Lumifer comments on 2014 Survey of Effective Altruists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 03 May 2014 05:47:06PM 12 points [-]

then you ask people about their political views after you've primed them with left-wing examples.

Not to mention all the implications of right-wing politics not making it to the list at all. "No, we don't think anyone can possibly believe that... What are you, a freak?" :-/

Comment author: tog 03 May 2014 06:55:24PM 7 points [-]

I can assure you I didn't think that - it was rather that I didn't think of any right-wing (or additional non left-wing) movements that significant numbers might plausibly belong to. But I definitely made a mistake in not trying to think of them more. If you can suggest some, I'll add them.

My predictions (linked in this comment ) did have few conservatives or libertarians. The set of EAs whose views I know contains a few libertarians and no conservatives. However that set contains disproportionately many elite university students, an unrepresentatively lefty group.

I was surprised that there weren't a few more libertarians and conservatives in the LessWrong census.