Why EDM remixes of 80,000 Hours interviews is one of the biggest bottlenecks in the EA community
Importance
Gargantuan.
Tractability
How hard can it be?
Neglectedness
Truly outrageous.
Personal fit considerations
Irrelevant. Just do it. You have your orders.
Urgency
Some have proposed that the Importance, Tractability, Neglectedness framework should be complemented with a separate factor for Urgency. This would if anything strengthen the case for this new cause area, given that it is already April 1st, and that each remix would take hours to create (not to mention upwards of hundreds of hours to listen to).
At Effective Remix, we’ve generally focused on finding the most pressing podcasts and the best genres to remix them into.
But even if some podcast is ‘the most pressing’—in the sense of being the highest impact thing for someone to remix if they could be equally successful at remixing anything—it might easily not be the highest impact thing for many people to remix, because people have various talents, experience, and temperaments.
More speculatively, for value of information reasons, it could even make sense for 3-50 people with especially strong personal fit to explore the possibility of making trap remixes of the bookThinking, Fast and Slow by Nobel Prize laureate Daniel Kahneman. We think such remixes are unlikely to be competitive with our current priorities, but if they are, making such remixes could potentially absorb hundreds of Oxbridge philosophy & physics double majors specifically.
EA projects should be evidence based: I’ve done a survey of myself, and the results conclusively show that if 80,000 hours produced dubstep remixes of its podcasts, I would actually listen to them. The results were even more conclusive when the question included “what if Wiblin spliced in ‘Wib-wib-wib’ noises whenever crucial considerations were touched on?”.
I prefer the lower pitch “wob-wob-wob” and thus would like to make a bid to simply rename Robert Wiblin to “the Wob”. Maybe Naming What We Can could pick this up?
Why EDM remixes of 80,000 Hours interviews is one of the biggest bottlenecks in the EA community
Importance
Gargantuan.
Tractability
How hard can it be?
Neglectedness
Truly outrageous.
Personal fit considerations
Irrelevant. Just do it. You have your orders.
Urgency
Some have proposed that the Importance, Tractability, Neglectedness framework should be complemented with a separate factor for Urgency. This would if anything strengthen the case for this new cause area, given that it is already April 1st, and that each remix would take hours to create (not to mention upwards of hundreds of hours to listen to).
Out of curiosity I stuck an episode into the Wub Machine. It’s genuinely mildly listenable. Also takes no time so the cost-effectiveness here might be high. Original audio: 80,000 Hours.
This is gold.
80k wubstepping all night long
Podcasts beyond our current EDM remix priorities
At Effective Remix, we’ve generally focused on finding the most pressing podcasts and the best genres to remix them into.
But even if some podcast is ‘the most pressing’—in the sense of being the highest impact thing for someone to remix if they could be equally successful at remixing anything—it might easily not be the highest impact thing for many people to remix, because people have various talents, experience, and temperaments.
The following are some podcasts that seem like they might be especially pressing from the perspective of improving the vibe of the thing.
Rationally Speaking
Astral Codex Ten
EconTalk
NPR’s Planet Money
All 3,400 hours of Rationality: From AI to Zombies
More speculatively, for value of information reasons, it could even make sense for 3-50 people with especially strong personal fit to explore the possibility of making trap remixes of the bookThinking, Fast and Slow by Nobel Prize laureate Daniel Kahneman. We think such remixes are unlikely to be competitive with our current priorities, but if they are, making such remixes could potentially absorb hundreds of Oxbridge philosophy & physics double majors specifically.
EA projects should be evidence based: I’ve done a survey of myself, and the results conclusively show that if 80,000 hours produced dubstep remixes of its podcasts, I would actually listen to them. The results were even more conclusive when the question included “what if Wiblin spliced in ‘Wib-wib-wib’ noises whenever crucial considerations were touched on?”.
Related cause area: Deepfake dub-over all 80k podcasts so that they’re presented by David Attenborough for prestige gains.
I prefer the lower pitch “wob-wob-wob” and thus would like to make a bid to simply rename Robert Wiblin to “the Wob”. Maybe Naming What We Can could pick this up?
Big +1
An 80k podcast dubstep house party actually sounds like a good time.… BURNING MAN OF THE NERDS!!!!
Robbie Wib-wib-wib-wibibiblin in da HAUS!!!!!!!!
“All 3,400 hours of Rationality: From AI to Zombies”
Speedcore EDM R:A2Z will be the background soundtrack at the Schelling Point Temple of EA Burning Man.
24⁄7 baby.
Strongly upvoted for the link to the Castle. Btw in one podcast I’m pretty sure I heard Wiblin say “the general vibe of the thing”