# Skaldian Hypothetical Experiment: Your daily life completely recorded. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 28, 2013, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skaldian-hypothetical-experiment-your-daily-life-completely-recorded/659560 "2013-05-28T18:01:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skaldian-hypothetical-experiment-your-daily-life-completely-recorded/659560/21 "2013-05-29T03:13:47Z")
I’d consider it for a lot more money, for $15k it’s a big Hell No. $200k i’d think about it, $500k it’s “Where do I sign” ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skaldian-hypothetical-experiment-your-daily-life-completely-recorded/659560/22 "2013-05-29T03:57:04Z")
Yeah, not in the least bit interested. I’m sure there’s an amount that I’m willing to be bought for, but not for only 15k. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skaldian-hypothetical-experiment-your-daily-life-completely-recorded/659560/23 "2013-05-29T05:26:22Z")
Hell no. Despite the assurances of their magical lawyers, the potential to record some of my daily activities could violate attorney client privilege, as well as various privacy rules associated with my work as a _Guardian ad Litem_. Even if that were not the case, $15,000 is not nearly enough money. ---
**Author:** ![48Willys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/db5fbb/32.png) [@48Willys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/48Willys)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skaldian-hypothetical-experiment-your-daily-life-completely-recorded/659560/24 "2013-05-29T07:26:28Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Hell no. Not for my own privacy, but for all the people I interact with. Not _ **JUST** _ for my privacy,… I can not even imagine _ **ANY** _ good comming from this. Besides, no cheesecake!☹ ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skaldian-hypothetical-experiment-your-daily-life-completely-recorded/659560/25 "2013-05-29T07:31:23Z")
For fifteen thousand dollars? Hell no. Offer me fifteen million dollars and I’d at least have to think it over for a few minutes before saying no. ---
**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skaldian-hypothetical-experiment-your-daily-life-completely-recorded/659560/26 "2013-05-29T08:23:24Z")
It doubles my household income for those 6 months, so… ok! ---
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skaldian-hypothetical-experiment-your-daily-life-completely-recorded/659560/27 "2013-05-29T08:47:35Z")
I’ll wear it for a month for $15,000 It’ll take at least $50,000 for me to wear it for six months. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skaldian-hypothetical-experiment-your-daily-life-completely-recorded/659560/28 "2013-05-29T12:11:11Z")
Make it 1.5 million, and I’ll take option 2 or 3. I’m serious - nothing much below that value is worth it ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skaldian-hypothetical-experiment-your-daily-life-completely-recorded/659560/29 "2013-05-29T12:46:08Z")
For 83 dollars a day? I think not. I don’t know what sum would let me do it, actually. I am a very private person. ---
**Author:** ![iftheresaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecae2f/32.png) [@iftheresaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iftheresaway)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skaldian-hypothetical-experiment-your-daily-life-completely-recorded/659560/30 "2013-05-29T13:55:21Z")
You don’t seem to be getting many takers, so let’s negotiate: I’ll wear your glasses for 6 months for 125k, IF you add a “privacy button” to the frames. I’ll even keep a log: “privacy button: pooping. Privacy button: sexing. Privacy button: wanking.” ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skaldian-hypothetical-experiment-your-daily-life-completely-recorded/659560/31 "2013-05-29T14:05:34Z")
For my privacy to be invaded I’d need a lot more money, 3 mil after taxes, then I’ll have to pay the people I regularly intereact with to have their privacy violated so there are at least the two people I live with that would need 3 mil a piece as well and then proably another three for the rest of the people I inteact with to be ok with it. So 12 million will get me on board. I picked hell no because as written it’s a terrible deal that would cause me to lose my fiance and my job. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skaldian-hypothetical-experiment-your-daily-life-completely-recorded/659560/32 "2013-05-29T14:44:12Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > I would need 2 pair of glasses, I can’t wear bifocals without them giving me eyestrain headaches [or whatever you call the damned things. Not quite a migraine, but it comes from flipping my focal distance.] Not to mention it is pretty darn near impossible to watch TV laying on one’s side [a position I spend a fair amount of time in thanks to the damned arthritis and impingements] with bifocals on. It is much easier to just flip between close and distance glasses as I need to. > > Since I catnap around the clock, is there going to be a built in brainscan so it can tell when I am asleep and awake? > > Also, does there have to be sound or can I mute everything? > > If I can mute it I will tentatively vote yes. You don’t know how the study facilitators know when you’re catnapping, but you may take them off for catnaps, dognaps, buffalonaps, and any other type of somnal activity. You cannot mute the device. The recording captures audio as well as video. [QUOTE=Leaper] Suppose you’re writing the Great American Novel. When it’s published, it’ll retroactively be identifying information — very conclusively, in fact. [/QUOTE] Do you plan on writing the Great American Novel within the next 6 months? [QUOTE=ZipperJJ] Sure. I could use the money, and I’m not dating anyone right now. I’d probably use it as an excuse to get my ass back to the gym for 6 months straight, knowing that people are out there judging me! I’d probably hang out with my nieces more too so they can become famous child actors. [/QUOTE] I really like your reasonings. 