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You don't have to, we're quite used to idiots so why would we care about one more? It's not the eliteness of the system that makes it true or false.
AD&D has used two systems. The 3*3 system was blatantly made by people of the Tauri personality type, same as Myers and Briggs are. Tauri are decently good at simulating other personality types so long as they have no desire to be politically correct. Myers and Briggs wanted to be politically correct, AD&D had absolutely no reason to be.
AD&D shifted to a 5-castes system because the 3*3 one was deemed too "complicated".
Me, Archangel. You can find more info on the 72 character archetypes by asking me since I invented the system. Or more accurately, I discovered reality.
Unlike the MBTI "inventory" the 72 character archetypes are an actual system and a tiny part of a much greater system. So they are
Thorough: the 72 archetypes * 11 variants cover every conceivable personality ever imagined or that will ever be imagined. No archetype was thrown out on the grounds that "it is bad" or "it is abnormal". The 72 archetypes are *complete*. Exceptions to the 72 archetypes are split evenly between "product of 20 years of child abuse" and "not a personality, cannot exist outside of fiction". Mastery of the 72 archetypes will even let you detect the difference between 'child abused' and 'bad fiction'.
Unified: all of the 8 archetypes that belong to each personality type unify together under a single unifying principle (space, life, togetherness, laziness, ...) in a totally coherent manner. There is nothing ad hoc so every thinking person willing to become familiar with character archetypes in reality will be able to easily conclude "yup, ENFs are fucking lazy".
The personality types themselves unify together at a much deeper level than archetypes using even more abstract and fundamental principles in a way the MBTI "types" never do. And they unify together with all of reality whereas the MBTI shrilly proclaims its disconnection from other aspects of personality, human behavior, the mind, and claims organizations of humans can't have personalities.
The 72 archetypes are the stepping stone for unification with all reality. [Floating mountain](http://drawingnick12.deviantart.com/art/Floating-Mountain-511701323) theories like the MBTI are a bridge to nowhere.
Interconnected: the archetypes within a personality type and between personality types are not random excerpts from concept space arrived at by free-associating while laying back on grass and looking at clouds. They are the product of years of sieving through hundreds of thousands of datapoints *individually* inside a human mind, rather than "numerically" inside of a fucking computer.
Within each personality type, the archetypes sum up in a predictable way. So 100 + 001 = 101 and the characteristic traits of 100 and 001 will all be found in 101. And *between* personality types, the archetypes rhyme with each other. So 001 Judge paladin + 001 TC philosopher = warrior-poet. And 010 RWA castrator + 010 Narcissist 'attractive megabitch' = 'castrating bitch'.
Note that ZERO effort was put into making them rhyme, yet they rhyme a lot. Of course, now that we know they rhyme, any selection of archetypes so they rhyme will be poisoned data. Past rhyming is evidence for the theory, future rhyming isn't.
Not that it needs any more evidence with the mountains of cross-correlations, like how the type with 'suicidal' gets along so great with the one that has 'murderer'. Or how the one with 'contradiction' tries to cozy up to 'logic' so they can make beautiful contradictions together.
Innate: the 72 archetypes use innate values rather than circumstantial traits. This means that someone's type won't change when they move to China, or if they're dropped in the Congo, or if they're kicked outside of our universe into a reality where magic is real, or if they become a unicorn. You are born with that type and you die as it.
Predictive: Anyone familiar with the innate values of your personality type who can actually comprehend and understand those values rather than merely abusing the words, can predict your behavior in any previously unimaginable circumstance (to you or them). They don't have to have read "how Judges deal with new situations" and "how Judges deal with danger". Instead they can make calculations, "so, danger is there in the grid, and Judges are this far away, so this will be negative, so ... oh dear, they're 100 so can't handle negativity."
Insightful: You can actually use the 792 slot model to map out your personality and the 4960 slot model to map out your interactions with reality. So, you're a TC watching a TC show like Star Trek: TOS, why don't you like it?! Oh right, you're 001 and it's 110 so guess you'll just have to grit your teeth and consider it study material so you get slot TC 110 level 5.
So you're a 110 Judge but you just had an embarrassing emotional breakdown. Why? No, not why the breakdown, but why are you embarrassed. Being 110 Judge you value logic and generalities, you are generally logical so why would an exception matter rather than being shrugged off as irrelevant as logic dictates?
Ah, it's because emotions are AC and feeling those emotions threw you into the AC regime and you completely lost sight of Judgeness aka how to be yourself. And while trapped there you thought as an AC thinks and you saw yourself as pathetic emotionally. Pathetic means weak and weak is embarrassing to Judge 000 who is strong.
Therefore the solution is to acquire all the TC slots so they can serve as a buffer zone anytime you're dragged into emotion against your will. Why? Because anything a TC can do, a Judge should theoretically be able to do since TC is the intersection of Judge and AC. You may not like to do it but at least you'll be capable of doing it so won't be weak.
(Incidentally, being trapped in another personality type's regime and forced to think like they think is exactly what happens to children when their RWA parents beat them.)
What good is a model so inaccurate it doesn't allow you to construct or fix your own mind? The MBTI's users say meaningless things like "my Fe is weak so I'll hang out with Fe strong people". With the 72 archetypes, a 101 AC who realizes he's fucked up can go look up what level 2 010 AC means and it's 'touch' then book a massage. Having solved level 2 010 AC he can solve higher levels of 010 AC, at least one of which will be a handjob so back to the massage parlor.
With even an extremely vague mapping, you can act to change your archetype or level it up starting by looking up what you're missing from the strictly superior archetype you're targeting. There is no MBTI "every type is equal" crap. 111 is superior to all other options since it contains every single option within it. And the higher level you are, the better.