I don’t think anyone’s in a position to conclusively confirm or deny your speculation on LW-participant demographics, although you might find useful the link to the survey results jimrandomh posted above.
OB is Overcoming Bias, formerly a blog on rationality with multiple contributors, including Eliezer Yudkowsky, now the personal blog of Robin Hanson.
The only data on maths/science knowledge in the LW community I know to exist can be found in the aforementioned survey results. It is probably out of date.
“Right-extremists” is probably not a helpful way to think of how the term “libertarian” is used here. It refers more to advocacy of individual liberty than a position on a classical 1-dimensional political spectrum. I wouldn’t describe myself as a libertarian, though, and I’m certainly not an authority on them, so other people are probably better-placed to answer that question.
“Singularity” is probably a bit too big to elaborate on in a couple of sentences, but it’s conceptually distinct from libertarianism. I like to describe it as follows: there are technological achievements which we know to be theoretically possible, but which, if developed, would entirely rewrite the rules by which human beings exist. I don’t believe this is comparable to the wunderwaffe concept.
I don’t think anyone’s in a position to conclusively confirm or deny your speculation on LW-participant demographics, although you might find useful the link to the survey results jimrandomh posted above.
OB is Overcoming Bias, formerly a blog on rationality with multiple contributors, including Eliezer Yudkowsky, now the personal blog of Robin Hanson.
The only data on maths/science knowledge in the LW community I know to exist can be found in the aforementioned survey results. It is probably out of date.
“Right-extremists” is probably not a helpful way to think of how the term “libertarian” is used here. It refers more to advocacy of individual liberty than a position on a classical 1-dimensional political spectrum. I wouldn’t describe myself as a libertarian, though, and I’m certainly not an authority on them, so other people are probably better-placed to answer that question.
“Singularity” is probably a bit too big to elaborate on in a couple of sentences, but it’s conceptually distinct from libertarianism. I like to describe it as follows: there are technological achievements which we know to be theoretically possible, but which, if developed, would entirely rewrite the rules by which human beings exist. I don’t believe this is comparable to the wunderwaffe concept.