None. Someday, some company will build and sell a tool that actually does that, and it will be hella privacy invasive. Actually, it'll probably just be another invasive feature added to the Ray Ban perv glasses.
If it's objective truth, sweet! Motherload I can asking anyone the a question to the secrets of the universe and know whether they're wild guess was true!
If it's subjective truth, also useful, but you know just lies or ignorance detector
This reminds me of this animated YT video in which timers are displayed above peoples' heads that show the amount of seconds passed since that person last shit their pants:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WgbI5orsSMY
Over night, social hierarchies are upturned, respect is earned and lost based on that number.
You could cheese this by picking a statistic for something like "likelihood to agree if asked for a favor". I'm not going to stress over the wording on how to make it most useful, but something like that could be interesting.
Or something like "amount of undiagnosed cancers" if you want to save people.
I was going to hold back on this one, but then i read the comments section:
Willingness to give head on a scale of 1-100. the Stat could have different color codes though, so I could "at a glance" some further info. (like bright red means they probably have an STI, regardless of the number, or lavender over a woman means she prefers "tacos" if you catch my meaning, dark green could mean they are down with little convincing, you know, "that sort of thing.")
I'm expecting to confirm my suspicions that the numbers are not as high as the spicy sites would have you believe.
Quality of Life impact: How much damage (or benefit) their actions (work, lifestyle, whatever) have done for the net quality of life across the globe. I figure anyone who drives to work is probably doing a little more harm than good, but perhaps they make up for it by being a good school teacher or something, whereas AI coders might make things worse ... but mostly I'd like to see if ANY world leaders score in the positive.
This wouldn't impart any useful information in a world where rapist pedophiles get time served and protesters get a life sentence for being adjacent to another crime handing out zines.
Nobody's at zero. It's been said that the average American commits 3 felonies per day. The law is so long that you couldn't read it in a lifetime. There are more criminalized actions than you can imagine.
I feel like this would be a misleading measure. My dad has been self medicating anxiety, adhd, trauma, and potentially autism with pot for about 40 years, in our state an oz is 6 months on first offence. If we only count that on his usual consumption rate, baring any time he's got extra, tried other things, or the myriad of other dubious things he's gotten into, he's lookimg at 1,440 years in jail. If you add anything about quality, growing, having large amounts, that's going to skyrocket. In comparison, a double homicide nets you 100 points in this hypothetical.
Put my stoner dad next to a serial pedophile with 10 victims below the age of 12 and my dad looks like a fucking monster.
Fuck, I didn't think about that. The only reason I didn't starve to death in highschool was the money i made torrenting moves and selling bootlegs of new or obscure films and games. I'd make Manson look like rookie numbers...
This works only if all laws are correct. Otherwise you end up seeing "100 years" for copyright infringement. In the world you imagined, who cares why they have 100 years on em? The never-can-be-bad law is always correct, and a 100 year sentence is always just and good. Otherwise who gives a fuck?
So does everyone have a 1:1 relationship to each other? For example I will see a 6 above my dad's head, but you'll see a 20? (yes, I'm implying you fart way more than me)
or maybe between 0 and 1. that way it would be easier to see if the topic that I've decided is super interesting and won't shut up about is interesting to the to the other person as well. If I start seeing the number dropping quickly, time to change topics or just walk away.
Some kind of "empathy score." Not sure what the formula would be, but it would reflect how readily they feel empathy for another person, and how many other people they can care about.
A narcissist would have a 0 -- they can only care about themself. Someone with very limited empathy would have a small number -- say, they can only care about their immediate family, and they need to really get to know someone before they care about that person. People who naturally care about others, even if they don't know the other person, would have high numbers.
This number would sometimes just flat out tell you that certain people should be avoided, or certain conversations are pointless with that person. Or if you do need to try to convince them of something, the number may show you how to frame the conversation. E.g., show how it's in their own interest if they have a low number.
I'd add in a modifier for people on the spectrum. Like, the number is low, but that's due to an underdeveloped social ability, not because they are sociopaths.
Oh, I didn't see any other rules specified in the question :) So, isn't the fact that I can see everyone's stat above their head already a privacy violation to begin with? Also, am I the only one who gets to see a chosen stat or can other people also choose a stat that only they can see?
It doesn't specify, but if everyone could see it the implications would be more pressing than the question itself. If only one person, or just a select few people, in the world can see it it's not a widespread privacy violation. Just like only a select few people are (supposed) to have access to private information in the real world for it to not be a privacy violation.
Presumably with questions like others can see different stats if they chose one. And even if only you saw it you could be super unethical and MAKE it a widespread privacy violation by showing social security, credit card, etc. info and stealing whatever you could as much as you could.
Yeah, but those select few are given access for a specific need, like to be able to give you health care or pay your salary, etc. If even just a few randos could see whatever stat they want about all of us for no reason than their own wishes, I'd definitely consider that a violation of our privacy, even if they kept the info to themselves and even more so if it was something they could exploit. But all this is getting away from the spirit of the question.
Oh awesome. I'd love something like that, and do think we need to kind of train every person to understand and analyze others empathy better. Because this is a major problem when selecting, voting or promoting people into position of power. Every time there is a competition for a promotion, the ones that care the least about anything but more power or money or influence will be statistically more likely to advance. The more self serving the better. So at the top end you have function sociopaths who are very adept at lying about themselves or even to themselves.
Detecting purely self-serving or greedy people would be awesome and should be taught and trained for in school as basic political education. You know like math or PT is taught and trained. And candidates for political power should be put through some kind of "psychological gauntlet" to make it at least more likely they show they care or believe in something besides gaining more power.
It might also be possible to create a kind of AI models to evaluate and analyze people seeking power. Like some sort of lie detector test observing every reaction and every word and tonal shift in a conversation with the machine. Something like the interrogation in Blade Runner or "The Expanse" Season 1. Of course a bit of a ludicrous idea.
Might be better to just pick someone at random, quite likely to get better world leaders like that.
But this remains a fundamental problem of any hierarchical system, no matter if capitalism or socialism. We are now in an age where humanity can easily destroy itself, and we have collectively chosen, or proven unable, to save ourselves from the existential danger of climate change. And despite our "advances in ethics" in general, we're still ruled by total shits. And no matter what system we choose the problem will persist. Lack of empathy is a very strong indicator for that.
Sorry for the long rant lol
FYI, I believe you use narcissist wrong, because generally they "weaponize empathy" to manipulate people. They absolutely need to maintain a false glamorous mirror image of their own ego (or they die) and will use all sorts of rationalizations or delusions to keep that up. From a young age they need to pretend and for that they need to read people very well. And as long as they see you as one of the awesome people they'll charm you, but if they see you as one of the shit people they'll flip and treat you like dirt. And no amount of time will change that lol.
