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.
Orโฆ you meet up and are flabbergasted by their ZERO. You could not be happier. You get extremely close, get married, have a child togetherโฆ twins! Youโre out overnight with friends, and your partnerโs friend comes to visit. You return the next day to find the kids sleeping in and your beloved and their friend having a nice brunch, laughing with each other gleefully with the number two over each of their heads.
You meet up for the first time in real life, and they do not have a number. How could this be? EVERYONE has a number, thank the gods theyโre almost always zero! Youโre immediately suspicious of their intentions and past actions. Theyโre not acting anything like they did onlineโฆ theyโre actually acting really fuckin weird, which greatly discomforts you.
You grapple with this internal conundrum, but you had failed to notice something crucial: The instant you saw each other, their eyes so briefly darted up, looking above your head.
(And then I kept it when I transitioned, and now she says itโs too feminine and she wishes she didnโt. No backsies, mom! Itโs mine and Iโll never be your son.)
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 itโs updated in real time, people would get to update that as they see fit. A trans lady whoโs not out at work might be Sophie at the bar, but Leon in the office, for example.
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 ๐คทโโ๏ธ
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
Jesus answered, โYou say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.โ
โWhat is truth?โ retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, โI find no basis for a charge against him.
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.
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...)
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
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...
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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'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.
A narcissist has a lot of empathy... for themself. A racist has a lot of empathy for people of their own race, but zero empathy for people of certain races.
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.
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.
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 theyโre going thru something, and easily identify people that are interested in you (or not). Best of all, though, you can spot someone whoโs a little too eager to talk and avoid a hostage-style conversation where they wonโt 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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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
Time left to live. There's plenty of useful things that tell you more about a person, but shinigami eyes would let you save lives and know it, even if no one else does
And if it turns out the number can't be changed through your actions, that would tell you a lot. If nothing else, you could say goodbye to loved ones and get incredibly rich by finding a CEO about to run out of time
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.
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.
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...
Basically, how many spoons someone has left, or how much bad and/or taxing stuff they're capable of bearing today.
This would serve two purposes. One. It'd allow me to communicate more carefully or gently with those who require it, two, it'd give me real time feedback on shit I might've doing that's causing a disproportionate amount of harm to someone else.
Ex: I can be in a wonderful mood and capable of taking all kinds of bad news, but asking me to go out of my way to do an act of service for someone else as a show of affection while I'm in the middle of some self-care after I've spent all day working in a service industry will tank my remaining fucks immediately. I'm absolutely certain that others around me have similar reactions to things that I do, and if I could see what they were, I could stop doing them inadvertently.
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.
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.
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.
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"
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.
I just want a music player indicator to see what they are listening to without have to listen to their music.
What they listen to can be pretty telling.
Would be magic if I could press pause as well, for the people without headphones on the train.
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.
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.
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.
I want to know how likely I am to get something from you. You won't stay home, you won't wear a mask, you won't use protection, you won't get vaccinated - you won't be interacted with.
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.
I remember reading a story about that. A guy did go to therapy and the therapist was not helpful leaving him with few outlets to try and get past this. Wish I had link to reference.
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The last thing they said. I'll never have to say "What?" 4 times in a row again.
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.
That's closed captioning
Huh? Does this come with all people? How do you set it?
You need one of those smart glasses, if you can avoid getting punched for wearing them
Shit, is this really a feature, because that would actually be super convenient.
How about closet captioning?
With the vague rules, I think you can have that bypass language barriers.
Phonetic spelling
Hell, just put their name, that would be a big help for me.
Ok, I change my answer.
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.
Number of times they molested kids.
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.
Justice can be brought without anyone believing a thing you say.
Ehh. Serial killers tend to only get so far.
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.
Given that most solved murders are cases where the victim knew the killer, go out and kill random people with non zero values. Spread it around.
You may eventually get caught. How many is enough to say it was worth it?
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.
Meh, take as many as you can out before you go down. I don't see the issue here.
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.
Orโฆ you meet up and are flabbergasted by their ZERO. You could not be happier. You get extremely close, get married, have a child togetherโฆ twins! Youโre out overnight with friends, and your partnerโs friend comes to visit. You return the next day to find the kids sleeping in and your beloved and their friend having a nice brunch, laughing with each other gleefully with the number two over each of their heads.
