For the past few months I’ve been working on making YouTube videos about space and related ethical concepts (longtermism fits here quite neatly) aimed mostly at a general audience, but folks here may find them interesting too.
Most recently, I made a video summarising some of Robin Hanson’s views on economic growth, particularly his 2009 ‘Limits to growth’ post.
The two most interesting things I learned while making this video are:
Current growth rates of GDP and electricity production will hit physical limits within a few thousand years at most due to physical limits.
Only 2.6% of economic growth is due to natural resource extraction.
Two other videos that I suspect may be of interest are:
EA-aligned YouTube channel (Space Science Guy)
For the past few months I’ve been working on making YouTube videos about space and related ethical concepts (longtermism fits here quite neatly) aimed mostly at a general audience, but folks here may find them interesting too.
Most recently, I made a video summarising some of Robin Hanson’s views on economic growth, particularly his 2009 ‘Limits to growth’ post.
The two most interesting things I learned while making this video are:
Current growth rates of GDP and electricity production will hit physical limits within a few thousand years at most due to physical limits.
Only 2.6% of economic growth is due to natural resource extraction.
Two other videos that I suspect may be of interest are:
Will the future be utopian or dystopian? (using sci-fi concepts to discuss the cosmic endowment argument)
Is this AI-brain hybrid sentient? (discussion of digital minds/artificial sentience with recent brain organoid news as a hook)
I welcome any feedback or ideas for other topics to cover! I’m also interested in exploring more interview style content with experts.