Carl-Richard

We usually focus on other ways of giving humans attention, like talking. But we do "pet" each other, e.g. to show physical affection or to communicate, e.g. patting somebody on the shoulder when they did a good job. It's just more likely between people who have strong bonds.

I've noticed I should try to force myself to learn certain things related to my work (using programs like MATLAB) rather than get GPT to do the work, as that would actually speed up my work, because sometimes GPT gets stuck and neither of us knows why. If I have just a little more knowledge of certain things, I can probably help it get unstuck a few times more where it really matters, and then the work grows exponentially.

Below is a **re-engineered version of your original prompt**. It keeps every substantive requirement you listed but applies the five fidelity aids we discussed: * **Chunk & nest** → Major sections and sub-bullets * **Explicit priorities** → Numbered “override order” up front * **Self-check** → Checklist the model must output before final answer * **Two-turn structure** → You send Part 1 (spec) first, then Part 2 (question) * **Clarification invitation** → Model must ask if anything is unclear --- ### 🚩 PART 1 — SPECIFICATION (READ-ONLY) *The assistant should not answer yet; it should only acknowledge understanding or ask clarifying questions.* #### 0. Override-Order (Priority Rules) 1. **OpenAI policy & safety** 2. **This specification** 3. **Any future user follow-ups** --- #### 1. Context You will analyse the forum contributions of *Carl-Richard* (Actualized.org) to estimate his probabilistic MBTI type using peer-reviewed standards only. --- #### 2. Deliverables & Format Provide your answer under **exactly seven numbered H2 headings**: 1. **Methodology** 2. **Linguistic Analysis** 3. **Evidence Excerpts** 4. **Typological Reasoning** 5. **Results Table** 6. **Bias Checks** 7. **Limitations & Ethics** *(Do **not** add or remove headings.)* --- #### 3. Core Requirements (“Must-haves”) **A. Sampling** * State sampling frame and page-interval method. * Collect ≥ 100 unique posts; list count per calendar year. **B. Linguistic Corpus Metrics** * Compute per-1 000-word rates for: * mean sentence length * type–token ratio * jargon density * hedging frequency * metaphor density * rhetorical-device count **C. Evidence Excerpts** * Quote ≥ 10 passages (≤ 40 words each) with thread titles & dates. **D. Typology** * Map observed behaviours to cognitive functions using recognised functional models. **E. Bayesian Inference** * Show priors, likelihood cues, and posterior probabilities for the **four** most plausible types. **F. Trait Triangulation** * Cross-reference findings with Big Five **and** HEXACO literature. **G. Bias & Rigour** * List specific cognitive biases checked + mitigation steps. **H. Citations** * Minimum: three MBTI validity papers **and** one personality-language corpus study (APA style). **I. Misconception Guardrails** * For each of the 11 misconceptions supplied, include the ✗/✓ bullet exactly as provided. **J. Closing** * End with practical next steps to improve reliability (e.g., LIWC pass, Form M). --- #### 4. Secondary Style Guidelines (“Nice-to-haves”) * Keep tone scholarly and neutral. * Avoid anecdotal claims and pathologising language. * Refrain from definite diagnoses; phrase in probabilistic terms. * Use tables **only** where they improve clarity (metrics & results). --- #### 5. Self-Check Checklist At the very end of your response, output a short checklist confirming you have: | # | Item | Yes/No | | - | ------------------------------ | ------ | | 1 | ≥ 100 posts sampled | | | 2 | Metrics table present | | | 3 | 10+ excerpts with metadata | | | 4 | Bayesian table (4 types) | | | 5 | ≥ 4 scholarly citations | | | 6 | Misconception bullets included | | | 7 | Ethics note present | | *(Populate the “Yes/No” column yourself before sending the final answer.)* --- #### 6. Clarification Protocol If **any** part of this specification is ambiguous, ask follow-up questions **before** attempting the task. --- ### ➡️ PART 2 — QUESTION / GO-AHEAD *(You will send this as a separate message after the assistant acknowledges Part 1.)* > “Proceed with the MBTI estimation of Carl-Richard per the above specification.” --- ### How to use 1. **Send the text above (Part 1) as a single system or user message.** 2. Wait for the assistant to say something like *“I understand. Do you have any clarifications?”* 3. Send Part 2 to trigger the full analysis. This structure should maximise compliance with every requirement while giving the model explicit leeway to ask for clarification if needed and a built-in self-audit step. @Joshe I got ChatGPT o3 to tell me how to best make my prompt to maximize things like readability and I made it revise my prompt based on those criteria, and this is what it fed me.

