The AI Compass Quiz

> The B2B SaaS Consultant patron saint: Matt Yglesias AI will quietly boost total factor productivity by some single-digit percentage and you think that's actually a huge deal, wonkily speaking. You're bullish in a spreadsheet way, not a singularity way. You've explained the Jevons paradox to someone who didn't ask.

I wouldn’t put MattY as the patron saint for this category, as I think he expects it to be substantially more transformative than this. Maybe Derek Thompson would be a better pick?

I find these answer options constraining. Most are on a single spectrum of good/bad for each question, ignoring alternatives like resignation, inevitability, indifference, and N/A. For example, someone could think that genAI is the next step towards humanity and machine divergence. Or, maybe they think it's the first step towards man's negation, but that that's somehow a good thing. Basically, the biggest error (among others) is it conflates perception (or prediction) with ethics.

Since the repo for it starts with one giant monster commit, I assume AI is asking these questions, which means I'm wasting my time by even pointing this out, like one would do if they "won" an argument with a Claude session.

That's the kind of question a quiz like this should really ask: When man talks to slop instead of fellow man, what happens to mankind?

"Are AIs conscious? Do we have responsibilities toward them?"

Perhaps I'm in the minority here, but if an AI were to have a first person perspective, would that necessarily change how we operate? There's not an option for me to pick here as conscious, but no further consideration warranted.

There are plenty of arguably conscious beings we already subjucate in one way or another. People for labour, animals as livestock, dogs as companions and so on.

I think people think that if AI were conscious that would materially change how we interact with them and how we use them for society. But I have my doubts about that, given our nature.

I think humans ascribe consciousness to themselves and others, and this is a useful trait in understanding how another being is going to act. Perhaps I have answered my own question. We are concerned with how a conscious AI may act if it has a sense of independence?

I stopped answering as soon as I realized a human had almost no hand in this.

If I'm not alone, I presume that might skew your results.

I don't see how this is calibrated. Did they give it to some huge cohort of people we haven't heard about? Or did they just imagine the answers their archetypes, like Aella and Ed Zitron, would have given, and then manually plot a space around them?

I’m a B2B SaaS consultant and I got B2B SaaS consultant

It's very appropriate that the entirety of this appears to be AI-generated. The archetype "map" viewable if you click "See all 30 archetypes" at the bottom looks like the LLM must have bumped its head pretty hard.

Patron Saint of podcast bro sector should obviously be Dwarkesh Patel