So I guess Iād ideally like there to be a few different presentations of the same ideas, and people can read the presentation that works best for them (bold academic book, super-well-evidenced academic papers, spicey blog posts, fanfic etc.). Maybe we now have this in some domainsāe.g. you listed several presentations of AI safety?
This seems like a good point. And yeah, I think weāve now got that for AI safety (especially as there are other presentations that Iāve heard recommended but didnāt include, in particular Life 3.0), which seems like a good thing.
And thanks for those recommendations; Iāll probably try those out.
I think the quality varies a bit between courses though.
Yeah, FWIW, Science in the Twentieth Century: A Social-Intellectual Survey is from The Great Courses, and I didnāt find it very engaging or useful per minute (hence its low ranking on my list). (That said, Beckstead labelled it āOutstandingā, so perhaps other people would find it more useful than I did.)
This seems like a good point. And yeah, I think weāve now got that for AI safety (especially as there are other presentations that Iāve heard recommended but didnāt include, in particular Life 3.0), which seems like a good thing.
And thanks for those recommendations; Iāll probably try those out.
Yeah, FWIW, Science in the Twentieth Century: A Social-Intellectual Survey is from The Great Courses, and I didnāt find it very engaging or useful per minute (hence its low ranking on my list). (That said, Beckstead labelled it āOutstandingā, so perhaps other people would find it more useful than I did.)