This is a great experiment. But I think it would have been much clearer if the question was phrased as “What percentage of talent+funding should be allocated to AI welfare?”, with the banner showing a slider from 0% to 100%. As it is now, if I strongly disagree with allocating 5% and strongly agree with 3% or whatever, I feel like I should still place my icon on the extreme left of the line. This would make it look like I’m all against this cause, which wouldn’t be the case.
Good point (I address similar concerns here). For the time being, personally I would treat a half agree as some percentage under 5%, and explain your vote in the discussion thread if you want to make sure that people know what you mean.
I think I would prefer to strongly disagree, because I don’t want my half agree to be read as if I agreed to some extent with the 5% statement. This is because “half agree” is ambiguous here. People could think that it means 1) something around 2,5% of funding/talent or 2) that 5% could be ok with some caveats. This should be clarified to be able to know what the results actually mean.
Makes sense Leo, thanks. I don’t want to change anything very substantial about the banner after so many users have voted, but I’ll bear this in mind for next time.
This is a great experiment. But I think it would have been much clearer if the question was phrased as “What percentage of talent+funding should be allocated to AI welfare?”, with the banner showing a slider from 0% to 100%. As it is now, if I strongly disagree with allocating 5% and strongly agree with 3% or whatever, I feel like I should still place my icon on the extreme left of the line. This would make it look like I’m all against this cause, which wouldn’t be the case.
Good point (I address similar concerns here). For the time being, personally I would treat a half agree as some percentage under 5%, and explain your vote in the discussion thread if you want to make sure that people know what you mean.
I think I would prefer to strongly disagree, because I don’t want my half agree to be read as if I agreed to some extent with the 5% statement. This is because “half agree” is ambiguous here. People could think that it means 1) something around 2,5% of funding/talent or 2) that 5% could be ok with some caveats. This should be clarified to be able to know what the results actually mean.
Makes sense Leo, thanks. I don’t want to change anything very substantial about the banner after so many users have voted, but I’ll bear this in mind for next time.