I don’t have a worked out opinion on the effectiveness of hunger strikes on this issue and at this point of AI capabilities progress. On the one hand the strikes outside Anthropic and DeepMind have driven some good coverage. On the other hand the comments on X and reddit are mostly pretty dire; the hunger strikes may unfortunately have reinforced in people’s mind that this is a very fringe issue for loonies. My best guess is that the hunger strikes outside Anthropic and DeepMind are net positive.
Your other points:
- Nice that you have a concrete demand. 
- I’m not saying I would rather you hide additional reasons. I’m just saying a hunger strike is probably less effective if you announce you’re also doing it for the lolz. 
- I wasn’t objecting to you streaming it on your channel, but pointing to your channel as a good place to “learn more”. That’s the bit that looks more like self-promotion. I’m not making any claim as to your intentions, just what this might look like to someone who doesn’t care about or hasn’t heard about AI x-risk. 
- I’m also not suggesting you buy tickets to the US or UK for this. I’m just saying that not being physically in front of the institution you’re protesting against likely massively reduces your effectiveness, probably to the point where this is not worth your time will power. Anthropic cannot pretend to not have noticed Guido Reichstadter outside their office. They can easily pretend to not have noticed you (or actually not have noticed) you. 
That said, I think some of the effectiveness of the strikes outside Anthropic and DeepMind comes not from changing people’s minds, but by showing others that yes, you can in fact demonstrate publicly against the current situation. This could be important to build up momentum ahead of time, before things get very out of hand later (if they do). Your hunger strike may contribute positively to that, although I think part of the value of their strikes is doing it in public, very visibly, because that takes tremendous bravery. Doing it outside a lab also puts pressure on the lab, because everyone can see you; and everyone knows that that the lab knows about you and is consciously choosing not to entertain your demand.
Second link is broken for me.