It’s a good thought, but I’m sceptical if TV outreach is the best sort of EA outreach. It might be good at increasing total awareness of EA—but that isn’t necessarily community-builders main goal. See this article. My understanding and sense are that TV wouldn’t necessarily capture the nuance of EA ideas and might even lead to idea inoculation/inferential difference.
Also, what channels would you want to see this promoted on? Is there a target audience on a specific channel that would be particularly well-suited?
I think more people being exposed to GiveWell would be good. Richer audiences with disposable incomes (CNBC/Bloomberg watchers?) I think would be a good target audience.
I do agree that not every part of EA would benefit from general awareness- debates on moral realism, competing theories of utilitarianism and so forth.
More so, the absence of EA on TV just surprised me. I didn’t walk around with a clear estimate of how many mentions in my head, but I thought GiveWell would be more prominent for sure.
I agree! I also feel like we’re heading in that direction (especially with GiveWell) with EA getting more into mainstream media (ex. Vox’s Future Perfect). I’d be curious how whoever is doing it chooses to communicate EA.
It’s a good thought, but I’m sceptical if TV outreach is the best sort of EA outreach. It might be good at increasing total awareness of EA—but that isn’t necessarily community-builders main goal. See this article. My understanding and sense are that TV wouldn’t necessarily capture the nuance of EA ideas and might even lead to idea inoculation/inferential difference.
Also, what channels would you want to see this promoted on? Is there a target audience on a specific channel that would be particularly well-suited?
I think more people being exposed to GiveWell would be good. Richer audiences with disposable incomes (CNBC/Bloomberg watchers?) I think would be a good target audience.
I do agree that not every part of EA would benefit from general awareness- debates on moral realism, competing theories of utilitarianism and so forth.
More so, the absence of EA on TV just surprised me. I didn’t walk around with a clear estimate of how many mentions in my head, but I thought GiveWell would be more prominent for sure.
I agree! I also feel like we’re heading in that direction (especially with GiveWell) with EA getting more into mainstream media (ex. Vox’s Future Perfect). I’d be curious how whoever is doing it chooses to communicate EA.