I took the survey. I will now take this opportunity to criticize it.
Severely missing items:
“Moral Views” should have had links to definitions; especially of “Eliezer’s interpretation”.
“Charity” should have had a “No opinion/I have no information on the matter” choice.
“Cryonics” should have had a “I have not yet considered the matter / No opinion” choice.
Minor missing items:
“Political Views” should have been split into questions on the particular attributes listed, for those of us who don’t bother to figure out which label applies to us.
“Time in Community” should have listed how many months ago LW and OB were created, for convenience.
Clarify your taxonomy:
If our universe is a simulation, does the containing universe have any significance to the Supernatural and God questions?
If our universe is a simulation, not of some other universe, but constructed from scratch, is the designer of it God in the sense of “Probability: God”? Does it matter whether this entity has edited the state of the simulation since the beginning of its time?
If our universe is a simulation which was designed to include ontologically basic mental entities, even though the universe in which it is simulated does not, does that count towards “Probability: Supernatural”?
I agree about the political views. The problem is any political parties I’ve come along with a huge amount of baggage in associated ideas and I’m very hesitant to claim membership with a political tribe lest I signal support for the crazy bits.
I took the survey. I will now take this opportunity to criticize it.
Severely missing items:
“Moral Views” should have had links to definitions; especially of “Eliezer’s interpretation”.
“Charity” should have had a “No opinion/I have no information on the matter” choice.
“Cryonics” should have had a “I have not yet considered the matter / No opinion” choice.
Minor missing items:
“Political Views” should have been split into questions on the particular attributes listed, for those of us who don’t bother to figure out which label applies to us.
“Time in Community” should have listed how many months ago LW and OB were created, for convenience.
Clarify your taxonomy:
If our universe is a simulation, does the containing universe have any significance to the Supernatural and God questions?
If our universe is a simulation, not of some other universe, but constructed from scratch, is the designer of it God in the sense of “Probability: God”? Does it matter whether this entity has edited the state of the simulation since the beginning of its time?
If our universe is a simulation which was designed to include ontologically basic mental entities, even though the universe in which it is simulated does not, does that count towards “Probability: Supernatural”?
I agree about the political views. The problem is any political parties I’ve come along with a huge amount of baggage in associated ideas and I’m very hesitant to claim membership with a political tribe lest I signal support for the crazy bits.