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Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE
Joined Jul 2018
@cobratbq Not sure I follow.. not sure how you dont know what your circumstance is... but we are way too meta for my brain right now :)
@cobratbq Dont know what?
@trinsec Also this is the funniest thing you have ever said, you have now just leveled up :)
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@freemo Sounds like it's inconceivable!
@trinsec I didnt even think of the princess bride scene when I asked, but yea that is the perfect layperson example really :)
#GameTheory question for everyone...
Is there a name for when an optimal strategy is avoided because the optimal strategy is easily defended against when you know the person is using it in the first place?
Or the reverse, where someone might intentionally use a very poor strategy specifically because the user would never expect a user to pick a poor strategy and thus, at least when assumed it wont be used, becomes a strong strategy?
@cobratbq Fair enough. Well I hope your situation improves is all.
@cobratbq what sort of circumstances we talking about? I would say the political correctness probably needs to be adjusted for the tolerances of the environment you are in.
The key to a happy life:
Be just politically incorrect enough to ensure all the toxic easily triggered people want nothing to do with you, but still kind enough that you dont actually cause anyone any real harm.
I've made a conscious effort to do this for years in most social settings and I need to say, I have a pretty awesome circle of friends.
@Gaythia yea plenty of explanations. Though in my expiernce the poll is fairly legitimate, the left will block people who disagree with their views pretty quickly politically. the right doesnt, but the right has other issues, they are far more likely to follow you around and troll you instead, so im not sure thats any better.
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@freemo @LouisIngenthron Indeed too much variability could be a problem, yet i would argue the status quo selection of parties available in many societys lacks multiple positions much needed by the general populace.
The fact that many people vote with regard to what they expect to be a "wasted vote" might have part in keeping it that way. Strategic voting, a similar way of thinking, is also something i consider harmful to the democratic process.
I think its more fundemental than even that,, it comes down to what you mean by a two party system...
I think the two party system we have simply means "whatever two parties are the most popular, even if its marginally more so, will receive disperportionatly more votes.
Whether this translates tot he fact that other third parties will have a harder time breaking in (and thus a wasted vote) Id say is the part that is untrue, which is why we see third parties break in all the time and go from 1% to 51% in a single election cycle historically.
@LouisIngenthron @admitsWrongIfProven
Its only a theory called a law erroneously. And with the major larties switching 8 times in us history and multiple times in other similar voting systems it shows it is not a twonparty system in thr typical sense in that other parties can and do break in and typically the shifts are fairly radical causing them to get majority shares in only one or two election cyles, showing that other parties can and do compete.
@admitsWrongIfProven the two-party system is a myth. We have multiple parties and candidates on each ballot. We have also had 8 different majority parties over the course of the usa... it looks like twonparties simply because americans were convinced thats how it work and have this idiotic idea that if they vote for anyone else its a wasted vote.
@admitsWrongIfProven there is that... but we may be talki g about people who are jjst mildly democrats and not to tbe extreme end.. leaning left but close to center.
@futurebird looks great, im glad your happy!
@admitsWrongIfProven there is absolutely a strong skew, but if i had to speculate id say its a bit of both at play... but hey whats worse democrats probably block more but republicans probably replace blocking with trolling more often. So it doesnt really say that much about true tolerance either way
@admitsWrongIfProven possibly. But the results are so extrmely skewed (0 to 12) that youd need a pretty extreme skew in the population participating in the poll as well. Of the two kt seems far more reasonable that the population is t so extremely skewed
@admitsWrongIfProven Not at all. I dont think anyone would consider this a high quality randomly sampled data point.
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- UFoI Member
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Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE
Joined Jul 2018
