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There was a great short story by Ted Chiang about the biases that surround physical attractiveness. In the story, people could have a brain implant to suppress
by NickM 2y ago
There was a great short story by Ted Chiang about the biases that surround physical attractiveness. In the story, people could have a brain implant to suppress the brain’s ability to judge other's beauty (or lack thereof). It was pretty thought-provoking and not the typical predicable dystopian parable that most brain modification stories fall into.
I find it fascinating that people seem to care so little about this particular bias when compared to other types of discrimination.
- vkou 2y agoIt's very difficult to quantify this one.
- scarmig 2y agoIs it? The actual discrimination can be quantified in a typical way. Attractiveness is only a bit trickier, but there's a high degree of agreement on attractive vs unattractive. Give a team of raters a group of people, present them pairs of people and ask them to select the more attractive one. Then you can create an average ordering, which you can map to whatever numerical range you want, and that score would be highly predictive of what future raters (and the real world) would find attractive.
- cyanydeez 2y agoBasically the same way most people are rating LLMs. Beauty is only subjective in the abstract.
- bookofjoe 2y ago>"Liking What You See: A Documentary" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Ted Chiang, published in the 2002 collection "Stories of Your Life and Others." >Plot summary The novelette examines the cultural effects of a noninvasive medical procedure that induces a visual agnosia toward physical beauty. The story is told as a series of interviews about a reversible procedure called calliagnosia, which eliminates a person's ability to perceive physical beauty. The story's central character is Tamera Lyons, a first-year student who grew up with calliagnosia but wants to experience life without it. Story: https://waldyrious.neocities.org/ted_chiang/liking-what-you-see-a-documentary https://waldyrious.neocities.org/ted_chiang/liking-what-you-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liking_What_You_See:_A_Documentary#:~:text=Plot%20summary,-The%20novelette%20examines&text=The%20story%20is%20told%20as,to%20experience%20life%20without%20it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liking_What_You_See:_A_Documen....