Or x2
You meet up for the first time in real life, and they do not have a number. How could this be? EVERYONE has a number, thank the gods theyโre almost always zero! Youโre immediately suspicious of their intentions and past actions. Theyโre not acting anything like they did onlineโฆ theyโre actually acting really fuckin weird, which greatly discomforts you.
You grapple with this internal conundrum, but you had failed to notice something crucial: The instant you saw each other, their eyes so briefly darted up, looking above your head.
Sow the seeds of suspicion. "Bet he is a pedo". Don't be too pushy. But maybe it will help someone speak out?
That's not how monkey's paw twists work.
Wow, that's way more depressing than I could imagine.
We truly live in the worst timeline that this would even be considered.
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.
Jeeeesus Christ! I was thinking like โfarts per dayโ or โno-blinker lane change countโ. Youโre going straight to the show.
The worst part would be knowing but unable to prove it.
Is vigilante justice wrong when you actually know for certainty that they did it?
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.
Oh of course I'll play your game Rumplest... random stranger.
Tanis is a nice name.
My mom gave it to me!
(And then I kept it when I transitioned, and now she says itโs too feminine and she wishes she didnโt. No backsies, mom! Itโs mine and Iโll 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
It's an awesome name and your mom sounds like a butthead!
Tanis is a great name. Also the name of my favorite character in the first two borderlands games
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 itโs updated in real time, people would get to update that as they see fit. A trans lady whoโs 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.
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 ๐คทโโ๏ธ
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.
I told my nephews that Santa was real
So sarcasm is lying?
Does reading the Big Friendly Giant to a nephew count as one big un-truth or many small ones?
I am innocent of the blood of this just person. See ye to it.
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.
Nah, fiction isn't lies, not when there's no deceit.
Realtime. Immediate feedback they just lied to you.
Lie is when you deceive someone, not when creating fictional world. At least this is my option.
Oh, please, mine wouldve stopped counting by middle school.
RampantParanoia2366
How likely they are to have sex with me this very second behind those bushes over there.
Good God I'm shallow sometimes...
"This stupid stat is broken, it just shows 0 for everybody."
Laughs in ugly
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.
"Oh, finally, someone with 20%. Wait... is that a negative sign?!"
Recency of last wank would be an interesting one
friend gets back from the bathroom and their number has gone down near zero
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"
How willingly would they put up with me for a while?
It's more useful for some people. Even then, you never know. Attraction is weird sometimes.
Oh shit, I didn't think of romantic compatibility.
man its going to drive you crazy when you are really far from those bushes. like in another country.
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...)
I'm here to toot for the "lifetime farts" number
I was gonna say a percentage of how close they are to their next fart, lol.
ยซWARNING: FART INCOMINGยป
MOVE OUT OF THE A.O.E.!!!
No, I can tank it.
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.
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)
Do we get a prize for having the highest number?
Asking for a friend
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
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?
That's friction right away, but the resulting social change would be pretty interesting to see
And then ill still forget their names and have to ask and be awkward
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.
what happens when you see none?!
% 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 donโt suck up or try to sell it. But are passed by for people who flatter and put on a show.
I love and hate this one, really a good monkey's paw one!
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...
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 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.
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.
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.
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'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.
A narcissist has a lot of empathy... for themself. A racist has a lot of empathy for people of their own race, but zero empathy for people of certain races.
The time and date of their death.
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.
Very Cassandra to have knowledge of the future but be unable to change it
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.
Lol that twist ending i never thought of. Know I need to define death prior to making that wish.
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.
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
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.
Healthbar.
"Hey, fuck you! I'm gonna kick your ass, man!"
"Mighty big talk for someone who only has 4hp."
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
Sure they only have 4 hp but their hidden ap is high enough to tank whatever you think you can do.
An icon to indicate if they washed their hands after the last time they used the bathroom.
A boolean indicating if they want a conversation or not
Human or Not Human
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.
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 theyโre going thru something, and easily identify people that are interested in you (or not). Best of all, though, you can spot someone whoโs a little too eager to talk and avoid a hostage-style conversation where they wonโt 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
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.
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 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
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)
Number of times they've lied
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.
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.
Or for salesmen. Or lawyers.
not as long as its real time.
"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."
I'd be screwed, I'm polite
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.
