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Patron-exclusive sneak peek: 3 AI Safety comics
🕑 Added 2023-02-21 18:49:15 +0000 UTC(⏱ 2 min read time)
Being an indie creator means: never, ever being able to predict how long stuff takes to make.
My next project is a mega-explainer on AI Alignment & its controversies. To make it layperson-friendly, it'll be a mix of words & comics!
- The words: I wrote 18,000 words in one week.
- The comics: it's been a month and I'm only halfway done drawing them.
Uggghhh.
Anyway: I am (once again) pushing the estimated release date from "early March" to "near end-of-March". Sorry. :( In the meantime, here's 3 comics illustrating 3 main ideas from AI Alignment... with a Robot Catboy French Maid.
(Note: the comics are intentionally absurd, for entertainment value. The accompanying essay will use more realistic scenarios, explaining & justifying the ideas in more detail. Again, I am very aware of the AI Safety crowd's "sci-fi death cult" vibe.)
See you next month, for this dang thing to finally come out! Jeez!
😼🤖,
~ Nicky Case
P.S: Here's Feb 2023's Wall of Thanks and Polygon Avatar rewards. The next Wall of Thanks will be included as the names-in-credits of the AI Alignment post!
P.P.S: My pal Tim Urban has worked on a book for six years, and it's finally out today! It's about political polarization, what I think is the meta-problem of our time. Also the book has 300+ drawings & comics. Here's my mini-review of his book (screenshots shared with permission) as a tweet-thread, or all in one page.
P.P.P.S: You may have noticed that though most of my Patreon posts are public, this post is Patreon-exclusive. Again, what with ~10% Canadian inflation & declining income (for all edu-creators on Patreon, not just me), I need to figure out how to boost my Patreon, my (current) only source of income.
I'm thinking: more "perks" for your generous support. Please tell me in the comments your ideas for supporter perks! Don't tell me "ah I'm just here to support you no perks needed", get greedy! Pie-in-the-sky, what do you want? Exclusive/bonus content, voting on future projects, what else?... Merch? Do y'all want merch?... Do normal people even buy physical art anymore?
Comments
Hed Bar-Nissan
Things I would (definitely / probably) buy: - T-Shirt with some cool cartoons ( nicky's 2023 - paving the way for a stream of them) - Same thing but for laptop stickers - Course 0-100 spinning up an explorable ( Coding + animations tools )
Benoit Doidic
Would you consider a patron-only stream of your desktop while working? No interaction with the audience…just a peak into your work setup and process. It might be too private, but hey, people (me!) are curious.
Eudai MR
An idea for supporters percks: a private book club. Or a smaller version: book recommendations and reviews.
Julie Bodette
For supporter perks, voting on future projects and exclusive/bonus content would be great! Maybe you could combine them- ie, people could vote on a topic, and then the next month you make a (small! very small! You are not allowed to work on it for more than 1 day!) bit of content on that topic, which is patreon-exclusive. Merch is meh, at least to me, I'd rather have exclusive digital content. Or even non-exclusive digital content. I just like the stuff you make. :)
Alastair JL
"Oh No. Oh God no. Now the house is even messier" Hahahahaha. Wonderful. Hmmm... I follow the 1st and 3rd one, but not actually sure I understand what is up with the 2nd one. I guess its just that mini-robot is not aligned with humans OR big robot? ... probably explained in more detail in the text.
