Researchers tried to use AI and machine learning to predict which singles would fall in love with each other. They failed completely. The conclusion: love emerges in the interaction itself and cannot be predicted from any combination of individual variables about the two people.
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Mark lands what he considers the decisive blow in his prosecution: everything Drew praised — stability, health, happiness — belongs to marriage, not to love. And for the vast majority of human history, those two things were deliberately kept separate. Among the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians, romantic love was regarded with suspicion, even fear, precisely because it drove poor decisions. Marriage was a political and economic institution, negotiated between families to manage social risk. In medieval Western Europe — the only place where individuals had any say in the matter, thanks to specific Catholic Church laws — parents agonized over preventing love matches. Shakespeare's contemporaries who watched Romeo and Juliet saw it as a terrifying warning, not a celebration. The idea that you should marry the person you love only emerged in the 19th century, propelled by utilitarian philosophers like Bentham and Mill and then romanticized into mainstream culture through the Romantic literary movement. [1] — Mark Manson "Marrying for love is a radical 19th-century Western experiment, not an ancient human truth. For most of history, marriage was a political a…" 30:35 Mark also observes that countries with arranged marriages — India being the primary example — consistently show lower divorce rates, driven largely by expectations: spouses are not expected to be each other's everything. He closes with a striking research finding: AI matchmaking models, fed every conceivable variable about individuals, completely failed to predict who would fall in love with whom — because chemistry emerges from the interaction itself, not from individual profiles.
Marrying for love is a radical 19th-century Western experiment, not an ancient human truth. For most of history, marriage was a political and economic institution — and Shakespeare's contemporaries saw Romeo and Juliet not as a romance, but as a cautionary tale about what happens when you let teenagers follow their hearts.
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