There’s already Kurzgesagt, which is a bit further along the spectrum towards ‘deep engagement’ which I think is really good and gets funding from the Gates Foundation.
Development Media International (DMI) is a non-governmental organization with both non-profit and for-profit arms that “use[s] scientific modelling combined with mass media campaigns in order to save the greatest number of lives in the most cost-effective way”.
Really good idea and I think spreading socially useful information is really underexplored.
Maybe one could even think about more broad generalizable bite-sized memes that are robustly good for everyone to know and one should spread.
Some examples:
Germ theory
Pigouvian Taxes
Personal finance (e.g. Index funds)
Cost-effectiveness analysis
Health behaviours
Maybe there should be a DMI-like organization that does that.
Maybe effective would be either very visual ways of spreading these messages within a few seconds (e.g. https://edition.cnn.com/videos/entertainment/2020/03/17/scrubs-14-year-old-clip-infection-spread-mxp-vpx.hln ).
There’s already Kurzgesagt, which is a bit further along the spectrum towards ‘deep engagement’ which I think is really good and gets funding from the Gates Foundation.
Nice!
What does DMI stand for?
Maybe Development Media International? It was a standout Givewell charity for a while.
Development Media International (DMI) is a non-governmental organization with both non-profit and for-profit arms that “use[s] scientific modelling combined with mass media campaigns in order to save the greatest number of lives in the most cost-effective way”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_Media_International
https://www.givewell.org/charities/DMI-July-2021-Version
Oh cool, thanks!
They are to many DMI meaning like “Development Media International”, “Desktop Management Information”, “Deferred Maintenance Item”..
More of them look there : https://acronym24.com/dmi-meaning/