the-grey-tribe:

ilzolende:

socialjusticemunchkin:

socialjusticemunchkin:

Now with a scoring guide (choose one or none from each sub-category)

Age:

• 21-25 years +1
• 16-20 +½
• 26-30 years +½

Jewishness:

• Yes +1
• Kind of + ½

Gender:

• trans woman (regardless of hormone usage) +1
• any kind of amab using estrogen +1
• amab non-binary (no estrogen) +¾
• other non-cis or dubiously cis (afab trans, agender, magic button trans, etc.) +½
• cis by default (not magic button trans) +¼

Poly:

• Yes +1
• Kind of, or open to the idea +½

Sexuality, part A:

• gray-asexual or demisexual +1
• asexual +½
• asexual and kinky +1
• kinky +½

Sexuality, part B (replace “sexual” with “romantic” if doing so would give you a higher score):

• bisexual, pansexual, sapiosexual, any other kind of “gender isn’t really such a big deal”sexual +1
• any kind of “gender isn’t a massive deal but it’s somewhat of a deal”sexual +½
• gendersexual, but would take the bisexuality pill +½

Gifted child:

• very +½ (eg. peerless in one’s childhood environment, or not peerless, but with a highly unusual peer group)
• quite +¼ (eg. one of the highest-achieving in one’s slightly less highly unusual peer group)

Badbrains:

• at least 2 of: ADHD, autism, anxiety, depression at least to a sub-clinical but noticeable degree +½
• one of them +¼

Field:

• CS student, or working in programming, AI, CS, etc. +1
• self-learning any of the above +½
• student or working in mathematics +½

Politics, part 1:

• supports open borders, or at least massively increased immigration +½
• supports significantly increased immigration +¼

Politics, part 2:

• supports basic income by whatever name one wishes to use +½
• supports some other kind of less bureaucratic, more market-based approach to welfare +¼

Politics, extra questions (can’t increase the total politics score over 1):

• refuses to identify with ideological labels +½
• identifies with a weird made-up “non-“ideological label +½ (“futarchy”, “meta-level politics”, etc.)

Geeking out:

• transhumanist nerd stuff +1
• any other uncommon and specific nerd stuff +1
• less unusual SF/F or STEM nerd stuff +½

HPMoR, 3 Worlds Collide, Dragon-Tyrant (add scores from each):

• has read all of it, or most and intends to finish +1/3
• has read a lot but doesn’t intend to finish, or is starting +1/6

SSC:

• regularly +1
• sometimes +½
• rarely +¼

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I tried to not break legacy results compatibility so most people’s scores should be the same and this would just clarify the questionnaire; if people’s results change, it’s because I’ve changed some things to better reflect the original intent based on data acquired so far (looking especially at you, @sigmaleph, because that “politics” answer was the most stereotypical rationalist thing ever and I’m embarrassed to have overlooked that possibility)

And now I have the result categories as well:

(break ties with Newcomb’s dilemma; one-boxers upwards, two-boxers downwards)

12: The Chosen One

10-12: True Yudbot of the Hivemind

8-10: Stereotypical Rationalist

6-8: Typical Rationalist

4-6: Quite rationalist-adjacent

2-4: Kind of adjacent I guess

0-2: I don’t know how you ended up taking the survey, please tell me your story

Taking the revised survey!

0.5 age, 1 Jewishness, 0.25 gender, 1 poly, proooobably 2 sexuality, 0.25 gifted, 0.25 badbrains, 1 CS, (tentatively) 0.5 immigration, (tentatively) 0.5 basic income, 1 transhumanist nerdery, 1 fiction, 1 SSC, putting me at… 10.25.

[attaches “True Yudbot of the Hivemind” keychain to keyring, which even without that has more random keychains than it does useful items]

I wonder if the Jewishness in the rationalist community is just confirmation bias, Jews inviting people from their peer group to join tumblr, or a memetic influence of Jewish scholarship. Like Saul Kripke’s direct reference theory, which applies principles from rabbinic literature and scholarship to the semantics of human language.

I kind of figured it’s because Jews and rationalists have similar taste in fiction. I mean, that’s probably not all there is to it, but Luminosity (the first ratfic I read, and so the one where I wasn’t judging it in comparison to other ratfic) definitely reminded me of the books of Jewish folktales I had as a kid. (“Clever, genre-savvy protagonist achieves goals by exploiting loopholes in the laws of nature.”)

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#I get 7 and 1/6 with a very conservative reading of the checklist #8 and 5/12 with a less conservative reading #(the other 1.25 is ”pan-kinky” and ”maybe probably qualifies as having anxiety”) #(a *remarkable* number of people have gendered kink preferences) #(this confuses me greatly)

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