I can't tell if that would end up depressing the crap out of me or making me feel better about the world. My pessimistic brain tells me there are far more un-empathic people in the world than I'd like to acknowledge.
No, not really. There are a LOT of very unempathic people who are super easy to scam (MAGA), and being empathetic doesn't mean you fall for scams easily. You'd want something like a gullibility score for that.
The way it works doesn't even involve compatibility, so much. It's just how much you've conversed over time without incident, like monkeys grooming each other.
Since HP were originally invented as how many "equvalent penetrative 14 inch shells" are needed to sink a ship, its save to assume, every human has 1HP.
Monkey paw's finger curls: You can see them. They're EVERYWHERE. People you thought you knew and loved have numbers greater than zero over their head. Despite your horror, you try to make use of the power to try to bring them to justice. No one believes you. You have the Cassandra's curse of the status quo. 'Steve? What are you talking about? He'd never do anything like that. Butter wouldn't melt. You should probably shut your mouth before we get offended about what you said about our friend and kick the shit out of you. Know what I mean?' You watch the news and see everyone who has a position of power over you and your loved ones has a non-zero number. You try to escape into fictional media but your favorite actors are non-zeroes, the author pictures in your favorite books show non-zeroes, the album sleeves of your favorite bands show non-zeroes.
I heard in america, that FBI says there are few serial killers around that never get caught. They probably have a system or lack thereof.
Some media sources have cited estimates suggesting there may be 25 to 50 active serial killers in the United States at a given time, though the FBI has stated that the true number cannot be quantified.
And then you befriend a stranger on the internet. You are nervous at first but you can't see them, so you can imagine their number is zero. You hit it off. They're amazing. Funny. Sweet. Kind. Hardworking. The relationship turns into a distant romance. Then you finally meet. You had no idea the number could go that high.
Would it be their preferred name or legal name? What about people who go by different names in different contexts? For example, William at work, but Bill with friends & family? Or stage names? Or professional titles?
Since it’s updated in real time, people would get to update that as they see fit. A trans lady who’s not out at work might be Sophie at the bar, but Leon in the office, for example.
(And then I kept it when I transitioned, and now she says it’s too feminine and she wishes she didn’t. No backsies, mom! It’s mine and I’ll never be your son.)
How willing they are to talk to you right now. You can always pick the right person to talk to if you need to ask a question, give a friend the exact amount of space they need if they’re going thru something, and easily identify people that are interested in you (or not). Best of all, though, you can spot someone who’s a little too eager to talk and avoid a hostage-style conversation where they won’t let you leave politely
Your eyes scan the room, skimming the numbers. Everyone is in their own conversation, 20, 35, 15, nothing promising until you spot an 85. Their back is turned but you make your way through the crowd to their side of the room. You say "Hey", and they turn, and as soon at they see you their number starts to drop. 75, 60 45, 10. Ouch, sometimes you wonder why you even try.
Similar to some other answers here, but "number of times they've deliberately lied". Not only do you get an instant "trustworthiness" stat, you also get to know if they're lying to you right now.
"I used to try to give them hope, because in this situation, hope... well it's really important... it sounds crazy to say, but often the state of mind can really influence their chances of survival. But, since that lie metric started appearing above people's heads... well now when they ask if there's any chance, I look them right in the eye and say you are fucked, I mean like super fucked."
maybe categorize it into white lie, black lie, red lie, gray lie etc, There is definitely times where a lie "can" be good. It doesn't change the fact that it's a lie but, lies that are made in the attempt to be well intended or to help someone are important to know as well.
Like for example, seeing someone with a really high red lie count would be a warning flag because that means they are willing to lie against their own best interests which can indicate issues with anger or rage. But someone with only white lies, or gray lies would be based less significantly as those are done with well intent to the target, either against or for the liars own best interests.
I mean this is some magic super ability so maybe it would work but if you had to like program it what is white/gray/black is highly subjective. If it uses the persons personal opinion some nasty people would list 0. I bet trump does not believe he has really lied often times. Now if its based on what I would consider white/gray/black that would be nice.
Whether someone thinks it's a lie or not doesn't matter. Although you do bring up a good point. Maybe having an additional category "mistaken lies" or something would help. It would also help decipher how often the person fact checks lol
gray in the case of lies doesn't mean gray areas, a grey lie when identifying lies actually means that the lie benefits both parties without causing harm to either side. A white lie is a lie that benefits the other party at the cost of the liar, a black lie only helps the liar at the cost of the other party, and a red lie hurts both the liar and the other party.
I would say that type of system could only be objective, while the intent does matter as well, I believe a lie that harms the other side, even when you meant otherwise would be either a red or a black lie, since it harms the other it can't be gray or white.
Similar to the other reply, it's a good idea and seemingly pragmatic, but we could spend a decade arguing over the pedantry of what qualifies as a lie and still not be done.
That's a very good angle, honing in on exactly the problem of lying.
"Intent" could get just as tricky. With all the various forms of psychosis, delusion, etc. it'd be tough to say whether someone "meant" to do something. (It's trickier than we'd usually like to admit even for a typical person.)
The same kind of problems exist around whether the speaker "knows" something to be false.
Then there's the problem of fiction. Bedtime stories, campfire stories...
And not exactly a technical problem, but what about a doctor who knowingly oversimplifies or otherwise intentionally twists his words in an attempt to get the patient to manage their condition optimally? Parents who lie about how something works to help their kids understand something or behave safely? Teachers who oversimplify physics lessons to present it in a way their students can grasp for now. Not exactly a technical problem maybe, but would we want "noble lies" to affect the counter? This is a little off track, just occurred to me and felt like writing it out 🤷♂️
This one doesn't pose a direct problem really but maybe helps me get to my point: what if people who rode a train moving at relativistic speeds when lightning struck both ends talk with someone who was watching from outside about when the lightning struck? Truth is tricky...
But making it, "how often did they attempt to intentionally deceive" as you suggested is a great approach imho. Maybe almost realistic. There's probably some biological indicators of that right? ... for non-psychopaths
It's a great thought and all, but wouldn't authors, actors, and other purveyors of fiction have really large numbers? Every politician would suddenly find a new found joy of reading fiction to children in hospitals.
A recent number would be more useful; last hour, last day. They might have had a food intolerance in the past which pushed the number stratospheric which they have since learned to avoid
Total net worth. No hidden assets or secret bank accounts. Every last cent that a person is worth. Also, it gets brighter/more noticeable whenever you're advocating for something that increases your net worth.
I feel like this would be the only way to get a lot of people to connect the dots.
It would need to include intangible wealth too, though. One of the big 20th century studies on poverty concluded there's a great deal of social mobility, because rich nepobabies on a gap year or at university were counted as having no income. (And if they'd been looking at wealth, maybe not much in their own name there, either)
then you start causing problems clocking and accidentally outing eggs and closeted trans people all over the place. even with perfect knowledge theres always politics...
