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> I would love to have smart glasses that show the name of someone I've met before but don't quite remember. Or you could just tell them you don't remember. I
by the_other 5y ago
> I would love to have smart glasses that show the name of someone I've met before but don't quite remember.
Or you could just tell them you don't remember. It's rarely rude. It's better to be human. We all forget stuff all the time. If we stopped imagining that everyone else is holding everyone else to impossible levels of "quality" we'd all be much better off. Just admit you don't remember their name. If you feel really bad about it, work in a little story about what you do remember about them. If you don't remember anything, then the meeting wasn't important to you so just let it go. If it was somehow important to them, there'll be a way to resolve this. Or there won't and you'll have a lost a friend but all of that is better than hiding your humanity behind a robot.
Perhaps we need to issue a new "Turning Test". Can a human tell the difference between a human and a human with machine assistance? And does it matter?
- whimsicalism 5y ago> Or you could just tell them you don't remember. It's rarely rude. It's better to be human. We all forget stuff all the time. I've decided that I must be atypical around name recall for some reason or another. I often do ask, because as you said it is human to forget, but I find myself forgetting like 3 times in the course of a conversation sometimes, I could really use a machine of this sort.
- jdavis703 5y agoFace blindness probably operates on a spectrum. I too aren’t face blind, but often struggle to remember the names of infrequent contacts until I get some other prompt, like vocal recognition. I assume this is less of a genetic problem, but related to having undiagnosed myopia as a child when perhaps facial recognition pathways are in a critical development stage.
- whimsicalism 5y agoI think for me it is genetic, my dad is also very bad at this - although he is more confidently wrong than I am.
- jdavis703 5y agoFor sure it could be genetic for a subset of people — I unintentionally ruled that out.
- unsungNovelty 5y agoGreat! But if it is not without the consent of the person involved though, it is your "convenience" breaching someone else's privacy. I think it is important to think about this.
- jdavis703 5y agoI don’t see how organic facial recognition is any worse than electronic recognition. Evidently some people can take a simple wanted or missing persons person and solve a case. But for me that ability feels like magic. How is having an aid, like facial recognition glasses, any worse? This of course assumes a non-scalable offline system. Obviously something online like China’s social credit system is more of a breach.
- jjj123 5y agoI am definitely anti facial recognition in general, precisely because of your second point. If I felt there were reasonable incentives for recognition to stay offline/individual scale that would be fine with me. But obviously we’re heading in the opposite direction, where corporations use facial recognition to gather even more data on users for ad dollars, and governments use it to surveil citizens for “national security.” I don’t want to help either of those initiatives, so for now I’m strictly anti facial recognition, even for benign use cases at the micro level.
- drusepth 5y agoIs it really breaching someone's privacy to assist your own memory of the things they've chosen to (repeatedly) tell you?
- jjj123 5y agoI think the breach of privacy is giving an almost trillion dollar corporation free training data via my face and name combination. I don’t mind an individual knowing this information, but I’d rather that individual not hand that data over to a megacorp that has a million other unknown uses for it.