kpreid comments on Return of the Survey - Less Wrong

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Comment author: kpreid 03 May 2009 12:27:21PM *  8 points [-]

I took the survey. I will now take this opportunity to criticize it.

Severely missing items:

  • "Moral Views" should have had links to definitions; especially of "Eliezer's interpretation".
  • "Charity" should have had a "No opinion/I have no information on the matter" choice.
  • "Cryonics" should have had a "I have not yet considered the matter / No opinion" choice.

Minor missing items:

  • "Political Views" should have been split into questions on the particular attributes listed, for those of us who don't bother to figure out which label applies to us.
  • "Time in Community" should have listed how many months ago LW and OB were created, for convenience.

Clarify your taxonomy:

  • If our universe is a simulation, does the containing universe have any significance to the Supernatural and God questions?
  • If our universe is a simulation, not of some other universe, but constructed from scratch, is the designer of it God in the sense of "Probability: God"? Does it matter whether this entity has edited the state of the simulation since the beginning of its time?
  • If our universe is a simulation which was designed to include ontologically basic mental entities, even though the universe in which it is simulated does not, does that count towards "Probability: Supernatural"?
Comment author: aluchko 06 May 2009 06:22:28AM 1 point [-]

I agree about the political views. The problem is any political parties I've come along with a huge amount of baggage in associated ideas and I'm very hesitant to claim membership with a political tribe lest I signal support for the crazy bits.