While I’m also sceptical of this type of grant, I think this sort of comment is fundamentally misunderstanding marketing, which is what it sounds like this game essentially was. I’d be hard pressed to name anyone who made a decision based on a single advert, yet thousands of companies pay vast sums of money to produce them.
When your reach is high enough (and 450 unique visitors in 11 days is a very large reach by comparison to, say, a 2-year old intro video by Robert Miles which has 150k total views to date), even an imperceptibly small nudge can have a huge effect in expectation.
The comparison to Robert Miles is pretty apt imo, because I’m indeed aware of people who trace their decisions to work on AI safety to Rob Miles’ videos.
While I’m also sceptical of this type of grant, I think this sort of comment is fundamentally misunderstanding marketing, which is what it sounds like this game essentially was. I’d be hard pressed to name anyone who made a decision based on a single advert, yet thousands of companies pay vast sums of money to produce them.
When your reach is high enough (and 450 unique visitors in 11 days is a very large reach by comparison to, say, a 2-year old intro video by Robert Miles which has 150k total views to date), even an imperceptibly small nudge can have a huge effect in expectation.
The comparison to Robert Miles is pretty apt imo, because I’m indeed aware of people who trace their decisions to work on AI safety to Rob Miles’ videos.