How normal am I? • Hacker News Board

Re: How normal am I?

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Post by ensignavenger » Tue, Jul 05, 2022, 2:33 PM UTC

Bromeo wrote: post #119

I think many people commenting on the model making bad predictions are missing the point. The speaker argues that even though models are known to be inaccurate, companies like tinder or insurance companies might still use the model outputs since they have nothing better. Therefore, in some future (or already today?) you can suffer from bad model predictions because you are "not normal enough" for the model to make go…

Insurance companies hire very smart actuaries... and thus currently use actuarial models. Actuarial models aren't perfect either. However, throwing them out to use one of these machine prediction models would almost certainly be a disaster for the insurance company. And there is currently a lot of competition for life insurance.

Re: How normal am I?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 05, 2022, 2:34 PM UTC

NightWhistler wrote: post #148

For people worried this might be a scam: the guy in the video is Tijmen Schep and he's a privacy researcher and activist. I had the pleasure of meeting him a while ago and seeing him give a talk about how companies gather data and the chilling effects on society.

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Re: How normal am I?

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Post by mywittyname » Tue, Jul 05, 2022, 2:34 PM UTC

This flagged me as lying about my age because it guessed that I'm 10 years younger than I am.

Re: How normal am I?

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Post by mywittyname » Tue, Jul 05, 2022, 2:37 PM UTC

Hammershaft wrote: post #88

kleene_op wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was a 6.3 as I stepped out of bed. I took a shower, shaved, brushed my teeth, put on a nice shirt, fixed my hair and offered a good angle of my best smile at the camera. I was now a 9.

Interesting! I thought it would be purely based on facial symmetry.

I took off my glasses and jumped 2.5 points. If it were measuring symmetry, that wouldn't happen.

Re: How normal am I?

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Post by mortehu » Tue, Jul 05, 2022, 2:40 PM UTC

barbarbar wrote: post #41

Rerarom wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't we all have tons of pictures of ourselves online already?

No. Zero.

Do you avoid tourist attractions and cities so that you aren't included in other people's photos? Even though I'm not an Apple customer, for example, I'm sure they could infer much of my movements from their photo database using only other people's photos (I live in a city).

Re: How normal am I?

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Post by hirundo » Tue, Jul 05, 2022, 2:41 PM UTC

This appears to be a modern variation of phrenology. That doesn't make it a hoax or useless, maybe phrenology was just analysing the wrong features of the head. But it should start with the same (skeptical) epistemic status.

Re: How normal am I?

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Post by tinco » Tue, Jul 05, 2022, 2:41 PM UTC

seanw444 wrote: post #167

floodle wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm guessing you're from the US and the parent poster is from the EU?

Correct. I don't care which government is in question, though. None are worthy of my trust or data.

I work for a company that does projects that are sometimes funded by the EU. I've never heard of the EU ever asking for something in return. You submit your project, the EU either decides to give you money, or not, and you do your project. Sometimes they check whether you've actually done what you said you'd do. No one in the EU has time to deal with the output of the billions of euro's they invest in random projects.

Re: How normal am I?

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Post by karolist » Tue, Jul 05, 2022, 2:43 PM UTC

isaacfrond wrote: post #8

Beauty score of 5.9 out of 10. Hmm. It may be average, but that I'm still a bit peeved.

5.8 but scored 10 years younger than I actually am so I've got that going for me, which is ... I don't know.

Re: How normal am I?

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Post by tinco » Tue, Jul 05, 2022, 2:47 PM UTC

toyg wrote: post #170

hiisukun wrote: post #107

Some interesting tidbits: * There's a sortof hidden/unlabelled button - did you press it? * Did you notice the nickname you were given, slowly building up over time? * Do you have resting sad face? Or resting happy face?

It might not be the best at dealing with facial hair. I was smiling most of the time and it said I was sad and disgusted by the doggie.

It said I was said while looking at the doggy, but I think it was because I was trying to keep up with the messages it displayed while rendering the doggy and one of the messages said something about it trying to determine whether I am Donald Trump, which must've increased my frown a bit :P

Re: How normal am I?

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Post by tinco » Tue, Jul 05, 2022, 2:53 PM UTC

lom wrote: post #141

Beauty, age, gender and BMI are all just `…` for me ? Also sad to hear that my life expectancy is only 58

It bases your life expectancy on your IP address... where do you live that has an average life expectancy of 58?