This is just the list of attendees though. The article talks about responses to survey questions as well which could give insight into how these elites really think.

Exactly

They recently used AI to translate a lot of code to Rust. Thought it sounded like a neat project right until then.

Thanks for the inside view. I never knew a lot of the survey takers came from mobile games or that spending could be tracked.

They could have an AI tweak the statistics if they seem unrealistic

That someone is Peter Thiel according to this: https://corbettreport.com/the-stupidest-poll-of-all-time/

Yup.

In this case yes, although it comes off as a very mild complaint

I have literally not seen anyone complain about it. As the tweet says “we just accept”.