I think there’s better ways to do this. Could you remove the little characters on the bottom and the switching side to side tracks? They’re very distracting and seem more like the evil side of tiktok than the artistic side. I’m not willing to go into details about this on a public forum, but social media tends to recommend things that feel helpful but are actually quite destructive. I would not recommend trusting social media with your brain. The corporations behind it are generally not neutral and not your friend. If they could find a way to hypnotize people, they would do it, and they will definitely throw lots of money at the slightest possibilities at developing something that works even a little bit like that (e.g. complex attention manipulation). If you’re going to do this, all the way, then social media trends are something you absolutely must be skeptical of. The evil that social media companies routinely default to is an unknown unknown for you; regardless of whether or not you read everything I was wiling to share here, it’s so much worse.
This could plausibly work much better without content designed to divert your attention back and forth at consistent, specific times, such as videos of a minecraft rail that never ever changes direction or camera angle. I don’t know if that will have other problems, because you’re the expert here, not me. But I know that stimuli could take distracted attention back towards the payload, but it could also shove attention away too frequently.
Lastly, you might want to go with the Highlights of the Sequences since I’m worried that it won’t work at all, and you should get maximal effect per hour if the rate of total failure is so high. You can also try taking quotes out of the CFAR handbook, specifically from the Opening Session Tips and Advice which a lot of people benefit from rereading every day for a month. My plan is to distribute printed copies of the CFAR handbook as zines or stapled packets at events, but you’re already taking a completely different angle.
I think that, if someone were to have a really brilliant idea that makes it super easy for anyone to learn rationality anywhere, anytime, then it would probably emerge from a pile of failed ideas such as the chasing game. This kind of thinking from this kind of person seems like the winning strategy here, even if the first shot wasn’t it.
Thank you for the feedback! I didn’t consider the inherent jumpiness/grabbiness of Subway Surfers, but you’re right, something more continuous is preferable. (edit: but isn’t the point of the audio to allow your eyes to stray? hmm)
I will probably also take your advice wrt using the Highlights and CFAR handbook excerpts in lieu of the entire remainder of R:AZ.
Thank you for making this, I think it’s really great!
The idea of the attention-grabbing video footage is that you’re not just competing between items on the screen, you’re also competing with the videos that come before and after your video. Therefore, yours has to be visually engaging just for that zoomer (et al.) dopamine rush.
Subway Surfers is inherently pretty active and as you mention, the audio will help you here, though you might be able to find a better voice synthesizer that can be a bit more engaging (not sure if TikTok supplies this). So my counterpoint to Trevor1′s is that we probably want to keep something like Subway Surfers in the background but that can of course be many things such as animated AI generated images or NASA videos of the space race. Who really knows—experimentation is king.
might be able to find a better voice synthesizer that can be a bit more engaging (not sure if TikTok supplies this)
Don’t think I can do this that easily. I’m currently calling Amazon Polly, AWS’ TTS service, from a python script I wrote to render these videos. Tiktok does supply an (imo) annoying-sounding female TTS voice, but that’s off the table since I would have to enter all the text manually on my phone.
experimentation is king.
I could use Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to run low-cost focus groups.
I think there’s better ways to do this. Could you remove the little characters on the bottom and the switching side to side tracks? They’re very distracting and seem more like the evil side of tiktok than the artistic side. I’m not willing to go into details about this on a public forum, but social media tends to recommend things that feel helpful but are actually quite destructive. I would not recommend trusting social media with your brain. The corporations behind it are generally not neutral and not your friend. If they could find a way to hypnotize people, they would do it, and they will definitely throw lots of money at the slightest possibilities at developing something that works even a little bit like that (e.g. complex attention manipulation). If you’re going to do this, all the way, then social media trends are something you absolutely must be skeptical of. The evil that social media companies routinely default to is an unknown unknown for you; regardless of whether or not you read everything I was wiling to share here, it’s so much worse.
This could plausibly work much better without content designed to divert your attention back and forth at consistent, specific times, such as videos of a minecraft rail that never ever changes direction or camera angle. I don’t know if that will have other problems, because you’re the expert here, not me. But I know that stimuli could take distracted attention back towards the payload, but it could also shove attention away too frequently.
Lastly, you might want to go with the Highlights of the Sequences since I’m worried that it won’t work at all, and you should get maximal effect per hour if the rate of total failure is so high. You can also try taking quotes out of the CFAR handbook, specifically from the Opening Session Tips and Advice which a lot of people benefit from rereading every day for a month. My plan is to distribute printed copies of the CFAR handbook as zines or stapled packets at events, but you’re already taking a completely different angle.
I think that, if someone were to have a really brilliant idea that makes it super easy for anyone to learn rationality anywhere, anytime, then it would probably emerge from a pile of failed ideas such as the chasing game. This kind of thinking from this kind of person seems like the winning strategy here, even if the first shot wasn’t it.
Thank you for the feedback! I didn’t consider the inherent jumpiness/grabbiness of Subway Surfers, but you’re right, something more continuous is preferable. (edit: but isn’t the point of the audio to allow your eyes to stray? hmm)
I will probably also take your advice wrt using the Highlights and CFAR handbook excerpts in lieu of the entire remainder of R:AZ.
Thank you for making this, I think it’s really great!
The idea of the attention-grabbing video footage is that you’re not just competing between items on the screen, you’re also competing with the videos that come before and after your video. Therefore, yours has to be visually engaging just for that zoomer (et al.) dopamine rush.
Subway Surfers is inherently pretty active and as you mention, the audio will help you here, though you might be able to find a better voice synthesizer that can be a bit more engaging (not sure if TikTok supplies this). So my counterpoint to Trevor1′s is that we probably want to keep something like Subway Surfers in the background but that can of course be many things such as animated AI generated images or NASA videos of the space race. Who really knows—experimentation is king.
Thanks!
Don’t think I can do this that easily. I’m currently calling Amazon Polly, AWS’ TTS service, from a python script I wrote to render these videos. Tiktok does supply an (imo) annoying-sounding female TTS voice, but that’s off the table since I would have to enter all the text manually on my phone.
I could use Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to run low-cost focus groups.
You should probably use Google Neural2 voices which are far better.