I found myself not engaging with this material, which is a shame, because you all are at the frontier of research and clearly have thought carefully about these issues! Some feedback if you would like it: (Although perhaps these are solved by full-blown editors)
Right off the bat, I was not convinced why I should care about listening to your worldview. Lack of introduction and story to connect to. I intellectually know, from having read many posts from both of you, that you are smart cookies, but emotionally I was not hooked. For example, the first question was “what is your p(doom)?”. A different first question might be “Other people have [low/high] P(doom). What makes your perspective unique? Why do you disagree with x/y/z?”
Additionally, from the first fifteen minutes, I couldn’t tell if this was an interview, or a pseudo-conversation between friends. It’s hard to probe at different lines of thinking if you both have explored the same mental pathways before. Perhaps it is me, but I relate much more if the podcast host is actively learning with the listener.
Video chapters would be quite helpful for navigating, and exploring topics I might have otherwise missed (I am much interested in the work Redwood is doing, how it relates to other fields / is a better direction, what the big fears are at these labs and how many people are thinking this way).
I found myself not engaging with this material, which is a shame, because you all are at the frontier of research and clearly have thought carefully about these issues!
Some feedback if you would like it: (Although perhaps these are solved by full-blown editors)
Right off the bat, I was not convinced why I should care about listening to your worldview. Lack of introduction and story to connect to. I intellectually know, from having read many posts from both of you, that you are smart cookies, but emotionally I was not hooked.
For example, the first question was “what is your p(doom)?”. A different first question might be “Other people have [low/high] P(doom). What makes your perspective unique? Why do you disagree with x/y/z?”
Additionally, from the first fifteen minutes, I couldn’t tell if this was an interview, or a pseudo-conversation between friends. It’s hard to probe at different lines of thinking if you both have explored the same mental pathways before. Perhaps it is me, but I relate much more if the podcast host is actively learning with the listener.
Video chapters would be quite helpful for navigating, and exploring topics I might have otherwise missed (I am much interested in the work Redwood is doing, how it relates to other fields / is a better direction, what the big fears are at these labs and how many people are thinking this way).
Cheers on getting this out!