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Re: Every Frontier AI Is INTJ

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Post by cameldrv » Tue, May 26, 2026, 2:14 AM UTC

TheJCDenton wrote: post #4

Interesting article, but MBTI is not just contested, the concensus since the 90s is that MBTI is pseudoscience [1][2][3][4][5], so it's nearly 40 years. Would have been interesting to test against the Big five instead ! [1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/give-and-take/201309... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20061206025148/http://www.indian... [3] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/014920639602200103…

It correlates reasonably well with 4 of the big 5.

Re: Every Frontier AI Is INTJ

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Post by ngtf67 » Tue, May 26, 2026, 2:16 AM UTC

The Elephant Rider model (or whatever similar childrens model of the mind so far developed - Plato's Chariot, Kahnemans System 1/System 2, Freuds id/ego/super ego, Hobbes Passions+ Reason, Hegels Master-Slave, Cherokee 2 wolves etc etc) is the 3 inch chimp brains attempt at recognizing it is not a single unitary system, but multiple layers. Those layers, and there are many more that what anyone is taught, are a requirement for the system to make predictions over different time horizons. Contradictions between those predictions requires stories for the system to stay coherent. Personality traits are one such story.

Re: Every Frontier AI Is INTJ

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Post by bernardjhuang » Tue, May 26, 2026, 4:26 AM UTC

baigy wrote: post #3

Have you tried Big 5 too?

I just finished the 100x benchmark across 4 frontier models here. Gemini 3.1 Pro + GPT 5.5 + Opus 4.7 are all quite similar but Grok is an odd ball: https://zonted.com/posts/three-of-four-ais-same-person/

Re: Every Frontier AI Is INTJ

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Post by bernardjhuang » Tue, May 26, 2026, 4:26 AM UTC

TheJCDenton wrote: post #4

Interesting article, but MBTI is not just contested, the concensus since the 90s is that MBTI is pseudoscience [1][2][3][4][5], so it's nearly 40 years. Would have been interesting to test against the Big five instead ! [1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/give-and-take/201309... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20061206025148/http://www.indian... [3] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/014920639602200103…

Just finished big 5 test here: https://zonted.com/posts/three-of-four-ais-same-person/

Quite interesting! Opus / GPT / Gemini are all very similar and then Grok is the weird one :P