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

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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.