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The academic reason why Mark Zuckerberg is responsible for people having unsatisfied love lives
The problem is the acoustics. The literal lack of sound. The language patters have to be imprinted on people using actual acoustic pavlov responses to behavior training. Sanskrit as the root language of hindi and farsi the root language of Punjabi all share the same acoustic tones. You don’t really need to know what is being said it’s the tone and the intonation that gets encoded as human behavior.
The same statement made in multiple Indian languages has the exact same tones. So no one cares what the mom really said everyone knows moms mad.
The English language is being spoken without tonation. In addition it is not being spoken at all we are typing. Without the actual sounds a human being cannot create emotional bonds with a shell computer. One can only create strong attachment on one side. For example, if two people are talking on bumble- each person has a stereotype of the other created. They are falling for that stereotype and injecting their own acoustics etc into the conversation. But when u meet, no one measures up to the other persons fake fantacy. So everyone is disappointed and pretending to be cool. No one will be happy. Ur not dating a profile u date a person.
Until their voice gets involved everything is just a guess. What does love SOUND like for each mood. Each person. What kind of love is being expressed. Needs to be clairiged with the acoustics. This is what triggers most human and…