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freemo

@freemo@qoto.org

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

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freemo, to asd
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If you are well organized, it is a healthy trait. no one would say you are "on the OCD spectrum".. but when that trait gets out of hand we would say you have OCD, and likely would be diagnosed as such.

I see (autism) ASD and ADHD as much the same way. Most people diagnosed with it who are high functioning dont really have it at all. It is just a personality trait and all in all a positive one. high-functioning ASD are just people without social hangups, good. And people with ADHD who are high-functioning are largely just amazing multi-taskers.

The harm in putting people on a spectrum is they see themselves asa diseased, broken, something that needs "consideration.. they arent, in most cases in the right proportions these "diseases" are in fact just super powers, things more people should wisht hey have really.

freemo,
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@siblingpastry

Cognitive disabilities are super powers in the right and healthy proportions. As a person diagnosed with ASD this has become quite evident. I gave specific examples of how. The whole point is calli g them cognitive disabilitiea is a bad take. They are personality traits that whwn they become too exagerated cause harm, but in healthy proportions are good.

Ths relative nature of social expectations is exactly how psychiatry is designed. Desieases are generalally ide tified by their manifestation when among the normal population.

One of the studies i helped work on shows, interestingly, how people who would qualify for an autism diagnosis based on their expiernce when living in the states typically when reevaluated relative to their interactions in another countery (in this case when living in germany) they know longer met the diagnostic criteria in many cases.

Also calling someone diagnosed on the ASD who is a professional researxh scie tist who has worked to advance the topic and ablist is kinda out of touch with reality and rude, but we can let that slide...

freemo,
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@AutisticDoctorStruggles

It is useful because if you are high functioni g, even through masking, then you do t have the disorder. By defi ition something is only a disorder when you are no longer high functioning.

It doesnt mean the personality trait isnt there, it just means it isnt manifesting in an unhealthy way in order to prevent you from functioning well.

A person who has episodes of OCD obviously has the tendency towards related personality traits. Just that in his healthier state they are not net negitives they are just perfectly normal and healthy parts of a personlity that he happens to have in common with others.

freemo,
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@macberg @Anthrako

As it should be. A nd that diability should be reevaluated periodically to see if talk therapy has managed to make it no longer a disability, a treatment may reverse it if your borderline enough

freemo,
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A high functioning 0erson with adhd is at higher risk of developing adhd related problems, just as thry are at a higher risk of developing its super powers.

Im a person with adhd, for me it has manifested largerly as a suoer power with little or no drawbacks. It is a large reason for my carereer success.

freemo,
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@bonifartius as someone witb ADHD i call them suoer powers because thats what itnis. I have beeen wildly successful in it business largely due to thosensuper powers. My ability to context switxh, multitask, and see extremely complex big picture stuff is superior when unmedicates by leaps and bounds.

Now take me off my medication and i hyper focus to the poi t of obsession on one thing at a time and my abilities reflect that of more normal people and my usefulness goes down..

koyu, to random
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Everything’s a dildo if you believe in it
The tooown inside me~

freemo,
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@koyu

Proving this wrong is my kink!

freemo,
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@koyu yup :)

manlycoffee, to random
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There seems to be a high demand for linguists in the era of LLMs.

freemo,
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@manlycoffee Its not really limited to LLMs and its not really linguists. It is Ontologists which is often confused with linguistic onologists but in reality they mean semantic web ontologists. I run a AI company that doesnt do LLM an we need ontologists too for example.

freemo, (edited ) to random
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Which form of pronouns will you use when asked?

freemo,
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@realcaseyrollins

How so? Its askibg what terms you will use when refering to others. Not sure how it woukd t apply to you, you still need to address other people.

LouisIngenthron, to random
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Why is it that kids so often like bread with the crust cut off while adults so often love the crust to the point where we buy shit like french bread?

freemo,
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@LouisIngenthron Because the crust we cut for kids is usually the same crust adults hate... I never knew an adult who wanted white loaf crust we just tolerate it. Likewise kids seem to love italian bread flaky crust just like adults.

KimPerales, to random
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What happened to the peace🕊️talks? Netanyahu has squelched them to stay in power. Biden & the world's leaders must demand a road to peace; >34K Palestinians have been killed, incl. >15K children, Gaza has been decimated...

A top Hamas pol official: the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of 5 yrs or more with IL & that it'd lay down its weapons & convert into a pol party if an independent Palestinian ST is establ. along pre-1967 borders.

https://apnews.com/article/hamas-khalil-alhayya-qatar-ceasefire-1967-borders-4912532b11a9cec29464eab234045438

freemo,
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@KimPerales

As long as biden co tinues to financially support genocide not a chance in hell i woukd vote for him... the again his history of racism already made him a slim chance with me anyway.

