We wanted to start our new channel with a compelling story that viewers can sink their teeth into, and that a wide audience would have reason to watch, even if they don’t yet know who we are or trust our viewpoints yet. (We think a video about “Why AI might pose an existential risk”, for example, might depend more on pre-existing trust to succeed.)
Can you say more about this? I largely have the opposite intuition: that presenting a specific set of empirical predictions (indeed “a story”) requires more – rather than less – trust in the presenter as compared to a more abstract model with its assumptions and alternative explanations explicitly stated.
Can you say more about this? I largely have the opposite intuition: that presenting a specific set of empirical predictions (indeed “a story”) requires more – rather than less – trust in the presenter as compared to a more abstract model with its assumptions and alternative explanations explicitly stated.
Empirically, I think they were right