“Relationship Style”: needs a “No particular preference” option. It does have an “Uncertain” option, but that’s not the same thing.
“Work Status”: needs options for “Self-employed” and “Independently Wealthy”; if “For Profit” covers those options, it needs to say as much.
“Profession”: the wording is weird. It says “In what academic field do you currently work or study?”, but what if I have a run-of-the-mill, non-academic day job, like loading freight or writing software ?
“Political”: needs a “Don’t know, don’t care” option
“Religion”: it may be worthwhile to split this question into two: “How many gods do you believe in ?” and “How sure are you of your beliefs ?”.
“Meetups”: it may be worthwhile to include an option for “No, but I totally would, if there was one near where I live”
“P(Aliens)”: I may be exposing my own ignorance here, but what does “observable universe” mean ? For example, if there are aliens on some planet that orbits a star 1000 light years away, and those aliens evolved intelligence 10 years ago, do they count ?
“P(God)”: what about gods who exist, yet did not create the universe ?
“Privacy Checkbox”: replace “ie” with “i.e.”
I also second the suggestion to round karma to the nearest 10, or better yet 100.
Suggested questions:
“How many languages do you speak fluently ?” ″What is your primary spoken language ?”
It’s a tough call, theologically speaking. In practical terms, however, people have been and continue to believe in plenty of gods who did not create our Universe. Some examples include the Greek pantheon, modern Wiccan deities, as well as some of the Hindu deities (though this gets tricky with multiple Universes, avatars, etc.). I think that most polytheistic deities are not Universe-creators, but I could be wrong.
I guess if I was hard-pressed to answer your question, I’d say something like, “an agent counts as a god if it is supernatural, self-aware, and possessed of enormous power”. But it doesn’t really matter what I think; it matters what the believers think—and not all of them believe that “creator of the Universe” is a necessary property of a god.
“Observable universe” means all the objects in the universe that we could, in principle, observe from Earth given that there has been enough time since the beginning of cosmic expansion for light to travel the distance between. So yes, those aliens who became sapient 10 years ago on a star 1000 ly away count, even though we couldn’t detect them in practice. Anything within 13.7 billion years or so is part of the Observable Universe.
Here are some suggestions:
“Relationship Style”: needs a “No particular preference” option. It does have an “Uncertain” option, but that’s not the same thing.
“Work Status”: needs options for “Self-employed” and “Independently Wealthy”; if “For Profit” covers those options, it needs to say as much.
“Profession”: the wording is weird. It says “In what academic field do you currently work or study?”, but what if I have a run-of-the-mill, non-academic day job, like loading freight or writing software ?
“Political”: needs a “Don’t know, don’t care” option
“Religion”: it may be worthwhile to split this question into two: “How many gods do you believe in ?” and “How sure are you of your beliefs ?”.
“Meetups”: it may be worthwhile to include an option for “No, but I totally would, if there was one near where I live”
“P(Aliens)”: I may be exposing my own ignorance here, but what does “observable universe” mean ? For example, if there are aliens on some planet that orbits a star 1000 light years away, and those aliens evolved intelligence 10 years ago, do they count ?
“P(God)”: what about gods who exist, yet did not create the universe ?
“Privacy Checkbox”: replace “ie” with “i.e.”
I also second the suggestion to round karma to the nearest 10, or better yet 100.
Suggested questions:
“How many languages do you speak fluently ?”
″What is your primary spoken language ?”
What kind of attributes does an agent have to have in your opinion to be considered a god?
IMO being a world-creator is a sufficient condition for being a god (but not a necessary one).
It’s a tough call, theologically speaking. In practical terms, however, people have been and continue to believe in plenty of gods who did not create our Universe. Some examples include the Greek pantheon, modern Wiccan deities, as well as some of the Hindu deities (though this gets tricky with multiple Universes, avatars, etc.). I think that most polytheistic deities are not Universe-creators, but I could be wrong.
I guess if I was hard-pressed to answer your question, I’d say something like, “an agent counts as a god if it is supernatural, self-aware, and possessed of enormous power”. But it doesn’t really matter what I think; it matters what the believers think—and not all of them believe that “creator of the Universe” is a necessary property of a god.
“Observable universe” means all the objects in the universe that we could, in principle, observe from Earth given that there has been enough time since the beginning of cosmic expansion for light to travel the distance between. So yes, those aliens who became sapient 10 years ago on a star 1000 ly away count, even though we couldn’t detect them in practice. Anything within 13.7 billion years or so is part of the Observable Universe.