Sophronius comments on 2011 Less Wrong Census / Survey - Less Wrong

77 Post author: Yvain 01 November 2011 06:28PM

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Comment author: Sophronius 03 November 2011 12:23:56AM 5 points [-]

Done. Seemed like a pretty good survey overall. Like others, I was confused by some questions though. Didn't know how to answer family religion, especially since I wasn't sure how far back I was supposed to look. Also, how exactly would it be determined when the singularity occurs? The moment human-level ai is reached? Seems to me that it would be more of a gradual (though still relatively sudden, all things considered) process.

The probability questions were interesting. I guess the questions about Newton and IQ relative to the average were there to account for less wrong over/underconfidence? Either way, since I didn't have an IQ score handy there was only one question, which I could have gotten right by accident. Would have liked to see a few more along those lines. (Heck, I would really like to see a "judge your own rationality" test on Less Wrong, period. Anyone done this yet?)