The Ugly Ones

The Ugly Ones
Andre Willers
8 Jan 2011

Synopsis:
Where are the ugly ones ?
Facebook algorithm .
This throws hundreds of suggested friends at me . All look vaguely similar .
All handsome .
What is going on ?
I have to conclude that there are no Ugly Ones .

Discussion :
1.Data mining :
Facebook datamining hits on blogs .
My blog http://andreswhy.blogspot.com at present has about 400 hits per month , mainly from the USA , Netherlands , Germany , Brazil , Russia , RSA .
I have no time or interest to trawl through all the availabilities .
So I get all these .

2.People only show their most attractive features .
The bikini effect .

3.With enough communication , the subset "Ugly" becomes very small .
"Ugly" is a description of number of sigmas difference from the norm .
People at the same sigma number usually find each other attractive .
Or they make themselves attractive . They are not robots.

4.Facebook is not only breaking the 150 person ceiling , but also the "Ugly" ceiling .
Redefining attractiveness and beauty . Ref Nietsche.

5. This is happening as we speak .It has not yet percolated through to the Nomenklatura of Fashion .

6.Fashion will fracture .
The center cannot hold .
This has major implications as genetic engineering becomes widespread . There is no widespread fashionable definition of beauty for the genome .Most of the present definitions of genomic beauty are derived from reproductive functionality (ie female hips and breasts , male torso's ) .

All this will evanesce .

7. A sidenote I cannot resist :
Organised religions are attempts to transcend the 150 ceiling . Hence , there are no old churches or cathedrals which seat less than 150 . And very large ones are broken down into units of 150 . (Apses and naves)


Now do you see what is happening ?
Facebook is enforcing interaction between more than 150 people , breaking the ceiling .It is immaterial whether you want to join or not . Peripheral effects means you are tied in . A typical positive feedback reaction .

This was last seen during the early Christian Church or early Islam .

Fiat felicitates lux .

Andre