Vladimir_Nesov comments on On the Openness personality trait & 'rationality' - Less Wrong

42 Post author: gwern 14 October 2011 01:07AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (95)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: gwern 14 October 2011 11:35:49PM *  13 points [-]

You want me to explain, cite, and defend the entire Big Five model with its factorization and the predictive powers thereof?

I'm sorry, I'm not going to do that. The goal of this article was to discuss some research leading to what I considered interesting speculation and questions. I linked to Wikipedia for the massive background such a veiled question wants (or you could read the rest of the book these short extracts were from, whose fulltext I also linked for readers such as you).

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 14 October 2011 11:45:22PM *  3 points [-]

I don't want to investigate this issue. But for the reason I gave, I can't take anything away just from reading this post, which excludes me from its target audience. This doesn't make the post bad, but is probably a consideration worth being aware of. (Making the burden of argument overwhelming, as you implied, wasn't my intention in any case.)