to put themselves out there to get into the club. Matchmaking solves this