fubarobfusco comments on Innovation's low-hanging fruits: on the demand or supply sides? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 26 February 2014 10:22:53AM 0 points [-]

Blood alcohol content, heck — how about blood sugar, or stress and fatigue hormones?

"You are too stressed to drive safely; it says so right on your wrist."

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 26 February 2014 02:07:32PM 0 points [-]

"I'm too stressed to drive safely; my wrist is itching too much."

Of course, we should let the example be something that it's not crazy to let humans do at that tech level, instead of driving.

Comment author: mare-of-night 28 February 2014 02:05:43PM -1 points [-]

I'd go for a tattoo in a discreet place that could tell me these things, if there were a bit of granularity to it - knowing how stressed you are us useful for learning how to be less stressed, and in general it'd be nice to have some diagnostics about my body easily at hand like that.

As to using them to stop people from doing things... on the one hand I see your point, on the other hand it seems like it'd be a big violation of privacy to require tattoos of that sort, especially if they were in an obvious location.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 28 February 2014 05:04:43PM 0 points [-]

As to using them to stop people from doing things... on the one hand I see your point, on the other hand it seems like it'd be a big violation of privacy to require tattoos of that sort, especially if they were in an obvious location.

Well, sure, but that's one of those cases where the difference between utopia and dystopia is consent.