<![CDATA[The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow]]>The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/35a967dd-d2e7-4025-b78b-d6a7dd227535/the-part-of-me-that-used-to-work-for-a-survey-research-nonprofit-is-screaming-into-a-pillowRSS for NodeWed, 08 Apr 2026 13:28:27 GMTMon, 06 Apr 2026 19:36:31 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:45:58 GMT]]>@Intaglio_Dragon @hannah I wanna hang out with the people who took the hundred dollars and were still like "fuck you, your product sucks"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://goblin.camp/users/funkula/statuses/116359715759006097https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://goblin.camp/users/funkula/statuses/116359715759006097Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:45:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:44:53 GMT]]>@hannah Lol, I often quote the brilliant idea that using these generative machines is like using a forklift to lift weights at the gym. But here they are actually doing it 😄

”We discovered a way to save 100% of the sciences and research costs: we will simply not do any of it!”

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://eliitin-some.fi/users/kaisla/statuses/116359711512952114https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://eliitin-some.fi/users/kaisla/statuses/116359711512952114Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:44:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:42:16 GMT]]>@unlofl @hannah better yet, ask bob, and duplicate his answer sample_size times!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/ap/users/115708188881910739/statuses/116359701214018744https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/ap/users/115708188881910739/statuses/116359701214018744Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:42:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:41:44 GMT]]>@hannah "Four out of five LLMs recommend Trident sugarless gum."

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://framapiaf.org/users/blp/statuses/116359699115920709https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://framapiaf.org/users/blp/statuses/116359699115920709Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:41:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:34:35 GMT]]>@hannah That's a lot of words ot say: we gonna make shit up

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/lfzz/statuses/116359671015981637https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/lfzz/statuses/116359671015981637Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:34:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:32:44 GMT]]>@hannah@posts.rat.pictures what the actual fucking fuck? So you "simulate" a poll and it generates whatever bullshit outcome you ask for

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://transfem.social/notes/akr7o9uadai8000bhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://transfem.social/notes/akr7o9uadai8000bMon, 06 Apr 2026 20:32:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:30:01 GMT]]>@hannah Sounds like someone read about the bootstrap without actually understanding why it works.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/wollman/statuses/116359653077164061https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/wollman/statuses/116359653077164061Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:30:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:29:52 GMT]]>@hannah "tantalizing" ain't the word.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/going_to_maine/statuses/116359652501327111https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/going_to_maine/statuses/116359652501327111Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:29:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:27:54 GMT]]>@hannah next up: instead of spending budget money on organizing elections, we'll just run 400 millions of AI agents, give them personas representing the US demographic, and ask them who would they vote for.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://embracing.space/users/IngaLovinde/statuses/116359644746912528https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://embracing.space/users/IngaLovinde/statuses/116359644746912528Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:27:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:23:53 GMT]]>@hannah Perhaps I'm just missing something obvious here, but...isn't the whole point of conducting surveys to gather data from people? If the only entities being surveyed are A.I. agents that mimic human speech and which could be programmed to say anything, how is it meaningful?

It seems as meaningful to me as "Our survey data says 95% of people approve our product. We surveyed 1000 people whom we paid $100 each to say positive things about us."

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://furry.engineer/users/Intaglio_Dragon/statuses/116359628959494901https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://furry.engineer/users/Intaglio_Dragon/statuses/116359628959494901Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:23:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:18:39 GMT]]>@hannah "silicon sampling" inventing fancy new words for synthetic data

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/JadedBlueEyes/statuses/116359608390131955https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/JadedBlueEyes/statuses/116359608390131955Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:18:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:17:26 GMT]]>@cinebox marc andreesen just venmoed you $50m

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://posts.rat.pictures/users/hannah/statuses/116359603604562367https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://posts.rat.pictures/users/hannah/statuses/116359603604562367Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:17:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:13:42 GMT]]>@ShadowJonathan @hannah

I have a hard time getting over this.

I tried irony. Sarcasm. I duckduckgoed the word.

Maybe the article misunderstood something? No, doesn't look that way.

Sure, there is bias in any sort of polling or study. The way you phrase things can influence how they are answered.

But this is just a dice roll with more words.

No wait, dice rolls can't be manipulated that easily to skew opinion.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/wakame/statuses/116359588928002461https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/wakame/statuses/116359588928002461Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:13:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:11:14 GMT]]>@hannah

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fractalego.social/users/alberto/statuses/116359579185945562https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fractalego.social/users/alberto/statuses/116359579185945562Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:11:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:10:34 GMT]]>@hannah Wow, sock-puppeting at scale.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://twit.social/users/baltakatei/statuses/116359576586534720https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://twit.social/users/baltakatei/statuses/116359576586534720Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:10:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:06:27 GMT]]>@hannah

nothing is real

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/saltywizard/statuses/116359560415389259https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/saltywizard/statuses/116359560415389259Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:06:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:05:41 GMT]]>@hannah qualtrics floated this (and maybe went through with it idk) right after chatgpt first went live

What hilarious is that this agentic things is plausibly *worse* since you're having simulations fill out the survey instead instead of using an llm to generate a bazillion responses. The responses will still be just as bad, but at a huge markup of energy costs

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/auzdavenice/statuses/116359557399331761https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/auzdavenice/statuses/116359557399331761Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:05:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:05:33 GMT]]>@hannah Feeding the dog it's own vomit. Force-feeding.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.ai/users/WellsiteGeo/statuses/116359556879245426https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.ai/users/WellsiteGeo/statuses/116359556879245426Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:05:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:04:17 GMT]]>@hannah Aaaaaaah.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/klara/statuses/116359551908619141https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/klara/statuses/116359551908619141Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:04:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:04:11 GMT]]>@hannah this truly is the death of all information integrity everywhere.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.hackers.town/users/earthshine/statuses/116359551500010889https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.hackers.town/users/earthshine/statuses/116359551500010889Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:04:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:01:37 GMT]]>@andygates @foobarsoft bingo, those are mentioned later in the article

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://posts.rat.pictures/users/hannah/statuses/116359541365488502https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://posts.rat.pictures/users/hannah/statuses/116359541365488502Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:01:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:00:42 GMT]]>@hannah

"we don't need to get actual data to get an accurate average. we'll just average up all the already averaged data. it will be just as good."

narrator: "someone flunked their stats 101 course..."

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/paul_ipv6/statuses/116359537792962071https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/paul_ipv6/statuses/116359537792962071Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:00:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:58:34 GMT]]>@foobarsoft @hannah I bet they are hip deep in "digital twin" kool-aid.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/andygates/statuses/116359529419549325https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/andygates/statuses/116359529419549325Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:58:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:55:07 GMT]]>@hannah hello? I’d like to return my psychology degree for a full refund. I guess I don’t need all that statistics and test theory and construction any more. I was fun while it lasted though. (It wasn’t.) /s

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ohai.social/users/zoiundeinhorn/statuses/116359515849877590https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ohai.social/users/zoiundeinhorn/statuses/116359515849877590Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:55:07 GMT