People do assign a fair amount of status based on attractiveness of faces, and I think it’s good on the margin to not introduce that class of bias to the discussion. My current guess is that the costs aren’t commensurate with the benefits of faster recognition.
I think that faster recognition matters a great deal. If I go to a big event like the LessWrong Community Weekend or EA Global and I know the faces of people I can actually talk to them in person and build in person relationships with them.
In general I’m also doubtful of the philosophy that you get people to be more rational by withholding information from them.
The natural act of relating to other people does influence cognition but it’s not something that should be simply seen as a bias to be eliminated.
If you do implement hovering like that I would be happy about a gravatar image as well as remembering faces is often easier then remembering names.
People do assign a fair amount of status based on attractiveness of faces, and I think it’s good on the margin to not introduce that class of bias to the discussion. My current guess is that the costs aren’t commensurate with the benefits of faster recognition.
I think that faster recognition matters a great deal. If I go to a big event like the LessWrong Community Weekend or EA Global and I know the faces of people I can actually talk to them in person and build in person relationships with them.
In general I’m also doubtful of the philosophy that you get people to be more rational by withholding information from them.
The natural act of relating to other people does influence cognition but it’s not something that should be simply seen as a bias to be eliminated.