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It's almost ironic that we're progressing through a social evolution where we have to have conversations with people to understand their desired pronoun; while

It's almost ironic that we're progressing through a social evolution where we have to have conversations with people to understand their desired pronoun; while at the same time developing software that will suffer the same fate. Appearances mean nothing, but that's all (this) software can use. Perhaps a small badge with visual friendly metadata would be handy. Not that we need to give them more information of course, just thinking out loud. The idea of everyone walking around with a little badge on their chest containing their metadata is oddly dystopian haha.

supahfly_remix 7y ago
> The idea of everyone walking around with a little badge on their chest containing their metadata is oddly dystopian haha. This idea was tried before, but for just a subset of the population, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp_badge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp_badge
- jfk13 7y ago
  FWIW, it's started appearing on conference badges in some circles: Name, affiliation, role, pronouns.
- asdkhadsj 7y ago
  That's a bit dramatic to my comment, imo. You could say the same for police, or any institution that uses identifying information - even uniforms. Like it or not we all have piles of metadata that follow us around. A big one is our face. It won't take long for facial recognition to do the same thing I mentioned in the previous post; except you won't have a choice then. Hell, you won't even know. The metadata badge idea was of course not serious; but it doesn't seem so farfetched to me or absolutely terrible. It (as I proposed it), at least, would be something you controlled. Which, unlike state IDs, licenses or Nazi' camp badges are not something you would control. I do not appreciate the extreme association with a free-thought idea to that of the worst massacre in history. I'll assume you meant no harm, but still - I figured I had to at least express clarification.

supahfly_remix 7y ago

> The idea of everyone walking around with a little badge on their chest containing their metadata is oddly dystopian haha. This idea was tried before, but for just a subset of the population, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp_badge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp_badge

jfk13 7y ago
FWIW, it's started appearing on conference badges in some circles: Name, affiliation, role, pronouns.
asdkhadsj 7y ago
That's a bit dramatic to my comment, imo. You could say the same for police, or any institution that uses identifying information - even uniforms. Like it or not we all have piles of metadata that follow us around. A big one is our face. It won't take long for facial recognition to do the same thing I mentioned in the previous post; except you won't have a choice then. Hell, you won't even know. The metadata badge idea was of course not serious; but it doesn't seem so farfetched to me or absolutely terrible. It (as I proposed it), at least, would be something you controlled. Which, unlike state IDs, licenses or Nazi' camp badges are not something you would control. I do not appreciate the extreme association with a free-thought idea to that of the worst massacre in history. I'll assume you meant no harm, but still - I figured I had to at least express clarification.