komponisto comments on 2011 Survey Results - Less Wrong

94 Post author: Yvain 05 December 2011 10:49AM

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Comment author: komponisto 05 December 2011 11:02:26AM 5 points [-]

Surely it depends on which questions are meant by "important things".

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 05 December 2011 12:41:53PM 4 points [-]

Granted.

Comment author: Armok_GoB 05 December 2011 02:41:20PM 1 point [-]

The most salient one would be religion.

Comment author: Nick_Roy 05 December 2011 02:50:11PM 1 point [-]

What surprised you about the survey's results regarding religion?

Comment author: Armok_GoB 05 December 2011 03:55:37PM 1 point [-]

That there are theists around?

Comment author: Nick_Roy 05 December 2011 04:13:07PM 5 points [-]

Okay, but only 3.5%. I wonder how many are newbies who haven't read many of the sequences yet, and I wonder how many are simulists.

Comment author: thomblake 05 December 2011 05:02:45PM 4 points [-]

Since you seem to have a sense of the community, your surprise surprises me. Will_Newsome's contrarian defense of theism springs to mind immediately, and I know we have several people who are theists or were when they joined Lw.

Also, many people could have answered the survey who are new here.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 05 December 2011 05:18:40PM 7 points [-]

It's also fairly unlikely that all the theists and quasitheists on LW have outed themselves as such.
Nor is there any particular reason they should.

Comment author: Armok_GoB 05 December 2011 08:53:33PM 0 points [-]

I assumed those were rare exceptions.