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Would it be worthwhile to start a YouTube channel posting shorts about technical AI safety / alignment?
Value proposition is: accurately communicating advances in AI safety to a broader audience
Most people who could do this usually write blogposts / articles instead of making videos, which I think misses out on a large audience (and in the case of LW posts, is preaching to the choir)
Most people who make content don't have the technical background to accurately explain the context behind papers and why they're interesting
I'm aware that RationalAnimations exists, but my bugbear is that it focuses mainly on high-level, agent-foundation-ish stuff. Whereas my ideal channel would have stronger grounding in existing empirical work (think: 2-minute papers but with a focus on alignment)
When I think about making YouTube videos, it seems to me that doing it at high technical level (nice environment, proper lights and sounds, good editing, animations, etc.) is a lot of work, so it would be good to split the work at least between 2 people: 1 who understands the ideas and creates the script, and 1 who does the editing.