Please change the “referred by a link on another blog” option to “referred by a link on another blog or website”. It’s been bugging me for years.
Again, your relationship style question conflates very different clusters. There is a big difference between traditional monogamy and serial monogamy, or between the ideal of polyamory preached in rationalist circles and the harem type of polyamory (polygyny, mistresses, etc...) which is traditional for a sufficiently high-status man to have. The obvious way to solve this is to split the “prefer monogamous” and “prefer polyamorous” answers into two answers each, each of which describes the relevant clusters in a short sentence similar to the answer choices in the political question.
You are asking too many calibration questions for me. I might answer 1, 2, or, at a stretch, 3. 10 questions is gonna cause me to leave that whole section blank.
Likewise, I don’t think I’m gonna answer the probabilities section unless you switch to radio buttons, like you use in the extra credit political section.
Per your own advice, you may want to add a completely implausible question to the survey so you can measure our Lizardman’s constant and subtract it from the other results.
I’d suggest a section asking opinions on famous thought experiments. “Do you flip the switch in the trolley problem?”, “do you push the fat man in the modified Trolley problem?”, “is the China brain conscious?”, “do you one box against Omega?”, “does the Star Trek transporter kill you?”, etc… maybe some not so famous though experiments, too. Eliezer has that thing in which a primitive culture which is afraid that cameras will steal your soul but does not realize that the eye is basically a camera is used as an analogy for crbcyr jub ner nsenvq bs hcybnqvat, and you asked that question about the angel which offers you reincarnation as a metaphor for pelbcerfreingvba.
My bonus question is “Do you read non-rationalist fanfiction? That is to say, do you read fanfiction other than HPMOR, Luminosity, Friendship is Optimal, etc… and their derivative fanfanfiction?”
Per your own advice, you may want to add a completely implausible question to the survey so you can measure our Lizardman’s constant and subtract it from the other results.
Please change the “referred by a link on another blog” option to “referred by a link on another blog or website”. It’s been bugging me for years.
Again, your relationship style question conflates very different clusters. There is a big difference between traditional monogamy and serial monogamy, or between the ideal of polyamory preached in rationalist circles and the harem type of polyamory (polygyny, mistresses, etc...) which is traditional for a sufficiently high-status man to have. The obvious way to solve this is to split the “prefer monogamous” and “prefer polyamorous” answers into two answers each, each of which describes the relevant clusters in a short sentence similar to the answer choices in the political question.
You are asking too many calibration questions for me. I might answer 1, 2, or, at a stretch, 3. 10 questions is gonna cause me to leave that whole section blank.
Likewise, I don’t think I’m gonna answer the probabilities section unless you switch to radio buttons, like you use in the extra credit political section.
Per your own advice, you may want to add a completely implausible question to the survey so you can measure our Lizardman’s constant and subtract it from the other results.
I’d suggest a section asking opinions on famous thought experiments. “Do you flip the switch in the trolley problem?”, “do you push the fat man in the modified Trolley problem?”, “is the China brain conscious?”, “do you one box against Omega?”, “does the Star Trek transporter kill you?”, etc… maybe some not so famous though experiments, too. Eliezer has that thing in which a primitive culture which is afraid that cameras will steal your soul but does not realize that the eye is basically a camera is used as an analogy for crbcyr jub ner nsenvq bs hcybnqvat, and you asked that question about the angel which offers you reincarnation as a metaphor for pelbcerfreingvba.
My bonus question is “Do you read non-rationalist fanfiction? That is to say, do you read fanfiction other than HPMOR, Luminosity, Friendship is Optimal, etc… and their derivative fanfanfiction?”
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Wait. There’s other “rationalist fan fiction” other than HPMoR?! Will someone link me to a list?
(Also, how do I decode the gibberish?)
Of course there is. Why, there’s _Luminosity_, Friendship is Optimal and the wider Optimalverse, Myou’ve Gotta be Kidding Me, “Mortality Report”, “Mortal” and “Mother of Nations”, “Good Night”, Hamlet and the Philosopher’s Stone, Branches on the Tree of Time, The Metropolitan Man, “The Amazing Peter Parker”…
Or you can just look at the TVTropes page.
Gibberish is in ROT13.
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