What effect do you think the hunger strikes will have on the level of salience?
Tom Bibby
Karma: 4
Why do you think a lower level of salience makes an action like this less useful?
I watched this at the weekend and see that you’re now approaching 900k views!
You deserve it (and more). Absolutely incredible video—a perfect balance between confidence, humility, seriousness, and levity.
Can’t wait to see what’s coming next!
Anecdote: I had always watched a lot of YouTube on politics, science, and philosophy, but never encountered the topic of effective altruism until I saw a video from Alex O’Connor, who I had been following for a while.
(Just had a look through his channel and I think it was this video in December 2020)
It immediately made sense to me and sent me on my EA journey. I couldn’t believe it was the first time[1] I was hearing about it!
Humane Hancock (who’s commented here) was a similarly large influence on me.
YouTube works!
I vaguely remember hearing someone on the radio, probably Will MacAskill, discussing saving a million-pound painting from a burning building rather than a child in ~2014