Is "how much I would like them on a scale from 0 to 10 (with a resolution of like 0.01) if I got to know them at a deep level" allowed? Or is that cheating?
that might be nice, or you might find out you dont know your friends and loved ones as deeply as you thought, and if you did you wouldnt really like them at all.
(Or that most everyone is likable if you invest that time, and everybody is a 9+. The horror of finding that your political boogiemen are certainly charismatic and kind to their friends...)
Ive been kinda obsessed with truth my whole life and I recognize the more I do not speak truth the less I can recognize what it. It is problematic for sure. Its good we can choose not to speak.
the units for farts would be interesting. i would ask for total mass of fart for a more understandable value. number of farts would be kind of ambiguous cause someone could have lots of little farts or few huge farts. some asshole would choose those asinine equivalent volume units favored by the compressed gases industry, which no one would really understand.
It would be interesting to see this update in realtime. You see someone about to get in their car, with a death time 5 mins from now. You call out "hey", they stop, see you were talking to someone else. The date updates to 30 years in the future, as that momentary pause meant they won't be in the place they would have when someone runs a red light.
Somewhere unseen, someone's number changes from 20 years away to 5 mins away.
My thought was that it would be immutable. It wouldn't change even if I told them.
I don't think I'd tell very many people. It's not something I'd want people to know about me. Also, the few I told wouldn't believe me and if I proved to others that I knew this, I think they'd see me, rightly so, as some sort of freak. The temptation to ask would be overwhelming, but they don't really want to know.
It kind of ruins the concept if you can't use the information to change the outcome. Or maybe just makes it sad, every time you try to save someone they die at that time anyway. Then over time you work out that the clock knew what actions you were going to do, and by trying to interfere with the people with short times you actually caused their deaths.
When I was a kid I was once horribly racist to someone but I... was really bad at it? I didn't know any slurs I don't think, so I said "at least I'm not black" (the girl was Asian). Still feel bad about it though :( Not seen her for decades.
Just a simple binary 0 or 1 to indicate whether the person means what they said literally or figuratively.
I don't really care to invade people's privacy, even for altruistic-seeming reasons. I just need a hint about how to interpret a person every so often.
ROI being like, if you put effort in are they going to ghost you? or what type of stat are you looking for on your ROI.
I feel like if I had to judge myself my ROI would be pretty low because I'm pretty anti social, but like that's not because I don't want to be friends or am a bad friend I wouldn't say, I just tend to stick to myself unless invited to stuff and hang out in closed groups. So I feel like context on the ROI matters.
There are plenty of useful things, but I think I'll be a child and say the amount of time since they last farted. Though, that would be useful if you're about to walk into an elevator and you see someone's timer flip back to 0...
A number representing how positive or negative a person is going to respond to whatever I would speak that's on my mind right now. If it can be updated in real time, you can experiment with basically infinite scenarios on starting or continuing a conversation with someone to determine what's the best dialogue option to proceed with.
Nah half of the time it's "I'm from the future and [thing that nobody could know and which they have never even said or written down], we need you to do XYZ"
Rimworld: ... too much. 2k+. I need better hobbies. :D
I currently have a colony with 6 infertile cat people (3 couples with psychic bonds) who hate other people so much they refuse to recruit anyone, so they all became mechanitors. Randy is an asshole this time, though.
At least their DLC are mostly backwards compatible. Can't play Oxygen Not Included for a few months each time they release a new DLC. I'll get a crack and download my modlist, the moment it gets playable again.
Net worth. Assuming this number is seen by everyone not just me. This would end all keeping up with the Joneses, no posing with sports cars, no super rich people passing as having not enough. But also lots of crimes probably sadly.
There's a lot of great choices here. I personally lean towards trustworthiness/if they are being genuine or not with what they are saying, or the net worth one, but since those are taken I'll throw one more into the pot.
This might be more controversial but, a marquee banner with number of crimes committed by type. Nothing super detailed, but like have it say the type of crime, how long its been since committed, and whether they were actually guilty of the charge (not by the laws eyes, whether they actually were guilty of it)
this type of system would be basically useless almost 90% of the time after you have met them once, but, it could be super helpful for determining trustworthiness, how safe you are around them, intention and also whether or not the system failed them or not. It also would significantly speed up the current legal system, as every case would basically be a file the case, show up to the hearing and look at the tag and then verdict instead of spending months sometimes years fighting a lengthy legal battle.
Yea, I do agree we would see more services become paywalled as a result. Not that that would be a bad thing though, not every site would go that route, the main reason sites don't already is because they know that the typical user isn't going to pay money to access their site, they will just go elsewhere.
The way I can see it, the ad supported model would go away, then branch into a few ways:
Sites opt for a paywall on the individual scale; but this won't work as the everyday user isn't going to spend $ on every site they visit, so they will just visit sites that don't force a paywall
Sites opt into selective pay packages/subscriptions kind of like how cable worked, where you pay one provider, and it gets distributed across sites based on how much traffic each site got that was involved. I'm unsure how I feel about this route. If it's done right I wouldn't mind but, if it ends up being insane pricing like how cable was I wouldn't participate.
Sites tone down the amount of ads, as the only thing they are making money on now is user data tracking, which doesn't need a bunch of different ads on the system and also doesn't really require user interaction.
The two examples we have aren't great: video streaming and newspapers.
For video streaming, they try to create as much of a monopoly as possible and then extract value from you--enshittification. And even at this early stage, it's not the "ad-free" tier it's "ad-free^*^" tier.
For newspapers, rich people just buy them and blatantly use it for propaganda; they're willing to operate at an official loss if it saves them from regulation or taxes.
Not truly, but a new idea to them - that they got to using their own devices.
I think there are a lot of politicians that would have a lower number than some hardworking mountain man has.
You trying to come up with another unoriginal writing prompt?
I'd go with something like "number of times they genuinely helped another person without any obvious personal incentive to do so (excluding the general warm feeling one gets from doing this.)"
Pedophile or not pedophile. So I guess, how many children theyve gotten sexual gratification from would be the stat. I think I would be absolutely disgusted by that stat though.
I guess if you could figure out something more specific than "this person diddled a kid at some point", you could actually do that. You'd have to do some serious detective work, though.
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None. Someday, some company will build and sell a tool that actually does that, and it will be hella privacy invasive. Actually, it'll probably just be another invasive feature added to the Ray Ban perv glasses.
Times they told the truth.
If it's objective truth, sweet! Motherload I can asking anyone the a question to the secrets of the universe and know whether they're wild guess was true!
If it's subjective truth, also useful, but you know just lies or ignorance detector
Percentage on how likely someone is to be caught if they were murdered along with the coordinates of that location 48 hours from current time.
