Would you fill massive questionnaires for Personality Capture purposes?

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"Archiving one's own personality could become a pleasurable hobby in which a few people invest hundreds of hours over a period of years."

(a few minutes at a time, on a pda while riding on a subway or whatever)

"Personality capture may be carried out in a variety of ways for a variety of purposes. Thus a great number and diversity of scientific studies will be needed to determine which applications will be valuable and how to create them. Massive questionnaires created from the ambient culture are one viable approach for idiographic social-science study of an individual personality."

some applications: useful when designing sociable technology--computer avatars, software agents, and robots with simulated personalities-- and when creating personality archives for research or memorial purposes.

If you had the opportunity, do you think it's very likely that you would to fill massive questionnaires for personality capturepurposes, or somewhat likely or somewhat unlikely or very unlikely?

― SÃ©bastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 12 September 2004 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

why?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 12 September 2004 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

why anything?

― SÃ©bastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 12 September 2004 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

that is such a terrible idea to me, life's all about destroying your personality and adding bits you actually like

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 12 September 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I would use it as a lifestyle, an ongoing project that would optimize my usages of technology ex: google news searching the web for data that would interest me.

― SÃ©bastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 12 September 2004 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

It could be a fun introspective exercice too and a good tool to think about the fluidity of identity over time.

― SÃ©bastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 12 September 2004 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

that is such a terrible idea to me, life's all about destroying your personality and adding bits you actually like

OTM!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 12 September 2004 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Is this a transhumanist thing?

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 12 September 2004 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I got this from this site
http://mysite.verizon.net/william.bainbridge/dl/capture.htm
"Massive Questionnaires for Personality Capture
Social Science Computer Review, 2003.
by William Sims Bainbridge"

― SÃ©bastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 13 September 2004 05:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I totally would!

life's all about destroying your personality and adding bits you actually like

I agree, but I think this is why this is a neat idea. I like transhumanist stuff though.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 13 September 2004 05:52 (twenty-two years ago)

This idea is as transhumanist as xp's start menu :
The list of most frequently used programs (MFU list) appears below the Pinned list on the Start menu. This list keeps track of how often programs are used and displays them in order of most used (top) to least used (bottom).

― SÃ©bastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 13 September 2004 05:57 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

related project at research.microsoft.com:

"MyLifeBits is a lifetime store of everything. It is the fulfillment of Vannevar Bush's 1945 Memex vision including full-text search, text & audio annotations, and hyperlinks. There are two parts to MyLifeBits: an experiment in lifetime storage, and a software research effort."

― SÆbästìên (immortalist), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

that sounds kind of creepy

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

livejournal is creepier imo

― SÆbästìên (immortalist), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

agreed.

but this bit is just weird: a software research effort.

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

oh yes I wouldn't use the microsoft version of such an idea, with their digital rights management tricks like collecting information "to provide you with a more effective customer service" and such

― SÆbästìên (immortalist), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

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