gwern comments on Open Thread, January 1-15, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 01 January 2013 06:27:46PM 5 points [-]

The 2012 survey also had a "date of the Singularity" question, but Yvain didn't report on the results of that question, so you'll have to look at the raw data for that.

R> lw <- read.csv("2012.csv")
R> lw <- as.integer(as.character(lw$Singularity))
R> summary(lw[lw > 2011 & lw < 5000])
Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. NA's
2010 2060 2080 2140 2150 4000 236

Had to filter because of idiots putting in values like 2147483647 or 30 or 1800.