Just for curiosity.
Or maybe what everyone else said about farts or something
Number of days since they finished reading a book.
This reminds me of this animated YT video in which timers are displayed above peoples' heads that show the amount of seconds passed since that person last shit their pants: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WgbI5orsSMY
You could cheese this by picking a statistic for something like "likelihood to agree if asked for a favor". I'm not going to stress over the wording on how to make it most useful, but something like that could be interesting.
Or something like "amount of undiagnosed cancers" if you want to save people.
Their name.
Happiness.
How many people's livelihood can be affected by their decision.
Number of hugs
I was going to hold back on this one, but then i read the comments section:
Willingness to give head on a scale of 1-100. the Stat could have different color codes though, so I could "at a glance" some further info. (like bright red means they probably have an STI, regardless of the number, or lavender over a woman means she prefers "tacos" if you catch my meaning, dark green could mean they are down with little convincing, you know, "that sort of thing.")
I'm expecting to confirm my suspicions that the numbers are not as high as the spicy sites would have you believe.
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Unquantifiable using any sort of objective metric
Threat level.
blood sugar
Quality of Life impact: How much damage (or benefit) their actions (work, lifestyle, whatever) have done for the net quality of life across the globe. I figure anyone who drives to work is probably doing a little more harm than good, but perhaps they make up for it by being a good school teacher or something, whereas AI coders might make things worse ... but mostly I'd like to see if ANY world leaders score in the positive.
So basically The Good Place’s score system.
Number of times they've lied
It would be hard to count lies by omission which is a key data point in someone's honesty I feel
True but if I care about something I will directly ask tbh. People have burned me hard with lies by omission.
came to say this. You talking to someone and that metric is going up. Nice to know. To bad its just in person.
Last time they had sex
lifetime number of orgasms
"Wait, wasn't your number just 753,494? Why is it a 5 now? You've been sitting right here the whole... Oh no. Now it's a 6? Why"
"Say 'whole' again..."
Their net benefit (or harm) to humanity; measured in QALYs.
A generalization on the crimes score, but it also tells me who to befriend. I'm not a utilitarian, but it still seems like helpful data.
I'll bite. "QALYs"?
"Quality-adjusted Life Year"
It's the plural of QALY
SAT Score.
Purely for dick-measuring.
Number of cumulative years they would be imprisoned for, had they been caught and convicted of every single crime they ever committed.
I'm betting most adults are not at zero.
Crime is such a subjective, context and time dépendant metric that it makes no sense to use here.
Are you one of those people who thinks things being legal equates to things being moral?
This wouldn't impart any useful information in a world where rapist pedophiles get time served and protesters get a life sentence for being adjacent to another crime handing out zines.
Nobody's at zero. It's been said that the average American commits 3 felonies per day. The law is so long that you couldn't read it in a lifetime. There are more criminalized actions than you can imagine.
this is going to be of limited use do to wierd laws and going to be vastly different for someone country by country
I feel like this would be a misleading measure. My dad has been self medicating anxiety, adhd, trauma, and potentially autism with pot for about 40 years, in our state an oz is 6 months on first offence. If we only count that on his usual consumption rate, baring any time he's got extra, tried other things, or the myriad of other dubious things he's gotten into, he's lookimg at 1,440 years in jail. If you add anything about quality, growing, having large amounts, that's going to skyrocket. In comparison, a double homicide nets you 100 points in this hypothetical.
Put my stoner dad next to a serial pedophile with 10 victims below the age of 12 and my dad looks like a fucking monster.
Oh, I'm probably up to 1000 years just for listening to music from the internet.
Maybe the number should exclude victimless crimes.
Fuck, I didn't think about that. The only reason I didn't starve to death in highschool was the money i made torrenting moves and selling bootlegs of new or obscure films and games. I'd make Manson look like rookie numbers...
Nah, it's more fun to guess if the dude with 1000 years over their head is a serial killer of was in high school during the Napster/Gnutella years
Why?
You can't fix it until you can measure it.
If everyone knew this number about everybody, a lot of stupid laws would change overnight.
This works only if all laws are correct. Otherwise you end up seeing "100 years" for copyright infringement. In the world you imagined, who cares why they have 100 years on em? The never-can-be-bad law is always correct, and a 100 year sentence is always just and good. Otherwise who gives a fuck?
The number of times we've farted at the same time.
So does everyone have a 1:1 relationship to each other? For example I will see a 6 above my dad's head, but you'll see a 20? (yes, I'm implying you fart way more than me)
Yes 1:1 but maybe we just eat more meals/fart at the same time than your Dad
If you can find someone who has been farting non-stop since before you were born, you'd also be able to find out how many times you've farted.
Genius. Cut the AI and space exploration funding, this is what we need to focus on as a society
Horniness
Oof I'm not sure I want everyone to see that number for me. Plus if it's updated in real time that could be even worse ...
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A boolean indicating if they want a conversation or not
or maybe between 0 and 1. that way it would be easier to see if the topic that I've decided is super interesting and won't shut up about is interesting to the to the other person as well. If I start seeing the number dropping quickly, time to change topics or just walk away.
An icon to indicate if they washed their hands after the last time they used the bathroom.
Or a percentage of how clean their hands are.
Some dude with no hands just has a DIV/0 error floating over his head.
Some kind of "empathy score." Not sure what the formula would be, but it would reflect how readily they feel empathy for another person, and how many other people they can care about.
A narcissist would have a 0 -- they can only care about themself. Someone with very limited empathy would have a small number -- say, they can only care about their immediate family, and they need to really get to know someone before they care about that person. People who naturally care about others, even if they don't know the other person, would have high numbers.
This number would sometimes just flat out tell you that certain people should be avoided, or certain conversations are pointless with that person. Or if you do need to try to convince them of something, the number may show you how to frame the conversation. E.g., show how it's in their own interest if they have a low number.
I'd add in a modifier for people on the spectrum. Like, the number is low, but that's due to an underdeveloped social ability, not because they are sociopaths.
The only problem with this stat showing is that the fascists would know who to throw into the concentration camps.
I thought that only you can see this stat, not everyone else. It's an issue of privacy violation otherwise.
Oh, I didn't see any other rules specified in the question :) So, isn't the fact that I can see everyone's stat above their head already a privacy violation to begin with? Also, am I the only one who gets to see a chosen stat or can other people also choose a stat that only they can see?
It doesn't specify, but if everyone could see it the implications would be more pressing than the question itself. If only one person, or just a select few people, in the world can see it it's not a widespread privacy violation. Just like only a select few people are (supposed) to have access to private information in the real world for it to not be a privacy violation.
Presumably with questions like others can see different stats if they chose one. And even if only you saw it you could be super unethical and MAKE it a widespread privacy violation by showing social security, credit card, etc. info and stealing whatever you could as much as you could.
