“Time per day on OB/LW” is hard to measure, since I’m just being online, studying and working in parallel.
“Political views”—I’d like “not commited” as an option.
“Santa”—understanding your position is a process, so e.g. clear-cut “yes/no” doesn’t map on my “I contemplated the notion, and was unsure before growing old/perceptive enough to realize it’s a running joke”.
Before the questions on probabilities, it’d be nice to ask about the position on interpretation of probability.
There should be questions about position on morality. I suggest: consequentialist (in Yudkowsky’s interpretation/other), hedonist, others?
Another question: do you hold an explicit utilitarian position (on a form of preference order) such as average or total utilitarianism.
The question on whether the data given by the person who fills in the survey should be publicly available should be included in the survey.
I’d like to separate Sci-fi from fantasy.
Add questions about habits of learning: do you learn technical stuff unrelated to work.
What do people do in leisure time (watch TV/serf Internet/solve crosswords/study math).
Technically, “Cooperate” in a standard PD is an incorrect answer, since the fact that you know that the other one is a Cooperator is not built into the problem.
Don’t call that hideous scheme you set up “probability”. The log score will punish you infinitely for this heresy.
A question about procrastination
A question about diet
Knowledge of related math: logic, probability theory, Bayesian networks, inference algorithms, expected utility, microeconomics, causal/evidential decision theories.
Knowledge of biases/ev-psych literature: read stuff on OB/LW, read a serious book, read (how many) papers.
I specifically excluded “not committed” as an option on the political views section, because a lot of rationalists have a tendency to go towards “not committed” to signal how they’re not blind followers of a party, when really they have very well defined political views.
I, for example, absolutely refuse to register with a political party, answer “independent” to any questions about my political affiliation, talk a good talk about how both parties are equally crooks, and then proceed to vote for the Democrat nine times out of ten. I would kind of like to force people like me to put “Democrat” on there so that we get more data.
I will change this if enough people agree with Vladimir.
I agree with Vladimir. Parties are not ideologies—they’re coalitions (at least in the US). I see no reason to assume people are affiliated with a particular coalition, especially one in possibly a foreign country.
The problem is that In Russia there is only one Party, and studying what the classical options are, or what the little parties are, doesn’t seem to be worth my time given the current situation.
I agree that there should be no “not committed” option, but asking non-Americans to identify with an American political party seems kind of unhelpful. Do we think think more traditional ideological terms are to vague to be unhelpful?
Maybe: Conservative, Classical Liberal, Welfare State Liberal, Marxist/Post Marxist, etc?
I agree with Vladimir too, you can’t always pinpoint people like that.
I’d say I’m uncommitted too. By that I mean to encompass the general idea that I agree with a lot of the ideas that come from, for instance, libertarianism, and at the same time, with a lot of the ideas behind communism. As I never heard of a good synthesis between the two, so I stand uncommitted.
“Time per day on OB/LW” is hard to measure, since I’m just being online, studying and working in parallel.
“Political views”—I’d like “not commited” as an option.
“Santa”—understanding your position is a process, so e.g. clear-cut “yes/no” doesn’t map on my “I contemplated the notion, and was unsure before growing old/perceptive enough to realize it’s a running joke”.
Before the questions on probabilities, it’d be nice to ask about the position on interpretation of probability.
There should be questions about position on morality. I suggest: consequentialist (in Yudkowsky’s interpretation/other), hedonist, others?
Another question: do you hold an explicit utilitarian position (on a form of preference order) such as average or total utilitarianism.
The question on whether the data given by the person who fills in the survey should be publicly available should be included in the survey.
I’d like to separate Sci-fi from fantasy.
Add questions about habits of learning: do you learn technical stuff unrelated to work.
What do people do in leisure time (watch TV/serf Internet/solve crosswords/study math).
Technically, “Cooperate” in a standard PD is an incorrect answer, since the fact that you know that the other one is a Cooperator is not built into the problem.
Don’t call that hideous scheme you set up “probability”. The log score will punish you infinitely for this heresy.
A question about procrastination
A question about diet
Knowledge of related math: logic, probability theory, Bayesian networks, inference algorithms, expected utility, microeconomics, causal/evidential decision theories.
Knowledge of biases/ev-psych literature: read stuff on OB/LW, read a serious book, read (how many) papers.
I specifically excluded “not committed” as an option on the political views section, because a lot of rationalists have a tendency to go towards “not committed” to signal how they’re not blind followers of a party, when really they have very well defined political views.
I, for example, absolutely refuse to register with a political party, answer “independent” to any questions about my political affiliation, talk a good talk about how both parties are equally crooks, and then proceed to vote for the Democrat nine times out of ten. I would kind of like to force people like me to put “Democrat” on there so that we get more data.
I will change this if enough people agree with Vladimir.
I agree with Vladimir. Parties are not ideologies—they’re coalitions (at least in the US). I see no reason to assume people are affiliated with a particular coalition, especially one in possibly a foreign country.
The problem is that In Russia there is only one Party, and studying what the classical options are, or what the little parties are, doesn’t seem to be worth my time given the current situation.
Do they have primary elections?
I agree that there should be no “not committed” option, but asking non-Americans to identify with an American political party seems kind of unhelpful. Do we think think more traditional ideological terms are to vague to be unhelpful?
Maybe: Conservative, Classical Liberal, Welfare State Liberal, Marxist/Post Marxist, etc?
I agree with Vladimir too, you can’t always pinpoint people like that.
I’d say I’m uncommitted too. By that I mean to encompass the general idea that I agree with a lot of the ideas that come from, for instance, libertarianism, and at the same time, with a lot of the ideas behind communism. As I never heard of a good synthesis between the two, so I stand uncommitted.
You can measure time per day on OB/LW or any other app/site using Rescuetime.
http://www.rescuetime.com/
I use ManicTime, myself
http://www.manictime.com/
Anybody tried both of these? I think everyone should use similar software. Its an incredibly low cost route to more self-knowledge and discipline.