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Sorry to anyone having this, that sounds awful.

Would we easily know if the inverse phenomenon is happening in the rest of us? We're seeing people "better looking" than "they are"?

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Can’t help but think of the 2002 Ted Chiang novelette “Liking What You See” and its tech “Calliagnosia,” a medical procedure that eliminates a person’s ability to perceive beauty. Excellent read (as are almost all his stories, imho).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liking_What_You_See:_A_Documen...

Don't know about that - but we're incredibly sensitive to some minor changes to faces;

I saw a clip not too long ago of a face digitally transitioning between male and female, the changes themselves were incredibly subtle, and yet the result was obvious and undeniable.

There's also the uncanny valley, faces that are almost human yet very slightly off, and somehow come across as incredibly creepy.

I believe the medical term for that is "drunk". A condition I've had the misfortune to suffer from myself on occasion.

Experiments have shown that we perceive our own face as more attractive than it really is. When presented with a series of morphed pictures of their own face, from less attractive to more attractive, people tend to not pick the unmodified picture as the real one, but one morphed slightly more towards attractive (where “attractive” mostly means “symmetric”, IIRC).

Sounds interesting, but I hope the study was done both with photos and photos flipped liked in the mirror.

Some do, after sobering up.

That’s what the those crazies say, the reptilians amongst us glamour all humans into seeing them as better looking humans.

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