Yeah, but those select few are given access for a specific need, like to be able to give you health care or pay your salary, etc. If even just a few randos could see whatever stat they want about all of us for no reason than their own wishes, I'd definitely consider that a violation of our privacy, even if they kept the info to themselves and even more so if it was something they could exploit. But all this is getting away from the spirit of the question.
Oh awesome. I'd love something like that, and do think we need to kind of train every person to understand and analyze others empathy better. Because this is a major problem when selecting, voting or promoting people into position of power. Every time there is a competition for a promotion, the ones that care the least about anything but more power or money or influence will be statistically more likely to advance. The more self serving the better. So at the top end you have function sociopaths who are very adept at lying about themselves or even to themselves.
Detecting purely self-serving or greedy people would be awesome and should be taught and trained for in school as basic political education. You know like math or PT is taught and trained. And candidates for political power should be put through some kind of "psychological gauntlet" to make it at least more likely they show they care or believe in something besides gaining more power.
It might also be possible to create a kind of AI models to evaluate and analyze people seeking power. Like some sort of lie detector test observing every reaction and every word and tonal shift in a conversation with the machine. Something like the interrogation in Blade Runner or "The Expanse" Season 1. Of course a bit of a ludicrous idea.
Might be better to just pick someone at random, quite likely to get better world leaders like that.
But this remains a fundamental problem of any hierarchical system, no matter if capitalism or socialism. We are now in an age where humanity can easily destroy itself, and we have collectively chosen, or proven unable, to save ourselves from the existential danger of climate change. And despite our "advances in ethics" in general, we're still ruled by total shits. And no matter what system we choose the problem will persist. Lack of empathy is a very strong indicator for that.
Sorry for the long rant lol
FYI, I believe you use narcissist wrong, because generally they "weaponize empathy" to manipulate people. They absolutely need to maintain a false glamorous mirror image of their own ego (or they die) and will use all sorts of rationalizations or delusions to keep that up. From a young age they need to pretend and for that they need to read people very well. And as long as they see you as one of the awesome people they'll charm you, but if they see you as one of the shit people they'll flip and treat you like dirt. And no amount of time will change that lol.
I can't tell if that would end up depressing the crap out of me or making me feel better about the world. My pessimistic brain tells me there are far more un-empathic people in the world than I'd like to acknowledge.
This! You would be able to see who's trusting and caring? Perfect for scaming people all day, every day! I love it!
No, not really. There are a LOT of very unempathic people who are super easy to scam (MAGA), and being empathetic doesn't mean you fall for scams easily. You'd want something like a gullibility score for that.
A scale of 1-10 at how likely we could be friends.
Put me in horny jail, but I think the world would be a better place if we could see a measure of how likely we could be mating partners.
I imagine everyone would be surprised by the number of 8's, 9's, and 10's.
We're very good at making friends when we try.
The way it works doesn't even involve compatibility, so much. It's just how much you've conversed over time without incident, like monkeys grooming each other.
KDR
That's one way to find mummies, vampires and zombies.
Imagine if you saw you unknowingly had a couple of assists. Or seeing someone with a concerning number of deaths.
The concept of assists makes it even more interesting. I can think of a bunch of people who would have a huge number.
If anyone has anything but zero, it would be cause for concern lol
I died but got better lol.
I did think maybe if heart stopped maybe it could count.
Having been revived twice on the operating table, my kd is pretty terrible (or good depending how you look at it)
Healthbar.
"Hey, fuck you! I'm gonna kick your ass, man!"
"Mighty big talk for someone who only has 4hp."
Sure they only have 4 hp but their hidden ap is high enough to tank whatever you think you can do.
Since HP were originally invented as how many "equvalent penetrative 14 inch shells" are needed to sink a ship, its save to assume, every human has 1HP.
I am basing this fact on the only legitimate source on the internet. Brian David Gilbert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jcxc-ddWKI&t=63
The last thing they said. I'll never have to say "What?" 4 times in a row again.
Only if the words were intended for you to hear.
I say a lot under my breath to keep from bursting, but also keep from completely roasting the idiots I deal with daily.
You win. The amount of times I've wished the real world had subtitles...
Hi Taurus, I hope your birthday went well. I'm sorry that it seems I missed it.
With the vague rules, I think you can have that bypass language barriers.
Phonetic spelling
That's closed captioning
How about closet captioning?
Huh? Does this come with all people? How do you set it?
Ok, I change my answer.
Number of times they molested kids.
What's the point though? We already know the worst offenders without this special power and not a fucking thing is being done about it.
Edit: I misunderstood the question. I thought it was for everyone to be able to see it. Yeah, this would be a good one to have to know who to avoid...
Well, now you have to cone up with a bunch of excuses for why you're avoiding people who looked normal to everyone else.
The worst part would be knowing but unable to prove it.
Monkey paw's finger curls: You can see them. They're EVERYWHERE. People you thought you knew and loved have numbers greater than zero over their head. Despite your horror, you try to make use of the power to try to bring them to justice. No one believes you. You have the Cassandra's curse of the status quo. 'Steve? What are you talking about? He'd never do anything like that. Butter wouldn't melt. You should probably shut your mouth before we get offended about what you said about our friend and kick the shit out of you. Know what I mean?' You watch the news and see everyone who has a position of power over you and your loved ones has a non-zero number. You try to escape into fictional media but your favorite actors are non-zeroes, the author pictures in your favorite books show non-zeroes, the album sleeves of your favorite bands show non-zeroes.
Knowledge can be a burden.
Wow, that's way more depressing than I could imagine.
Justice can be brought without anyone believing a thing you say.
Ehh. Serial killers tend to only get so far.
Meh, take as many as you can out before you go down. I don't see the issue here.
I heard in america, that FBI says there are few serial killers around that never get caught. They probably have a system or lack thereof.
Yes, there's no real chance they've all been caught. I'd guess risk increases with rate of killing, though, and the status of their victims.
Then as you live in horror and disgust, you see people's numbers rise day after day, unable to prove to others their horrendous crimes.
And then you befriend a stranger on the internet. You are nervous at first but you can't see them, so you can imagine their number is zero. You hit it off. They're amazing. Funny. Sweet. Kind. Hardworking. The relationship turns into a distant romance. Then you finally meet. You had no idea the number could go that high.
We truly live in the worst timeline that this would even be considered.
Jeeeesus Christ! I was thinking like “farts per day” or “no-blinker lane change count”. You’re going straight to the show.
A percentage of how much our core values/morals/beliefs align, weighted by how important they are to us.
It would make it super easy to know upfront who I should include in my life and who I shouldnt.
I feel like almost everyone agrees on the biggest several except those corrupted by politics
And those with wrong politics usually show that pretty quickly
First name.
