Speaking for myself: I don’t prefer to be alone or tend to hide information about myself. Quite the opposite; I like to have company but rare is the company that likes to have me, and I like sharing, though it’s rare that someone cares to hear it.
Sounds like you aren’t avoidant, since introversion-related items tend to be the ones most highly endorsed by the avoidant profile.
Now if I were in Scott’s position? I find social media enemies terrifying and would want to hide as much as possible from them. And Scott’s desire for his name not to be broadcast? He’s explained it as related to his profession, and I don’t see why I should disbelieve that. Yet Scott also schedules regular meetups where strangers can come, which doesn’t sound “avoidant”. More broadly, labeling famous-ish people who talk frequently online as “avoidant” doesn’t sound right.
Scott Alexander’s MBTI type is INTJ. The INT part is all aligned with avoidant, so I still say he’s avoidant. Do you think all the meetups and such mean that he’s really ENTJ?
As for wanting to hide from social media enemies, I’d speculate that this causally contributes to avoidant personality.
Also, “schizoid” as in schizophrenia? By reputation, rationalists are more likely to be autistic, which tends not to co-occur with schizophrenia, and the ACX survey is correlated with this reputation. (Could say more but I think this suffices.)
Sounds like you aren’t avoidant, since introversion-related items tend to be the ones most highly endorsed by the avoidant profile.
Scott Alexander’s MBTI type is INTJ. The INT part is all aligned with avoidant, so I still say he’s avoidant. Do you think all the meetups and such mean that he’s really ENTJ?
As for wanting to hide from social media enemies, I’d speculate that this causally contributes to avoidant personality.
Schizoid as in schizoid.