"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
> Interesting. So, we could see a situation where the programmers start
> buying business suits again, because the suits are the only wearable items
> expensive enough - and voluminous enough - to contain decent-sized
> computers. Male geeks wearing suits, female geeks wearing three layers of
> gowns... computer modeling of what people look like under their clothes...
> 900Mhz encrypted flirting... wearable computing could have an interesting
> effect on sexual morality.
Not to mention if someone managed to come up with a decent expert system
on flirting and the like (heaven knows there's enough domain experts out
there to codify rules that work). Especially if it could be trained to
learn what its user really does get jollies from, as opposed to what the
user claims (and maybe honestly believes) is desired.
I get a mental picture of two women in a bar. One is reciting a
stereotypical rant about how there are no good men available. Her
friend gets a disgusted look on her face, pulls out a small screen, and
keys up a radar-like display of all males that her systems classify as
"generic good" and "unattached" within a 50 meter radius.
> There are three killer apps in the mating game. One is for stereotypical
> males, and it automatically dresses all women in bikinis or leather
> catsuits, depending on taste. The second is for stereotypical females,
> and it broadcasts a body image that's thirty pounds lighter than reality.
> (Needless to say, there's a large synergy between these two applications,
> so they'd better be able to interoperate.) The third is for people who
> don't use either app, and it automatically tags other people who don't use
> either app.
It would behoove the third if the first and second communicated to it,
and this might in fact also be useful to the first two (on the premise
that those who use the third are squares whom users of the first two
probably don't want anything to do with anyway).
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