Surveys

TagLast edit: 10 Nov 2021 17:57 UTC by Yoav Ravid

Surveys and polls of users of LessWrong and related communities, results, and analysis of the resulting data.

Great Cryonics Survey of 2022

Mati_Roy3 Dec 2022 5:10 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

2023 Survey Results

Screwtape16 Feb 2024 22:24 UTC

150 points

26 comments44 min readLW link

Fractional progress estimates for AI timelines and implied resource requirements

Mark Xu and CarlShulman

15 Jul 2021 18:43 UTC

55 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

2022 LessWrong Census?

SurfingOrca7 Nov 2022 5:16 UTC

67 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

2023 Unofficial LessWrong Census/Survey

Screwtape2 Dec 2023 4:41 UTC

169 points

81 comments1 min readLW link

Takeaways from a survey on AI alignment resources

DanielFilan5 Nov 2022 23:40 UTC

73 points

10 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

(danielfilan.com)

2022 Survey Results

Screwtape8 Mar 2023 19:16 UTC

48 points

8 comments20 min readLW link

Gauging the conscious experience of LessWrong

Vermillion20 Dec 2020 11:34 UTC

34 points

44 comments1 min readLW link

Please Take the 2018 Effective Altruism Survey!

Peter Wildeford2 May 2018 7:58 UTC

14 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Vote on Interesting Disagreements

Ben Pace7 Nov 2023 21:35 UTC

159 points

129 comments1 min readLW link

2020 LessWrong Demographics Survey

B Jacobs11 Jun 2020 20:05 UTC

20 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

2011 Survey Results

Scott Alexander5 Dec 2011 10:49 UTC

123 points

513 comments8 min readLW link

2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey

Scott Alexander26 Oct 2014 18:05 UTC

116 points

728 comments1 min readLW link

2014 Survey Results

Scott Alexander5 Jan 2015 19:36 UTC

128 points

283 comments16 min readLW link

2012 Survey Results

Scott Alexander7 Dec 2012 21:04 UTC

120 points

653 comments19 min readLW link

2013 Less Wrong Census/Survey

Scott Alexander22 Nov 2013 9:26 UTC

112 points

620 comments2 min readLW link

2013 Survey Results

Scott Alexander19 Jan 2014 2:51 UTC

112 points

560 comments19 min readLW link

2011 Less Wrong Census / Survey

Scott Alexander1 Nov 2011 18:28 UTC

101 points

699 comments1 min readLW link

2012 Less Wrong Census/Survey

Scott Alexander3 Nov 2012 23:00 UTC

94 points

736 comments1 min readLW link

Survey Results

Scott Alexander12 May 2009 22:09 UTC

61 points

212 comments7 min readLW link

Results of LW Technical Background Survey

johnswentworth26 Jul 2019 17:33 UTC

41 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

2016 LessWrong Diaspora Survey Analysis: Part Two (LessWrong Use, Successorship, Diaspora)

namespace10 Jun 2016 19:40 UTC

44 points

12 comments10 min readLW link

2016 LessWrong Diaspora Survey Analysis: Part Three (Mental Health, Basilisk, Blogs and Media)

namespace25 Jun 2016 3:40 UTC

24 points

13 comments16 min readLW link

Requesting Questions For A 2017 LessWrong Survey

namespace9 Apr 2017 0:48 UTC

8 points

30 comments2 min readLW link

Assortative Mating And Autism

Scott Alexander28 Jan 2020 18:20 UTC

50 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

2020 LessWrong Demographics Survey Results

B Jacobs13 Jul 2020 13:53 UTC

18 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Cryonics p(success) estimates are only weakly associated with interest in pursuing cryonics in the LW 2023 Survey

Andy_McKenzie29 Feb 2024 14:47 UTC

28 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

AI Impacts Survey: December 2023 Edition

Zvi5 Jan 2024 14:40 UTC

34 points

6 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Survey of 2,778 AI authors: six parts in pictures

KatjaGrace6 Jan 2024 4:43 UTC

80 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Opinions survey (with rationalism score at the end)

tailcalled17 Feb 2024 0:41 UTC

8 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Opinions survey 2 (with rationalism score at the end)

tailcalled17 Feb 2024 12:03 UTC

2 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Rationalist Purity Test

Gunnar_Zarncke9 Jul 2024 20:30 UTC

−7 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(ratpuritytest.com)

