TESCREAL is one of the things I point to when people say e.g. "Just because I dress in a suit doesn't mean I'm well put together in my daily life."
Of course wearing a suit and being having a life in order aren't strictly casually related. But the much weaker claim that they are positively correlated is one I'd be surprised to see disproved.
Similarly, I find it hard to imagine someone who is T, E, S, C, R, and EA, but not L. They're out there, but all 7 ideas co-occur so often that they're an outlier among people who identify with, say, at least 4 of the 7 terms. There are many more such people who are straightforwardly all 7/7 than there are 6/7, even if there are six times as many ways to be 6/7 on TESCREAL.
Framed this way it makes the fact that the Big Five genuinely don't appear very correlated to one another very impressive.
(I'm not sure I fall under any of the 7 anymore, go figure. Maybe I'll come back one day. Credit where credit is due: The Russian Cosmist imperative to not just make everyone alive immortal, but resurrect everyone that ever died stirs my soul in a way few things have.)
Ian M. Banks novel Surface Detail (light spoiler follows) speculates on how resurrection might not be pleasant for everyone involved.
If we had the technology to resurrect people today, can you imagine how valuable it would be for military and intelligence-gathering purposes? Or skirting around labor laws? (see Lena by qntm). How technology is used is always determined by our political and economic regime.
Of course wearing a suit and being having a life in order aren't strictly casually related. But the much weaker claim that they are positively correlated is one I'd be surprised to see disproved.
Similarly, I find it hard to imagine someone who is T, E, S, C, R, and EA, but not L. They're out there, but all 7 ideas co-occur so often that they're an outlier among people who identify with, say, at least 4 of the 7 terms. There are many more such people who are straightforwardly all 7/7 than there are 6/7, even if there are six times as many ways to be 6/7 on TESCREAL.
Framed this way it makes the fact that the Big Five genuinely don't appear very correlated to one another very impressive.
(I'm not sure I fall under any of the 7 anymore, go figure. Maybe I'll come back one day. Credit where credit is due: The Russian Cosmist imperative to not just make everyone alive immortal, but resurrect everyone that ever died stirs my soul in a way few things have.)