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Looking many existing risky technologies the consumers and governments are the safety regulators, and manufacturers mostly cater to their demands. Consider the automobile industry, the aeronautical industry and the computer industry for examples.
Unfortunately, AGI isn't a "risky technology" where mostly is going to cut it in any sense, including adhering to expectations for safety regulation.
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Does "your country" refer to the country you were born in, are a citizen of, or are currently residing in?
Also: Took it. Karma me gentlemen :D
I'm hoping that this survey reveals that it is incorrect to refer to us LessWrongers as "gentlemen"
... And yes, you may take that either way. After all, there were questions on both our gender and our # of sexual partners.
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I took the survey and participated in the complementary karma orgy!
The best kind! (except not really)
The behavior of posting comments to the effect that we have taken the survey?
Yes.
Haha... Obviously it's not the target behavior, but I, at least, assume that almost everyone who has commented to that effect has actually done it.
Why?
Because you have something I aspire to (multiple casual sex partners), why else?
even if you interpret karma as reddit/lw karma, or social consequences, "absolutely" is too much.
don't bet your house on it.
I mean LW karma (plus I'm a Redditor too) -
from my study of human societies, I believe my remark is called a "joke" - though I admit some people are bad at making jokes :p
Hmm. I got 110. And then because that's ridiculous, and I have an ego, I took it a second--and third--time, subsequently scoring 126 and 140. (I reported 125 on the survey because I know 110 isn't right.)
I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to do that -- IIRC tests are designed to give reasonably accurate results in absence of practice effects. I had taken this same test one year ago and I'm pretty sure I answered certain questions faster than I would have if I had never seen them before (though this effect was almost exclusively in the easy, early questions, which took a very small part of the 40 minutes anyway -- I did score 9 points higher than last year but I had a headache (and hadn't realized I could go back to previous questions) back then so that sounds about right).
Also, I failed to answer quite a few questions when I got 110, thinking I'd be penalized for wrong answers... Apparently I failed at reading the directions which state you should answer all of them facepalm
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Do casual sex partners count under the "Number of Current Partners" question?
The instructions tell me that higher numbers are for "polyamorous relationships" which makes it seem like a monogamous person who has multiple casual sex partners should answer 0 for that question.
I like you
Out of curiosity, why is it ancient tradition to upvote for this?
The underlying reasons are set forth in the Sequences, as you'd expect. :)
No. Stop. The only reason necessary is because we want more of that behavior, right?
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To be fair, they're a hell of a lot easier to notice. Although there's probably a signalling issue involved as well - particular kinds of pedantry are good ways of signalling "nerdiness", and I think most LWers try to cultivate that kind of image.
Wow. This is fascinating.
You, Ezekiel, are basically saying 'I'm aware that a behavior expressing pedantry like that is a signalling thing, that it specifically signals "nerdiness", and that such a person is trying to 'cultivate an image'."
"Oh, and I just did that"
... Presumably you value signaling and cultivating an image with the aim of belonging in a nerdy LessWrong in-group.
facepalm What are we becoming?
P.S. On an unrelated topic, I think the site founder is wrong about some things. And I just thought you ought to know that I'm such a contrarian :)