"Hey Janine, can you move your cart out of the way, thanks, gonna get by here and go get some ice cream sandwiches."
"Excuse me, Ravi, trying to get off the train, one moment, thanks."
"Oh hey, you're a Tanis too, just like me, neat!"
This will absolutely weird everyone out.
Would it be their preferred name or legal name? What about people who go by different names in different contexts? For example, William at work, but Bill with friends & family? Or stage names? Or professional titles?
Since it’s updated in real time, people would get to update that as they see fit. A trans lady who’s not out at work might be Sophie at the bar, but Leon in the office, for example.
everyone would feel like they are working retail.
Tanis is a nice name.
My mom gave it to me!
(And then I kept it when I transitioned, and now she says it’s too feminine and she wishes she didn’t. No backsies, mom! It’s mine and I’ll never be your son.)
How thoughtful of your mom to give the little boy version of you a feminine name. She did you a solid without even realizing it lol
I sounds super nice and (from where I'm standing) not very gendered imho
Oh of course I'll play your game Rumplest... random stranger.
Tumescence.
It goes 1-10 but occasionally you see a guy with an 11.
How willing they are to talk to you right now. You can always pick the right person to talk to if you need to ask a question, give a friend the exact amount of space they need if they’re going thru something, and easily identify people that are interested in you (or not). Best of all, though, you can spot someone who’s a little too eager to talk and avoid a hostage-style conversation where they won’t let you leave politely
Your eyes scan the room, skimming the numbers. Everyone is in their own conversation, 20, 35, 15, nothing promising until you spot an 85. Their back is turned but you make your way through the crowd to their side of the room. You say "Hey", and they turn, and as soon at they see you their number starts to drop. 75, 60 45, 10. Ouch, sometimes you wonder why you even try.
oh man, actually yea, not the person who suggested it but, that lowkey would suck so hard.
Then again mine would be broken at like a 5-10 the majority of the time so I wouldn't have to worry XD
Similar to some other answers here, but "number of times they've deliberately lied". Not only do you get an instant "trustworthiness" stat, you also get to know if they're lying to you right now.
This stat is useless for anyone that's worked customer service though.
not as long as its real time.
Or for salesmen. Or lawyers.
I'd be screwed, I'm polite
"I used to try to give them hope, because in this situation, hope... well it's really important... it sounds crazy to say, but often the state of mind can really influence their chances of survival. But, since that lie metric started appearing above people's heads... well now when they ask if there's any chance, I look them right in the eye and say you are fucked, I mean like super fucked."
maybe categorize it into white lie, black lie, red lie, gray lie etc, There is definitely times where a lie "can" be good. It doesn't change the fact that it's a lie but, lies that are made in the attempt to be well intended or to help someone are important to know as well.
Like for example, seeing someone with a really high red lie count would be a warning flag because that means they are willing to lie against their own best interests which can indicate issues with anger or rage. But someone with only white lies, or gray lies would be based less significantly as those are done with well intent to the target, either against or for the liars own best interests.
I mean this is some magic super ability so maybe it would work but if you had to like program it what is white/gray/black is highly subjective. If it uses the persons personal opinion some nasty people would list 0. I bet trump does not believe he has really lied often times. Now if its based on what I would consider white/gray/black that would be nice.
It would be based off objectivity, not belief.
Whether someone thinks it's a lie or not doesn't matter. Although you do bring up a good point. Maybe having an additional category "mistaken lies" or something would help. It would also help decipher how often the person fact checks lol
there really is not objectivity with white grey black lies because everyone has different lines. Its why you even need the gray area.
gray in the case of lies doesn't mean gray areas, a grey lie when identifying lies actually means that the lie benefits both parties without causing harm to either side. A white lie is a lie that benefits the other party at the cost of the liar, a black lie only helps the liar at the cost of the other party, and a red lie hurts both the liar and the other party.
I would say that type of system could only be objective, while the intent does matter as well, I believe a lie that harms the other side, even when you meant otherwise would be either a red or a black lie, since it harms the other it can't be gray or white.
yeah maybe. this is new lie territory for me.
How likely they are to have sex with me this very second behind those bushes over there.
Good God I'm shallow sometimes...
man its going to drive you crazy when you are really far from those bushes. like in another country.
"This stupid stat is broken, it just shows 0 for everybody."
It was easier to program that way. The odds of it ever not being 0 were too small to spend the resources for a proper indicator.
Laughs in ugly
My first thought was how attracted they are to me, which I guess is kinda the same thing
That's useless, I already know the answer, it's "not at all"
It's more useful for some people. Even then, you never know. Attraction is weird sometimes.
Recency of last wank would be an interesting one
friend gets back from the bathroom and their number has gone down near zero
Oh shit, I didn't think of romantic compatibility.
Realtime running count of lies told
Similar to the other reply, it's a good idea and seemingly pragmatic, but we could spend a decade arguing over the pedantry of what qualifies as a lie and still not be done.
Truth is tricky
How about any statement told with the intent of the recipient believing something about the world that the speaker knows to not be true
That's a very good angle, honing in on exactly the problem of lying.
"Intent" could get just as tricky. With all the various forms of psychosis, delusion, etc. it'd be tough to say whether someone "meant" to do something. (It's trickier than we'd usually like to admit even for a typical person.)
The same kind of problems exist around whether the speaker "knows" something to be false.
Then there's the problem of fiction. Bedtime stories, campfire stories...
And not exactly a technical problem, but what about a doctor who knowingly oversimplifies or otherwise intentionally twists his words in an attempt to get the patient to manage their condition optimally? Parents who lie about how something works to help their kids understand something or behave safely? Teachers who oversimplify physics lessons to present it in a way their students can grasp for now. Not exactly a technical problem maybe, but would we want "noble lies" to affect the counter? This is a little off track, just occurred to me and felt like writing it out 🤷♂️
This one doesn't pose a direct problem really but maybe helps me get to my point: what if people who rode a train moving at relativistic speeds when lightning struck both ends talk with someone who was watching from outside about when the lightning struck? Truth is tricky...
But making it, "how often did they attempt to intentionally deceive" as you suggested is a great approach imho. Maybe almost realistic. There's probably some biological indicators of that right? ... for non-psychopaths
Let's start with the times you've said something you know to be untrue.
So sarcasm is lying?
I told my nephews that Santa was real
Does reading the Big Friendly Giant to a nephew count as one big un-truth or many small ones?
It's a great thought and all, but wouldn't authors, actors, and other purveyors of fiction have really large numbers? Every politician would suddenly find a new found joy of reading fiction to children in hospitals.
Lie is when you deceive someone, not when creating fictional world. At least this is my option.
Nah, fiction isn't lies, not when there's no deceit.
Realtime. Immediate feedback they just lied to you.
Oh, please, mine wouldve stopped counting by middle school.
