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A Mind Horizon Profile would be a computer based profile of your intellectual limits to define exactly 'where you're at'.
The number of profile elements would be no more than say 10,000, which allows for a pretty detailed sketch of where your mind is at. To start with you could just define all your
qualifications (translated into some international standard), experience would also count in that vein as there is little difference between having a French 'O' Level, and living and speaking in France for 3 years. Although some of the other profile points could elaborate on the detail there.
The end result is a collection of your essential values, which if expressed as a huge vector offers all sorts of useful applications. If you know about vectors and multiply one normalised vector with another you get the cosine of the angle between them, or in other words a value between 0 and 1 that tells you how much like another person you are. By subtracting vectors you can see if you know more or less about a particular thing than someone else, or application. But being vectors, you also know how much more or less you know in quantitative terms i.e. a distance.
This distance in terms of Mind Horizon Profiles is attributed the unit Neurometre or Nem for short.
Applications -
Conversations.
If someone starts a conversation about x. X can be filtered from both personal vectors to establish the neurological distance. Leading to easy calculations like -
> 500 nem - "What the ...."
> 200 nem - "I don't get it ?"
> 1 nem - "Hmm, interesting ..."
<= 1 nem - "Yeah"
< -100 nem - "That reminds me of ..."
< -500 nem - "You're boring me"
In fact, given the apriori of personal profiles its easily established if either party is going to be bored in a conversation.
Elective Education
By e.g. making your profile available to Wikipedia, you could rummage for a 10nem experience or go for a full 500 nem challenge. Negative values of nem would be used for nostalgia portals where you want things comfortably inside your boundaries.
The Rather Clever Person's Guide to x
The_20Rather_20Clev...7s_20Guide_20to_20x
The linked idea reminded me to repost this old idea of mine.
Basically if you have your profile and books have profiles you can ignore whether its "for clever people" or "for dummies" and just get a book that is selected on how challenging you want it to be. [bigsleep, Jun 05 2009]
Mind Horizon Profile (the original from web archive)
http://web.archive....0Profile#1140327247
[xaviergisz, Jun 08 2009]
[link]
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Hey, either I'm from the future, or I've seen this idea before. |
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[z_t] It was lost with a previous account, but I think this version is a much better presentation. |
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if I understand this (barely) you are proposing a different way to measure IQ/personality but with far more criteria. Sounds good,however the "essential values expressed as a huge vector" would be useless. |
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I think Jutta would have undeleted your original account if you'd asked nicely; it wasn't only your idea that was deleted - you took a few thoughtful annos with it. |
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I agree with the sentiment of some of the annos from the original incarnation of this idea: this is basically statistical analysis of questionnaire results. |
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//"essential values expressed as a huge vector" would be useless.// |
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I don't agree. Even a simple vector that describes what school qualifications you have could be matched against university courses. The idea is that as you go through life the same principle and your continually updated vector can be applied to useful things like finding a book, or something challenging and fun to do that would be within your limits for one day. |
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Hey, this could be used to make the job market fully efficient! Job postings would include a "job vector", and software could instantly "best-fit match" people to jobs by comparing mind horizon profile vectors with job vectors, eliminating unemployment as well as the worry and effort of job searching. |
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This could just as easily make the dating market fully efficient too...run some statistics on what (mis)matches of vectors yield the optimal outcome. Wham-o, everyone is happy. |
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yummily halfbaked, so [+] |
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//a collection of your essential values// available from New Age retailers, next to the essential oils. |
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//< -100 nem// How do you define a negative
distance? |
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If you consider a sphere as your mind horizon (simplifying to 3 vectors). An experience could be described as a smaller sphere. If your education sphere encloses the smaller one, then we are into negatives. The sphere being outside (nothing in common) is a positive nem. In vector math terms, some function of the scalar product. |
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Mind expansion happening suddenly, would the evaluation be dated as to its presumed accuracy? |
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Yes, its supposed to be dynamic.Taking the smaller sphere idea from the previous example, you could extend your profile to cover the smaller sphere after the experience (assuming you got the most out of it). |
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