There is value to quantifying/codifying matters in combination with instinct.
I haven't thought about it too much but off the top of my head: - Expand the scope of your analysis to several communications pieces and see if you can draw some larger lessons on what works and what doesn't? - combine this some form of A/B testing. Maybe AI safety comms people can get together and try communicating the same matter in different ways. (With the caveat that the algorithm has it's own mind)
AI safety comms does NOT need to be all vibes and instinct.
I think you're on to something valuable here. Keep going!
Ben - I understand that explaining and reiterating some basic comms principles is useful but you could have just done that independent of any of this analysis.
A experienced communicator could do a qualitiative analysis of this video and come up with the same five takeaways - so what exactly did this analysis add? As an counterfactual - if these numbers had been slightly different, what would have changed in the takeaways (I'm going to be a bit harsh here) - but this feels like "quantification theater"
Secondly, the title "how the OpenAI agent-swarm story engaged a public audience" is a reach. 700,000 views and 600 comments analysed. Is that representative of what happened here? How many of these people watched the entire 2hr+ video? I suspect very few. Add to that the known biases of Youtube (for e.g overwhelmingly male) and the kind of people who watch the Dwarkesh Podcast.
I'm really skeptical this engaged any sort of wide public audience
There is value to quantifying/codifying matters in combination with instinct.
I haven't thought about it too much but off the top of my head:
- Expand the scope of your analysis to several communications pieces and see if you can draw some larger lessons on what works and what doesn't?
- combine this some form of A/B testing. Maybe AI safety comms people can get together and try communicating the same matter in different ways. (With the caveat that the algorithm has it's own mind)
AI safety comms does NOT need to be all vibes and instinct.
I think you're on to something valuable here. Keep going!
I have to agree with Felix here.
Ben - I understand that explaining and reiterating some basic comms principles is useful but you could have just done that independent of any of this analysis.
A experienced communicator could do a qualitiative analysis of this video and come up with the same five takeaways - so what exactly did this analysis add?
As an counterfactual - if these numbers had been slightly different, what would have changed in the takeaways
(I'm going to be a bit harsh here) - but this feels like "quantification theater"
Secondly, the title "how the OpenAI agent-swarm story engaged a public audience" is a reach.
700,000 views and 600 comments analysed. Is that representative of what happened here?
How many of these people watched the entire 2hr+ video? I suspect very few.
Add to that the known biases of Youtube (for e.g overwhelmingly male) and the kind of people who watch the Dwarkesh Podcast.
I'm really skeptical this engaged any sort of wide public audience