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Infinity is the number that is bigger than any finite number, and any finite number is any number you can measure, and thus visualise. So if you can visualise something, then it's probably the case that you are visualising a finite number, and so infinity is the number just beyond that.

Big Five seems to ignore the concept of Jungian functions altogether. So there's no mapping from your Big Five results to any of the Jungian functions.

Big Five Extraversion correlates to MBTI Extroversion. Big Five Aggreeableness correlates to MBTI Feelings.

Laws of demand and supply. Today, the wealthy also want to show off how environmentally friendly they are. So the billionaires want to buy solar panels. Naturally, the billionaires have plenty of money to spend on solar panels. So that drives the price up. Either: 1) Government regulations that...

The things you say, seem to be far too complex and clever for a person with an IQ of 103. This is explainable. It's common for highly intelligent people who are extremely emotional, to be very good at theoretical stuff, but also very nervous. Their nervousness causes their hands to tremble ever...

Not impossible. You'd need a really powerful shield to keep out the harmful rays, and you'd need a really powerful air conditioning system to keep the temperature down, because the temperature of the sun's surface is 5,000 Centigrade. But then you'd have direct access to the energy of the sun...

If the highest IQ people believe: "we can stop what we are doing and use technology to solve this problem. The highest IQ people are at NASA and the national science foundation. They created technology to save the planet, I hear they are using it now." => The highest IQ people believe: "We can...

I'd be only too happy to re-introduce aesthetics into design. The Victorians focussed on giving something both form and function. So anything useful, such as a house, a chest of drawers, were given ornate carvings. It made their stuff both desirable to use, and useful to use. So whatever they...

Because it's mainly viewed as the job market's equivalent of trying to put a round peg into a square hole.

Overshoot. When someone wants to change something in their life, and it takes a long time and/or great difficulty to achieve it, then it usually becomes a habit. Once it's a habit, the person keeps doing it. So even when the goal is achieved, or reaches its optimal level, the person can keep...

The way Te-doms (like ESTJs) use their Te, is very different from how Te-aux (like INTJs) use their Te. Te-doms are more into about delegating tasks to others as if they are all in one group that succeeds and fails together, and so are more communal. Te-aux are much more about developing their...

The key to meditation, is to have a goal (like listening to your body's sensations without judging it and letting them come and go), and to simply keep refocussing on it, so the other goals don't get a look in.

I believe that's the theory. But each type has a different set of functions in the loop, which usually produces different effects. Easy to tell. Ni is the visionary function, the function that urges you to make the world into your vision. Fi is the values function, the function that urges you...

I've thought about this a lot. What's the difference between "technology" and "magic"? Harry Potter has to say a spell to make light. We have a clapper. What's the difference? If there is no difference, we're just saying the aim of science is magic. But science is supposed to be antithetical to...

When you get what you want, you settle in to enjoying what you have. Most people's dreams are a method or strategy they came up with to achieve their actual dreams. If you don't have anyone supporting you by encouraging you to improve and periodically questioning you if you are fulfilling your...

What people want MBTI to do, is to fit each person to the best job for them. What employers want MBTI to do, is to fit each job to the best person for them. Employers pay MBTI people a lot of money. So MBTI is designed to fit each job to the best person for them. What you want to know about...

I'm initially considering apples. You can eat them any time. But I reserve the right to change my mind.

Potential solution: People always complain about how young people never walk anywhere anymore, because they're always too busy talking to each other on their phones, or on the internet. The internet and smartphone technology was almost custom built for people who have a lot of time on their...

Big Five's categories are also monetizable. Open or Closed: Would most employers prefer to hire an open-minded employee or a closed-minded employee? Agreeable or Disagreeable: Would most employers prefer to hire an agreeable employee or a disagreeable employee? Conscienscious or Not...

How the functions work: Let's take the Sensory system, more specifically, vision. When you see a blade of grass, what do you actually see? Your retinal cells get signals indicating little dots of light hit their photo-receptors. Those signals then get fed along the optical nerve to the vision...

This is going to stretch over several posts. Biological parallels: The 4 functions of Thinking, Feeling, Sensation and Intuition, have biological parallels: The Thinking function corresponds to the nervous system. The Feeling function corresponds to the endocrine system. The...

I'd have to examine your posts in detail, to be certain. I'll have to make a thread on it. Visionaires have visions of a better world, that they would like this world to become. Thinkers say "If A happens, then B happens, and B would make the world better. Therefore, I/we would be better off...

They don't have good AIs, or 9/11 and Jan 6th would not have happened. And you know this for certain because you have worked in classified programs and have the full list of all people who have been granted ANY level of access to classified programs? Only in that Biden was in charge and...

So you believe that we should not dissect 6-month-olds? What about 5-month-olds? Would you dissect them? Would you approve of other people dissecting 5-month-olds?

That's because they seek their information from the news and thus from what journalists and politicians say, who claim (of course) that they have great value, because they claim that they are the people who get things done. So it's pure authoritarianism. Yes. But it will get more awareness of...

My own biologically-based theory of MBTI.