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.
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.
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.
Asshole ratio: 0 % = best person in the world.
100 % = worst person in the world.
Computed as an average of bad "actions" with respect to all actions.
Good and bad evaluated with respect to proven positive impact on people's lifes and the planet.
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
Time left to live. There's plenty of useful things that tell you more about a person, but shinigami eyes would let you save lives and know it, even if no one else does
And if it turns out the number can't be changed through your actions, that would tell you a lot. If nothing else, you could say goodbye to loved ones and get incredibly rich by finding a CEO about to run out of time
Threat level.
Their name.
Number of days since they finished reading a book.
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 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.
KDR
moralistic integrity in comparison to social norms.
it's basically a good vs evil bar.
lifetime number of orgasms
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
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
Fable-style morality bar to track good and bad deeds, but no cap on how high or low that value goes
then you run into a good place afterlife points problem and you find that everyone is some degree of bad...
ah. like how many times they said the lords name in vain or were a coward and did not go into battle.
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
Honor
I don't know why, but I really like this answer lol
Binary (has or doesn't) or percentage?
Average shit weight per session.
In kilogrammes or US units?
Latter would be recursive.
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.
Horniness
Their Rise of Kingdoms battle score.
The number of times we've farted at the same time.
Fucks left to give.
Basically, how many spoons someone has left, or how much bad and/or taxing stuff they're capable of bearing today.
This would serve two purposes. One. It'd allow me to communicate more carefully or gently with those who require it, two, it'd give me real time feedback on shit I might've doing that's causing a disproportionate amount of harm to someone else.
Ex: I can be in a wonderful mood and capable of taking all kinds of bad news, but asking me to go out of my way to do an act of service for someone else as a show of affection while I'm in the middle of some self-care after I've spent all day working in a service industry will tank my remaining fucks immediately. I'm absolutely certain that others around me have similar reactions to things that I do, and if I could see what they were, I could stop doing them inadvertently.
A meter (percentage) of the truthfulness of their statement.
RIP white lies
Lies per hour
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 of farts in their lives.
Trustworthiness. It would be great to know if you can trust someone upfront.
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
How many people's livelihood can be affected by their decision.
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.
How many times theyโve 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
Limit underbreak brave quotient
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.
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 โIโm wearing a bomb, do what I sayโ
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.
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Goofy
Unquantifiable using any sort of objective metric
Kindness gestures. I like to see the good in people and this would just confirm that (in most cases).
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.
Asshole meter.
Everyone would just have a 1
Fear the man whose count is 0. Or don't.
More than 1 can also happen.
Colostomy bag people
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.
Sleep, or how tired or awake they are.
My chances to score
That's a dangerous number in isolation.
How many individual dicks have been in their mouth.
In a row?
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
I just want a music player indicator to see what they are listening to without have to listen to their music. What they listen to can be pretty telling.
Would be magic if I could press pause as well, for the people without headphones on the train.
Percentage of personal wealth donated in the last year to an org or person that they are not affiliated with.
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.
Last time they had sex
Probably tomorrow's weather, because then I'd never have to look it up.
Lifetime Intrusive thoughts counter
Happiness.
Number of hugs
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.
who they voted for
Tiredness level
Tumescence.
blood sugar
The date they will die.
Various reasons.
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
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.
IQ
That's too easy to measure on your own. Maybe # of original ideas they ever had?
How about the number of times they've ever been confidently incorrect ๐คฃ
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.
Ehh. It means a lot, but also not everything, or even the most. And, there's good evidence people segregate themselves by it naturally.
Dick size
Luckily, you can just see if they drive a truck or not.
Current size or maximum?
Contagion level.
I want to know how likely I am to get something from you. You won't stay home, you won't wear a mask, you won't use protection, you won't get vaccinated - you won't be interacted with.
Time since last fart. Then I know if who smelt it did indeed deal it
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.)"
SAT Score.
Purely for dick-measuring.
Interest level in current conversation. Not so much so I can see others but more so they can see mine.
Personality score.
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 ๐คฎ
Aww, I love you too.
I remember reading a story about that. A guy did go to therapy and the therapist was not helpful leaving him with few outlets to try and get past this. Wish I had link to reference.
"Minutes remaining".
It seems like an invasion but how about an indi cation of child offences