I'm making a video series explaining, discussing, analyzing and teaching David Deutsch's book The Beginning of Infinity (which I helped edit for 7 years).
View the YouTube Playlist
It's on a new YouTube Channel (Critical Fallibilism) so you'll need to subscribe (and click the bell and select "All") even if you're already subscribed to my curi channel.
Use the comments below to discuss the videos or the book.
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i put up part 2.
I also added video thumbnails and tables of contents. I might redo the thumbnails later but this is my first try. (if anyone can do better or make me a good logo or come up with a good logo idea, let me know. logo would be generic, not for the BoI vids).
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLclPWdf77QXm0YmcNUOmueuOyVPaLlr4
Which youtube thumbnail is better? Other ideas?
Re thumbnails, bottom one is better by a mile imho
#3 I agree. Bottom one by far.
how do you like this one
Nice
#5 I personally like the red background one better. I think I like seeing the book cover on there. It helps me know what the video is about. I also like the red and white colors because I associate them with curi branding.
Video 5 is up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMs63SSfRM0
Starred one is gorgeous. More professional looking.
#7 I agree. I screenshotted the YT notification on my phone the first time I saw it b/c I thought it looked really good in that context.
#5 This one has some nice qualities that the curi-styled one doesn't have. Like, it is *prettier*. There's some info lacking, tho, that the curi-styled one has, like that curi is the one doing the explaining/analysis. IMO that's worth including in the thumbnail.
Also, I think I mb mentioned this (or similar) on basecamp, but IMO it's a missed opportunity not to add more content-stuff to the thumbnail and title (tho you can change the title later, mb the thumbnail too). Particularly the chapter of BoI being analyzed. One thing that's notable based on the screencap of the notification above: there is *no* info immediately visible that shows any difference between diff videos in the series. Like every notification will look the same if the thumbnail is the same. including something to differentiate the thumbnails seems useful and worth doing.
Part 7 is posted. I'm probably skipping 2 days before part 8.