New AI can guess a person's sexual orientation from a photograph

Re:New AI can guess a person's sexual orientation from a pho... by kowdermeister on Friday September 08, 2017 @09:22AM (#15199944)

Yes, about 114 sources on Wikipedia.

"As of 1999, about 500 species, ranging from primates to gut worms, have been documented engaging in same-sex behaviors.[3][page needed][4] According to the organizers of the 2006 Against Nature? exhibit, it has been observed in 1,500 species.[5]"

So if not DNA, then what else?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals

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Re:New AI can guess a person's sexual orientation from a pho... by foldr on Friday September 08, 2017 @09:33AM (#15200000)

That's missing the point. The question was whether there's any evidence that homosexuality (in humans) is the result of a particular genetic specification. We don't know whether or not that's the case for the worms. All we know is that some worms exhibit homosexual behavior.

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Re:New AI can guess a person's sexual orientation from a pho... by kowdermeister on Friday September 08, 2017 @09:53AM (#15200118)

It's not missing it. We are in no way different than other mammals in this question. Even the ratios match we observe in nature, so it's very likely that it's a natural process. It can be as deep as epigenetic effect, but I don't see how it's not coded into your system.

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Re:New AI can guess a person's sexual orientation from a pho... by foldr on Saturday September 09, 2017 @05:29AM (#15206247)

We don't even have reliable information on the ratio for humans. Please don't try to tell me that we have reliable numbers on what fraction of worms or chimpanzees are "gay".

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