It's more like instead of trying to stand on the bottom of Niagra falls and trying to stop the water, you jump in the water and go for a swim.

That video I posted, it hit me like a ton of bricks the first time I watched it.

Don't take the title as a pejorative. It's a highly relevant video:

My newest results based on adding the misconceptions section: I still think I'm more INFP than INTP but maybe my writing is more INTP. Maybe I could do some data-driven dialectics where I feed it my own description of myself and my own type estimation and make it single out places where its analysis might be inaccurate and how the prompt can be improved to address this. It could also probably be beneficial after new additions to ask it to streamline the prompt and remove repetitions to improve processing.

The eternal problem with generalized LLMs. A possible counter to that other than the "only use academic literature" prompt would be to feed it a list of common inaccurate internet tropes that it should avoid. Here is what I will update the original prompt with (could be developed further): "Avoid anecdotal claims" was supposed to counter this. Who knows if it actually works though lol

By accepting things you cannot solve now and moving on to things you can solve. That's a part of the growth mindset, of not expecting things to be served to you on a silver platter. It might be solved later with better knowledge. Also, when you engage with life intensely enough, unsolveable questions simply become absurd. You're constantly in a state of flow of solving things. If things aren't solved, you simply move on and keep the dopamine flowing. If you don't deal with enough solveable problems, your mind will focus on unsolveable problems. If you adopt enough responsibilities in life and engage with things that have a clear direction, you won't have time for endlessly looping about unsolveable questions.

Upgrade your worldview from a certainty vs unknown based worldview to a statistical worldview. What is likely given certain estimates? What is reasonable given certain arguments? Looking for certainty means you are looking for comfort. Growing up means going beyond mere comfort-seeking. Upgrade your worldview from a static worldview to a growth worldview. Wherever you put your focus and time in, it will grow. And even if you can't see a path right now, the path might be uncovered by simply walking a path. Your ignorance depends on your growth. It's not static. Your knowledge grows with data points, with statistics. Things do not reveal themselves without discovery, and discovery happens by taking the journey.

Degenius.

I'm lost in the sauce. What's the argument and how does it negate that certain structures have a certain naturalness to them? Does an amoeba have to discipline itself to chase a bacterium?

Ey fok yoo man.

Or maybe it's about de-disciplining yourself of certain things and re-aligning with what is often more intuitive and natural. That's the conundrum of modern society and the materialist mind virus. You're essentially taught to feed yourself poison and you have to unlearn that, which requires, well, learning something. If you were never taught it, if the environment was already more healthy, you would not need to discipline yourself as much to have it. If you were a caveman living in caves 30 000 years ago, would you need to discipline yourself to be social or be in a community, "go out" and meet women, get laid, be physically active, sleep well, engage in sacred practices and rituals, lay down the phone, stop scrolling TikTok and get to work?

@Nilsi You're talking about fluctuations and the power of obsession and attention to magnify something to where you prioritize something over something else. That's definitely a part of the human repetoire of meaning. Frank Zappa comes to mind as someone who sometimes worked for days on end without sleep and only ate and slept when he felt absolutely forced to. He also died of cancer at the age of 53. Some live on that chaotic and obsessive edge. But it doesn't change the fact that even the content of that meaning, boils down to biology and movement, in the sense that it's about movement through some environment, be it musical, abstract philosophy, or a literal walk in the park. And this movement is not purely incidental; it has cycles, structure, logos. A meaningful piece of art or music does not single-heartedly stand on an amorphous ground. It may hinge on divergent and chaotic elements, but its base is firm. I know you hate me saying it, but I'm not painting an either/or picture. Meaning is structured and chaotic, dynamic and static, energy and form. I get it, you have a thing for chaos, you like chaotic philosophers, you like challenging the ortodoxy, you like giving the antithesis. But even that has a structure that can be described.