RampantParanoia2366
Average shit weight per session.
In kilogrammes or US units?
US units? Like the totally legit boulders the weight of smaller boulders weight measurement?
To be fair, we're not the ones who use "stone" as a measurement
Stone is used in the UK only for weighting people, at least.
Latter would be recursive.
I'm here to toot for the "lifetime farts" number
Do we get a prize for having the highest number?
Asking for a friend
I was gonna say a percentage of how close they are to their next fart, lol.
Elevators just got a lot more stressful
For them maybe. You gata stare them down as they get to 100% so they know you know. Assert dominance and then fart before they do.
«WARNING: FART INCOMING»
MOVE OUT OF THE A.O.E.!!!
It would be fun to publically count down lol.
No good, you've gotta go by volume. 2,578,016 cubic meters of fart.
A recent number would be more useful; last hour, last day. They might have had a food intolerance in the past which pushed the number stratospheric which they have since learned to avoid
(Me, wheat)
Honor
Binary (has or doesn't) or percentage?
I don't know why, but I really like this answer lol
Total net worth. No hidden assets or secret bank accounts. Every last cent that a person is worth. Also, it gets brighter/more noticeable whenever you're advocating for something that increases your net worth.
I feel like this would be the only way to get a lot of people to connect the dots.
It would need to include intangible wealth too, though. One of the big 20th century studies on poverty concluded there's a great deal of social mobility, because rich nepobabies on a gap year or at university were counted as having no income. (And if they'd been looking at wealth, maybe not much in their own name there, either)
all the others seem a lot more invasive, so I'll go with their pronouns/gender so I never have to ask and be awkward
what happens when you see none?!
then you start causing problems clocking and accidentally outing eggs and closeted trans people all over the place. even with perfect knowledge theres always politics...
If it was accurate enough, and they kinda knew, but hadn't fully acknowledge it themselves yet, you might out them to themselves even?
yeah exactly. we all kinda know on some level, even if we dont really know ya know?
It's not awkward to ask, I appreciate it when people do. I use any of them so it's awkward to respond, but it's nice that people care hahah.
And then ill still forget their names and have to ask and be awkward
Is "how much I would like them on a scale from 0 to 10 (with a resolution of like 0.01) if I got to know them at a deep level" allowed? Or is that cheating?
It's a hypothetical question, so yeah. It can be whatever you want it to be. =)
that might be nice, or you might find out you dont know your friends and loved ones as deeply as you thought, and if you did you wouldnt really like them at all.
(Or that most everyone is likable if you invest that time, and everybody is a 9+. The horror of finding that your political boogiemen are certainly charismatic and kind to their friends...)
% of how genuine they are with me, easy to figure out who's worth the time and who isn't.
Could be a problem in a relationship tho. I take it back, just the cumulative numbers of fart in a lifetime.
The "genuineness" statistic sounds like the sort of thing that would gradually drive me insane.
I'd probably end up staring into the mirror and seeing an abysmally low number for myself.
And you find the one person who's 100%, but actually they're a dick. It seems like they'd be a dick.
Like, I'd be unusually high (and it's gone poorly), but I still purposely don't say certain things.
Ive been kinda obsessed with truth my whole life and I recognize the more I do not speak truth the less I can recognize what it. It is problematic for sure. Its good we can choose not to speak.
Ime some honest people speak the truth but don’t suck up or try to sell it. But are passed by for people who flatter and put on a show.
the units for farts would be interesting. i would ask for total mass of fart for a more understandable value. number of farts would be kind of ambiguous cause someone could have lots of little farts or few huge farts. some asshole would choose those asinine equivalent volume units favored by the compressed gases industry, which no one would really understand.
Some asshole has been farting in my pants all day...
I love and hate this one, really a good monkey's paw one!
The time and date of their death.
Having kids makes this a burden IMO. It would be very difficult to know that any of my kids would die before me let alone the exact time
It would be interesting to see this update in realtime. You see someone about to get in their car, with a death time 5 mins from now. You call out "hey", they stop, see you were talking to someone else. The date updates to 30 years in the future, as that momentary pause meant they won't be in the place they would have when someone runs a red light.
Somewhere unseen, someone's number changes from 20 years away to 5 mins away.
My thought was that it would be immutable. It wouldn't change even if I told them.
I don't think I'd tell very many people. It's not something I'd want people to know about me. Also, the few I told wouldn't believe me and if I proved to others that I knew this, I think they'd see me, rightly so, as some sort of freak. The temptation to ask would be overwhelming, but they don't really want to know.
It kind of ruins the concept if you can't use the information to change the outcome. Or maybe just makes it sad, every time you try to save someone they die at that time anyway. Then over time you work out that the clock knew what actions you were going to do, and by trying to interfere with the people with short times you actually caused their deaths.
You can't change fate but maybe can change how ppl meet it?
Like If you knew someone was going to die maybe help them bring them peace sooner.
Or maybe if you knew your own date you could do reckless shit. Although you might just spend 20 years in a coma before you die.
Very Cassandra to have knowledge of the future but be unable to change it
Nah, if they miss their appointment [the plot of final destination]
Add location too, otherwise that's just cruel.
"You're going to die in 2 days!"
"Oh god, how? Where? Why?"
"No idea, get fucked scrub!"
They die of fretting at home, alone
or from to much hookers and blow.
HP bar, level, and whether they have aggro
It would also be helpful to know how much mana they have left
Number of racial slurs used genuinely.
aw man that would be rough for those of us who were raised by terrible people but learned how to be a better human
I feel a better one would be amount of time since the last slur was used, or number used in the past 30 days or something.
12304 days since last racist incident
When I was a kid I was once horribly racist to someone but I... was really bad at it? I didn't know any slurs I don't think, so I said "at least I'm not black" (the girl was Asian). Still feel bad about it though :( Not seen her for decades.
A meter (percentage) of the truthfulness of their statement.
RIP white lies
Just a simple binary 0 or 1 to indicate whether the person means what they said literally or figuratively.
I don't really care to invade people's privacy, even for altruistic-seeming reasons. I just need a hint about how to interpret a person every so often.
Kindness gestures. I like to see the good in people and this would just confirm that (in most cases).
Personality score.
A sort of hunger bar. It would be useful in so many situations.
Yes! Differentiating hangry from true disagreeableness could really help prevent misunderstandings.
not my favorite but it likely would get me to carry granola bars on me at all times.
horny%
finally. how come I had to scroll so far down to see this. Im a bit old for it but if I gained this ability at like 16. nice.
Sleep, or how tired or awake they are.
Many other good answers have already been spoken. Here's a thought:
Friendship ROI
ROI being like, if you put effort in are they going to ghost you? or what type of stat are you looking for on your ROI.
