“2025 Unofficial LessWrong Census/Survey” by Screwtape

The Less Wrong General Census is unofficially here! You can take it at this link.

The kinda-sorta-annual-if-you-really-squint tradition of the Less Wrong Census is once more upon us!

I want to pitch you on taking the survey. First, the demographics data is our best view into who's using the site and who is in the community. I use it when trying to figure out how to help meetups, I add a bunch of questions the LessWrong team asks which I assume they use to improve the site. Second, because I am madly, ravenously curious what works and what doesn't for raising the sanity waterline and making people more rational. I'm even curious what folks think that would mean! Third, if you're reading this and you're thinking "eh, I'm not really a rationalist, more just rationalist adjacent" then you are also of interest; I include questions from several adjacent communities as well. Also, you make a fantastic active control group.

If you want to just spend five minutes answering the basic demographics questions before leaving the rest blank and hitting submit, that's totally appreciated. The survey is structured so the fastest and most generally applicable questions are generally speaking towards [...]

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First published:
December 7th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ktaxnnqEeeWAohzCK/2025-unofficial-lesswrong-census-survey

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