2016 LessWrong Diaspora Survey Results

namespace14 May 2016 17:38 UTC

48 points

21 comments3 min readLW link

2016 LessWrong Diaspora Survey Analysis: Part One (Meta and Demographics)

namespace14 May 2016 6:09 UTC

31 points

17 comments6 min readLW link

2023 LessWrong Community Census, Request for Comments

Screwtape1 Nov 2023 16:32 UTC

43 points

37 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How much background technical knowledge do LW readers have?

johnswentworth11 Jul 2019 17:38 UTC

30 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

Cryonics Career Survey (more jobs than you think)

Mati_Roy18 Jun 2023 2:13 UTC

41 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

2017 LessWrong Survey

namespace13 Sep 2017 6:26 UTC

29 points

75 comments1 min readLW link

“Existential risk from AI” survey results

Rob Bensinger1 Jun 2021 20:02 UTC

66 points

7 comments11 min readLW link

Survey on AI existential risk scenarios

Sam Clarke, apc and Jonas Schuett

8 Jun 2021 17:12 UTC

65 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

Survey Results: 10 Fun Questions for LWers

Ben Pace19 Aug 2020 6:10 UTC

42 points

21 comments3 min readLW link

10 Fun Questions for LessWrongers

Ben Pace18 Aug 2020 3:28 UTC

47 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Quick survey on AI alignment resources

frances_lorenz30 Jun 2022 19:09 UTC

14 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Survey of NLP Researchers: NLP is contributing to AGI progress; major catastrophe plausible

Sam Bowman31 Aug 2022 1:39 UTC

91 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

2022 Unofficial LessWrong General Census

Screwtape30 Jan 2023 18:36 UTC

97 points

33 comments2 min readLW link

Polis: Why and How to Use it

brook1 Feb 2023 14:03 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Problems of people new to AI safety and my project ideas to mitigate them

Igor Ivanov1 Mar 2023 9:09 UTC

38 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

How bad a future do ML researchers expect?

KatjaGrace9 Mar 2023 4:50 UTC

122 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(aiimpacts.org)

What do ML researchers think about AI in 2022?

KatjaGrace4 Aug 2022 15:40 UTC

221 points

33 comments3 min readLW link

(aiimpacts.org)

Do Women Like Assholes?

Jacob Falkovich22 Jun 2020 2:14 UTC

30 points

10 comments17 min readLW link

Open Problems and Fundamental Limitations of RLHF

scasper31 Jul 2023 15:31 UTC

66 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

In-Context Learning: An Alignment Survey

alamerton30 Sep 2024 18:44 UTC

8 points

0 comments20 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

2016 LessWrong Diaspora Survey Analysis: Part Four (Politics, Calibration & Probability, Futurology, Charity & Effective Altruism)

namespace10 Sep 2016 3:51 UTC

20 points

25 comments8 min readLW link

Last chance to participate in the 2018 EA Survey

Peter Wildeford19 May 2018 0:37 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Help Needed: Crafting a Better CFAR Follow-Up Survey

kotrfa24 Aug 2023 17:26 UTC

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Lesswrong Survey—invitation for suggestions

Elo8 Feb 2016 8:07 UTC

17 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

Take the EA survey, help the EA movement grow and potentially win $250 to your favorite charity

Peter Wildeford1 Dec 2015 1:56 UTC

23 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] 2015 modafinil user survey

gwern26 Sep 2015 17:28 UTC

16 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

LW survey: Effective Altruists and donations

gwern14 May 2015 0:44 UTC

28 points

38 comments1 min readLW link

Return of the Survey

Scott Alexander3 May 2009 2:10 UTC

16 points

61 comments1 min readLW link

Ask LW: What questions to test in our rationality questionnaire?

AnnaSalamon29 Mar 2009 12:03 UTC

17 points

47 comments6 min readLW link

Excuse me, would you like to take a survey?

Scott Alexander26 Apr 2009 21:23 UTC

14 points

132 comments1 min readLW link

2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey—Call For Critiques/Questions

Scott Alexander11 Oct 2014 6:39 UTC

29 points

274 comments1 min readLW link

Practical rationality questionnaire

AnnaSalamon16 Apr 2009 23:21 UTC

22 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

2012 Less Wrong Census Survey: Call For Critiques/Questions

Scott Alexander19 Oct 2012 1:12 UTC

35 points

481 comments1 min readLW link

Public Opinion on AI Safety: AIMS 2023 and 2021 Summary

Jacy Reese Anthis, Janet Pauketat and Ali

25 Sep 2023 18:55 UTC

3 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Essay-Question Poll: Dietary Choices

Alicorn3 May 2009 15:27 UTC

17 points

244 comments1 min readLW link

LessWrong Survey Results: Do Ethical Theories Affect Behavior?

