INTP's are becoming obsolete

[EvilBlitz]

I disagree. The time is past when even illiterate people can improve things. More than ever system analysis is the way forward, this is our time.

 

[INTPWolf]

I believe we stand at the beginning of the aquarian age, an age that has a been long said to allow humans to easily make thoughts and ideas reality, it is an age of knowledge.
Marking the end of each age you always see a slow shift from the old ways, then suddenly the change accelerates exponentially. We can see that in our technological advancements in the last few years alone.
The Mayan calendar marked the end of an era, and the end of the Age of Pisces. The age of Pisces has been said to be the age of deception, and we can see that ringing clear in this society built by our predecessors.

I feel a great awakening happening, i dont know if you can but i do. i see it slowly weaving its way through everyone i meet, cracking mental shackles and opening eyes, shedding light on once dark spaces.

I feel in this new age of possibilities the INTP will shine brighter than any other. for us intps, this is a good time to be alive.

 

[TateCameron]

You are - we are - useful, in the least, in that you have recognized a critical trend-change that others have not. That is a shift from knowledge being important to the importance of producing results. That is a fundamental shift in education and how people are being prepared to do work.

In my own career I've seen a shift from sharing cutting edge information that wows people, to a demand for actionable content. I've struggled with that but now I'm building architectures, building blocks. I can't stand building the same building over and over so I give people Legos. I don't want to look like anyone else so I give people tools that don't leave them to look like everyone else either.

Given that there's a glut of information, information is losing value - they recognize information's value is promising but limited to the ability to implement. It's a move from theory to practice.

We are problem solvers and architects. The problem is the glut of information and the solution is a better way of organizing it.

The Google guys are INTPs. What they've done is a start by offering the world a 2-dimensional view of information. Who's going to offer the 3-dimensional view? Because it seems unique to us that we see information that way, as more a connection of maps than bullet points on paper. There are threads that connect but who's going to offer information as a straight-line to success?

I don't buy the limitations of being an INTP. I don't think of myself as lazy - I think of myself as ready to move on to the next great building after I've designed the first. I'm a starter and it's for someone else to finish. My job is to start the fire. What happens after that is up to someone else.

And that probably means like Holmes needed Watson most of us need a Watson too.

 

[TateCameron]

Hey - I just thought of something else.

It isn't the collecting of information that ever made the INTP valuable - it's the synthesis of the information - of taking something from here and smashing it up with something from there.

A computer will never do that. It requires recognizing nuance with a strategic slant.

On that note, anyone else love the site "Trend Hunter"? I have to think that's the ultimate there and it's most valuable to people who can mash-up ideas.

And OP - I'm sure not calling you wrong, but instead offering a differing perspective on your situation. I don't know about all INTPs but I don't do well in recognizing opportunities in my own box but I can see them all day long in looking at someone else's.

 

[sushi]

we are a genetic anomaly

 

[Teax]

So what's an INTP to do? We like to accumulate knowledge, find connections between them, and draw conclusions and heuristics. Computers already do that better than we do, as evidenced by the best human Jeopardy players being beat by a computer. So what's our role now as INTP's?

If your definition of smart is knowing a lot of little factoids and drawing symbolic links between them, then I'm obliged to agree. Yet the internet is being continuously filled with that information, and the transition [Real World]<->[Symbolic Information] is the "hard part" of information technology, so far reserved for fleshy creatures, and the one INTs exceed at. The internet merely simplifies the exchange of solutions between people. Untill all non-functional requirements are input into the digital world, a computer will not be able to choose the right implementation for a set of functional requirements, which is where INT's creativity come into play. We will be the last to go obsolete .

Not always, but it's a small degree which will disappear in the next 10 years with the continued exponential growth of knowledge and advanced computing.

INTPs automate the world and thereby help making themselves obsolete. But that is not intrinsically a bad thing. Also, like a negatively exponential function, approximating zero does not prove that zero will be ever reached.

Thus I think a lot about the correspondence between thought and result.

Most interesting indeed . Funny how the systems that feel good/are intuitively recognized by an engineer to be elegant, tend to also be more efficient.