[mwexler]

It's fun to see folks rederive these things. Multiple arms of psychology have dove deep into this for many years now, including social psychology (individual biases and relationship behaviors), cognitive (modeling decision making processes), quantitative psychometrics (formal mathematical models of how people represent abstract concepts or traits), personality psychology (emphasis on individual differences and patterns), and of course, clinical psych.

Lots of overlap among these, but rather than start from scratch, a bit of reading in almost any of them, perhaps starting with behavioral economics or social psych, might enhance the "vectors".

[GuiA]

Rederived from... what? A comfy armchair? The blog post chose to use vector math as its starting point but I’m not seeing any data that validates the approach in anyway, or anything that justifies it besides the assumption that “ You can take preferences and combine them into a single value/point on a vector” - which you can, but how meaningful is it really to say that my “dog preference” is 0.9? Why not model people with irrational numbers, regular n-gons in 24 dimensions, or a directed acyclic graph instead?

[aeonneo]

Hey! Full disclosure, but I wrote this -- do you have any specific papers or notable people in these fields you'd recommend as starting points?