I’ve been reading about the “Dark Triad”. This consists of Narcissism, Psychopathy, and Machiavelianism. Ivan Throne’s book, The Nine Laws, talks about how to incorporate positive aspects of these into your life and response to the world.
There are also AIs that can look at a picture and tell, with a high rate of accuracy, whether the person is gay or not.
Anonymous Conservative put up a blog post today about how a similar AI could be used to detect real Dark Triad traits in people.
Imagine when we are all wearing the future equivalent of Google Glass glasses, it is filming everyone we meet, and you can upload an app to it which can detect Narcissism, Psychopathy, and Machiavellianism on the faces of people we meet in real time. Like a Terminator robot, you meet someone, shake their hand, and down the side of your view of them scrolls their psychological scores for all of those traits, as below them flashes in big red letters, “Alert! Alert! Major League Asshole!” (I assume the programmer will have a sense of humor – and experience with those personalities.)
I’ve read quite a bit about physiognomy, and facial bifurcation. People like Anonymous Conservative and Heartiste often perform this kind of analysis after a shooting. They sometimes perform them on politicians. There is a difference to the faces of psychopaths and narcissists that the rest of us don’t reflect. I’m not an expert on this by any means, but I’m getting a little better.
The trick is to look at a face for symmetry. Is the face symmetrical, or does one side look out of place?
A/C uses the following image in his blog post:
This kind of technology could be very useful. I have experienced a few people that, looking back, probably were narcissists and psychopaths.