I feel like if I had to judge myself my ROI would be pretty low because I'm pretty anti social, but like that's not because I don't want to be friends or am a bad friend I wouldn't say, I just tend to stick to myself unless invited to stuff and hang out in closed groups. So I feel like context on the ROI matters.
If you make the emotional investment low the return can still be good
There are plenty of useful things, but I think I'll be a child and say the amount of time since they last farted. Though, that would be useful if you're about to walk into an elevator and you see someone's timer flip back to 0...
Pros fart one floor before descending so the smell starts spreading as they walk out.
Any time in seconds would be a warning
A number representing how positive or negative a person is going to respond to whatever I would speak that's on my mind right now. If it can be updated in real time, you can experiment with basically infinite scenarios on starting or continuing a conversation with someone to determine what's the best dialogue option to proceed with.
Way too easy to manipulate people.
Probably tomorrow's weather, because then I'd never have to look it up.
Their name followed by the exact thing I would need to say to get then to do what I want, under a removable censor bar like how people hide spoilers.
Every time you expand the spoiler, the text just says “I’m wearing a bomb, do what I say”
Nah half of the time it's "I'm from the future and [thing that nobody could know and which they have never even said or written down], we need you to do XYZ"
im going to say the top one is going to be. and I will pay you hamdsomely for it. half now half when its done.
Trustworthiness. It would be great to know if you can trust someone upfront.
How much of a dick they've been over the past six months.
Your number would break the system.
Fuck you shut up
Big Dick Triumph
...hey, not a bad band name
Fable-style morality bar to track good and bad deeds, but no cap on how high or low that value goes
ah. like how many times they said the lords name in vain or were a coward and did not go into battle.
then you run into a good place afterlife points problem and you find that everyone is some degree of bad...
Their Rise of Kingdoms battle score.
Does it have to be a number, or can it be a named category, like current goal?
That would basically be a cheat code in all social relationships.
How long till they die. could be used in good and bad ways but I think knowing is better than being oblivious.
This is great if you glimpse celebrities at events and then bet on it.
Their greatest insecurity, maybe? I could compliment cool people on it to make them feel better and use it to lampoon assholes.
I had a similar thought of like a score of how much they like themselves.
Seems pretty invasive but I think it would be a reminder to be patient and kind.
Number or hours spent playing dwarf fortress or rimworld
Easier to find my people: weird nerds
Dwarf Fortress: 0
Rimworld: ... too much. 2k+. I need better hobbies. :D
I currently have a colony with 6 infertile cat people (3 couples with psychic bonds) who hate other people so much they refuse to recruit anyone, so they all became mechanitors. Randy is an asshole this time, though.
At least their DLC are mostly backwards compatible. Can't play Oxygen Not Included for a few months each time they release a new DLC. I'll get a crack and download my modlist, the moment it gets playable again.
How many times they’ve used the restroom and not washed their hands afterwards.
I'm amazed you want to know; as a user of the male facilities you'd see the number of times the man has used the loo on more than half men
Asshole meter.
Everyone would just have a 1
Fear the man whose count is 0. Or don't.
Colostomy bag people
More than 1 can also happen.
Net worth. Assuming this number is seen by everyone not just me. This would end all keeping up with the Joneses, no posing with sports cars, no super rich people passing as having not enough. But also lots of crimes probably sadly.
Lots of us have large net worth locked up in our home, in done age groups it'll tell you nearly nothing
It seems like an invasion but how about an indi cation of child offences
How many individual dicks have been in their mouth.
In a row?
Dick size
Current size or maximum?
Luckily, you can just see if they drive a truck or not.
There's a lot of great choices here. I personally lean towards trustworthiness/if they are being genuine or not with what they are saying, or the net worth one, but since those are taken I'll throw one more into the pot.
This might be more controversial but, a marquee banner with number of crimes committed by type. Nothing super detailed, but like have it say the type of crime, how long its been since committed, and whether they were actually guilty of the charge (not by the laws eyes, whether they actually were guilty of it)
this type of system would be basically useless almost 90% of the time after you have met them once, but, it could be super helpful for determining trustworthiness, how safe you are around them, intention and also whether or not the system failed them or not. It also would significantly speed up the current legal system, as every case would basically be a file the case, show up to the hearing and look at the tag and then verdict instead of spending months sometimes years fighting a lengthy legal battle.
Maybe net worth. I feel like there's a lot that can be done with that, good and bad.
If that could translate to ad buys, it would mean I'd only see advertisements for scams, because I have no money for anything else.
omg I'm not sure if this is exactly what you meant but,
I would love a metric above their head that states how many times an advertisement has actually worked on them, vs how many they have seen.
I think it would revolutionize the way we see ads today, because I think almost everyone would have significantly low numbers.
I think everyone knows that advertising is relatively ineffective on a per-view basis, but they're hoping it at least pays for itself...
Yea, but im hoping the constant re-enforcement that it doesn't work will sway them away from wanting to spend on advertisement in the first place.
That would have interesting knock-on effects for ad-supported services....
Yea, I do agree we would see more services become paywalled as a result. Not that that would be a bad thing though, not every site would go that route, the main reason sites don't already is because they know that the typical user isn't going to pay money to access their site, they will just go elsewhere.
The way I can see it, the ad supported model would go away, then branch into a few ways:
The two examples we have aren't great: video streaming and newspapers.
For video streaming, they try to create as much of a monopoly as possible and then extract value from you--enshittification. And even at this early stage, it's not the "ad-free" tier it's "ad-free^*^" tier.
For newspapers, rich people just buy them and blatantly use it for propaganda; they're willing to operate at an official loss if it saves them from regulation or taxes.
My chances to score
That's a dangerous number in isolation.
IQ
Ehh. It means a lot, but also not everything, or even the most. And, there's good evidence people segregate themselves by it naturally.
That's too easy to measure on your own. Maybe # of original ideas they ever had?
Like, truly original? It would usually be a way lower number than you'd expect.
So much stuff dies at the implementation phase.
Not truly, but a new idea to them - that they got to using their own devices.
I think there are a lot of politicians that would have a lower number than some hardworking mountain man has.
How about the number of times they've ever been confidently incorrect 🤣
"Minutes remaining".
You trying to come up with another unoriginal writing prompt?
I'd go with something like "number of times they genuinely helped another person without any obvious personal incentive to do so (excluding the general warm feeling one gets from doing this.)"
Pedophile or not pedophile. So I guess, how many children theyve gotten sexual gratification from would be the stat. I think I would be absolutely disgusted by that stat though.
Yeah, and what are you going to do with it, tell the police "it's magic, trust me bro"?
I read a few stories where anonymous tip led to something.
I guess if you could figure out something more specific than "this person diddled a kid at some point", you could actually do that. You'd have to do some serious detective work, though.
I mean you don't have to get defensive. Go see a therapist if you find little kids sexually attractive 🤮
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