I was actually going to submit to the original contest at the last moment to win by default (I frankly saw this contest as a niece piece of low-hanging fruit), but I didn’t see that the end time was in GMT and therefore missed the deadline.
As for your questions:
-Youtube is probably the best site if you’re doing videos and probably one of the best sites for reaching a more general audience as well.
-LW votes are probably a better mechanism than YouTube likes (YouTube likes can be bought online)
-Shorter projects = less barriers to entry
-Bitcoin is almost certainly better for this sort of thing than cash.
-If the point is to promote cryonics, cryonics is probably the best topic...
It seems you are in agreement with others that karma is better than youtube likes. This matches my current intuition. Anyone have other suggestions on possible judging mechanisms?
One thing that occurs to me is we could make the prize be something that does not pay out until some kind of milestone is reached, e.g. whatever the usual criteria is for a video having gone viral. Then the incentive would tend to build over time.
Maybe use smaller / more specific prizes for starter incentives (e.g. 1 BTC, or perhaps $10, for each video that gets more than 10 Less Wrong karma votes).
I was actually going to submit to the original contest at the last moment to win by default (I frankly saw this contest as a niece piece of low-hanging fruit), but I didn’t see that the end time was in GMT and therefore missed the deadline.
As for your questions:
-Youtube is probably the best site if you’re doing videos and probably one of the best sites for reaching a more general audience as well.
-LW votes are probably a better mechanism than YouTube likes (YouTube likes can be bought online)
-Shorter projects = less barriers to entry
-Bitcoin is almost certainly better for this sort of thing than cash.
-If the point is to promote cryonics, cryonics is probably the best topic...
It seems you are in agreement with others that karma is better than youtube likes. This matches my current intuition. Anyone have other suggestions on possible judging mechanisms?
One thing that occurs to me is we could make the prize be something that does not pay out until some kind of milestone is reached, e.g. whatever the usual criteria is for a video having gone viral. Then the incentive would tend to build over time.
Maybe use smaller / more specific prizes for starter incentives (e.g. 1 BTC, or perhaps $10, for each video that gets more than 10 Less Wrong karma votes).