🙂 [QUOTE=48Willys] Not _ **JUST** _ for my privacy,… I can not even imagine _ **ANY** _ good comming from this. Besides, no cheesecake! [/QUOTE] Okay, fine. We’ll throw in a lifetime supply of cheesecake upon successful completion of the study. [QUOTE=iftheresaway] You don’t seem to be getting many takers, so let’s negotiate: I’ll wear your glasses for 6 months for 125k, IF you add a “privacy button” to the frames. I’ll even keep a log: “privacy button: pooping. Privacy button: sexing. Privacy button: wanking.” [/QUOTE] Are you kidding?! I’ve already got 8 other people (including myself) who would participate. Besides, a privacy button defeats the whole purpose of the experiment. [QUOTE=Oredigger77] For my privacy to be invaded I’d need a lot more money, 3 mil after taxes, then I’ll have to pay the people I regularly intereact with to have their privacy violated so there are at least the two people I live with that would need 3 mil a piece as well and then proably another three for the rest of the people I inteact with to be ok with it. So 12 million will get me on board. I picked hell no because as written it’s a terrible deal that would cause me to lose my fiance and my job. [/QUOTE] So you’re saying you’re willing to give up your fiancée for $12 million? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skaldian-hypothetical-experiment-your-daily-life-completely-recorded/659560/33 "2013-05-29T15:05:48Z")
I guess I could probably stay away from masturbating like a mothercluck to online panda porn for six months if you paid me enough. I’ll do mostly anything for money. I will only do it on one condition, though: Skip the private viewing of the video afterwards. You can do whatever else you want with the video, but I don’t want to see it, and certainly not with a friend. I can’t stand the thought of watching myself living my boring-ass life and being my stupid-ass self. ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skaldian-hypothetical-experiment-your-daily-life-completely-recorded/659560/34 "2013-05-29T15:28:31Z")
> [@Agent\_Foxtrot](#): > > Besides, a privacy button defeats the whole purpose of the experiment. So, you pretty much admitted the “documentary” is about pooping, sexing, and wanking. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skaldian-hypothetical-experiment-your-daily-life-completely-recorded/659560/35 "2013-05-29T15:39:15Z")
> [@Hermitian](#): > > So, you pretty much admitted the “documentary” is about pooping, sexing, and wanking. You assume much. I never explicitly stated what the documentary is about. ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skaldian-hypothetical-experiment-your-daily-life-completely-recorded/659560/36 "2013-05-29T15:55:38Z")
Workplaces will be a problem. Maybe if it was something like you had to have it on for X hours a day. That would let you avoid pooping, sexting, doctor/lawyer/hitmen appointments, and more secure work facilities while still getting plenty of boring real life. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skaldian-hypothetical-experiment-your-daily-life-completely-recorded/659560/37 "2013-05-29T17:38:04Z")
There is sufficient information to identify someone by the restrictions you have given. I voted incorrectly, assuming that anonymity was much better. No identification, no problems. I don’t get people who want privacy just because. The only reason to want privacy is if you suspect someone will do something nefarious with the information they have on you. Unfortunately, while the risk is small, nefarious use is in fact a risk, as privacy is not assured. I’d probably go with needing more money to offset that risk. Saying I wouldn’t do it at all would be stupid. This isn’t some moral objection–there is a point where the benefits would outweigh the risks. Enough money and I could essentially change my identity, if nothing else. I’m not entirely sure why sexual preferences are the thing you leap to as being the most embarrassing, though. I mean, I may have a few kinks I’d want to keep private (simply because it could make life difficult if people knew about them, not because I’m actually ashamed of them), but sex in and of itself is nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skaldian-hypothetical-experiment-your-daily-life-completely-recorded/659560/38 "2013-05-29T18:09:41Z")
> [@Agent\_Foxtrot](#): > > So you’re saying you’re willing to give up your fiancée for $12 million? 😉 Absolutly, she’s one in a million but if I’ve got 12 million I could get 12 of her. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skaldian-hypothetical-experiment-your-daily-life-completely-recorded/659560/39 "2013-05-29T18:36:30Z")
> [@Agent\_Foxtrot](#): > > Do you plan on writing the Great American Novel within the next 6 months? I was asking a probing question on just how far the definition of “identifying information” went. It seems to me that there are plenty of ways to identify people without knowing what blurred words used to be. Thus, that aspect of the subject’s privacy is not assured at all. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skaldian-hypothetical-experiment-your-daily-life-completely-recorded/659560/40 "2013-05-29T19:33:09Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > There is sufficient information to identify someone by the restrictions you have given. I voted incorrectly, assuming that anonymity was much better. No identification, no problems. I don’t get people who want privacy just because. The only reason to want privacy is if you suspect someone will do something nefarious with the information they have on you. How silly. Why do people never understand that different people have different wants and needs? I am different from you. I want different things. I most definitely want privacy just because, and I am not suspecting anyone to do anything nefarious. I don’t even have anything to hide. Doesn’t mean I don’t want to keep it to myself! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skaldian-hypothetical-experiment-your-daily-life-completely-recorded/659560.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skaldian-hypothetical-experiment-your-daily-life-completely-recorded/659560.md?page=3)