Wei_Dai comments on Experiment: Psychoanalyze Me - Less Wrong

8 Post author: Wei_Dai 17 July 2011 07:54AM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 18 July 2011 10:17:43PM 0 points [-]

If the latter case, something interesting could possibly be derived, depending on which parts of the paragraph failed to describe you.

I'm failing to see how, since any disagreements I have about the description would be based on my own understanding of myself, whereas my OP was asking others to provide me with their insights (and, implicitly, any explanations needed for me to see the insight myself). Also, the kind of "psychoanalysis" I had in mind was in the context of an argument, where the reasons I give for my beliefs may not be the actual reasons I have for my beliefs, not this kind of general description of personality.