One approach could be splitting the census into two (or more) parts. The “lite” section would include high-value 2017 census questions, to see how the LessWrong community has evolved over time, and would be reasonably short.
The “extended” section (possibly split into “demographics”, “values/morality”, and “AI”) could contain more subject-specific and detailed questions and would be for people who are willing to put in the time and effort.
One downside of this approach would be that the sample size for the extended section could be too low, however.
One approach could be splitting the census into two (or more) parts. The “lite” section would include high-value 2017 census questions, to see how the LessWrong community has evolved over time, and would be reasonably short.
The “extended” section (possibly split into “demographics”, “values/morality”, and “AI”) could contain more subject-specific and detailed questions and would be for people who are willing to put in the time and effort.
One downside of this approach would be that the sample size for the extended section could be too low, however.