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Giving the Meyers-Briggs to Frontier Models

https://content.buildtwentyone.com/blog/personality-testing-llms
2•EliotHerbst•2h ago

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PaulHoule•29m ago
(1) Meyers-Brigg is popular among laymen but it is not well-regarded by psychometrists, you can find so many scales on line that are better. I suspect personalization would have an impact, I bet my Copilot would score higher on O-LIFE [1] then it would at baseline.

(2) No wonder they lean against "J", I mean they are designed to follow instructions and be useful even if their "first law of robotics" guides them against superficially defined forms of harm (won't "help me make an atom bomb" but will help you fire up the FORTRAN compiler and get neutronics monte carlo up and running)

I hear Pat Gelsinger is trying to build a Christian model and I'd expect that to be a bit more "J" as was another biblically based model that didn't like my fox altar which both Google and Copilot will tell me to "continue to use".

(3) There's a viewpoint that it could be harmful for models to "pose" as humans [2] most notably something in the back of my mind bothers me when Copilot (GPT-5 based) says things like "I am happy that you said..." when I know it has no feelings at all... But on the other hand this could be seen as an act of pragmatics that makes them more relatable, effective in communication, useful, successful in the market, etc.

If you believed that, a model should give refusals at many psychological scale questions or answer "No" to any "Have you ever ... ?" questions.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09209...

[2] should it say "speak for yourself!" when I ask "don't fungi use ergosterol the same way we use cholesterol?"

Collaboration That Built Modern AI: Conversation with Geoff Hinton and Jeff Dean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue9MWfvMylE
1•guiambros•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Buildex – Interactive system design practice with AI feedback

https://buildex.dev
1•rushabh011•4m ago•0 comments

Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage

https://rclone.org/
1•rognjen•7m ago•0 comments

Nick Fuentes and Groypers: How Bots Built America's Anti-Indian Hate Movement

https://swarajyamag.com/commentary/nick-fuentes-and-the-groypers-how-foreign-bots-built-americas-...
2•rustoo•8m ago•1 comments

Both of these influencers are successful – but only one is human

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3wyplnev1o
1•dabinat•9m ago•0 comments

Every Hacker News Post with a Prime Id Number

https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/prime-news/
1•keepamovin•11m ago•0 comments

A Tale of Two Leaks: How Hackers Breached the Great Firewall of China [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-tale-of-two-leaks-how-hackers-breached-the-great
3•brewmarche•12m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Best Email AI Assistant?

1•watson•13m ago•0 comments

The Arctic: Where Drones Drop Dead and GPS Goes Haywire

https://www.wsj.com/world/where-drones-drop-dead-and-gps-goes-haywire-8e560e87
2•bookofjoe•13m ago•1 comments

How the CPython Compiler Works

https://tenthousandmeters.com/blog/python-behind-the-scenes-2-how-the-cpython-compiler-works/
2•fanf2•14m ago•0 comments

Bauhaus Clock – Most Elegant Clock Screensaver for Mac

https://bauhausclock.com/
1•tambourine_man•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Design your own post-AGI civilization with tradeoffs

https://agi.instavm.io
1•thepoet•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Litmus – Specification testing for structured LLM outputs

https://github.com/lukecarr/litmus
1•lukecarr•19m ago•0 comments

Play the Monty Hall Game

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https://github.com/exlee/ssort
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1•breadchris•22m ago•0 comments

The Empiricism Gap in Computer Science

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1•azhenley•24m ago•0 comments

Toll roads are spreading in America

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2•smurda•24m ago•1 comments

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1•lostlogin•26m ago•0 comments

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1•broken_broken_•27m ago•0 comments

Google tests 30-minute Lecture Audio Overviews on NotebookLM

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1•gmays•28m ago•1 comments

Bloat in software is getting WAAAY out of hand

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Tell HN: Discord Is Down

1•nabeards•28m ago•0 comments

Email Is Broken – Can Nostr Fix It?

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2•judemon•28m ago•0 comments

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4•QueensGambit•29m ago•0 comments

Data-Oriented Design

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First personalized CRISPR therapy given to baby with genetic disease

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01496-z
2•QueensGambit•31m ago•0 comments

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2•hackernj•31m ago•0 comments

Why Everyone Loves Japan

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Windows 2 for the Apricot PC/Xi

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