How much is because of the relevance of QS to the sources, and how much is your skill? I mean, if your skill plays an important role, perhaps you could volunteer for MIRI or CFAR as a media person.
It’s difficult to judge your own skill. I was at the right place at the right time and therefore the first person to be featured in German newsmedia. I spoke in a way that was interesting and from there other journalists continue to contact me.
MIRI PR goals are also very different than the one of QS. QS basically wins if you can motivate individiuals to do QS and come to QS meetups.
It’s not necessary to convince the existing medical system that QS is good. MIRI on the other hand wins to the extend it can convince AI researchers to change their ways and to the extend it gets funders who donate money to it, to increase it’s output.
MIRI PR was to takes care to avoid antagonizing existing AI researchers. If I do QS PR I don’t want to associate with Big Pharma and can say things that might antagonize people.
I could imagine that I could contribute something to CFAR PR if CFAR would operate in Germany but currently that not the case. CFAR probably benefits from telling the story that it’s the new hot thing that much better than the awful status quo.
Should CFAR organise an event in Berlin, I could try to get a journalist to cover it.
But I think that having a volunteer who pushes your material to media, and is good at doing it, is a great help for any organization.
It’s not really a matter of pushing. but a matter of forming it in a way that the media wants it. Authenticity matters a great deal and if a journalist would get the feeling that I’m just pushing someone else’s statements the kind of work I did wouldn’t work as well.
From the mindset it’s much more that you have something they want and they have something you want.
A while ago I heard Jeff Hawkins say that the best way to get VC funding who started Palm is to play hard to get. The same thing might be true with regards to media.
In this case I think the film provides a good opportunity for setting up such a relationship for MIRI. Start by by visible at the beginning as someone authoritative who has something interesting to say about the film.
Afterwards I would expect journalists will be reaching out to MIRI and MIRI can provide them stuff that they want. That different than MIRI trying to push something on journalists.
It’s difficult to judge your own skill. I was at the right place at the right time and therefore the first person to be featured in German newsmedia. I spoke in a way that was interesting and from there other journalists continue to contact me.
MIRI PR goals are also very different than the one of QS. QS basically wins if you can motivate individiuals to do QS and come to QS meetups. It’s not necessary to convince the existing medical system that QS is good. MIRI on the other hand wins to the extend it can convince AI researchers to change their ways and to the extend it gets funders who donate money to it, to increase it’s output.
MIRI PR was to takes care to avoid antagonizing existing AI researchers. If I do QS PR I don’t want to associate with Big Pharma and can say things that might antagonize people.
I could imagine that I could contribute something to CFAR PR if CFAR would operate in Germany but currently that not the case. CFAR probably benefits from telling the story that it’s the new hot thing that much better than the awful status quo.
Should CFAR organise an event in Berlin, I could try to get a journalist to cover it.
It’s not really a matter of pushing. but a matter of forming it in a way that the media wants it. Authenticity matters a great deal and if a journalist would get the feeling that I’m just pushing someone else’s statements the kind of work I did wouldn’t work as well.
From the mindset it’s much more that you have something they want and they have something you want.
A while ago I heard Jeff Hawkins say that the best way to get VC funding who started Palm is to play hard to get. The same thing might be true with regards to media.
In this case I think the film provides a good opportunity for setting up such a relationship for MIRI. Start by by visible at the beginning as someone authoritative who has something interesting to say about the film.
Afterwards I would expect journalists will be reaching out to MIRI and MIRI can provide them stuff that they want. That different than MIRI trying to push something on journalists.
They are planning to do a workshop or a few of them in Europe. I don’t know more details, though.
Covering the event would be useful for next workshops and for the local LW meetups.