Can I see more examples of videos you've worked on?

Excited to get the project to the minimum funding bar. Please update once the video is out: it’s success may incentivize more donations/investments

I myself am not a hugely-enthusiastic consumer of video content, so my intuitions about how well this will pay off tend pessimistic-by-default; but, trying to suppress those intuitions in favor of outside-view, many people do in fact seem to absorb material better via video than via other formats, and be more prone to sharing it with one another via video than via other formats; thus this seems in fact pretty promising, to me, as a way of trying to roll the dice on a jump in viral spread of information on the videos' respective topics, and that seems like an outcome worth grasping at. Not, in the end, an outcome I judged sufficiently worth-grasping-at for me to be willing to fund it at $2000-or-above valuation, and thus not one I chose to fund; but nonnegligibly valuable, nonetheless. (Had it been fundable at $1000 valuation, I would likely have gone for it.)

Your minimal funding is $2000. What can you do with the minimal funding?

reasons I'm excited about this:

• your track record is really great — you're clearly very experienced & know what you're talking about. this is honestly the primary reason i'm excited; you're a qualified, competent person, interested in making impactful content.

• the topics you listed seem really impactful, and i'd be excited about more people knowing about them & reducing their expected negative impact on the world.

things that make me pause:

• it's unclear to me what the path to impact is after you've made the videos. let's say you make them, they're great, super educational, etc — then what? how do you get to the impact at that point?

  • fwiw, my guess is that the majority of the impact would come from one or both of the following:

    1. the video goes viral, in which case the calls-to-action/"what can you do as a regular person" matters a LOT, and is the primary mechanism for determining the extent to which these videos have impact

    • the video is used by e.g. EA groups/AI safety groups for outreach, in which case the calls-to-action within the videos matter a lot less, but their usage in specific contexts matters more

    either way, though, i'd be interested to hear more about your thoughts here.