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It's like asking a murder what they'd be if they didn't kill people, kind of the wrong question don't you think? I can intellectually understand other types but find it emotionally nearly impossible to do (except in moments of concentration and clarity), don't know how that question is...

Looks like a clone of the Amazon Echo, which I've used at relatives house. Downside is you don't get the millions of RD that Amazon pour into the echo, not to mention all the data they have. Plus compute power. Other competitors are Google Now , Apple Siri and Microsoft ... watchitcalled...

Makes a lot of sense. Panels take very little maintenance after installation, just put them up and you're done. I don't know what kind of in-road technology exists, but you could easily install the above road. Plenty of workplaces do that above outside parking lots, then you get the added...

Nobody has mentioned Deep Neural Networks which is the preeminent technology, after they achieved some breakthroughs. A DNN is what we've been looking for with ANN's (artificial neural nets) for 30 years, which is one which has more than a few layers and so can be made general purpose. So far...

I agree, a better measure would be to look at r which is the ratio of general population incidence to specific. That is, how often do you find INTP's in the general population (~3%) relative to the mentally ill (in it's various forms) population? They probably didn't do this because they didn't...

Rulers (space) contract in an inertial frame (one going faster than you or accelerating, which is the same as being in a gravitational field) and time lengthens - slows down. Space-time (3+1 dimensions) distorts, just like any non-isotropic metric (e.g. jello being squashed behaves similarly and...

Litterally made me cry. I was a mess all day yesterday, I did GR as an undergrad and have been watching LIGO for decades. Higgs was good but we all expected to find it. Gravitational waves are not, even Einstein wasn't really sure they existed. Space time continuum - literally. Not just an apt...

I've worked in corp, academia and for myself, and have on govt. have worked in govt. sponsored national labs and in aerospace & defense. So I've more or less seen it all. The difficulty with your question is that as I've said elsewhere jobs vary wildly. That is, working for the IRS isn't at...

For all their analysis INTP's are bad at determining their own path. For careers they (we) fail to distinguish a good career and a good job. There are thousands of careers INTP's would like - given the right job in that career. For example, being a prison guard where all you do is sit around...

A series of traumatic events I think. Birth - traumatic. Growing up - traumatic. Teenage years - traumatic. Making your way in the world - traumatic. All you have to look forward to is a probable traumatic death. Think how many trillions of humans have died alone, in horrible, painful...

Different types speak different social languages. F dominants ('feelers") speak in the language of feeling in social contexts. "How are you doing?". "So good to see you!" and so forth. S dominants have a unique patter that they all understand and you don't really. ES dominants focus on the...

Because it is. Maybe if we knew why c was special, we'd know more than what we know today. But then, that would just lead to another bit of knowledge that "just is", because this isn't religion, there's always some fundamental things you just have to accept. This is one of them.

Yes on the fun part (though TF2 isn't my favorite), but you also learn teamwork by working on any project with a team. Plus video game teamwork is different from the variety of other teamwork you deal with in life. The hardest lesson is learning to deal with somebody who rubs you completely the...

Games are a way to sandbox or containerize your consciousness. Humans like to do this - watch a show, read a book or have a good conversation are all examples. Computer games are a good diversion, I've played enough over the decades, but in small or moderates doses. The issue I have with...

57F in California - sorry. But actually he feels colder out here than when I lived out East, because it's 97% humidity. The dew point is always below the bulb temperature, so the humidity doesn't condense on your skin, but it's still there stealing every ounce of heat from your body that it can...

That was rude, obviously I was speaking to the newbies who haven't heard the story. But OK, I'll shutup. Having a bad day JW? I was just speaking favorably of you to DW yesterday too, boo. Oh well, never mind. Forums become like old marriages; you just end up bickering over pointless nothings.

Good answer, and I'd qualify it with the idea that INTP's aren't the kind of people who would likely have this attitude anyhow. We're too interested in too many things (Ne) to be forever wedded to one thing our entire life. Well, except information and learning itself, which is CS is the best...

This is the first interesting question this site has seen since the AA thread (not trying to play up that thread but it did produce a lot of interesting questions). Silvermoon has an equally interesting answer. I think for INTP's there's a great likelihood to have to face up to beliefs and...

OK, I'll assume you're accurate here. Thanks for the correction, I haven't taken the time to carefully trace the history of MBTI. Regardless it validates the idea that later practitioners usually improve a theory, and I stand by that the functions are the best understanding of MBTI. Example -...

The functions are the original formulation, and the letters (preferences) being a Keirsey/Bates addition. Usually later practitioners improve a theory but in this case I think a step back, they make it easier to get started but harder to go anywhere. This is why I have to keep hearing extroverts...

The difficulty with your question is that there is no 'corporate environment', what you find is it varies wildly. Turn it around instead; what kind of corporate environment would an INTP do well in? Obviously a relaxed one that isn't traditionally 'corporate'. I've stayed at my job for so long...

You are correct, it goes both ways. If you knew a-priori a persons Type (however you do that) then you can deduce probable behaviors. For example, knowing a person is an INTP you can expect they wouldn't be a party animal. However we usually don't know this information so have to go backwards...

I'm too busy doing what I want to have goals.

I'd say it differently, which is that the trouble comes from not too deep an understanding of MBTI, but too shallow. Read on ... Good example. Not just knowing but deeply studying MBTI - the reading materials, taking examples from personal, public and anecdotal real life and reasoning through...

