Thanks for the thoughtful replies, here and elsewhere!
Very much appreciate data corrections! I think medium-to-long term, our goal is to have this info in some kind of database where anyone can suggest data corrections or upload their own numbers, like Wikipedia or Github
Tentatively, I think paid advertising is reasonable to include. Maybe more creators should be buying ads! So long as you’re getting exposure in a cost-effective way and reaching equivalently-good people, I think “spend money/effort to create content” and “spend money/effort to distribute content” are both very reasonable interventions
I don’t have strong takes on quality weightings—Marcus is much more of a video junkie than me, and has spent the last couple weeks with these videos playing constantly, so I’ll let him weigh in. But broadly I do expect people to have very different takes on quality—I’m not expecting people to agree on quality, but rather want people to have the chance to put down their own estimates. (I’m curious to see your takes on all the other channels too!)
Sorry if we didn’t include your feedback in the first post—I think the nature of this project is that waiting for feedback from everyone is going to delay our output by too much, and we’re aiming to post often and wait for corrections in public, mostly because we’re extremely bandwidth constrained (running this on something like 0.25 FTE between Marcus and me)
I would be pretty shocked if paid ads reach equivalently good people, given that these are not people who have chosen to watch the video, and may have very little interest
Thanks for the thoughtful replies, here and elsewhere!
Very much appreciate data corrections! I think medium-to-long term, our goal is to have this info in some kind of database where anyone can suggest data corrections or upload their own numbers, like Wikipedia or Github
Tentatively, I think paid advertising is reasonable to include. Maybe more creators should be buying ads! So long as you’re getting exposure in a cost-effective way and reaching equivalently-good people, I think “spend money/effort to create content” and “spend money/effort to distribute content” are both very reasonable interventions
I don’t have strong takes on quality weightings—Marcus is much more of a video junkie than me, and has spent the last couple weeks with these videos playing constantly, so I’ll let him weigh in. But broadly I do expect people to have very different takes on quality—I’m not expecting people to agree on quality, but rather want people to have the chance to put down their own estimates. (I’m curious to see your takes on all the other channels too!)
Sorry if we didn’t include your feedback in the first post—I think the nature of this project is that waiting for feedback from everyone is going to delay our output by too much, and we’re aiming to post often and wait for corrections in public, mostly because we’re extremely bandwidth constrained (running this on something like 0.25 FTE between Marcus and me)
I would be pretty shocked if paid ads reach equivalently good people, given that these are not people who have chosen to watch the video, and may have very little interest
Oh definitely! I agree that by default, paid ads reach lower-quality & less-engaged audiences, and the question would be how much to adjust that by.
(though paid ads might work better for a goal of reaching new people, of increasing total # of people who have heard of core AI safety ideas)