I accidentally clicked the publish button before I had a chance to edit this section, so please consider it a draft.
worth commenting any concluding thoughts if the conclusion is still draft?
luke1770
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Reaching out like this seems valuable. A pause needs 2 sides. Happy to see funding offered.
There are some YouTube channels that have Very Rationalist Leaning sentiments and ideas gaining popularity, spreading awareness of AI safety to western audience. @Writer is involved with the channel RationalAnimations, maybe reaching out with regards to potential collaboration / art / shorts? They have a strong team.
Also, potentially you can consult/ focus group with them, if they want to make videos to be published on Bilibili, as it is my understanding that YouTube is blocked.
I do not know how much time we still have to act
you probably already know it,
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
”So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
“The Good Grey Goo leaves no You Because You are too few”
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00805 This paper, in sections 2.1-4 has some more fleshed out perspectives on this idea, the authors again seeing it implemented ~in silico~
Roko had a twitter thread on this very idea a few weeks back, (replacing History students with LLMs)
@Robert Miles operates? channel : @RobertMilesAi, the videos are very good “intro to Technical Arguments” content.
He also has some popular videos on a popular channel, general Computer Science interest channel Computerphile. playlist Link here. These are very accessible to a general non technical audience.
There are also a few more on this lesswrong post under the “YouTube channels and videos” section:)