Could it be that “working at kurzgesagt” is an effective thing to do? One of the legitimate “communication paths”?
EAs working at Kurzgesagt could:
steer them to create even more EA-aligned content
gain valuable “communication knowledge”, to be used to create EA content later/elsewhere. Kurzgesagt does such a great job promoting ideas like longtermism in an uncontroversial not weird way that gets people to obviously agree with it—something EA often struggles with within media. We need to learn from them! And we want all the great EA content from 80k and elsewhere in a Kurzgesagt-style video format as well, and need people learning how to do that! AI alignment Youtube channels like Rob Miles’ are great, but with someone with expertise from Kurzgesagt it could be so much better?!
Help Kurzgesagt to scale up massivly. They are already big but could be much bigger still. I’m thinking documentaries, educational books, apps, videogames, movies in cinemas, whole TV series, various subchannels for different topics and audiences, etc. Let’s help them become a giant media empire with a huge movement around it!
Great point. I wonder what’s the role behind a video that has the most influence on its success—the scriptwriter? The visual designer? Or someone a bit more zoomed out?
Could it be that “working at kurzgesagt” is an effective thing to do? One of the legitimate “communication paths”?
EAs working at Kurzgesagt could:
steer them to create even more EA-aligned content
gain valuable “communication knowledge”, to be used to create EA content later/elsewhere. Kurzgesagt does such a great job promoting ideas like longtermism in an uncontroversial not weird way that gets people to obviously agree with it—something EA often struggles with within media. We need to learn from them! And we want all the great EA content from 80k and elsewhere in a Kurzgesagt-style video format as well, and need people learning how to do that! AI alignment Youtube channels like Rob Miles’ are great, but with someone with expertise from Kurzgesagt it could be so much better?!
Help Kurzgesagt to scale up massivly. They are already big but could be much bigger still. I’m thinking documentaries, educational books, apps, videogames, movies in cinemas, whole TV series, various subchannels for different topics and audiences, etc. Let’s help them become a giant media empire with a huge movement around it!
Great point. I wonder what’s the role behind a video that has the most influence on its success—the scriptwriter? The visual designer? Or someone a bit more zoomed out?