If you have enough of a following, Twitter polls are a great resource for exploring how people think. I’ve just finished asking a 8 polls each regarding 12 different questions that make people choose between the following 16 features, either in themself or in others:
What does it mean to increase your grandchildren (I presume this is number of grandchildren) by 1%? Is it expected number (in toto) of grandchildren--say, 0.5 to 0.505, or 10.3 to 10.403?
For Grandchildren, I imagine a lot of your followers are too young to want grandchildren, and they would not really be worthwhile to them at a moment. They'd probably get in the way.
As for lifespan, I suspect if being focused on your ambitions is correlated with lower discount rates and a greater appreciation for how little time we have in life.
Why'd you choose to frame the survival of civilisations as "aliens"? Because it is more general and less entangled with pre-existing tribal conflicts?
I choose aliens in order to max the far mode framing of the question.
My intention was expected number, but of course that doesn't mean that's how most respondents interpreted my question.
What does it mean to increase your grandchildren (I presume this is number of grandchildren) by 1%? Is it expected number (in toto) of grandchildren--say, 0.5 to 0.505, or 10.3 to 10.403?
For Grandchildren, I imagine a lot of your followers are too young to want grandchildren, and they would not really be worthwhile to them at a moment. They'd probably get in the way.
As for lifespan, I suspect if being focused on your ambitions is correlated with lower discount rates and a greater appreciation for how little time we have in life.
Why'd you choose to frame the survival of civilisations as "aliens"? Because it is more general and less entangled with pre-existing tribal conflicts?
This is good stuff by the way.