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Excellent—that sounds almost like a Bayesian approach, where personality corresponds to the prior, the context in which the person behaves is the likelihood, an
by periheli0n 5y ago
Excellent—that sounds almost like a Bayesian approach, where personality corresponds to the prior, the context in which the person behaves is the likelihood, and the posterior is a distribution of behaviours.
I guess a personal goal should then be to seek the context in which one’s strengths match best the demands.
I would suggest an MCMC approach but I guess the evaluation of individual outcomes is too costly to make this practical ;)
- wizzwizz4 5y agoI think it's more “a personality is a function over the continuous domain of situations”.
- periheli0n 5y agoNot a contradiction! Bayesian inference is fully compatible with this definition.
- wizzwizz4 5y agoI don't see how you could get a prior over this without some really dubious assumptions. Plus, it's not what GGP described.
- periheli0n 5y agoThe prior is given by the score on the big five?
- wizzwizz4 5y agoAnd do you combine that with something like an Occam's Razor formalism?