Which LessWrongers are (aspiring) YouTubers?

post by Mati_Roy (MathieuRoy) · 2023-10-23T13:21:49.004Z · LW · GW · 4 comments

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    28 β-redex
    8 Algon
    5 Eris
    5 mako yass
    5 NickyP
    4 mako yass
    4 Nathan Helm-Burger
    1 g-w1
    1 Gyrodiot
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I'm currently working on some videos and would like to consume content by other LessWrongers as well as connect with some :)

I'm also interested in other video platforms like TikTok!

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answer by β-redex · 2023-10-23T13:38:46.092Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I know of Robert Miles, and Writer, who does Rational Animations. (In fact Robert Miles' channel is the primary reason I discovered LessWrong :) )

answer by Algon · 2023-10-23T16:07:59.031Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

There's also lsusr, who started posting videos recently.

answer by Eris · 2023-10-24T11:28:11.809Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

https://youtube.com/@THUNKShow is pretty LessWrong

answer by mako yass · 2023-10-23T22:25:45.682Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

My friend Jackson Wagner had a nice technoliterate overview of Chrono Trigger: Six perspectives on free will, human choice, and the shape of history. I thought it was pretty touching.

answer by NickyP · 2023-10-23T17:21:55.795Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Cadenza Labs has some video explainers on interpretability-related concepts: https://www.youtube.com/@CadenzaLabs

For example, an intro to Causal Scrubbing:

answer by mako yass · 2023-10-23T22:26:42.100Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

It might interest you to know that Kurzgesagt recently learned that they are the type of people who would read lesswrong, and have done videos on ideas like Grabby Aliens, and have taken commissions from OpenPhil.
But they arrived at the creed independently. I dug into the sources for their video on accelerating cosmological expansion and found no overlap with the sources of Ord's paper on accelerating expansion. I've also never heard of the ancient life hypothesis around our parts, despite that being the kind of thing we'd be into. So it's possible that they just have access to some higher quality idea-brokers than lesswrong and aren't really going to end up hanging out here x]

answer by Nathan Helm-Burger · 2023-10-23T15:40:49.100Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

A recent interview I gave: 

 

And a more technical talk I gave at VAISU: 

answer by Jacob G-W (g-w1) · 2023-11-10T18:49:16.820Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

@unoptimal [LW · GW] Has a channel: https://www.youtube.com/@unoptimal/videos

Although not all of it seems to be rationality focused.

This is one of my favorite videos: 

answer by Gyrodiot · 2023-10-30T17:20:11.902Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I am producing videos in French (new batch in progress) on my main channel, Suboptimal.

But I also have a side channel in English, Suboptimal Voice, where I do readings of rationalist-sphere content. Some may appear in the future, I received requests for dramatic readings.

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comment by mako yass (MakoYass) · 2023-10-23T22:46:25.995Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

There was a kinda funny april first synthetic video of obama, trump and biden putting different alignment research approaches on a tier list, but I can't find it now, but if anyone remembers the link, reminder to post it because that seemed kinda good to me.

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comment by Garrett Baker (D0TheMath) · 2023-10-24T02:15:54.170Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

That wasn't for April 1st

comment by fowlertm · 2023-10-24T13:49:21.015Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I'm not much of a LWer these days, but I do co-host a podcast on philosophy and emerging technologies which has a growing library of interviews with LWers:

https://www.youtube.com/@futuratipodcast5130/videos