Alicorn comments on Let There Be Light - Less Wrong
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"While you're at it, give some thought to your intelligence types, categorize your love language1 - anything that carves up person-space and puts you in a bit of it."
Hey Alicorn. I think what you're trying to do with luminosity is awesome, but I think it's important to note that it's very easy to just make up different ways of categorizing people (with no evidence), just like it's easy to make up your own school of psychology (http://lesswrong.com/lw/2j/schools_proliferating_without_evidence/). For example, while people certainly have different cognitive skills, Gardner's "multiple intelligences" model has largely been disproven (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligences#Lack_of_empirical_evidence), as it turns out that most of the "multiple intelligences" correlate well with each other.
Yes. I agree completely. This is why you saturate and have low standards for throwing things out the window (after extracting information from the fact that it's something you want to throw out the window).