This is the second installment of the Polling Thread.
This is your chance to ask your multiple choice question you always wanted to throw in. Get qualified numeric feedback to your comments. Post fun polls.
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Rate how typical the following topics are on/for LessWrong (0 means totally atypical, 1.0 means totally on track):
methods for being less wrong, knowing about biases, fallacies and heuristics [pollid:618]
advancing specific virtues: altruism, mindfulness, empathy, truthfulness, openness [pollid:619]
methods of self-improvement (if scientifically backed), e.g. living luminiously, winning at life, longevity, advice in the repositories http://lesswrong.com/lw/gx5/boring_advice_repository/ [pollid:620]
statistics, probability theory, decision theory and related mathematical fields [pollid:622]
(moral) philosophical theories (tried to make this sharp somehow but failed) [pollid:623]
rationality applied to social situations in relationships, parenting and small groups [pollid:624]
platform to hangout with like-minded (and often high-IQ) people [pollid:625]
artificial intelligence topics esp. if related to AGI, (U)FAI, AI going FOOM (or not) [pollid:626]
the singularity and transhumanism (includes cryonics as method to get there) [pollid:627]
organization and discussion of meetups [pollid:628]
presentation and discussion of topics of associated or related organizations CFAR, MIRI, GiveWell, CEA [pollid:629]
I chose this poll because I want to use it to validate a presentation I am preparing for a meetup about what does constitute a typical LessWrong topic (and giving examples of such). If this works out it might provide a helpful primer for LW newbies (e.g. at a meetup).
I derived the following list of LessWrong topics and presented in on our LW meetup.
In order of decreasing typicality (most typical for LW first):
methods for being less wrong, knowing about biases, fallacies and heuristics
methods of self-improvement (if scientifically backed), e.g. living luminiously, winning at life, longevity
organization and discussion of meetups
dealing with procrastination and akrasia
statistics, probability theory, decision theory and related mathematical fields
topics of associated or related organizations CFAR, MIRI, GiveWel