It was at least somewhat tongue-in-cheek, I’m glad no offense was taken. That said, this survey frustrated me, as there were underlying and incorrect assumptions in a lot of questions, and no option for “does not apply to me”. Specifics:
#1: liked this a lot. anti-equilibrium is fun! Is there any way to see current results without re-taking the survey?
#2: Karma is mostly irrelevant—I read posts based on title and comments.
#3,4: I couldn’t find a clear proposition for what it would mean to “believe in the thesis of civilizational inadequacy”. Only an if-then that sets out conditions for not being surprised that economists at the BoJ are incorrect in some way. I don’t know if the survey was intended to say “believe that many current humans are pretty wrong”, or “humans are doomed to wrongness”, or something else.
#5: Many of these terms I’ve known and used in conversation long before Overcoming Bias and Less Wrong.
#6: I’d quibble about the examples of Slack (I come at it from the Subgenius tradition, rather than the current rationalist fad) but no real problem.
#7,8.10: No worrries, injecting an actual “feedback for mods / is this worth it” question into otherwise-fun survey.
#9: Emotions play a role in identifying my goals, more than in a as pursuing them.
Even with all that, it delivered about 70% of what it promised (that was about 7 questions worth of fun), and that’s more than I’d have guessed before I took it. Good work!
Haha. Sorry if it was frustrating. I didn’t mean it to be very serious, and I still think it’ll be fun to see the answers (and how they correlate) even if the q’s aren’t perfect. I’m glad I gave you 70% of fun.
#5: Many of these terms I’ve known and used in conversation long before Overcoming Bias and Less Wrong.
For this one, I tried to answer based on whether I had learned the terms from LW or not. But wasn’t 100% sure whether that’s what the survey wanted. Would def have appreciated that being stated more clearly.
Alas. I want to note that I did try to be clear, the question said “because of LessWrong (and other rationalist blogs)”. Like, if you heard of ‘slack’ elsewhere, but then started to use it significantly more because of LW, then I wanted that to count.
It was at least somewhat tongue-in-cheek, I’m glad no offense was taken. That said, this survey frustrated me, as there were underlying and incorrect assumptions in a lot of questions, and no option for “does not apply to me”. Specifics:
#1: liked this a lot. anti-equilibrium is fun! Is there any way to see current results without re-taking the survey?
#2: Karma is mostly irrelevant—I read posts based on title and comments.
#3,4: I couldn’t find a clear proposition for what it would mean to “believe in the thesis of civilizational inadequacy”. Only an if-then that sets out conditions for not being surprised that economists at the BoJ are incorrect in some way. I don’t know if the survey was intended to say “believe that many current humans are pretty wrong”, or “humans are doomed to wrongness”, or something else.
#5: Many of these terms I’ve known and used in conversation long before Overcoming Bias and Less Wrong.
#6: I’d quibble about the examples of Slack (I come at it from the Subgenius tradition, rather than the current rationalist fad) but no real problem.
#7,8.10: No worrries, injecting an actual “feedback for mods / is this worth it” question into otherwise-fun survey.
#9: Emotions play a role in identifying my goals, more than in a as pursuing them.
Even with all that, it delivered about 70% of what it promised (that was about 7 questions worth of fun), and that’s more than I’d have guessed before I took it. Good work!
Haha. Sorry if it was frustrating. I didn’t mean it to be very serious, and I still think it’ll be fun to see the answers (and how they correlate) even if the q’s aren’t perfect. I’m glad I gave you 70% of fun.
For this one, I tried to answer based on whether I had learned the terms from LW or not. But wasn’t 100% sure whether that’s what the survey wanted. Would def have appreciated that being stated more clearly.
Alas. I want to note that I did try to be clear, the question said “because of LessWrong (and other rationalist blogs)”. Like, if you heard of ‘slack’ elsewhere, but then started to use it significantly more because of LW, then I wanted that to count.
But yeah, agree the answers will be noisy.