Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: 2014 Survey Results, published by Scott Alexander on the AI Alignment Forum. Thanks to everyone who took the 2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey. Extra thanks to Ozy, who did a lot of the number crunching work. This year's results are below. Some of them may make more sense in the context of the original survey questions, which can be seen here. Please do not try to take the survey as it is over and your results will not be counted. I. Population There were 1503 respondents over 27 days. The last survey got 1636 people over 40 days. The last four full days of the survey saw nineteen, six, and four responses, for an average of about ten. If we assume the next thirteen days had also gotten an average of ten responses - which is generous, since responses tend to trail off with time - then we would have gotten about as many people as the last survey. There is no good evidence here of a decline in population, although it is perhaps compatible with a very small decline. II. Demographics Sex Female: 179, 11.9% Male: 1311, 87.2% Gender F (cisgender): 150, 10.0% F (transgender MtF): 24, 1.6% M (cisgender): 1245, 82.8% M (transgender FtM): 5, 0.3% Other: 64, 4.3% Sexual Orientation Asexual: 59, 3.9% Bisexual: 216, 14.4% Heterosexual: 1133, 75.4% Homosexual: 47, 3.1% Other: 35, 2.3% [This question was poorly worded and should have acknowledged that people can both be asexual and have a specific orientation; as a result it probably vastly undercounted our asexual readers] Relationship Style Prefer monogamous: 778, 51.8% Prefer polyamorous: 227, 15.1% Uncertain/no preference: 464, 30.9% Other: 23, 1.5% Number of Partners 0: 738, 49.1% 1: 674, 44.8% 2: 51, 3.4% 3: 17, 1.1% 4: 7, 0.5% 5: 1, 0.1% Lots and lots: 3, 0.2% Relationship Goals Currently not looking for new partners: 648, 43.1% Open to new partners: 467, 31.1% Seeking more partners: 370, 24.6% [22.2% of people who don’t have a partner aren’t looking for one.] Relationship Status Married: 274, 18.2% Relationship: 424, 28.2% Single: 788, 52.4% [6.9% of single people have at least one partner; 1.8% have more than one.] Living With Alone: 345, 23.0% With parents and/or guardians: 303, 20.2% With partner and/or children: 411, 27.3% With roommates: 428, 28.5% Children 0: 1317, 81.6% 1: 66, 4.4% 2: 78, 5.2% 3: 17, 1.1% 4: 6, 0.4% 5: 3, 0.2% 6: 1, 0.1% Lots and lots: 1, 0.1% Want More Children? Yes: 549, 36.1% Uncertain: 426, 28.3% No: 516, 34.3% [418 of the people who don’t have children don’t want any, suggesting that the LW community is 27.8% childfree.] Country United States, 822, 54.7% United Kingdom, 116, 7.7% Canada, 88, 5.9% Australia: 83, 5.5% Germany, 62, 4.1% Russia, 26, 1.7% Finland, 20, 1.3% New Zealand, 20, 1.3% India, 17, 1.1% Brazil: 15, 1.0% France, 15, 1.0% Israel, 15, 1.0% Lesswrongers Per Capita Finland: 1/271,950 New Zealand: 1/223,550 Australia: 1/278,674 United States: 1/358,390 Canada: 1/399,545 Israel: 1/537,266 United Kingdom: 1/552,586 Germany: 1/1,290,323 France: 1/ 4,402,000 Russia: 1/ 5,519,231 Brazil: 1/ 13,360,000 India: 1/ 73,647,058 Race Asian (East Asian): 59. 3.9% Asian (Indian subcontinent): 33, 2.2% Black: 12. 0.8% Hispanic: 32, 2.1% Middle Eastern: 9, 0.6% Other: 50, 3.3% White (non-Hispanic): 1294, 86.1% Work Status Academic (teaching): 86, 5.7% For-profit work: 492, 32.7% Government work: 59, 3.9% Homemaker: 8, 0.5% Independently wealthy: 9, 0.6% Nonprofit work: 58, 3.9% Self-employed: 122, 5.8% Student: 553, 36.8% Unemployed: 103, 6.9% Profession Art: 22, 1.5% Biology: 29, 1.9% Business: 35, 4.0% Computers (AI): 42, 2.8% Computers (other academic): 106, 7.1% Computers (practical): 477, 31.7% Engineering: 104, 6.1% Finance/Economics: 71, 4.7% Law: 38, 2.5% Mathematics: 121, 8.1% Medicine: 32, 2.1% Neuroscience: 18, 1.2% Philosophy: 36, 2.4% Physics: 65, 4.3% Psychology: 31, 2.1% Other: 157, 10.2%...