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Re: How normal am I?

#272

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I went to a Walmart subsidiary recently, called Líder, and they pulled every bitchvictim move the could pull. More in fact, I now legally have standing to sue for abduction for April 17, 2022 15:49:22 hour at the Líder at 560 Merced (which gives receipts as Walmart) and sent six guards at me claiming I didn't pay, herding me back to their grounds where they have total editorial control over their cameras--but none we…

Your story is relevant and what you went through is horrible, but you may want to practice telling it in a clear and concise way. At first glance your post sounds like a crazy person rant, and it would be unfortunate for people to brush you off without actually reading your post.

It wasn't horrible because I did something about it. It wasn't a tragedy.

I am in fact practicing (EDIT: this came out wrong, I meant attempting) clarity and concision. So listening to other people's tragedies and what they went through--which always comes out rant-like--is helping me tell my piece the right way, with absolute adhesion to the truth.

Partly that's a scam, they show you a cartoon of a madman and tell you "that's why he's mad, sweating, screaming, shaking, accusing, because he's stupid" then after that inb4, that poisoning of the well, nobody respects that stereotype until it's you who's mad, sweating, screaming, shaking, accusing, and being called stupid. And then it's too late. First they came for the Jews right? Wrong, first they came for the madmen, and perfected their extermination techniques with them, and nobody said anything, nobody visited them. And then they came for the Jews, and then everybody else. I remember it starting with the Jews, in Holocaust museums it starts with communists, in America it starts with Jews sometimes and Socialists other times, it changes all the time. But it never ever starts with the mad (Although Communist is close enough, they were thoroughly accused of being mad, Salvador Allende did medical research on the subject to vindicate them).

Putting it here in full, best I can do:

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[0th they came for the ranting crazy persons

to figure out all the ins and outs of abduction and execution

but I won't even include them in this poem

Because I was not and still am not a crazy person]

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First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist

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Then they came for the Socialists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Socialist

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Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a trade unionist

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Then they came for the Jews

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Jew

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Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me

Re: How normal am I?

#275

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Service Workers are a thing. If you're extra extra paranoid, use a disposable VM in Qubes OS. https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/how-to-use-disposables/

Wait—service workers can keep running after a tab is closed?!

Maybe or maybe not, depending on browser implementation. They can be kept in memory if the browser sees no memory need.

But they might store stuff to localStorage. Right - localStorage is also a thing. And so are cookies.

Re: How normal am I?

#276
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.

If one of these models is on average better, then they would gain an advantage by using it. The problem is for the "not normal enough" folks, it may be _harder_ to remedy an invalid classification, particularly if there are no fallbacks or work arounds. I was cued into this once by an ML book that gave an example of a fraud detection company using an actually worse algorithm, because when it gave false positives it was easier to understand and hence easier to manually override. But if it is less profitable to operate this way, and there is no regulation around it, people getting falsely classified may be out of luck. That's where the discussion around regulation needs to happen, I think.

Re: How normal am I?

#277
post #138

I am apparently 6 BMI higher and 5 years younger now But the way it tells me that is I lied about my age (I didn't)

It seems you can significantly reduce your BMI with clever beard shaping.

Re: How normal am I?

#279
post #2

I was initially put off by the webcam permission requirement, but the terms and conditions page says it's basically an art project and they don't send any data off (unless you explicitly accept it at the end) so I gave it a chance. I'm glad I allowed webcam permission because it was an interesting, informative, and fun look at biometric tracking. Apparently I'm "violently average" which is not a way I would previousl…

So you haven´t even tried without the "accept" box. It works the same, BTW.

Re: How normal am I?

#280

I think it's hilarious that it decided, based on the AI algorithm, that I lied about my age!

Probably cause you're not normal meaning you look young or old for your age? I think that actually makes a lot of sense.

I'm pretty basic and it guess my age exactly. lol

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