Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied to Initial Attraction

Re:Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied ... by tunesmith on Thursday August 31, 2017 @03:32PM (#15143155)

It's also so timing-dependent. My wife and I are not sure we would have been attracted to each other if we had met during quite a few other times in our past lives. There have to be some factors about a person that are about timing and emotional state, beyond simply just being single and available.

EDIT: "past lives" refers to the past of each of our lives, not reincarnation. :-)

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Re:Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied ... by jamez1 on Thursday August 31, 2017 @06:40PM (#15144589)

I would think for most people their 18 year old self isn't anything like their 30 year old self.

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Re:Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied ... by d33 on Thursday August 31, 2017 @03:55PM (#15143351)

What's strange about what he wrote?

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Re:Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied ... by smellf on Thursday August 31, 2017 @05:23PM (#15144064)

"Met a few other times in our past lives"

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Re:Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied ... by mlevental on Friday September 01, 2017 @05:49AM (#15147218)

he means in different careers. people use that turn of phrase all the time.

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Re:Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied ... by duncan_bayne on Thursday August 31, 2017 @06:20PM (#15144457)

But are you attracted to him? ;)

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Re:Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied ... by azeirah on Thursday August 31, 2017 @05:00PM (#15143879)

Uhhh.. Care to elaborate?

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Re:Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied ... by gexla on Thursday August 31, 2017 @09:48PM (#15145531)

Incidentally, getting some "strange" is often a source for romantic desire.

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