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@freemo

Putting "https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/112328384373243115" in qoto's searchbar results in an error toast saying "500". When I look at network requests involved, I see a request to "https://qoto.org/api/v2/search?q=https:%2F%2Fmas.to%2F%40TechConnectify%2F112328384373243115&resolve=true&limit=5" returning an error page with status code 500.

freemo,
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@robryk we are doing an upgrade and services were temporarily down as we move to the new system

mcc, to random
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So... to all you great V4V podcasters that I listen to, stream sats to, and paypalling to… I'm going to have to be curtailing that for a bit. I'm another software developer out of a job as of today. The economizing starts today. I'm just another engineer enjoying the Biden economy. 😑

freemo,
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@black6 @mcc

We sure are yes.

freemo, to random
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Just a reminder, third-parties are the only parties do not support Israel's genocide on Palestine and their war of aggression throughout the middle east. Both Trump and Biden have been the biggest supporters of Israel.. Anything other than a third-party vote this year is a vote in favor of genocide.

freemo,
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@hornblower

Ok but your responding to me answering that question. So its still relevant what question i was answering.

freemo,
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@hornblower

Right, and your response with:

Jill has no chance at all to win

Makes no sense. If my solution is that everyone votes for her the chance of her winning is 100%, the opposite of no chance.

If the solution i proposed be that I vote for her and no one else does anything different then her chance of winning as a result of my vote is effectively 0, the same as the chance of Biden winning as the result of my vote. So your point is equally moot.

freemo,
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@hornblower No I have voted many times and am well aware of the 8 times in USA history a third party became a primary party,which are pretty decent odds in the grand scheme.

That said im not sure your relevance.. why would it matter if who i vote for has a high chance or a low chance of winning, the result of my vote is the same either way.

freemo,
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@hornblower Last time it happened was at the begining of the century before people started beleiving the myth of a two party system. The structure for voting is the same as it was then (first past the post) so what changed, other than people becoming too stupid to realize they have other choices?

As for me being selfish, you have done nothing to actually justify why me making a vote for one of the racist two parties that support genocide would somehow make a more positive impact than voting for a third party. You mentioned a third party has a much lesser chance to win, and I even concede that, but do nothing to explain why that should actually mean i shouldl vote for the evil person with a greater chance to win than the not-evil person with a lesser chance to win. You are making no sense.

freemo,
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@hornblower

I just did, dont see you making a coherent point anyway.. you argue about chances to win but do not address the point that as an individual there has never been an election in the history of the USA where my vote would have made any impact on the outcome directly. Ergo your argument that I must vote for a popular choice, when doing so would have no impact, is just nonsense.

freemo,
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@hornblower

Your vote has the impact of 1 vote. Use it wisely so we don’t end up with the worst possible president.

Exactly, and since that one vote has the same effect on the outcome no matter how popular your candidate is you should always use it to vote against evil like Senile Genocide Joe or single digit IQ Racist Trump.

You keep assuming voting for an evil popular candidate is somehow a better use of that 1 vote and completely fail to make that point in anyway.

The day after that, help the Green party win an election higher than small town mayor and begin building it into a viable alternative, and push for IRV in your state elections.

Thats not how FPTP vote works. When third partys take over the transition is always abrupt and during a single election. So the dynamic you describe is ignorant of the mechanics. There is no two party system but there is an illusion of one caused by this effect.

All of that is better than popping up every 4 years smugly complaining about the presidential election candidates from your place of privilege.

While IRV would be an improvement it isnt needed as third parties are completely possible and common under FPTP voting.

freemo,
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@hornblower

No, that seems to be you. The illusion does have an effect, which I described, but not at all resembling what you think.

Moreover, you have still failed to make any attempt at justifying why my vote would have more value on a primary party even if it did work the way you said.

freemo,
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@hornblower

Your statement doesnt just not reflect my stance it is complete opposite of what I actually said. Which goes to show, no, you most certainly are not following along or understanding my viewpoint at all.

freemo,
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@hornblower

I’ve said it a few times now but you seem to refuse to listen to what I say and just repeat your talking points..

I expect stein to get 0 electorial votes and 1% to 3% of the vote.

My point is so what? How is voting for someone who gets 2% of the vote and loosing any different than voting for an evil person who gets 48% of the vote and looses, or even voting for another equally evil person who gets 51% of the vote and wins? How is you voting for someone you dont want to win, who wins somehow better than voting for someone you do want to win who looses? Thats the part you have failed to answer and just completely ignore in the discussion. The outcome is exactly the same with regards to who wins no matter who i vote for, so what even is your argument for me to vote for someone I dont want.. you have none.

freemo,
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@realcaseyrollins

Yup the israelis actually love Trump

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