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To look at it another way, some people have a natural advantage in life that they did not earn. This helps even that playing field.
Hogwash. Life is full of inequalities; the very nature of evolution is inequality. Visit Eastasia or Eurasia if you want an equal outcome civilization.
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> we are made in the image and likeness of God. We are all little images of God, and if we truly understand that we have inherent dignity, then nobody can take that from us, no matter how poor or ugly or uneducated we are. That's pretty easy when you invent a God. Rhetorical non-sense aside, fact is that appearance matters to people a lot... as does age. Making up rhetoric does not fix any of this, and only makes peo…
> fact is that appearance matters to people a lot Appearance matters even taking God into account. How we dress is a silent way of communicating to others what we value, what our business is, what kind of extra dignities we have, and how we think of others. If for no good reason, the President went to the store in either his pajamas or renaissance clothing at 2pm on a Wednesday, he wouldn't be conveying his dignity a…
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I believe vanity of some sort is an innately human trait, I doubt societal changes will eliminate it. Rather I see a future that the reporter was alluding to, where our bodies are just as customizable as a digital filter like the streamer used. Who knows, as crazy as it may sound, perhaps in a few hundred years most social interaction will be "assisted" by VR, AR, or some other reality changing technology where we do…
That VR future idea sounds horrifying to me. I want to know the genuine person, not fakery. It just ruins the point of any relationship for me...which is to share experience, honestly, vulnerability. If it all becomes a performance then why do we even need people? Just some AI pretending to be some character is good enough.
Mot actually possible, since we all wear masks, depending on who we’re around. In the office, I am different from when I’m remote, which is different from when I hang out with my RPG buddies, which is different from my church face, etc.
There’s a different drivingmenuts for many occasions, but they are all me. Just different me’s.
This is normal for everyone.
The one thing I don’t do is mask up to defraud people knowingly.
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> fact is that appearance matters to people a lot Appearance matters even taking God into account. How we dress is a silent way of communicating to others what we value, what our business is, what kind of extra dignities we have, and how we think of others. If for no good reason, the President went to the store in either his pajamas or renaissance clothing at 2pm on a Wednesday, he wouldn't be conveying his dignity a…
I have some bad news for you about the Presidential Twitter feed.
This is just a form of digital makeup. I predict that using a young attractive avatar will become the social norm and this sort of thing will be entirely unobjectionable within a decade.
David Foster Wallace predicted not only that, but its rise and fall. http://declineofscarcity.com/?page_id=2527
I'm reminded of a Nebula(?) Award winning short story about hive-rats interacting with nobility in the 'future'. The nobility is shrouded in apperance/voice/stim tech such that the AIs are more the person than anything. A princess is brought to the under-city by her father to a shop that can fix the princess' tech, as it is malfunctioning. The daughter of the shop owner tries to peer into the princess' life and psyche as the shop owner tries to fix the princess. The princess has implants that stimulate her face, voice, and body to say the right things at the right times, to move the right way, that changes her face via lightsheets to be most beautiful to the observer she is with, that causes her to say just the right thing at just the right time and be increbily witty. But the daughter of the shop owner tries to peer through the tech to see the woman behind the veil. She discovers that the person behind it all is nearly mute and has the intelligence of an infant. The tech had been installed before ego formation and the person behind it all didn't really exist. She discovers it is also true of the man that brought the princess down to them too. The entire nobility is essentially faking it.
I am SO sorry that I cannot find the link to the actual story. If anyone has the title or author, I would love to know!
I know this is tangential to the whole thing, but this is a cool feature of the Chinese language: >The story has been incredibly popular across Chinese social networks with more than 600 million people reading posts that use a hashtag which translates to "female vlogger experiences bug showing her old lady face" and more than 50,000 using the hashtag itself. In english, you're never going to get a twitter trend of #F…
Good chance it's actually just 6 to 7 syllables long. So, not just writing but compact speech too.
So, the compactness really is more just on the writing side.
[1] "A cross-language perspective on speech information rate" https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/16e6/43a9e39674c58acd7cdf56...
The importance of the 'Don't believe everything on the internet' advice is becoming increasingly important these days, as there are many Wizards of Oz out there hiding behind the computer screen and Instagram/Snapchat filters.
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Male beauty is not valued as highly among men and women as female beauty. It's all too easy to speculate on the evolutionary and sociocultural reasons why, but it is the reality.
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"Beauty is only skin-deep, but the perceived absence of beauty may lead to damaging social bias. Compared to men, women may suffer more from social anxiety, prejudice, and inequality based on their appearance [1,2]. To comprehend beauty-related socio-cultural phenomena, many studies have examined the pursuit of beauty related to body image, body perception, a body-related self-concept, and body satisfaction [3–5]. These studies have clarified factors that impact and result in the pursuit of beauty. However, although numerous previous studies on these aspects of beauty have been conducted, there is still a considerable controversy about why women, in particular, are focused on with a beautiful appearance."
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> quite sad. I wonder if you can expand on that.
1. If you have enough money to throw around $2,000, you should be able to invest in yourself enough to get real attention, not buy it. If you can't, due to some dysfunction, that's sad. Not sad in a derogatory sense, but sad in the sense that you are so *cked that even $400,000/year can't fix it. 2. If it's not play money, it's sad how irresponsible the person is. This isn't exactly complicated.