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The Long View: The Stopping Problem

This was the first thing I ever paid John for. He had a Paypal donate button on his site, and I paid him $5 for this short story. This is on my short list of favorite works by John Reilly. John had a fascination with Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem,
Benjamin Espen Apr 3, 2014
Personality Traits as Natural

Personality Traits as Natural

See part I, Personality Traits as Potentia. A further difficulty I have encountered when talking about personality traits such as conscientiousness is their heritability. When I say that a personality trait like C is about 50% heritable, I am often greeted with unbelief. How can this be so? This is
Benjamin Espen Nov 24, 2009

Personality Traits as Potentia

Lately, I've been thinking of personality traits such as those quantified by the OCEAN model. A major conceptual difficulty I run into when talking to people about these traits is their innate imprecision. For example, the Openness to Experience trait is correlated with political liberalism, but you probably
Benjamin Espen Nov 20, 2009

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