Desrtopa comments on Rationalist Horoscopes: Low-hanging utility generator? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Desrtopa 20 May 2011 09:13:48PM 0 points [-]

If you're going to divide it up in a way to make it more emotionally available, maybe separate by Myers-Briggs category?

Comment author: zntneo 24 May 2011 03:00:19AM 0 points [-]

Well given the low reliability and low validity (see here for a bit of an overview) i'm not sure that would work to well

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 20 May 2011 10:13:11PM 0 points [-]

Splitting LessWrong by MB type isn't going to be a even distribution. The Hamming distance from INTJ isn't very great for most of us...

Comment author: wedrifid 21 May 2011 08:13:34AM 1 point [-]

The Hamming distance from INTJ isn't very great for most of us...

J? So that is what makes some lesswrong folks so damn annoying at times. I maxed out the 'P' rating. Technically equal T and F resolves to F too so in raw hamming that gives me a 2.

Comment author: Desrtopa 20 May 2011 11:24:01PM 0 points [-]

I didn't figure this was supposed to be for Less Wrong specifically, although getting it to spread might be difficult.

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 20 May 2011 09:29:02PM *  0 points [-]

That seems like the most likely way of dividing it, to me. I'm not entirely comfortable with endorsing that model (I don't know enough about it, basically), but it looks plausible at least. (I'm not entirely sure we're going to divide it up at all, at this point, but the code's written in such a way as to at least allow it.)

I suppose it'd be interesting to allow the different M-B groups to optimize the quotes that the groups get separately, rather than having all the votes go into the same database - I don't think it'd be all that hard to set that up, and it'd give us some interesting data on M-B.

Comment author: badger 20 May 2011 10:03:50PM *  0 points [-]

I don't think there is good reason to split according to M-B groups. If you want to split according to personality, the Big 5 factors are the current consensus. Even then though, I don't know how advice would be specialized to low agreeableness individuals, for instance.

The broad categories come to my mind are

  • Epistemic
  • Instrumental/anti-akrasia/motivational
  • Social
  • Creativity/seeing with fresh eyes
  • Quotations

You could either bundle these with the instructions to pick a single one to focus on or if you have room for customization, let people pick whether they want a high or low amount of each in their stream.