Map your AI worldview, and compare it with others. Explore how public figures think AI will change our future, then discover where you land.

56 points•transitivebs•5 days ago•48 comments•
Map your AI worldview by answering a few questions, and see how you compare with others.

only takes a few minutes && free & open source && private by default && powered by Jev

I think this is a really important question for everyone to be asking themselves, and my hope is that this lil project helps to move our conversations around AI futures in a more balanced, productive direction.

48 comments

purpleflashing5 days ago
I tried to answer all the questions and it placed me in the extreme doom category while I would place myself closer to the center because I do not hold any particuarly strong opinions and I struggled to answer coherently some questions (e.g. I don't "expect" anything of the future or AI, I don't think "good future" is something I can conceptualize, same for "harm" on the level of society, etc.)
platevoltage5 days ago
It placed me there too, and I think that's accurate.
transitivebs5 days ago
hmmm the system's def not perfect. hopefully the process was still useful?

thanks for your feedback; if you publish your results, i'll look into it and try to figure out where things went wrong

Suhinnall275 days ago
I believe your correct that this is a question everybody should ask themselves, and it would be very interesting to see how varied the responses are. I feel AI has been both a blessing and curse, and I hope it doesn't solely become the later.
transitivebs5 days ago
def plan to follow up w/ some anonymized analysis of the results if i get enough submissions
weinzierl5 days ago
I'm in the incremental bloom quadrant and I knew that even before I took the test. It's not even that I'm hesitant about this. I mean, I don't know the future but the incremental bloom is by far the likeliest thing I can imagine.

That being said, it strikes me as odd how empty this quadrant is. Why?

transitivebs5 days ago
there are some more people here in the larger view of X users: https://www.doom-or-bloom.com/users
weinzierl5 days ago
Thanks, I missed that, but OMG these are not the people I feel I have anything in common with.
zaphar5 days ago
Depending on what exactly this analysis means by Human Choices I either think it captured me well or got me completely wrong:

   Human choices can make limited changes, but dominant forces constrain the outcome.
I actually believe Human Choice is the dominant force here. But I expect aggregate human choice to limit the changes a single individual can have on the global outcome.
transitivebs5 days ago
yeah, moloch will come for us all in the end
Marha015 days ago
Gary Marcus in the center? He is a strong AI skeptic, I think he should be lower, away from the "Civilizational change" direction.
transitivebs5 days ago
i agree, but if you view the sources his answers are grounded in, he seems to have updated to being more moderate in light of recent progress. still def on the lower side of the predicted impact spectrum, but it seems he's taking the impacts more seriously now

that's why it's so important to show the sources used to derive these positions. like https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/why-my-pdoom-has-risen-dra...

transitivebs5 days ago
i really spent a lot of time looking through results and trying to course-correct and fix the model where i found obvious issues, but it's definitely not perfect

if you find any particularly egregious results, they're likely due to not having good enough public sources for that user's viewpoints. def let me know and i'll try to improve them

thanks

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