Maybe a consideration is that these sorts of collaborations are harder to setup than it seems.
Basically, execution and alignment seems important and hard.
Even if there is available media talent and available funding, setting up the right aesthetic (in more than one sense) and content seems difficult.
It’s unclear, but there may be downside risk (from looking silly or condescending).
This may not pertain to Saulius’s point, which isn’t focused on outreach, but people have cringed at, or even vehemently opposed, certain kinds of involvement, like US federal agencies getting involved in funding AI safety. So directly promoting the movement (as opposed to underlying ideas or topics) isn’t seen as robustly good, but this is highly unclear.
Check out #33 on the Future Fund list of project ideas:
https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/
I think people have been working with Kurzgesagt and probably others.
Maybe a consideration is that these sorts of collaborations are harder to setup than it seems.
Basically, execution and alignment seems important and hard.
Even if there is available media talent and available funding, setting up the right aesthetic (in more than one sense) and content seems difficult.
It’s unclear, but there may be downside risk (from looking silly or condescending).
This may not pertain to Saulius’s point, which isn’t focused on outreach, but people have cringed at, or even vehemently opposed, certain kinds of involvement, like US federal agencies getting involved in funding AI safety. So directly promoting the movement (as opposed to underlying ideas or topics) isn’t seen as robustly good, but this is highly unclear.
ah, thanks so much for pointing this out, happy to see that funders already have this idea on their radar and I don’t need to do anything :)