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Hah, I like the idea of showing up to a blind date and opening with "So our LLMs told us we'd get along great, huh?".

A short story idea that's been in my head for years is a Google (or whichever all-knowing system) algorithm that gets 2 people to meet by showing them the correct ads to get them out of the house and to an e.g. concert. Fleshing it out: they get into conversation because they're e.g. both carrying books by a particular author because again they found this author through a Google ad. And 3 weeks later they ran into each other again at another event advertised to them..



This is approximately the premise of the Black Mirror episode "Hang the DJ"



So a system that creates artificial serendipitous encounters which are in fact "deeply planned", basically.


Maybe it's a group of men in hats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H78XCiJamXc


And we know exactly where that leads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM4okRvCg2g


wow, forgot all about this movie, I remember it being cool, thanks for reminding me to put it on my "collector list"!


There’s a Black Mirror about exactly this




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