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

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Comment author: wedrifid 19 October 2011 03:11:07PM 4 points [-]

Wow! All that compresses down to just four bits!

No. It compresses into 4 bits plus a whole bunch of extraneous knowledge of humanity and the environment. Sure, you can say it compresses down to four bits so long as you consider the language itself to already know all the basics about humans and the difference between the this and the other 15 combinations.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 19 October 2011 08:10:26PM 3 points [-]

I can't see 16 such highly detailed descriptions covering more than a small fraction of humanity.

Comment author: lessdazed 19 October 2011 09:18:50PM 6 points [-]

Nu, with horoscopes each of 12 descriptions cover all of humanity!

Comment author: wedrifid 19 October 2011 08:18:37PM *  0 points [-]

Some parts more than others I expect. Each of the details is supposed to be considered separately and with an "are more likely to" attached rather than a strict conjugation.

The interesting question is how many compressed bits the 4 bits convey. I'm guessing about 3.