It will be hard/impossible to find a design that suits everyone. One solution might be:
offer multiple design versions (let others submit them)
allow people to pre-commit to buying the designs of their choice
if enough people for it to be worth it for you pre-commit to the same design, it will be printed and sold. Otherwise, nothing happens.
But yeah, much more effort!
Fantastic to see this happening!
Is the design already fixed in stone?
I’d suggest:
Making the words straight, not curved
Increase their font size
and make them two lines (maybe with the image between them?)
Wow, that was quick!
“The universe is vast, dark, and cold, but we are not.
The laws of physics are indifferent to desperation, hope, or love. But we are not.
There is no destiny written for us in the stars, so we write our own.
The stars and the mountains do not care, but we do! There is light in this world and it is us!”
———--
from a secular solstice. I’d pre-commit to buying a t-shirt with any of those paragraphs with some cool cosmic futuristic design.
I love it! A newsletter notifying you about new products would be great (assuming there is more to come). I’d love “existential hope” themed motives!
Scott Alexander wrote a nice article on what the Republican’s program could/should be: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/a-modest-proposal-for-republicans?s=r
This is already one of FFF’s Project Ideas. https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/#:~:text=on%20this%20list.-,AI%20alignment%20prizes,-Artificial%20Intelligence Basically someone just needs to step forward and implement it!
While not directly EA, I think fiction isalso great to promote some ideas from the Progress Movement, namely humanism, agency, and the idea that “problems are hard, but solvable”.
I also feel that the idea that “actually, humans are good, and humanity is worth protecting” needs some promotion. We are not just some greedy, aggressive, nature-destroying species that the earth would probably be better off without!
How about Qualia Research Institute?
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!