Don't see why not. Thoughts are run on the nervous system, which transmits information from individual cell to cell in a specific pathway. So this tends to produce reasoning that is sequential steps, that starts with specific facts, and ends with specific conclusions. Thinking logic: "If I do...

Disagree. We have much more technology now. Technology is all about doing what we want, i.e. increasing our control over reality, which increases human control. E.G. You didn't need to be a genius to figure out that Putin would not just give in, and neither would NATO. What we have nowadays...

Sounds like you're talking about the type of AI where the only thing holding you back from getting all your human-based questions answered, is a lack of data. Sounds like you're talking about a situation where the only thing holding you back, is TMI (too much information), a lack of lack of...

IME, SJs like to tell long stories. INFJs like to tell long-winded conspiracy theories. ISTPs like to rattle on with funny anecdote after funny anecdote. ENFPs like to ask question after question about relationships. I don't know. Probably, being concise is probably a facet of...

Barbie's character is a woman who dyes her hair blonde and pretends to be an airhead, so everyone cuts her slack for being a pretty airhead, and so she gets away with everything. This film was liked by a lot of people, but considered to have very little content. It's a "pretty airhead" of a...

Even 20 years ago, there were a lot of men who were described like this, in the UK, the USA, and Japan. Now, it's much more prevalent. We are in a fall of civilisation. The species has been around for 200,000 years. Even if it took us 10,000 years to rediscover everything in civilisation that...

Lots of INTPs are long-winded, and do the same things as you, including me. I don't see nearly as much prevalence among most people

Watched the video. The first bit, about the monkeys picking on the monkey who climbed the ladder, because they have a neural association between a different monkey climbing the ladder and them getting sprayed with cold water, is Pavlovian conditioning. But Pavlov's first experiments were with...

You are welcome. This is very common with INTPs. This is because they are Ti-doms. Ti wants a very accurate answer. Many questions have different answers in different situations, and so the answer often depends. ISTPs, who are also Ti-doms, also tend to say "it depends". But they tend to not...

You've reminded me of something important. My previous psychologist pointed out, that if your emotions are leading you in the opposite direction of what makes sense, such as that your emotions are to keep away from relationships, when you know for certain that you need more involvement with...

Corrections also happen in big steps, such as those cases where people quit alcoholism, or heroin addiction, and stay off it. Yes, but only when the new experiences are consistently consistent with previously held beliefs. That happens when the person spends their time with people who also hold...

I find this deliciously ironic. Margot Robbie is dressed up like a blonde bimbo for men to play with, use and abuse at their will, and yet somehow this is a movie that supports feminism? It's very clear that the Hollywood Patriarchy has decided to bring back old-fashioned attitudes that view...

Good. It just means you admit things that people normally don't tell everyone, that would make sense to disclose to a specific person you're talking to. Usually, they're things that children would be afraid of admitting because other children would make fun of them. Then people grow up, but...

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My work is with C# and Vb6 (legacy stuff). That's just a recursive algorithm. Easy to knock up. Read the article quickly. Quite interesting. Enlightening to know how modern AIs work. Rather disappointed in how over-complicated and simplistic it is. But humans don't always do the sensible...

Hello. Nice to meet you. That's nice. I also went to university. I'm a software developer / software engineer as well. I used to play video-games, but am spending more time doing other things now. I don't have a pet, but used to have a dog as a teen. You could guess at their type, or ask them.

You have a lot of certain types of mannerisms, that are mostly inoffensive, but leads to avoiding socialising, seeking achievement, success and money through work, and relationships, which is pretty much 90% of why humans do things and what humans evolved to do, which would make you seriously...

Not entirely surprised. When you've never read about it, and everyone keeps telling you it's something else, then of course you wouldn't know about it. You keep getting mis-directed to other things. Sounds good. Remember, you only have a narrow grasp of emotions right now, because you've only...

The article lists several traits. I doubt that they are always clustered together. I suppose. But not necessarily. Most of the characteristics listed in the article refer to people who don't conform, and are unable to even fake conforming. So I suspect that's the connection. Alternatively...

That's not a theory why people lie. That's a strategy that some people use to get away with lying. You can keep repeating yourself until everyone else gets bored, or realises they're spending far too much time on it, and need to get on with their lives. They'll give you the free pass, not...

Sounds quite complex. Not sure how it would be built, and what it would do. I guess, if you used chemicals to map the states, then it would resemble one of the functions that emotions fulfil in the human body.

Te is responding ASAP to information in a neural way. Multiple chains of sequential logic. Broad, but shallow (3-ply). Thinking time: 1 second max. Broad scans pick up the simple issues that will appear as obvious to those who notice them. They will usually not pursue the more deep thinking, as...

The TV and the internet keeps telling lots of people that they're the opposite of an idiot, as long as they vote for the right people, and support the right causes and values. That's bound to attract a lot of people who feel insecure about their intelligence.

You only said that "repeated exposure to overwhelming stimuli burns out connections", not "repeated exposure at controlled levels of stimulation that the patient can handle". In physical exercise, you cannot life 500lbs starting off. You have to build up your muscles slowly. The same is true...