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an idea about Elon Musk announcing a plan to fund 100 women/year to have his children through sperm banks, in 10 generations (1 generation/year), with fully paid support and tutoring for life for the kids, and regularly schedule reunions of generations / the whole group. It was at attempt to re-introduce cloning style massively parallel reproduction to the human species. That was what I thought this story would be ab…
How is a phone supposed to passively collect information about sexual positions? "By asking about sexual positions and female orgasms, for example, the app is collecting data on oft-cited but little-researched possible factors in successful conception. The founders say that physicians have already signed on to use this data in studies. And eventually, Levchin said, they hope to make the data collection totally passiv…
Simple, just prop up your phone and video yourselves having sex. Like a Kinect, it can detect the position of your bodies. And it can analyze the audio to determine if the female orgasmed. And then the video will be automatically uploaded to the NSA.
I think they are on to something - this part for me stood out (quote from Max Levchin) "Anything that can be measured, you record—and it’s applied to things like managing your weight, or deciding how likely you are to dope in the Tour de France. But with infertility? You get a Xerox from the 1960s.”
And, even if someone's ovulating or not-ovulating... it's often moot when it comes to whether to opt for fertility treatment. It's much more about time spent trying already, and finances.
This app is a "me-too" app
How is a phone supposed to passively collect information about sexual positions? "By asking about sexual positions and female orgasms, for example, the app is collecting data on oft-cited but little-researched possible factors in successful conception. The founders say that physicians have already signed on to use this data in studies. And eventually, Levchin said, they hope to make the data collection totally passiv…
It would take some guesswork. But there are fairly characteristic rhythmic motions in sex that you can look for. The various angles and rhythm is correlated with the sexual position. Comparing hand-entered data with actual data would let you discover these correlations.
(More creepy would be listening to the microphone and guessing from that...)