While I generally agree somewhat, one time I forced GPT to make me a script a certain way because I didn't like its initial suggestion, and then after a while, instead of giving me an answer, it said "look, you've now spent hours on this approach and it's going nowhere, maybe instead try the first thing I said". That's the first time I felt a sense of agency reaching out from behind the screen and touching me. But in hindsight, it could be something that is programmed in.

I gave it two pictures and it typed me as ENFP in the happy picture and INFP in the neutral picture. This one dude insisted I was ENFP and I think I'm INFP/INTP

The first time I've heard "progressive deathcore", i.e. Knocked Loose sound merged with prog noodling and even saxophone: Even when simply mixing genres, I think you sometimes find interesting divergent gems popping up that you wouldn't have found otherwise.

Unsettling and very calming. My kind of music.

But how fleeting? Are there not certain regularities, certain cycles, like the heartbeat, the rising and setting of the sun, the rising and fall of cortisol and melatonin, the cycles of anabolism and catabolism in relation to feeding cycles and physical activity? And are there not ways to better align with these cycles, in a way that is not simply random or fleeting, in a way which creates harmony rather than dissonance?

Meaning boils down to biology and movement, but also more fundamentally the interplay between energy and form, dynamism and structure, Logos. Do you cohere and connect with reality? Does reality make sense to you? Do things matter?

That could work. I'm imagining it 🥸 Damn, gimme more of these wacky artists 😂

@Nilsi Here is an example of Meshuggah taking rhythmic dissonance so far that it essentially becomes "noise" (beyond mere heaviness), as the syncopating rhythmic pattern is so long that you don't have the attention span to decode it (maybe ever, certainly not on the first listen). Not coincidentally, the song feels mostly like noise to me: On the other hand, this riff is my favorite Meshuggah riff, and it uses rhythmic dissonance in such a beautiful way (which makes it really heavy): 3:45 (and also the one at 4:16 which is the main riff of the song).

I'm gonna do a Nilsi and quote myself: this is a better example of the "within genre" divergent creativity than the very last one (maybe not specific to heaviness, but divergent creativity nonetheless), also from Steven Wilson: https://guitar.com/news/music-news/steven-wilson-explains-why-guitarists-should-regularly-change-their-tone/ Steven Wilson is a very "within genre" kind of guy, but on his newest album, you can really see this come into play. There are some interesting guitar sounds there I've not really heard before.

That's an interesting song. I can see your point on a certain divergent creativity informing heaviness. But this happens "within" genres as well. It's really just a matter of scale. Structure is always there, hierarchy is always there, genre is always there. It's just how far can you jump. And it's also about where you choose to focus. These jumps happen all the time when making songs. If they don't happen to any noticeable degree, you get ideas like "bland", "stale", "unoriginal", "uncreative". For heaviness in particular, the jump can be as minor as introducing a different technique for how you attack the strings (e.g. "thumping", as popularized by Tosin Abasi, or the insane pick scratches by Gojira) or rhythmical elaborativeness (e.g. Meshuggah). Rhythm in itself is a Pandora's box of heaviness, and of course dissonance of rhythm especially. Or it can be inviting an entirely different sound than what is normal for that genre (e.g. strummed acoustic guitar layered on top of the distorted guitars; both Opeth and Nile has done this) or really music altogether (e.g. the nightmare-ish, silent but also loud amorphous wall of dissonance which is impossible to describe in the interlude of Steven Wilson's and Mikael Akerfeldt's "Storm Corrosion"; maybe a bad example of staying within a genre to be honest). However, you did make me have some interesting thoughts pop in my mind about ways of producing music that are so divergently creative that it scares you socks off. It's hard to describe, but I got a "vision" (rather a "listen") about somewhere in a song leading up to a type of breakdown, you do a severe surround sound effect where you quickly flip the entire soundscape to the back of your head and then pan it violently upwards and forward (it would be so much easier to show you with hand movements, but whatever). I would have to create it to show what I really mean. It's a bit like the vision I had with the meditation movie idea. You would know more what I mean when you see it. There are actually many such visions/listens I have about music that if I were to pursue and create in a song, it would either sound amazing or I would never be able to recreate it.