How Normal Am I? • Hacker News Board

Re: How Normal Am I?

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Post by sebow » Thu, Oct 01, 2020, 10:43 AM UTC

hew7djdndh wrote: post #23

LOL funny how people here gibber about privacy but are more than happy to give their face to some rando website. Y'all are fucking muppets.

99% of the cases i would agree with you,I don't even buy laptops with integrated webcams for this very reason; However, websites with the .eu domain are subject to EU laws (obviously, since you need to be an eu citizen to have such a domain).

Even though i'm not an EU fan (far from it actually),it would be very weird if they'd have such a website and then not comply with data requests for deletion/download, especially when they boast about it being an EU-funded website that respects privacy.

Re: How Normal Am I?

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Post by mapcars » Thu, Oct 01, 2020, 10:44 AM UTC

You can't even define normal, how come you think your program can?

Re: How Normal Am I?

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Post by unityByFreedom » Thu, Oct 01, 2020, 10:45 AM UTC

Why the F would anyone on HN want to give their face to a random website.

Re: How Normal Am I?

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Post by infradig » Thu, Oct 01, 2020, 10:45 AM UTC

Not hotdog

Re: How Normal Am I?

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Post by unityByFreedom » Thu, Oct 01, 2020, 10:48 AM UTC

HN: "delete Facebook"

Also HN: "show your face to this random site so an algorithm can tell you if you're hot or not"

Re: How Normal Am I?

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Post by adwn » Thu, Oct 01, 2020, 10:48 AM UTC

polytely wrote: post #70

I'm in my late twenties but people always think I'm around like 21 or something, I was very surprised to see that this site also guessed that I was about 22, I would expect a computer to see through that.

> I would expect a computer to see through that.

If you actually look like you're 21, then how is an AI supposed to "see through that", when all it has is an image of your face?

Re: How Normal Am I?

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Post by dirtnugget » Thu, Oct 01, 2020, 10:49 AM UTC

Twisol wrote: post #39

moksly wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only person I know who did something about his left ear, did admirable. Just don’t wrap the ear in a newspaper and hand it to a prostitute, as I doubt that sort of thing will work out well in these modern times.

Before googling: Is this a van Gogh reference? After googling: Yep, that's a van Gogh reference. https://www.vangoghgallery.com/misc/van-goghs-ear.html > Vincent took the ear and wrapped it in newspaper. With a hat pulled down over his wound, he, with ear in hand, left the house to go to a “maison de tolerance”, a brothel close to the house. There he asked for a girl named Rachel who he gave the ear to saying “Guard…

Whatever drugs he was taking, I want them

Re: How Normal Am I?

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Post by matthewfelgate » Thu, Oct 01, 2020, 10:50 AM UTC

I'm caught between being fascinated by this technology and horrified at the thought of how much it is in use already.

Re: How Normal Am I?

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Post by invalidusernam3 » Thu, Oct 01, 2020, 10:51 AM UTC

mapcars wrote: post #72

You can't even define normal, how come you think your program can?

Average would be a more appropriate word, but that doesn't make for as interesting of a hashtag

Re: How Normal Am I?

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Post by madeofpalk » Thu, Oct 01, 2020, 10:51 AM UTC

owouwuowo wrote: post #7

Apperantly when the website thinks you are a woman, it marks that column down as "Normal: No", because 82% of visitors are men. Just something to think about. Also it called me ugly : Edit: I just ran the website for a second time and didn't change my clothes or anything, and it gave me very different results. ie. gender, age, bmi, attractiveness all different. I don't think the ratings for this is very stable & repr…

I think this is entirely the point - to highlight how these algorithms are used in every day life, and how unreliable they are.

It points it out by "raising your eyebrows to make it think you're less fat" and "move your head around to change your age".