Changelog, since Google Forms is basically the only google drive tool with basically no versioning.
2023-11-03
Removed the Virtues questions and the April Fools question from Section 10: LessWrong Team Questions. The Willingness To Pay questions survive for now since I have some reason to believe they aren’t totally hypothetical, but they’re on thin ice. −3 questions.
Added one question to section 11: Questions the LessWrong Team should have asked, attempting to get at a discussions norms preference. Realistically this question is terrible since it’s going to point people at four different essays, two of which are kinda lengthy. +1 question.
Removed all of Section 14: Bonus Politics Questions except for “How would you describe your level of interest in politics?” Replaced it with Tailcalled’s factor analysis questions. @tailcalled , please check whether you think the question titles will mess with anything; it’s useful for me to have a shorthand way to refer to a question but I had to do a little bit of creative summation. −11+20= +9 questions
Section 9 renamed from “Other Traditional LessWrong Census Questions, Which Used To Be Called More Complicated Probability Questions” to “More Complicated Probability Questions.” Added AI Knowledge Work question. @ChristianKl does this look like it gets at your AI timelines question? (I’m leaning towards the banning LLMs question as being a bonus politics question.) +1 question.
+1 (from Section 9: More Complicated Probability Questions) +1 (from section 11: Questions the LessWrong Team Should Have Asked) −3 (from section 10: Less Wrong Team Questions) −11 (from Bonus Politics Questions) +20(to Bonus Politics Questions) = net increase of 8.
Not touched: I didn’t add Sherrinford’s research idea. That’s not a principled stance against it, that’s me feeling like more people wanted more politics questions and so pausing for a moment before adding even more questions.
Retitled Tailcalled’s questions so as to mess with the results as little as possible. They’re now titled “TC[#]”, in the hopes that simple numbers don’t mess with anything.
Added a “Where did you find this survey from?” question
Removed P(Space), SRS, as well as a couple questions I lost track of from Community and LW sections. Removed the question about whether they also took the ACX census, since I think this one will come out first.
Added titles to questions without titles.
Added a symmetrical question about cross group identity to what I expect the ACX census will use.
I don’t expect the question titles to mess with much, but it’s hard to cheaply know for sure, due to the hyper-empirical approach used to construct the test. It should be feasible to recognize after the fact if there are any issues, and I assume issues would be localized to one or a few items so one could just look at the other items for comparison.
Changelog, since Google Forms is basically the only google drive tool with basically no versioning.
2023-11-03
Removed the Virtues questions and the April Fools question from Section 10: LessWrong Team Questions. The Willingness To Pay questions survive for now since I have some reason to believe they aren’t totally hypothetical, but they’re on thin ice. −3 questions.
Added one question to section 11: Questions the LessWrong Team should have asked, attempting to get at a discussions norms preference. Realistically this question is terrible since it’s going to point people at four different essays, two of which are kinda lengthy. +1 question.
Removed all of Section 14: Bonus Politics Questions except for “How would you describe your level of interest in politics?” Replaced it with Tailcalled’s factor analysis questions. @tailcalled , please check whether you think the question titles will mess with anything; it’s useful for me to have a shorthand way to refer to a question but I had to do a little bit of creative summation. −11+20= +9 questions
Section 9 renamed from “Other Traditional LessWrong Census Questions, Which Used To Be Called More Complicated Probability Questions” to “More Complicated Probability Questions.” Added AI Knowledge Work question. @ChristianKl does this look like it gets at your AI timelines question? (I’m leaning towards the banning LLMs question as being a bonus politics question.) +1 question.
+1 (from Section 9: More Complicated Probability Questions) +1 (from section 11: Questions the LessWrong Team Should Have Asked) −3 (from section 10: Less Wrong Team Questions) −11 (from Bonus Politics Questions) +20(to Bonus Politics Questions) = net increase of 8.
Not touched: I didn’t add Sherrinford’s research idea. That’s not a principled stance against it, that’s me feeling like more people wanted more politics questions and so pausing for a moment before adding even more questions.
Changelog, 2023-11-28
Retitled Tailcalled’s questions so as to mess with the results as little as possible. They’re now titled “TC[#]”, in the hopes that simple numbers don’t mess with anything.
Added a “Where did you find this survey from?” question
Removed P(Space), SRS, as well as a couple questions I lost track of from Community and LW sections. Removed the question about whether they also took the ACX census, since I think this one will come out first.
Added titles to questions without titles.
Added a symmetrical question about cross group identity to what I expect the ACX census will use.
I don’t expect the question titles to mess with much, but it’s hard to cheaply know for sure, due to the hyper-empirical approach used to construct the test. It should be feasible to recognize after the fact if there are any issues, and I assume issues would be localized to one or a few items so one could just look at the other items for comparison.