I feel like you should give it more time than just three hours before posting results. At least 24 hours sounds reasonable. The results for me already looked quite different from what you posted.
Yeah, because there’s such a geographically clustered dichotomy in views between the London set and the SF set, it seems pretty important to me to give it 24 hours yeah.
Also just a general generic caution: we should know that this poll will mainly be seen by only the most active and most engaged people, which may not be representative enough to generalize.
this poll will mainly be seen by only the most active and most engaged people [ . . .]
This is also a reason to exercise great caution in interpreting early results; I would expect this statement to be even more true as applied to the first 6-48ish hours than it it is at a week.
I made a small poll to try and figure out what consensus and disagreeing views are. You can add your own statements.
I’ll post it on both articles, please only vote once. Likewise please take the results with a pinch of salt because I can’t gate to one vote per user.
Results here: https://viewpoints.xyz/polls/ea-and-manifest/results
(If you want more people to answer this poll consider upvoting it)
Early poll results (take with a pinch of salt)
The two most cruxy seem to be
Most consensus—there is a lot we agree on
Most conflict—seems to be around whether manfold did enough and whether there should be a split been EA and rationalism
Most confusion - lots of confusion about the manifest financial situation, it’s aims and what the events was actually like.
I feel like you should give it more time than just three hours before posting results. At least 24 hours sounds reasonable. The results for me already looked quite different from what you posted.
For example:
Hmmm i intended to keep updating them
Yeah, because there’s such a geographically clustered dichotomy in views between the London set and the SF set, it seems pretty important to me to give it 24 hours yeah.
Also just a general generic caution: we should know that this poll will mainly be seen by only the most active and most engaged people, which may not be representative enough to generalize.
This is also a reason to exercise great caution in interpreting early results; I would expect this statement to be even more true as applied to the first 6-48ish hours than it it is at a week.