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But unfortunately I can't tell you, as you won't be able to make use of it. Or rather, you could, but you won't. What a fuck am I. Maybe I should file the serial numbers off and package it as a religion. As Valentine Smith discovered that's probably the easiest to get people to learn...

Maybe you should be a comedian. That's a good start there. I did that - Humanities geek with no Science background. Switched to physics and got into a top drawer PhD program. However I was younger, about 21 when I switched, and was out by the time I was 25 or 26 (switched again to...

Just as people think of you as a girl because of your avatar, people likewise think I'm arrogant because of my architect avatar. I did an experiment once and used a much softer, F dominant (Peter Sellers as Chauncey Gardner). Predictably, people's responses to me became softer and more open...

If I had a low score it would affect my self esteem, likely leading to poorer performance in life as I would (to some degree) feel intimidated by my mediocrity. If I had a high score, it would insufferably inflate my ego, likely leading to poorer performance in life as I would (to some degree)...

I was voted the most popular and Mr Congeniality, girls fell over themselves just to lick my boots. No not popular, what did you expect? I was respected though for whatever reason. I did hear an interesting story relating to the fact that I blossomed late Sophomore year. Sometime after I was...

Re: Pop ups The site has been hacked - again. This time they put some redirect kiddies on the server, but I would have preferred the dancing cat.

Yes LOAR is a direct result of evolution, as we take it from the physical realm into our own hands. Not that it will help you with arguing the creationists; by definition people who choose willful ignorance will not be swayed by reason and evidence.

I got bored of QM, GR/SR, E&M ... Note I'm not bashing Physics - our poster child Albert Einstein was one, as was my undergraduate adviser. But the hard sciences are a bounded field as they are purely about what is with little regard for us in the mix - that's the job of the Humanities. I've...

You can switch from a physics background to Software Engineering - I did and I know two others who did (actually more than that thinking about where my grad school cohorts went ...). The difficulty is building enough career capital - that takes time and lots of energy. Can you find the time...

AFAIK people like me but it depends. A lot of strong S types don't like it when I go deep (Ti) or ideate too much (Ne), but I'll get bored if I'm not doing either. I spent so many years adapting to the "Realistic way of socializing" that dominant S types prefer that I don't have much appetite...

Romantically I find them easy to live with and boring; there's no mystery (from my perspective as an INTP). Now an NF on the other hand is harder to live with but romantically desirable, as there's great mystery there. Plus you get a different viewpoint which is invalubable. To each his own...

That was spelled out in the post addendum, but you obviously are demanding I restate it. Judicially women are equal and that's how it largely plays out societally. It's not an active topic of mine but according to Paglia and another prominent feminist I forget the name of ATM, on the job/pay...

Camille Paglia's 'Working class Feminism' is worth considering and her critique of modern academic feminism. That is, the campus 'safe zones' as being an enabler of female inequality, not liberator. Her point is that true feminism is being able to stick up for yourself (as a women), not...

Interesting, I don't bother with these tests because I know what they're driving at and so can't answer objectively anymore, but was curious about such a short one. The questions weren't perfectly obvious either so what the heck, anyhow Your Personality is Very Rare (INTP) I was guessing it...

Yeah, but I usually don't take my judgement that everybody is a moron too seriously. I mean I think it all the time, but remind myself that people are really being intelligent - from their perspective. Which isn't the analytical perspective I have. Conversely, whose to say I'm not being the...

Your teacher type would be different - not ISTJ - rather ISFP in your case. I've got a lot of experience with INFJ's finding their way - my wife being one. I've worked with her for decades on this. You do, but it's not helping you. Not uncommon for INFJ's, not desirable either but it is...

I get this question a lot by beginners and I'm puzzled by it. Do beginning writers ask experienced writers what to write? No, usually they just pick something they're interested in or have experience in and do it. Why do beginning programmers get so hung up on it? Puzzle to me. Stop thinking...

You are making the common mistake that all intuitives make. Sensors have their own mirror version of this, but the problem for intuitives is that it's too easy to fall prey to this problem and never go anywhere in life. The world is littered with the shipwrecks of intuitives who never figure...

Fair enough Actually no, negative results (in any investigative field) simply confirm the difficulty of the problem. If you take that position (that you have) you're simply looking for confirmation bias. No surprise, I've expected that for some years. The project has systemic and scientific...

Shrug, OK, you're a consciousness fundamentalist. People who ascribe to this belief come up with various reasons on occasion, Quantum Mechanics, existence of the Soul, or whatever but it boils down to some form of not seriously entertaining the idea. Meanwhile those of us in the business are...

Perfect description of an ESTP Doesn't that answer your question? Snitching before you leave puts it on a bad basis and involves you in something you're not going to be involved with anymore. Seems to me that it would cost you personally more than it's worth, it's the other employees and the...

That's Ti, not Ne. You're trying to forumlate a theory - of the world, yourself, who knows? Anyhow it's using Ne in a sense to gather all the information (or maybe better Ne, like a puppy dog on a leash, is happy to do so). Anyhow, all that activity is thinking and conceptual framework building...

