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Attendance Interest Poll Results So Far
I issued an Attendance Interest poll on Twitter. Here's the resulting information!
Matt here. Fluidity Forum got almost an incredible outpouring of responses in the first couple of days after launching the poll! But if you haven’t filled it out, and want to, please do.
Poll Results So Far
How likely are you to attend?
“Almost completely certain”: 9
“Probably”: 17
“It could go equally either way”: 23
“Maybe but probably not”: 17
“Definitely not”: 4
I made the same graph twice, as a sausage chart and a treemap, in case you prefer one of them.
What country do you live in?
USA: 57
Canada: 3
Germany: 3
Australia, Austria, Hungary, Israel, “None, I'm a nomad”, Switzerland, UK: 1 each
What major metropolitan area are you closest to, and in which state or province (if applicable)?
New York City, NY: 12
San Francisco Bay Area, CA: 8
Boston, MA: 8
Seattle, WA: 6
Los Angeles, CA: 3
Minneapolis Saint Paul, MN: 3
Berlin, Germany: 3
Eighteen other locations had 1 or 2 responses each.
Do you create a blog, podcast, or other organized form of online content?
“Yes”: 19
“Kind of/it’s complicated”: 17
“No”: 32
No response: 2
Again, I made the same graph twice, as a sausage chart and a treemap, in case you prefer one of them.
Which of these do you read, listen to, tell others about, or participate in?
53: Astral Codex Ten (Scott Alexander)
44: Meaningness / In The Cells Of The Eggplant / Vividness.live / Buddhism For Vampires (David Chapman)
44: TPOT (This Part Of Twitter)
39: Less Wrong
33: Gwern.net (Gwern Branwen)
32: Knowingless (Aella)
29: Ribbonfarm (Venkatesh Rao, Sarah Perry, et al)
26: Wait But Why (Tim Urban)
23: The Sequences (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
23: PutANumOnIt (Jacob Falkovich)
22: Don't Worry About The Vase (Zvi Mowshowitz)
21: The Stoa
20: Expanding Awareness (Michael Ashcroft)
19: Clearer Thinking (Spencer Greenberg)
17: Making Sense (Sam Harris)
17: The Last Psychiatrist (Edward Teach)
17: Overthinking Everything (David R MacIver)
17: Sarah Constantin
17: Fluidity Audiobooks/UNSONG Audiobook (yours truly)
15: Evolving Ground/Vajrayana Now (Charlie Awbery, Jared Janes)
13: Frame Problems (Jake Orthwein)
13: Bismarck Brief (Samo Burja)
13: Rival Voices
12: Interintellect
12: Rebel Wisdom
11: Buddhist Geeks
10: tis.so
10: Voices With Vervaeke (John Vervaeke)
9: Everything Studies (John Nerst)
9: Metamoderna (Hanzi Freinacht)
9: Compass Rose (Ben Hoffman)
8: Desystemize (Collin Lysford)
8: sam[ ]zdat (Lou Keep)
6: The View From Hell (Sarah Perry)
5: Hazardous Times (Hazard Spence)
5: Jordan Hall
4: Decoding The Gurus (Chris Kavanagh, Matt Browne)
3: Global Guerrillas Report (John Robb)
What is one thing that's not on that list, that most belongs on it?
A blog, newsletter, podcast, YouTube channel, or online community related to our topics.
Marginal Revolution (Tyler Cowen)
The Intrinsic Perspective (Eric Hoel)
Other Feminisms (Leah Libresco Sargeant)
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)
Overcoming Bias (Robin Hanson)
Deconstructing Yourself (Michael Taft)
meditationbook.page (Mark Lippman)
On Being (Krista Tippett)
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Qualia Research Institute (Andrés Gómez Emilsson)
The School For Social Design (Joe Edelman)
Other responses that are not a blog, newsletter, podcast, YouTube channel, or online community so far as I know:
Traditional literature (Mishima, Dostoyevsky, Aurelius, etc)
Immanent Metaphysics (Forrest Landry)
Integral (especially Spiral Dynamics)
"Probably something naval related"
So there you have it. I was surprised by many responses, not least of which was that I expected the Everything Studies number to be much higher.
Our organizing committee is shaping up, and is meeting in person this month. We have several positions we hope to fill; more on that soon. Look for another newsletter post next week! Thanks for subscribing!
- Matt
[Updated September 13 to correct the spelling of Jacob Falkovich’s last name in the graph.]
[Updated September 14 to correct “DTC” to “DTG” in the graph.]
Attendance Interest Poll Results So Far
"But if you haven’t filled it out, and want to, please do."
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