kontextmaschine:

Okay after giving it time to establish and do its deep learning, Facebook Dating seems to optimize for class/educational achievement compatibility better than any other dating thing I’ve seen, which I guess makes sense given FB started as a Harvard Hot or Not and when I signed on it was largely about clarifying which of your Ivy League classmates were available. Flatteringly it seems to class me with girls with 2-3 year postgrad degrees from good schools, though it’s still in the process of realizing nursing degrees mean something different

@soulvomit said: assortative mating in action which will deepen class divides into caste over a few generations

: and our tech is gonna speed it along

Yeah, it used to be that doctors married their nurses, academics married the girls who typed their papers and compensated for their autism as social secretaries… my mother was my dad’s paralegal once