Title: Product Review: FaceApp
Date: 2020-01-01 05:00
Category: other
-Tags: product review
+Tags: review (product)
Status: draft
-This app! This app is _the uniquely best piece of software in our world_.
+[This app!](https://www.faceapp.com/) This app is _the uniquely best piece of software in the world_.
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+Available for both Android and iOS, FaceApp wields the power of modern neural-network image processing techniques to apply hauntingly realistic transformations to photographs of people's faces.
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+Most of these are pretty boring, honestly. So you can see (a machine-learning algorithm's conception of) what you (or a friend, celebrity, _&c._) would look like if you (respectively they) were older, or younger. It's very technically impressive, of course, and good for a few minutes' amusement, but hardly anything to write home or blog about, let alone _uniquely best piece of software in the world_ material.
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+But! _There's a "Female" filter._
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+Non-autogynephilic readers may not fully appreciate the gravity of this.
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+When the girl in the mirror is obviously a guy in a dress (even when you squint), FaceApp is there to offer a girl in the phone who you can _believe in_.
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this is plausibly the best photo of me ever (I won't say the best crossdressing photo, because obviously all photographs of men are bad; only photographs of women or women-adj have the potential to be good)
In the tiny fraction of decoherent futures in which
in the glorious transhumanist future, there's also BrainApp that can do reversible mental transitions
-(I mean, BodyApp is the fun part, but BrainApp is educational)
+(I mean, BodyApp is the fun part, but BrainApp is _educational_.)
Shut up! Shut up and take my money!
-When the girl in the mirror is obviously a guy in a dress (even when you squint),
+POINTS TO HIT IN THIS POST—
-the girl in the phone you can _believe in_.
+* server lag?
+* can see the horror of facial hair even though I wasn't patient enough to wait (/2017/Nov/laser-1/)
+* gallery vs. full-size mode, speculating about the reason
+* transhumanist fantasy