Peter Wildeford19 Dec 2012 8:40 UTC

35 points

47 comments5 min readLW link

Please Take the 2020 Effective Altruism Survey

Peter Wildeford7 Dec 2020 22:18 UTC

20 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] [Thought Experiment] Given a button to terminate all humanity, would you press it?

lorepieri1 Aug 2024 15:10 UTC

−2 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Practical Benefits of Rationality (LW Census Results)

Unnamed31 Jan 2014 17:24 UTC

31 points

5 comments18 min readLW link

Poll Results on AGI

Niclas Kupper10 Dec 2022 21:25 UTC

18 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

On urgency, priority and collective reaction to AI-Risks: Part I

Denreik16 Apr 2023 19:14 UTC

−10 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

Mental health benefits and downsides of psychedelic use in ACX readers: survey results

RationalElf25 Oct 2021 22:55 UTC

117 points

18 comments10 min readLW link

2020 PhilPapers Survey Results

Rob Bensinger2 Nov 2021 5:00 UTC

58 points

50 comments12 min readLW link

Results from a survey on tool use and workflows in alignment research

jacquesthibs, Jan, janus and Logan Riggs

19 Dec 2022 15:19 UTC

79 points

2 comments19 min readLW link

2022 Less Wrong Census/Survey: Request for Comments

Screwtape25 Jan 2023 20:57 UTC

5 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

[Survey] Expectations of a Post-ASI Order

Lone Pine9 Mar 2022 19:17 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Reflection Mechanisms as an Alignment Target—Attitudes on “near-term” AI

elandgre, Beth Barnes and Marius Hobbhahn

2 Mar 2023 4:29 UTC

21 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

A survey of tool use and workflows in alignment research

Logan Riggs, Jan, janus and jacquesthibs

23 Mar 2022 23:44 UTC

45 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Survey advice

KatjaGrace24 Aug 2022 3:10 UTC

93 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Scoring forecasts from the 2016 “Expert Survey on Progress in AI”

PatrickL1 Mar 2023 14:41 UTC

29 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

Survey on intermediate goals in AI governance

MichaelA and MaxRa

17 Mar 2023 13:12 UTC

25 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Call for submissions: Choice of Futures survey questions

c.trout30 Apr 2023 6:59 UTC

4 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(airtable.com)

Survey: Help Us Research Coordination Problems In The Rationalist/EA Community

namespace6 Apr 2018 23:29 UTC

18 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Closet survey #1

[deleted]14 Mar 2009 7:51 UTC

72 points

670 comments1 min readLW link

Do you have High-Functioning Asperger’s Syndrome?

Roko10 May 2010 23:55 UTC

26 points

344 comments3 min readLW link

Aspergers Poll Results: LW is nerdier than the Math Olympiad?

Roko13 May 2010 14:24 UTC

19 points

43 comments2 min readLW link

Lesswrong 2016 Survey

Elo30 Mar 2016 18:17 UTC

45 points

273 comments3 min readLW link

HOWTO: Screw Up The LessWrong Survey and Bring Great Shame To Your Family

namespace8 Oct 2017 3:43 UTC

39 points

18 comments6 min readLW link

2013 Census/Survey: call for changes and additions

Scott Alexander5 Nov 2013 3:10 UTC

47 points

155 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] For fun: How long can you hold your breath?

exanova6 Dec 2023 23:36 UTC

1 point

7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Rank the following based on likelihood to nullify AI-risk

Aorou30 Sep 2022 11:15 UTC

3 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

2014 Survey of Effective Altruists

tog5 May 2014 2:32 UTC

35 points

148 comments1 min readLW link

Polyamory is Rational(ist)

Jacob Falkovich18 Oct 2019 16:48 UTC

23 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

Participation in the LW Community Associated with Less Bias

Unnamed9 Dec 2012 12:15 UTC

56 points

50 comments12 min readLW link

Wisdom of the Crowd: not always so wise

tgb1 Jul 2012 20:55 UTC

33 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

Please Take the 2019 EA Survey!

Peter Wildeford30 Sep 2019 21:21 UTC

21 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.surveymonkey.co.uk)

Akrasia survey data analysis

John_Maxwell8 Dec 2012 3:53 UTC

20 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

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