<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Spike, I don’t think that would help in most cases. <div><br></div><div>If the location doesn’t match and/or the sound doesn’t match then it could be useful data. But the majority of rape accusations don’t involve these circumstances.</div><div><br></div><div>The majority of rape accusations hinge on if a sexual act was consensual or not. How could this idea possibly help in these cases?</div><div><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On May 8, 2020, at 11:21 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Perhaps some data hipsters can educate me.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">We have a debate currently on what should be the standard of evidence when a student accuses another student of improprieties of any kind. It seems like men are inherently vulnerable to accusation which doesn’t need proof (because usually there isn’t any.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">We could imagine some kind of device students could wear which would archive their location and record bits of sound, say a tenth of a second every second should be enough for what I have in mind. It is unlikely to be able to reconstruct a conversation from that, but it could establish innocence of an accused person by archiving a location and a background noise description (roughly.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">This device would need to be something one wouldn’t take off when taking things off, such as a ring. It would need a Bluetooth transmitter to send digital files to a phone (which would add location info and archive.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">If we could get enough students wearing these kinds of devices, it might lead us out of a deadlock where we don’t know how much weight to put on accusations. The accused could produce evidence.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I don’t know what kind of data-storage capacity such a thing would require, if the phone could dump info to a desktop computer each day. Any hipsters on that here?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>extropy-chat mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>