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Published · transcript-backedCraig Newmark: uncertainty
29 Apr 2026 Conversations with Tyler Craig Newmark on Institutional Maintenance, Giving Away Control, and the Internet We Were Promised (Live at 92NY)
“I don’t know because to have a gut feeling of them, I’d have to use them. Let’s say that they hit their stride after I had gotten involved with the future Mrs.”
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- Speaker
- Craig Newmark
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- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 29 Apr 2026
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…Why don’t dating apps work better? If we mostly can trust people, right? The first date, you spend more than nine seconds with them. There’s many marriages from missed connections where you’ve even officiated, perhaps, yet everyone says dating apps are terrible. I don’t know because to have a gut feeling of them, I’d have to use them. Let’s say that they hit their stride after I had gotten involved with the future Mrs. Newmark. I sense the opportunity for comedy coming on that will get me in trouble. Even alluding to that will probably get me in trouble after Eileen watches this. You know many smart people who articulate their concerns to you. I hear from people all the time, dating apps are terrible. Why dating apps are terrible? There’s gender imbalance if it’s New York City, or people just want something other than a long-term relationship. You don’t have an implicit mental model of what’s going wrong?…
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