Adam Lane Smith
speaker
1,798 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 22 Jun
Adam Lane Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They were pre-filtered.
You had 15 or 20 years of data on them already.
You knew what their toilet training habits were like.
You knew what their favorite food was.
You knew if they wanted commitment or not.
You knew everyone they'd ever slept with.
You knew everything about their history.
And they came incentivized to be polite and honest with you because their network would hurt them if they didn't.
so you were safe that was just 30 years ago and 20 no 12 of them met through what we called at the time computer dating computer dating was 12 at the time 30 years ago now those numbers have reversed 12 meet through family and friend networks now
and 65% meet through the dating apps.
I think the reason for that is not that the dating apps are better, they're worse.
The reason for that is that people don't have family friend networks anymore.
Like you said, you would date, you'd date through your community, you'd date through your church network, you'd date, so your friends set you up.
That's what people were doing.
And for all of human history, we had what was called assisted marriage.
It's not where you're assigned a partner and you're forced to marry them.
It's people go, hey,
I have someone for you.
Do you want to meet them?
Yeah, sure.
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