Why the question “How would you design a city so that more people fall in love?” » does this seem like an absurd question? It shouldn’t be https://t.co/Z2GfCYEOjo
-Tyler Alterman (@TylerAlterman) April 28, 2024
Suggested GPT-4o:
“1. **Corners of serendipity**:
– Create spaces designed to encourage unexpected encounters. For example, interactive art installations or quirky features can serve as conversation starters. These could change frequently to keep the city vibrant, such as rotating sculptures or murals with interactive elements like touch-activated sound…
3. **Social enigmas**:
– Install public games or puzzles that require collaboration from multiple people. These can range from giant chess boards to augmented reality scavenger hunts that encourage teams to work together to solve clues scattered around the city.
Claude’s answers were in the same direction. For an economic answer, how about “increasing the municipal tax on earned income”? Love is not taxed, but income from work is. Additionally, it is relatively difficult to establish romantic relationships in many types of workplaces today. (Of course, subsidies for “staying in town” would need to be offset, so as to balance the budget.) Taxing women’s education is another bad idea, but if the unconstrained goal is to increase the number of couples in love, this could also work.
What else?