Well yes, because computer languages in use have strict syntactic and semantic grammars, but that doesn't preclude a form of 'common' sense as a programming paradigm. for example in neural nets. Modern Deep nets are capable of inferential thinking, that is "well, this kind of looks like a cat...

If you're Catholic you should study Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's idea of the Omega point. He was a Jesuit priest who tried to reconcile evolution and theology, in doing so developed this concept. If you see a similarity with the Singularity it shouldn't be surprising, as that is a concept rooted...

Hey congrats about the house (just caught this thread). Exciting. FWIW on the fridge, I've gotten to the point where I fight back on stuff like that - except it's not a fight. I just take a logical Spock approach and act like that "You didn't take care of the Fridge, required me to, so I took...

Hardly, study up on "Type Suppression". This is what led Jung to the theory in the first place. Middle aged patients suffering from complexes that conflicted with their type. Using both Type/MBTI and psychoanalytic tools can greatly help a lot of people. I frequently see Type suppression, even...

ENTPs have an effortless witty and usually cuastic flow to their conversation that INTPs can only emulate for a time. INTP are usually stuttery in some fashion as their complex ideas have difficulty fitting into simplistic words. This is true of ISTPs too (dom Ti's have the least facility in...

It wasn't proven until Goedel and was a convention, and ... I forget who it was at the moment, Whitehead, Principa Mathmatica? At any rate there was an effort to definitely lay out the sum of mathematics as a closed proof system - the 'uber theory' as you mention. My memory from studying it...

The short version of the Incompleteness theorem is that you can't have a logical system without basing it on some unprovable but true statements. Unlikely. There's a camp of anti strong AI proponents who make an appeal to authority, basically by saying it requires QM or some such nonsense...

No, it simply prevents postulate free unification theories.

No as a strict use of the body of scientific theory does not predict a singularity (e.g. the universe doesn't like singularities). In practice the strongest opponents of Singularity thinking are those most steeped in classical science. The most common charge against it is that it's a...

You should read his book, it doesn't require any neuroscience. He lays it out for the general public.

What would salvage your idea for me is to acknowledge that there are different pathways (or patterns, modalities, whatever a good name is) for how the neocortical functions are used. In my view the functions are root are motivations that arise from the ability of different brains to processes...

No, that's most fascists.

Looking at it from inside Team Architect demonstrates the problem. Take a example which I do for a good portion of the day - programming. I talk about it so much because its an activity that uses all four functions in approximately the right percentage. Ti for figuring out problems, Ne for...

What Cog said. You have zero career capital in CS and robotics, you have to build some up while paying the bills.

Ask for one liners, then don't follow them.

"Don't bother with one liner pieces of advice, life is too complicated and contextual for them to be much use" A variation of "This statement is a lie"

I've worked on myself pretty hard and nothing stands out, which means it's probably obvious to others but not me. Basically I'm perfectly imbalanced.

Apps? Oh yes those things for people who spend most of their time out in the world. I prefer computers, smart phones are like being on a roller coaster, a little constraining.

The Unabomber is very likely an INTP. Becoming a serial killer and such transcends type I think, I suspect it would be hard to find a decent correlation.

Logical, but probably not exactly correct. For one the definition of the function order has changed over time and interpretation, so you'd have to decide if you really have the right order. Secondly, you have to define what a function is first. Thirdly, you'd have to account for individual...

OK That's just experiencing the numinous, not Se specifically. As you say 'patterns of branch and step' - key word patterns, Ti/Ne/Si in some kind of synchronous flow. Se types get high on seeing the landscape more often, not the details and certainly not the complexity. I was skeptical of...

Not quite. Nobody cares about aptitude, what we really want is performance, which is why job listings have a long list of desired experience. The view of college hires is that for at least the first six months you're paying their student loans (direct quote I've heard many times, and I'd put it...

Fixing the world, one INTP at a time. Good to hear, thanks for reporting back. As Reluctantly notes it won't solve all your problems, but it will provide a base for all of the explorations you'll probably want to make in your life. All else being equal INTP's are most satisfied in IT related work.

Right - according to Jung behaviors aren't 1-1 reducible to functions, but they are stochastically generated, from Type, the Complexes (basically our non type personality from life) and Free Will. This happens to fit nicely fit with the connectionist model in AI

Yes that's all exactly the same for me. Example, I went to a college basketball game with my birth family (Se dominants for the most part, who naturally like college basketball games). I lasted about 10 minutes and then just closed down (same thing happened to my INTP son). I hunkered down into...

Very good, except the last sentence isn't literally true. Pilots/Astronauts are, as a rule, IST types (usually ISTJ with a scattering of ISTP). Some SFP from my observations. My INTP good friend is a private pilot, but he doesn't fly much. I think he did it to learn a skill, plus he's fascinated...

I don't specifically remember that but it is very familiar so I suspect that I did have exactly that kind of imagining. Especially the part about how the animal follows some specific rules as to how its running, I recall seeing imaginary things but they followed their own internal rules. So...

I don't learn from lectures. Too slow, too little information, they attempt to simplify a subject but I can't get anything from that (exception being some light material that I'm peripherally interested in - like watching a Nova episode about early humans. In this case it's entertainment). So I...