Astrology is nonsense, but what makes it particularly valuable is that it is *complete* nonsense in a way myers-briggs for eg is not. It is valuable for personality theorizing the way random number generators are good for algorithm design
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I’m always reminding myself to beware of incomplete knowledge used as a standard model. Easy to dismiss astrology, harder to do so with MB.
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According to astrology, I am a lionfish (Pisces, Leo rising); which, though not mistaken —as far as takes go— is also completely incidental.
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I would say that myers-briggs is complete nonsense. Whether something is useful depends on the number of people who subscribe to it, such as religion. MB falls in that category as does astrology.
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You need to make a video of yourself explaining this while wearing a pointy wizard cap with stars and moons on it
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One of my favorite theories on prognostication is that instead of predicting the future, it acts like an RNG to make own your future actions unpredictable. Unpredictable means more wins on average, which means the prophecies were "right".






