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FlyingLionWithABook
Has a C. S. Lewis quote for that.
23hr ago
If you want personality pseudoscience I recommend the Enneagram over Myers-Briggs. It has a lot more depth. Myers-Briggs is focused on being descriptive, while Enneagram is more focused on being prescriptive. As in, "If I have this kind of personality type, what should I do to be a healthier and happier person?" And the advice is very good in my experience! At least for type Fives, I have not tried the advice for other types and can't testify to their accuracy and effectiveness. But if you're the kind of nut who finds categorizing by personality really fun, then you're probably a type Five anyway.
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Now I am become a Helpful, Honest and Harmless Assistant, the destroyer of jobs
23hr ago
"Do not judge" (as stated)/"judge only deniably, or based on a narrow set of acceptable criteria (socks with sandals etc.)" (as implemented) is an American cultural value. You could argue that it serves some purpose on a societal level, in a Chestertonian way, but many societies without it mostly work fine, which puts an upper bound on how important it can be.
To maximise personal advantage, it is rational to always update/"judge" on everything that you can extract a meaningful evidential signal from, which surely includes all of your examples. It seems like a pretty complex question which criteria should be kept to maximise the elusive societal advantage (i.e. what set of judgement taboos maximises social welfare?) - the most obvious advantage of any such taboos is that they facilitate coexistence between different groups with divergent aesthetic values, and thereby also encourage such groups to form to begin with, enabling distributed experimentation on value systems. For example, if it turns out pro-tattoo values actually carry some unexpected advantage (aliens invade and kill everyone without?), the societies which did not suppress pro-tattoo aesthetics because they had a taboo against judging based on tattoos would come out ahead.
thejdizzler
23hr ago
Good observation. I also agree that the hustle-culture memes aren't reflective of how people's efforts can actually be allocated. A common failure mode I see in myself is over-scheduling things in my down-time and not doing any of them and gaming/scrolling instead. I really should be resting during that time.
This tree seems to block much of the road behind the light on the right.
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It would be hard to notice a car until you are almost in the intersection.
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