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.

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

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)

Opinions survey (with rationalism score at the end)

tailcalled17 Feb 2024 0:41 UTC

8 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

2023 Survey Results

Screwtape16 Feb 2024 22:24 UTC

150 points

26 comments44 min readLW link

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

KatjaGrace6 Jan 2024 4:43 UTC

80 points

1 comment2 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)

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

exanova6 Dec 2023 23:36 UTC

1 point

7 comments1 min readLW link

2023 Unofficial LessWrong Census/Survey

Screwtape2 Dec 2023 4:41 UTC

169 points

81 comments1 min readLW link

Vote on Interesting Disagreements

Ben Pace7 Nov 2023 21:35 UTC

159 points

129 comments1 min readLW link

2023 LessWrong Community Census, Request for Comments

Screwtape1 Nov 2023 16:32 UTC

43 points

37 comments2 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)

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

kotrfa24 Aug 2023 17:26 UTC

9 points

2 comments1 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)

Cryonics Career Survey (more jobs than you think)

Mati_Roy18 Jun 2023 2:13 UTC

41 points

1 comment2 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)

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

Denreik16 Apr 2023 19:14 UTC

−10 points

15 comments5 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

How bad a future do ML researchers expect?

KatjaGrace9 Mar 2023 4:50 UTC

121 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(aiimpacts.org)

2022 Survey Results

Screwtape8 Mar 2023 19:16 UTC

48 points

8 comments20 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

20 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

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

PatrickL1 Mar 2023 14:41 UTC

29 points

6 comments9 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

Polis: Why and How to Use it

brook1 Feb 2023 14:03 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

2022 Unofficial LessWrong General Census

Screwtape30 Jan 2023 18:36 UTC

97 points

33 comments2 min readLW link

2022 Less Wrong Census/Survey: Request for Comments

Screwtape25 Jan 2023 20:57 UTC

5 points

29 comments1 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

Poll Results on AGI

Niclas Kupper10 Dec 2022 21:25 UTC

18 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Great Cryonics Survey of 2022

Mati_Roy3 Dec 2022 5:10 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

2022 LessWrong Census?

SurfingOrca7 Nov 2022 5:16 UTC

67 points

13 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)

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

Aorou30 Sep 2022 11:15 UTC

3 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

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

Sam Bowman31 Aug 2022 1:39 UTC

92 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Survey advice

KatjaGrace24 Aug 2022 3:10 UTC

93 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

What do ML researchers think about AI in 2022?

KatjaGrace4 Aug 2022 15:40 UTC

219 points

33 comments3 min readLW link

(aiimpacts.org)

Quick survey on AI alignment resources

frances_lorenz30 Jun 2022 19:09 UTC

14 points

0 comments1 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] Expectations of a Post-ASI Order

Lone Pine9 Mar 2022 19:17 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

2020 PhilPapers Survey Results

Rob Bensinger2 Nov 2021 5:00 UTC

58 points

50 comments12 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

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

Survey on AI existential risk scenarios

Sam Clarke, apc and Jonas Schuett

8 Jun 2021 17:12 UTC

63 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

“Existential risk from AI” survey results

Rob Bensinger1 Jun 2021 20:02 UTC

65 points

7 comments11 min readLW link

Gauging the conscious experience of LessWrong

Vermillion20 Dec 2020 11:34 UTC

32 points

44 comments1 min readLW link

Please Take the 2020 Effective Altruism Survey

Peter Wildeford7 Dec 2020 22:18 UTC

20 points

0 comments1 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

2020 LessWrong Demographics Survey Results

B Jacobs13 Jul 2020 13:53 UTC

18 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Do Women Like Assholes?

Jacob Falkovich22 Jun 2020 2:14 UTC

38 points

10 comments17 min readLW link

2020 LessWrong Demographics Survey

B Jacobs11 Jun 2020 20:05 UTC

20 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Assortative Mating And Autism

Scott Alexander28 Jan 2020 18:20 UTC

49 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Polyamory is Rational(ist)

Jacob Falkovich18 Oct 2019 16:48 UTC

23 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

Please Take the 2019 EA Survey!

Peter Wildeford30 Sep 2019 21:21 UTC

21 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.surveymonkey.co.uk)

Results of LW Technical Background Survey

johnswentworth26 Jul 2019 17:33 UTC

41 points

4 comments1 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

Last chance to participate in the 2018 EA Survey

Peter Wildeford19 May 2018 0:37 UTC

8 points

0 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

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

namespace6 Apr 2018 23:29 UTC

18 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

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

namespace8 Oct 2017 3:43 UTC

40 points

18 comments6 min readLW link

2017 LessWrong Survey

namespace13 Sep 2017 6:26 UTC

29 points

75 comments1 min readLW link

Requesting Questions For A 2017 LessWrong Survey

namespace9 Apr 2017 0:48 UTC

8 points

30 comments2 min readLW link

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

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

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 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

Lesswrong 2016 Survey

Elo30 Mar 2016 18:17 UTC

45 points

273 comments3 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

2014 Survey Results

Scott Alexander5 Jan 2015 19:36 UTC

128 points

283 comments16 min readLW link

2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey

Scott Alexander26 Oct 2014 18:05 UTC

116 points

728 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

2014 Survey of Effective Altruists

tog5 May 2014 2:32 UTC

35 points

148 comments1 min readLW link

Practical Benefits of Rationality (LW Census Results)

Unnamed31 Jan 2014 17:24 UTC

31 points

5 comments18 min readLW link

2013 Survey Results

Scott Alexander19 Jan 2014 2:51 UTC

112 points

560 comments19 min readLW link

2013 Less Wrong Census/Survey

Scott Alexander22 Nov 2013 9:26 UTC

112 points

620 comments2 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

LessWrong Survey Results: Do Ethical Theories Affect Behavior?

Peter Wildeford19 Dec 2012 8:40 UTC

35 points

47 comments5 min readLW link

Participation in the LW Community Associated with Less Bias

Unnamed9 Dec 2012 12:15 UTC

56 points

50 comments12 min readLW link

Akrasia survey data analysis

John_Maxwell8 Dec 2012 3:53 UTC

20 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

2012 Survey Results

Scott Alexander7 Dec 2012 21:04 UTC

120 points

653 comments19 min readLW link

2012 Less Wrong Census/Survey

Scott Alexander3 Nov 2012 23:00 UTC

94 points

737 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

Wisdom of the Crowd: not always so wise

tgb1 Jul 2012 20:55 UTC

33 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

2011 Survey Results

Scott Alexander5 Dec 2011 10:49 UTC

123 points

513 comments8 min readLW link

2011 Less Wrong Census / Survey

Scott Alexander1 Nov 2011 18:28 UTC

101 points

699 comments1 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

Do you have High-Functioning Asperger’s Syndrome?

Roko10 May 2010 23:55 UTC

26 points

344 comments3 min readLW link

Survey Results

Scott Alexander12 May 2009 22:09 UTC

62 points

212 comments7 min readLW link

Essay-Question Poll: Dietary Choices

Alicorn3 May 2009 15:27 UTC

17 points

244 comments1 min readLW link

Return of the Survey

Scott Alexander3 May 2009 2:10 UTC

16 points

61 comments1 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

Practical rationality questionnaire

AnnaSalamon16 Apr 2009 23:21 UTC

22 points

28 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

Closet survey #1

[deleted]14 Mar 2009 7:51 UTC

72 points

671 comments1 min readLW link

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