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Re: Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003)

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Post by anigbrowl » Fri, Sep 15, 2023, 10:47 PM UTC

quickthrower2 wrote: post #88

anigbrowl wrote: post #3

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I scored 9/10 and 'true crime' is not an especial interest of mine, I didn't recognize anyone's photos. * HMU if you want to screen new hires/potential business partners, no refunds

Self selected p-hack

I've got a make a living somehow, and keeping programmers out of the murder industry seems like the least I can do. If you let one in pretty soon the whole thing becomes automated and you'll just have AI-powered steamrollers turning the whole thing into an impersonal, generic experience.

Re: Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003)

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Post by NikkiA » Fri, Sep 15, 2023, 11:55 PM UTC

Macha wrote: post #36

yowzadave wrote: post #9

I like this because I like to flatter myself that I have a good intuition about people after seeing them, and this shows that I’m completely wrong about that—barely better than random.

It turns out with the trappings of how serial killers are presented in media (bad black and white photos from odd angles), everyone looks like a serial killer.

Plus the whole website primes you to think that you're about to be presented serial killers.

You could do a 'serial killer or ...' about anyone whose prime was between 1950 and 1970-some and has a lot of mostly B&W photos.

Re: Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003)

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Post by jeffparsons » Thu, Sep 21, 2023, 8:07 AM UTC

RugnirViking wrote: post #125

jeffparsons wrote: post #107

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There's a security camera monitor displayed prominently in one store near where I live that makes everyone look dodgy — something about the frame rate and fuzzy image just looks like shoplifting footage you'd see on the news. I see myself on the screen as I enter and think "yeah, that guy's going to hold up the shop or something".

surely in this case the very fact that it looks like a security camera feed is why? wouldn't most security cameras do that right? :) its an interesting thought, that the only place most people see stuff like that is recordings of incidents

I think it's because it looks like an _ancient_ security camera feed, which reminds me of watching security footage on television news as a child. Most modern systems I see don't have that kind of noisy distorted "bad analogue" look so I think they just don't trigger the same reaction in me.