Leogao

What about going further a field of AI?

The beautiful thing is that you can just ask whatever you want.

First, more broadly, Americans are very pessimistic about the future.

Only 14% think that society is currently trending in a positive direction.

On a brighter note, I was able to disprove a viral rage bait TikTok about how Americans would fail an English test meant for people learning English as a second language.

I was proud to find that a good solid 85% of my fellow Americans got the problem from the TikTok right.

Because we love decision theory in this house, I wrote a question that explains Newcomb's problem and asks whether to one box or two box.

Americans are pretty split on this one.

Among the respondents who didn't select not sure, honestly, kind of valid, only 46% would one-box.

This is almost exactly the same as professional philosophers, who came out 44% in favor of one-boxing, according to a survey conducted by PhilPapers.

I was also curious whether people who are famous in SF are also famous among normal people.

It turns out 36% of Americans know who Sam Altman is and can correctly say that he's known for being an entrepreneur.

Another 59% haven't heard of him or don't know what he's known for.

Honorable mentions to the remaining 5% who think that Sam is a musician, actor, or congressperson.

This same methodology finds that only 7% of Americans know who Jeffrey Hinton is, and 91% of Americans know who Elon Musk is.

I was in a discussion about whether lab-grown meat would ever become widely adopted, so I asked a question about whether it would be a good thing if we could somehow create meat by growing it directly, without needing to raise and slaughter animals.

It turns out 32% of Americans are in favor and 29% are opposed.

When conditioning on the 55% of people who think meat production involves subjecting large numbers of animals to inhumane conditions, this tilts to 44% support and 21% oppose.

I only ran the correlational study because it's a lot easier, but I'd be interested to see whether there is a causal result on support for lab-grown meat after you show people an educational video about factory farms.

Finally, for shits and giggles, there's an image here.