Rational Animations

Rational Animations is a fully remote international team of artists, writers, and techies collaborating to produce educational content. With their YouTube channel, they aim to promote good-thinking, altruistic causes and help influence humanity’s future towards a good direction.

Their unique style of presenting complicated ideas is very appealing to intelligent thinkers who love to challenge themselves and are open to reshaping their mental model with fresh perspectives.

Among the topics they explore, they are particularly focused on AI Safety and AI Alignment: making sure present and future AI Systems are aligned with human values and don’t cause our extinction.

The Power of Intelligence - An Essay By Eliezer Yudkowsky

March 11, 2023 5:59 pm

The Power of Intelligence is an essay published by Eliezer Yudkowsky in 2007.

Now, a few points:

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The True Story of How GPT-2 Became Maximally Lewd

January 18, 2024 9:52 pm

In this video, we recount an incident that occurred at OpenAI while researchers were trying to finetune GPT-2 to be as helpful and ethical as ...

What Do Neural Networks Really Learn? Exploring the Brain of an AI Model

June 14, 2024 5:00 pm

Neural networks have become increasingly impressive in recent years, but there's a big catch: we don't really know what they are doing. We give them ...

The Hidden Complexity of Wishes

September 27, 2023 7:34 pm

This video is about AI Alignment. At the moment, humanity has no idea how to make AIs follow complex goals that track human values. This video ...

Everything might change forever this century (or we’ll go extinct)

July 24, 2022 6:00 pm

We could be living in the most important century in history. Here's how Artificial Intelligence might uphold a historical trend of super-exponential ...

S-Risks: Fates Worse Than Extinction

May 4, 2024 5:30 pm

The worst futures that could come about aren't ones in which humanity goes extinct. This video explores an even worse category of risks: risks from ...

Specification Gaming: How AI Can Turn Your Wishes Against You

December 1, 2023 8:50 pm

When we specify goals for AIs, we must ensure that our specifications truly capture what we want. Otherwise, the behavior of AI systems will be ...

That Alien Message

September 7, 2024 4:33 pm

This video is an adaptation of "That Alien Message", a short story published by Eliezer Yudkowsky in 2008. The text has been adapted, and you can ...

Sorting Pebbles Into Correct Heaps - A Short Story By Eliezer Yudkowsky

January 10, 2023 6:00 pm

Sorting Pebbles Into Correct Heaps is a short story published by Eliezer Yudkowsky in the year 2008. It is about... what is it about ...

The Parable of the Dagger

July 29, 2023 4:02 pm

This is an animation of The Parable of the Dagger by Eliezer Yudkowsky. You can read the original here: ...

Will AI kill everyone? Here's what the godfathers of AI have to say

August 19, 2023 5:27 pm

In this video, we examine the perspectives of the "godfathers of AI"—Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Yann LeCun—about whether AI poses an ...

How to Upload a Mind (In Three Not-So-Easy Steps)

November 7, 2023 11:09 pm

Welcome to our tutorial on mind uploading. Follow all the steps, and you should be good to go.

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