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166 points qouteall | 2 comments | 21 Nov 24 12:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.731s | source
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foxbarrington ◴[21 Nov 24 14:06 UTC] No.42204416[source]▶
Personality is ~70% determined by genetics, not life experience.[0]

I’m surprised that someone interested enough in the topic to write such a long post wouldn’t put the time in to do a cursory dive into personality psychology. I’m going to assume that the author has a similar definition of personality to mainstream psychology, but if so, they are ignoring accepted studies and evidence that make it pretty clear that personality is not learned through conditioning like AI.

0: https://www.themantic-education.com/ibpsych/2019/02/11/key-s...

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1. ve55 ◴[21 Nov 24 18:07 UTC] No.42206950[source]▶
This is noted and considered out of scope: >Obviously some traits are more genetic, and thus inherent, than others, but that is not the scope of this post as even highly-heritable traits will result in a large distribution of outcomes.
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2. foxbarrington ◴[23 Nov 24 13:01 UTC] No.42220643[source]▶
Sure, and they even go on to say that the article is about “what helps to explain the differences in outcome between two genetically identical people.” However it’s clear that is not actually what the article is about and they do talk about traits that are highly heritable and not shown to be dependent on environment and life experience.