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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)

 

socialjusticemunchkin:

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

 

ilzolende:

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]

 

the-grey-tribe:

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.

 

brin-bellway:

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.”)

 

justice-turtle:

6.5 typical rationalist, unless I subtract the scores for every “I have no idea what this is” answer, which puts me at a more likely 3.66 vaguely adjacent. ^_^ Lower if “probably Jewish-descended but not at all culturally Jewish” doesn’t count as “kind of”.

(Not really sure what rationalism entails, but I can’t resist a good quiz with scoring, especially when I’m putting off getting ready for school. XD)

Yeah, “kind of adjacent I guess” sounds more like you, since AFAIK you don’t follow anyone relevant other than me.

“Not really sure what rationalism entails“

(Disclaimer: while I have over a year’s experience now, I’m not some kind of Official Expert or anything, etc etc)

You’ll still find people claiming rationalism is an ideology–to be fair, the label is a legacy from when this was the case–but IME these tend to be non-rationalists from subcultures that think of themselves as ideologies first and cultures never (*cough*socialjustice*cough*). (Which reminds me…but that’s another post. I’ll dig it out of my drafts and finish writing it next.)

Rationalist Tumblr is a social group: a collection of people who generally recognise each other’s usernames and have varying amounts of readership, friendship and frequently (but not necessarily) romance with each other. (A large chunk of the rationalist-sphere consists of a single, complexly interconnected polycule, hence polyamory being listed above as a stereotype.) As a general rule, they enjoy nerding out on transhumanism and philosophy, and can often be found debating ethical thought experiments for fun. Somehow, despite a tendency to treat arguing with someone as a friendly greeting, they manage to be pretty welcoming and reassuring to conflict-avoidant people who are used to walking on eggshells. Maybe it’s the lampshading.

They descend from the commentariat of the blog Less Wrong, but while a modern-day member of the community is expected to be aware of Less Wrong’s existence and have some passing familiarity with the archive (one need not have this passing familiarity upon joining; links will come up during the abovementioned ethical thought experiments), being or having ever been a regular reader of Less Wrong is not required, and one certainly doesn’t have to agree with LW’s stances on things.

You’d probably recognise some of the names yourself, given that…let me go check…yes, all ten of my last ten reblogs were from rationalists. (Admittedly, six of those ten were @lizardywizard. I seem to be on a lizardywizard streak. These things happen.)

(SSC is short for Slate Star Codex, popular blog amongst the community (written by a community member), and source of intriguing-but-usually-tentative ideas and interesting links.)

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Personally, I put myself down as “kind of” Jewish when calculating the numbers in the tags of my last post. I expect I could make a good case for being straight-up Jewish, but I don’t want to, and I think that’s telling in itself.

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