"When I type someone's personality, in recent times, I wonder very much about how much I should consider philosophical outlook." - stolen from @
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I saw that in the shout box and it inspired me to write this post as I've also been interested in discussing this.
To start things off, my own sort of intuitive feel of things is that type isn't as related to what you believe as it is to
how you believe it. While I'm sure there are some very broad trends (some types being on average somewhat more authoritarian or libertarian for example), I have a feeling these trends are weak and only noticeable when zoomed way out. I think on a more micro level there's a lot more going on than just type.
Take for example two LSIs who I know personally very well. One is a total redneck who leans right politically and has a very positive view of the American military. The other is a self-avowed communist who incidentally just retired from ten years of service in the US Navy, of which he is highly critical. They're on wildly different ends of the political spectrum, but seem to be very similar in most other ways. Both have a very pessimistic view of things, both are very quick to tell you exactly why your beliefs are delusional and disconnected from reality, and both have a very Se-driven view of the world where the emphasis is clearly placed on who has the biggest stick. The redneck would say our stick is looking a little too small and impotent and we've got to put all our efforts into inflating it before Russia and China get too confident in their sticks, while the commie would tell you that we're trapped in a world where big sticks are the only thing that matter and you'd better figure out how to deal with it cause it won't be changing any time soon. LSIs think about sticks a lot, and I think that's the way their worldviews are similar.
What do you think though? Does type have more or less of an impact than that? What have you observed?