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Considering this, I think the videos being short may have some risks, I have some suggestions.
Ideally, I think the videos should explain things at least as good as this, with really nice graphics like this or simple ones like this to increase attention, subtitles in different languages (when appropriate), and use analogies for simpler communication.
Some considerations and questions:
- Long-form content trumps short form due to clarity, and increased fidelity, so the videos should be somewhat long 3 to 15 mins.
- How will this compare to other kinds of education
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Although, you could make video versions of conceptually-like articles. Which are quite short. But I suppose the difference is that it is not aimed at the general population at large, at least not to the extent of regular short videos I've seen before.
Unfortunately, I'm still a student so it doesn't apply in my case.
This post mentions learning more about EA as a way to become a better charity entrepreneur, maybe the same principle applies to getting an EA job.
I would suggest auditing the course and (only) watching videos about the unfamiliar topics.
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I would think this somehow led to or was a "prime factor" in getting an EA job.
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Sounds good, best of luck with that! Writing posts on the EA forum or LessWrong on things you find interesting and partaking in the conversation can be a good way of getting up to speed and getting comfortable with ongoing research efforts.
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Yes, I did. Whoops, fixed.
In general, yes, international relations is a complex adaptive system, and that could be relevant. But I'm just not sure how far the tools of complexity theory can get you in this domain. I would agree that complexity science approaches seem closely related to game theoretic rational actor models, where slight changes can lead to wildly different results, and they are unstable in the chaos theory / complexity sense. I discuss that issue briefly in the next post, now online, but as far as I am aware, complexity theory not a focus anywhere in international relations or political science. (If you have links that discuss it, I'd love to see them.)
Although, you could make video versions of conceptually-like articles. Which are quite short. But I suppose the difference is that it is not aimed at the general population at large, at least not to the extent of regular short videos I've seen before.