I have a research idea in mind—I would like to know how by how certain expectations shape peoples’ decisions. In addition to certain questions already in the survey, the question suggestions for this are:
Were you surprised by the capabilities of chatgpt?
2. Self-rate your knowledge of Global income and wealth distributions AI Geopolitics Climate change Practical ethics Animal suffering Effective interventions to help the poor
3. Self-rate your social skills on a scale from 0 to 10
4. Suffering of poor people that live today touches me emotionally: 0 to 10 scale 5. Suffering of animals that live today touches me emotionally: 0 to 10 scale 6. Whether people 10,000 years in the future exist touches me emptionally: 0 to 10 scale 7. Whether humanity will go extinct within the next 100 years touches me emptionally: 0 to 10 scale.
8. I rate my expectations as: - insert “Noisy to well-calibrated” scale - insert “Biased towards optimism to biased towards pessimism” scale
9. I believe that the median human’s life in 2040 compared to today will be (your median expectation):
better than today
worse than today
doesn’t apply because humans will be extinct
other answer:
10. I do not have more children than I have because: Lack of a partner Unwilling partner This is my ideal family size More are planned or expected I don’t have time Personal finance reasons Personal Biology reasons It is more important to help others who exist I think the future is not livable I think they would be born into a short life and/or suffer Later is better Other reasons:
11. My overall happiness: (0 to 10 scale)
12. I expect to live to an age of:
13. I save a relevant amount of money or other resources for old age: - No, because I do not expect to live long enough - No, because I expect an age of abundance - No, but I think I should - No, for other reasons - Yes
I have a research idea in mind—I would like to know how by how certain expectations shape peoples’ decisions. In addition to certain questions already in the survey, the question suggestions for this are:
Were you surprised by the capabilities of chatgpt?
2. Self-rate your knowledge of
Global income and wealth distributions
AI
Geopolitics
Climate change
Practical ethics
Animal suffering
Effective interventions to help the poor
3. Self-rate your social skills on a scale from 0 to 10
4. Suffering of poor people that live today touches me emotionally: 0 to 10 scale
5. Suffering of animals that live today touches me emotionally: 0 to 10 scale
6. Whether people 10,000 years in the future exist touches me emptionally: 0 to 10 scale
7. Whether humanity will go extinct within the next 100 years touches me emptionally: 0 to 10 scale.
8. I rate my expectations as:
- insert “Noisy to well-calibrated” scale
- insert “Biased towards optimism to biased towards pessimism” scale
9. I believe that the median human’s life in 2040 compared to today will be (your median expectation):
better than today
worse than today
doesn’t apply because humans will be extinct
other answer:
10. I do not have more children than I have because:
Lack of a partner
Unwilling partner
This is my ideal family size
More are planned or expected
I don’t have time
Personal finance reasons
Personal Biology reasons
It is more important to help others who exist
I think the future is not livable
I think they would be born into a short life and/or suffer
Later is better
Other reasons:
11. My overall happiness:
(0 to 10 scale)
12. I expect to live to an age of:
13. I save a relevant amount of money or other resources for old age:
- No, because I do not expect to live long enough
- No, because I expect an age of abundance
- No, but I think I should
- No, for other reasons
- Yes