Come with me into the world of PlzDontKillUs, a bold new AI x-risk communication accelerator program that just finished its first cohort. PlzDontKillUs took the influencer-house formula and moved it to Berkeley, giving creators personal mentorship from AI safety experts like Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. With 57 people making daily videos for a month, the program racked up over 100 million views. Find out how Aella, an independent sex researcher, and Ronny Fernandez, a generalist at Lightcone Infrastructure, teamed up to run the largest ever creator bootcamp focused on AI x-risk reduction. Then meet three of the program’s top creators: Avalon Warren, Avisha NessAiver, and Josh Thor. We do a post-mortem on PDKU and ask: Was it effective? What are creators taking from it, and do they have complaints? And does doomerism really boost view counts? PlzDoEnjoyOur special episode on PlzDontKillUs! Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPsjMCG7Ic8 Timestamps 00:00:00 — Cold Open 00:01:19 — Introducing PlzDontKillUs & Aella 00:09:33 — Aella Being Early to AI Doom 00:14:45 — The Origin of PlzDontKillUs 00:19:08 — How It Went 00:25:40 — Complaints with Prize $$ 00:29:33 — Aella, What's Your P(Doom)?™ 00:31:14 — Transhumanism & AI Girlfriends 00:34:38 — Aella Rides the Doom Train™ 00:38:08 — Introducing Ronny Fernandez 00:41:21 — Running Lighthaven 00:47:18 — Life Inside PDKU 00:52:35 — Smashing the Overton Window 00:59:27 — Ronny, What's Your P(Doom)?™ 01:05:41 — Brangus Lore, No Cringe, No Disgust 01:16:57 — Introducing Avisha NessAiver 01:17:44 — How He Makes Viral Hits 01:22:16 — Award-Winning Explainer Vid 01:26:51 — Avisha, What's Your P(Doom)?™ 01:32:11 — Introducing Avalon Warren 01:35:49 — Normalizing AI Doom 01:37:53 — Avalon, What's Your P(Doom)?™ 01:39:27 — Introducing Josh Thor 01:41:36 — Josh, What's Your P(Doom)?™ 01:44:34 — Josh's Hits: Cover Song & Soares Collab 01:47:50 — Josh's Critiques of PDKU 01:52:05 — Cold-Emailing a Politician 01:54:07 — Donation Drive 01:55:01 — Outro: What Are You Fighting For? Links PlzDontKillUs (applications open for round two) — https://pleasedontkillus.com Aella on X — https://x.com/Aella_Girl Aella's Substack (Knowingless) — https://aella.substack.com Ronny Fernandez's Substack (Brangus) — https://ratorthodox.substack.com Ronny Fernandez on X — https://x.com/RatOrthodox Avisha NessAiver — Distilled Science on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/distilledscience/ Distilled Science (site) — https://distilledscience.xyz Avalon Warren on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/avalonwarrenn/ Josh Thor on X — https://x.com/joshthor9 Josh Thor — "Last Year Alive" ("Last Friday Night" AI apocalypse parody, ft. Eliezer Yudkowsky and a Nate Soares sax solo) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fYIm72GqrE Tyler Alterman — "What are you fighting for? AI safety professionals answer" (the closing montage) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sN1VfVAp6o Nate Soares — "AI Danger But You Don't Understand Full Sentences" (caveman video, script by Josh Thor) — https://www.instagram.com/p/DboGRisxC2E/ Avisha's AI water-use misinformation debunk (8.5M views) — https://www.instagram.com/p/DbXV6j9k8JE/ Avisha's award-winning "clearest AI x-risk explainer" — https://www.instagram.com/p/DbZeRT4gIq0/ Avisha's viral "Tingles and Touch" oxytocin video — https://www.instagram.com/p/DIxMLxkuhCl/ Avalon — "if the AI apocalypse is coming, might as well dress cute" — https://www.instagram.com/p/DbUi6yGCS9M/ Avalon — warrior-princess ballroom dress video (3.6M views) — https://www.tiktok.com/@avalonwarren/video/6892040140248632582 Serialsevens — the anime "If Anyone Builds It" video — https://www.instagram.com/serialsevens/ Kenorlands — PDKU creator clip featured in the episode — https://www.instagram.com/kenorlands/ Evie (@0xgingergirl) — "first month in SF" video — https://x.com/0xgingergirl White House press briefing, March 30, 2023 — Peter Doocy asks about "literally everyone on Earth will die" and Karine Jean-Pierre laughs — https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2023/03/30/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-22/ White House press briefing, May 30, 2023 — the AI extinction statement gets a serious answer — https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2023/05/30/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-and-office-of-management-and-budget-director-shalanda-young/ Wes & Dylan Join Doom Debates — Violent Robots, Eliezer Yudkowsky, & Who Has the HIGHEST P(Doom)?! — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy6gz41-6gc Aella — "My attempts to sensemake AI risk" (Aug 2022) — https://aella.substack.com/p/my-attempts-to-sensemake-ai-risk If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies — https://ifanyonebuildsit.com --- Doom Debates’ Mission is to raise mainstream awareness of imminent extinction from AGI and build the social infrastructure for high-quality debate. 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