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The Less Wrong General Census is unofficially here! You can take it at this link.
The oft-interrupted annual tradition of the Less Wrong Census is once more upon us!
If you are reading this post and identify as a LessWronger, then you are the target audience. If you are reading this post and don't identify as a LessWronger, you just read posts here or maybe go to house parties full of rationalists or possibly read rationalist fanfiction and like talking about it on the internet, or you're not a rationalist you're just, idk, adjacent, then you're also the target audience.
If you want to just spend five minutes answering the basic demographics questions before leaving the rest blank and hitting submit, that's totally fine. The survey is structured so the fastest and most generally applicable questions are (generally speaking) towards the start. At any point you can scroll to [...]
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First published:
December 2nd, 2024
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XmbmHRYPMWHTYdaHW/2024-unofficial-lesswrong-census-survey
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Audio note: this article contains 449 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to follow. There's a link to the original text in the episode description.
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Preface
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Would you like someone to:
Review your paper or code? Brainstorm ideas on next steps? How to best communicate your results? Discuss conceptual problems Obvious Advice (e.g. being...
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