I always watch Youtube while eating at home to not get bored. I’d love for the content I consume to be somewhat useful or intellectually fulfilling. I’d love to hear any of your recommendations for that! Anything that skills me up in Alignment or rationality would be especially nice! I know there are some great podcasts (especially 80k), but I already listen to those in other circumstances (while walking), so I’d prefer recommendations that do significantly engage the visual part of audiovisual content.
Some of the content I’ve enjoyed/found useful in the past:
High level maths divulgation (this video is the perfect example). I’m a Maths grad, and so most of the medium level stuff is not as exciting.
Understanding Infra-Bayesianism (similar videos for other Alignment agendas very appreciated)
Peter Millican’s courses on General Philosophy and Turing (these were a fucking blast)
Other Philosophy content, like Bonevac’s course on The Analytic Tradition or Pessin’s Philosophy of Mind. I’ve become gradually less interested in Philosophy, and that’s why I don’t browse Philosophy Overdose as much, but I still have a this-might-be-useful spot for Philosophy of Mind.
jan Misali (what a weird guy)
I used to really enjoy philosophico-political video essays (ContraPoints, PhilosophyTube, etc.), but I’ve mainly abhorred them (with the exceptions of Innuendo Studios and CCK Philosophy)
Neel Nanda’s Introduction to ML Theory
Come on, throw me a bone here! Otherwise I’ll go back to watching EAG talks I guess
RatSLAM: Using Models of Rodent Hippocampus for Robot Navigation
Building Collision Simulations: An Introduction to Computer Graphics
Self-Driving Cars [S1E4: RALPH]
What is the graph of x^a when a is not an integer? An unusual look at familiar functions #some2
Advanced 4. Monte Carlo Tree Search
Researchers Use Group Theory to Speed Up Algorithms — Introduction to Groups
The Traveling Salesman Problem: When Good Enough Beats Perfect
The Snowflake Mystery
AI Alignment & AGI Fire Alarm—Connor Leahy
Vulcan | The Planet That Didn’t Exist
How MRI Works—Part 1 - NMR Basics
The Enduring Mystery of Jack the Ripper
Mechanical Computer (All Parts) - Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers
AI in Brainfuck
The microwave plasma mystery
The Universal S
Feynman’s Lost Lecture (ft. 3Blue1Brown)
ML Tutorial: Gaussian Processes (Richard Turner)
Google I/O 2013 - Project Ground Truth: Accurate Maps Via Algorithms and Elbow Grease
DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 Explained! AI Breakthrough in Protein Folding! What we know (& what we don’t)
Deep Blue | Down the Rabbit Hole
Illustrated Guide to Transformers Neural Network: A step by step explanation
Biology on Islands
Coding Adventure: Atmosphere
Cicada 3301 (All Clues and How They Were Solved)
Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Self-Taught Learning and Unsupervised Feature Learning
Margo Seltzer—Automatically Scalable Computation—Code Mesh 2017
A Grape Made of… Meat?? - Tissue Recellularization
The First Video Game
What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System—NeurIPS 2018
Understanding Sensor Fusion and Tracking, Part 2: Fusing a Mag, Accel, & Gyro Estimate
Drone Control and the Complementary Filter
Launch Loops
World Record Progression: Super Mario Bros
Tesla AI Day
Why Do We Age ? Cellular Aging (HD)
The Complex Hack That Stopped a Secret Nuclear Power Plant
Richard Szeliski—“Visual Reconstruction and Image-Based Rendering” (TCSDLS 2017-2018)
Might be the same talk as this one: https://youtu.be/0VIUbIzv_wc
Hell yes thank you so much!
Things that probably actually fit into your interests:
A Sensible Introduction to Category Theory
Most of what 3blue1brown does
Videos that I found intellectually engaging but are far outside of the subjects that you listed:
Cursed Problems in Game Design
Luck and Skill in Games
Disney’s FastPass: A Complicated History
The Congress of Vienna
Building a 6502-based computer from scratch (playlist)
(I am also a jan Misali fan)
Neat, thanks so much for these recommendations! I do of course follow 3b1b, and I already know some Category. But I’ll for sure check out all of the rest, which sound super cool!