The Cowspiracy Conference is in Berkeley, California on September 17. I encourage people to sign up and attend. (And if somehow you haven't yet seen Cowspiracy (website, trailer), by all means check out the compelling environmental documentary on Netflix, or the companion book, The Sustainability Secret (Amazon)!)
This brings up the issue that the role that film could play in promoting EA causes more generally. I'd love to have people's thoughts on any or all of the following issues, and/or similar issues:
- Existing plans to make films on EA or high-impact topics
- Existing EA or semi-EA films people should watch, screen, or promote
- EA-related films that should exist
- candidate topics
- candidate titles
- candidate pitches
- etc.
- Promotion & audience engagement
- Effectiveness issues
- cost
- cost-effectiveness
- expected impact
- room for funding
- tractability
- talent needs
Agree. There are a lot of videos of EA talks online, but very little professional-looking, short, engaging video designed specifically to introduce EA; I'm surprised that I haven't found more videos like the Poker Shark video. I'm vaguely considering trying a YouTube series introducing EA Concepts (talking at camera, lots of graphs, I can employ my sister to help as she's a filmmaker) and would love someone to beat me to it.
Robert Miles' videos on AI safety should get a mention here too.