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Facial recognition has all sorts of problems, but I think it's funny that the first problem we have with it is related to sex. Like, we have all this great tech

by jbob2000 11y ago

Facial recognition has all sorts of problems, but I think it's funny that the first problem we have with it is related to sex. Like, we have all this great technology, but at the end of the day, we're still a bunch of hairless monkeys (or ugly-bags-of-water, if you're into obscure references).

disremembered 11y ago
It is funny how many technologies are introduced the mass market by relating to sex. As smart as we might be, survival and reproduction are still core genetic imperatives.
- hartpuff 11y ago
  > It is funny how many technologies are introduced the mass market by relating to sex. This kind of claim is often made (often by smut mongers), but I don't remember (though may have forgotten) ever seeing any examples that really back up the claim. Can you list some?
  - tmptmp 11y ago
    >>This kind of claim is often made (often by smut mongers), but I don't remember (though may have forgotten) ever seeing any examples that really back up the claim. Can you list some? Let me try: Not just technologies, even religions have used sex to sell themselves. Take the kind of things that are sold (in terms of unsubstantiated guarantees of carnal pleasures in heaven after death if you follow the code of conduct proscribed by God(s) via his appointed messengers) you will see that a very large part of this promise is some kind of abundant sex (akin to unlimited download/upload). See for example this sales pitch. [1] [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdzusekB8cg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdzusekB8cg
    - hartpuff 11y ago
      Thanks for your reply. That's an argument about 'sex sells' though. Like car exhibitions or Microsoft Xbox conventions using scantily clad women. What I meant (and I think the parent of my post was talking about, though I could be wrong) is the old chestnut that the sex/adult industry innovated or popularized all kinds of technologies.
      - disremembered 11y ago
        Sex sells far more than its own depiction.
biot 11y ago
From one obscurist to another, it's mostly water.
- kragen 11y ago
  It's not even obscure: the reference has 67 upvotes on UrbanDictionary, and the page for the referenced episode has existed for 13 years and 363 edits on Memory Alpha, and for 11 years and 371 edits on Wikipedia. There's a "liquid remix" video of the quote on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tw_5OfFycU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tw_5OfFycU There's a white-people "jazz" song named after it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEORdH7RzYw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEORdH7RzYw Josh Woodward has done another rock/pop song probably referencing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYptvK41Bi4&list=PLDZvNEf3nY-7KtbhOABef7sS3UnqrMqBg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYptvK41Bi4&list=PLDZvNEf3nY...
  - biot 11y ago
    I don't see any evidence that those people are a sufficiently random sample of users vs. Trek nerds who explicitly search for the obscure reference. I'm sure I could find some obscure mathematical reference that 7000 math nerds discuss but is completely unknown by the remaining 99.9999% of the population.
random28345 11y ago
They're made out of meat. http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
- toomuchtodo 11y ago
  Always love when this short story pops up!
joe_the_user 11y ago
It would funnier if your family and friends were given messages about your intimate activities, jbob Edit: I can't see the main being that this "is about sex" but rather that this is about privacy and privacy is things people do that for a variety of reasons they don't want some people to know about. Certain sexual behaviors are included here but it seems far from funny or far from "bringing things down to earth", given that what happening is a variety of women suffering in a socially repressive nation.

disremembered 11y ago

It is funny how many technologies are introduced the mass market by relating to sex. As smart as we might be, survival and reproduction are still core genetic imperatives.

hartpuff 11y ago
> It is funny how many technologies are introduced the mass market by relating to sex. This kind of claim is often made (often by smut mongers), but I don't remember (though may have forgotten) ever seeing any examples that really back up the claim. Can you list some?
- tmptmp 11y ago
  >>This kind of claim is often made (often by smut mongers), but I don't remember (though may have forgotten) ever seeing any examples that really back up the claim. Can you list some? Let me try: Not just technologies, even religions have used sex to sell themselves. Take the kind of things that are sold (in terms of unsubstantiated guarantees of carnal pleasures in heaven after death if you follow the code of conduct proscribed by God(s) via his appointed messengers) you will see that a very large part of this promise is some kind of abundant sex (akin to unlimited download/upload). See for example this sales pitch. [1] [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdzusekB8cg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdzusekB8cg
  - hartpuff 11y ago
    Thanks for your reply. That's an argument about 'sex sells' though. Like car exhibitions or Microsoft Xbox conventions using scantily clad women. What I meant (and I think the parent of my post was talking about, though I could be wrong) is the old chestnut that the sex/adult industry innovated or popularized all kinds of technologies.
    - disremembered 11y ago
      Sex sells far more than its own depiction.

biot 11y ago

From one obscurist to another, it's mostly water.

kragen 11y ago
It's not even obscure: the reference has 67 upvotes on UrbanDictionary, and the page for the referenced episode has existed for 13 years and 363 edits on Memory Alpha, and for 11 years and 371 edits on Wikipedia. There's a "liquid remix" video of the quote on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tw_5OfFycU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tw_5OfFycU There's a white-people "jazz" song named after it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEORdH7RzYw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEORdH7RzYw Josh Woodward has done another rock/pop song probably referencing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYptvK41Bi4&list=PLDZvNEf3nY-7KtbhOABef7sS3UnqrMqBg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYptvK41Bi4&list=PLDZvNEf3nY...
- biot 11y ago
  I don't see any evidence that those people are a sufficiently random sample of users vs. Trek nerds who explicitly search for the obscure reference. I'm sure I could find some obscure mathematical reference that 7000 math nerds discuss but is completely unknown by the remaining 99.9999% of the population.

random28345 11y ago

They're made out of meat. http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html

toomuchtodo 11y ago
Always love when this short story pops up!

joe_the_user 11y ago

It would funnier if your family and friends were given messages about your intimate activities, jbob Edit: I can't see the main being that this "is about sex" but rather that this is about privacy and privacy is things people do that for a variety of reasons they don't want some people to know about. Certain sexual behaviors are included here but it seems far from funny or far from "bringing things down to earth", given that what happening is a variety of women suffering in a socially repressive nation.