Making Rationality-related Videos for Khan Academy
“If you’re an expert (especially at something that Sal’s unlikely to be able to learn in the next 5 years) and want to become a minor education celebrity (but a major one in your field), make a handful of videos and contribute them. If they gel with the style—conversational while focused on intuition and rigor—of the current library, it might make sense for you to make a playlist or two (with all credit going to you of course). ”
Probably the best currently available method for spreading rationality
Cons:
Do we really want to attract a horde of elementary to high schoolers? (I say this as a teenager myself.)
Fairly significant time commitment
Requires (freely available) screen capture software and any graphics software (Khan started out using Paint)
LW’s typical discourse tends to be arguing for relatively controversial points of view; KA videos would presumably require either avoiding controversial points, or presenting both sides. This would be worst for LW-originated ideas that lack an opposing side (e.g. TDT)
Possible topics:
A list of biases
More advanced (Bayesian?) probability than is currently available on Khan Academy
Anthropic Bias
Game Theory
Decision Theory (which would bring TDT, in particular, to a broader audience)
Quantum physics
If you’d be interested in doing a video, please comment, (or just go do it); however, I really doubt if I have enough knowledge to do any of these series on my own.
Making Rationality-related Videos for Khan Academy
“If you’re an expert (especially at something that Sal’s unlikely to be able to learn in the next 5 years) and want to become a minor education celebrity (but a major one in your field), make a handful of videos and contribute them. If they gel with the style—conversational while focused on intuition and rigor—of the current library, it might make sense for you to make a playlist or two (with all credit going to you of course). ”
Pros:
Massive exposure (to a relatively young demographic group)
Probably the best currently available method for spreading rationality
Cons:
Do we really want to attract a horde of elementary to high schoolers? (I say this as a teenager myself.)
Fairly significant time commitment
Requires (freely available) screen capture software and any graphics software (Khan started out using Paint)
LW’s typical discourse tends to be arguing for relatively controversial points of view; KA videos would presumably require either avoiding controversial points, or presenting both sides. This would be worst for LW-originated ideas that lack an opposing side (e.g. TDT)
Possible topics:
A list of biases
More advanced (Bayesian?) probability than is currently available on Khan Academy
Anthropic Bias
Game Theory
Decision Theory (which would bring TDT, in particular, to a broader audience)
Quantum physics
If you’d be interested in doing a video, please comment, (or just go do it); however, I really doubt if I have enough knowledge to do any of these series on my own.