In this case it's actually really good, I think they have some good consultants. From memory ... TOR/Hidden service hack The child abuse/porn coffee shop owner. It's easy to leak information from servers unless you really know what you're doing, even when a hidden service. It's very possible...

OP is one of the main reasons I'm spending little time here anymore (the other being the tedious drugs/boredom threads). I just like to help and be helped, but after some years of spinning my yarns it has turned from 'relaying information' to trying to help people directly/change agent. Which...

Yes those two things but they are the least of it. The main factors in achieving your goals are Knowing what you want (most people have no clue really) through and through, "balls to bones" as the Oracle says Having some confidence that you can get it (most people would rather shoot...

Same here, except the influence was Robert Heinlein, a Sci Fi author. He didn't have a STEM education so seemingly idolized scientists and mathematicians; it rubbed off. So I got a Physics undergrad and was accepted to a top five grad program with a focus on QM and GR, but I was in particle...

I've done this, and better a customer paid a few million for it. same Does using a whiteboard count? Otherwise the same. You know not of what you speak. The way it works is that all the real innovation goes on in the non-academic world. The universities take speciality problems, usually...

I'd think so. For example ISTJ's have the good ability to actualize their talents IRL. INTP's and ENTP's are easily led astray, as are the NF's. Inferior and intuition. We could make a scale of the types, all are affected by the inferior to some degree, but the intuitives are more easily led...

Yeah and the worst part is having to figure out what to do with all the money.

Not at all. Workplace discrimination presently is limited to sex and age, and somewhat to physical characteristics (weight, height, etc), not personality. If you're a little person (midget) a company wouldn't get a lawsuit over not hiring you to be a fireman or security guard, but could if it's...

That's true. Of course in a job interview situation you're at the mercy of what they think of your eye color too.

I've tried everything I could get my hands on professionally; Physicist/professor, musician, artist, teacher/tutor, expert (slash career), reporter (tech), organizational change manager, people manager (tech), requirements analyst, small business owner, inventor, author (wasn't a professional...

Yes true for engineering, but then STJ's dominant most fields through their huge numbers and ability to execute and succeed. What's interesting is to look at the correlation factor (% in field / % in population) for various types in a field. For example in software engineering INTP's show up two...

Sure, and INTP using Fi is better than 80% of INFP's. By the way, we pawn INFJ's on Fe too, you guys suck at emotional expression compared to us. We're the emotional sex kings of the universe, but we sure suck at thinking.

All forms of making money is being employed! Passive income isn't passive, you have to set it up. Playing poker means you need to spend considerable time learning, then doing it. Investing means you have to at a minimum know what you are doing, even if you outsource it to a money manager. I see...

Oh college is definitely a learning experience, but I agree it is tilted more for a career. Which is why you want to pick a career that needs you to be a life long learner, such as any STEM career. The problem is that college is so condensed and focused that I found it hard to really learn...

No the politics is, the students are just an irritant. Being a professor is commonly mentioned, but listen here folks, you know the Big Problem with being one? You have to specialize. Say I finished that PhD, right now I'd be in a handful of experts on the Higgs boson. Or say I got a...

Fair number of misconceptions here, except Inquisitor has the right idea*. You have to spend your life mostly doing things your dominant likes, and also which involve a lot of your auxiliary. The mistake people make is to have a blanket judgement on a field without knowing anything about it...

I got to know Lyra during my Pod'Lair investigation. We talked about PL, he tried to educate me in it, but I wasn't able to make much headway. We also talked about some of his other philosophical ideas which I felt were interesting and thought out, but weren't ones I could get on board with...

I've eliminated most forms of stress from my life, stress is a young persons game. What remains is when somebody around me is stressed, like my NF wife, so I pick it up. But that's usually transitory. Otherwise when dealing with the micro-stresses I exercise every day, watch a movie, play...

Answer to your question; no. Obviously being a hypocrite or disingenuous is something everybody is capable of and you see it pan-type. If you want to bring Type into it we could examine what it means to be a hypocrite. One example of that is acting outside your Type, such as an ISTP or INTP...

No, practitioners know there isn't a magic bullet, but that intelligence is made up of many components. That was demonstrated with IBM Watson, which is a 'meta' AI, in that they simply took every AI algorithm they could find and mashed them together. Works pretty well. If it's being referred...

Here's a question to ask yourself. Of those of you who have stolen something - let's focus on IP - music, software, a book, have you ever created something somebody else would be willing to pay for? Will you ever create anything worthwhile? I'm not talking about the science project you did in...

The discussions of the concept of IP and of type are irrelevant here, my position is from historical socioeconomics. It came from my investigations of why things are so good? Why is it I can go to a dentist and get care so good that I feel almost nothing and have a tooth indistinguishable from...

Are you serious? Go ask a lawyer whether IP (Intellectual Property) has ownership legality. OK you are serious. I'm not going to take the time to teach you something that would be made abundantly clear with the effort of typing in a search. I like you Analyzer, but this is kind the childish...

The modern innovation society we enjoy in the U.S. began with Property Rights during the Renaissance. Without them there's no incentive to invent and create. Consider China where there are no such rights; farmers can only rent their land from the Government. There are cultural reasons for this...