Rational Animations before and after reading the sequences: inferential distances. The youtube channel Rational Animations has made video-forms of some well-known rationalist stories: Sorting Pebbles into Correct Heaps, The Goddess of Everything Else, and the Outcome Pump. I recently noticed that I didn’t get them when just watching the youtube video, I found Sorting Pebbles a cute story but I missed the point about AI, and the other two I just found slightly weird. Now after reading the sequences and the codex I do really appreciate these stories and find them meaningful. I think this indicates that even these stories have meaningful inferential distances to sympathetic but not-intruduced-to-rationality folks. Therefore, I’m doubting the effectiveness of these videos to convince those that aren’t yet familiar with the stories. Any anecdotes to the contrary?
I made a flyer for AI 2040 (A5 format): link I did my best, but if anyone with better visual design skills has made something I’d be very happy to use that instead.
Here are my svg’s: linklink (the svg google drive previews look weird, no idea why (it’s just times new roman)) This allows you to add your name and an email at the bottom. Should be relatively easy to change it to other paper formats. The second link is A4 and has a sentence explaining why the scenario is interesting for electrical engineering.
I think AI 2027/2040 have a naming issue. A typical normie (who is ambivalent about AI) reads “AI 2040”, subconsciously categorizes it as cryptic marketing/tech-bro babble/eschatology, and dismisses it.
We should have a message that appeals to ordinary people. “Everyone loses the AI race,” “put the AI companies on a leash,” “we can stop the tech bros,” etc. I’m sure someone more talented can come up with something much better.
Rational Animations before and after reading the sequences: inferential distances. The youtube channel Rational Animations has made video-forms of some well-known rationalist stories: Sorting Pebbles into Correct Heaps, The Goddess of Everything Else, and the Outcome Pump.
I recently noticed that I didn’t get them when just watching the youtube video, I found Sorting Pebbles a cute story but I missed the point about AI, and the other two I just found slightly weird.
Now after reading the sequences and the codex I do really appreciate these stories and find them meaningful. I think this indicates that even these stories have meaningful inferential distances to sympathetic but not-intruduced-to-rationality folks. Therefore, I’m doubting the effectiveness of these videos to convince those that aren’t yet familiar with the stories. Any anecdotes to the contrary?
I made a flyer for AI 2040 (A5 format): link
I did my best, but if anyone with better visual design skills has made something I’d be very happy to use that instead.
Here are my svg’s: link link (the svg google drive previews look weird, no idea why (it’s just times new roman))
This allows you to add your name and an email at the bottom. Should be relatively easy to change it to other paper formats. The second link is A4 and has a sentence explaining why the scenario is interesting for electrical engineering.
I think AI 2027/2040 have a naming issue. A typical normie (who is ambivalent about AI) reads “AI 2040”, subconsciously categorizes it as cryptic marketing/tech-bro babble/eschatology, and dismisses it.
We should have a message that appeals to ordinary people. “Everyone loses the AI race,” “put the AI companies on a leash,” “we can stop the tech bros,” etc. I’m sure someone more talented can come up with something much better.
Too wordy. Needs a pithy tagline/hook not an explainer. Anyone looks at that and their eye will slide right off that wall of text.