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Singapore pilots government dating service with Nobel-winning algorithm

Original: Singapore's government has launched a pilot scheme for a dating service using a Nobel Prize-winning matchmaking algorith

Singapore's government has launched a pilot scheme for a dating service that uses a matchmaking algorithm recognised with a Nobel Prize, drawing on the Gale-Shapley matching work honoured in economics. The move, reported by the Financial Times, is being discussed as an unusual example of a state stepping directly into citizens' romantic lives, part of Singapore's wider efforts to encourage dating and marriage amid declining birth rates.

Why now: A government-run dating service is an unusual intervention that touches on Singapore's low birth rate and debates about state involvement in private life.

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