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Rational Animations
@rationalanimationsTracked since May 2026
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Animated videos about truth-seeking and the future of humanity.
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Paid members
135
−1.7% · 30-day rate from 13 observed days
Total audience
440
incl. free followers
Estimated monthly gross
$270
$135–$405 modeled range
Starting price
$1/mo
11 membership tiers
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$3/moAbacusBy choosing this tier, you will have our gratitude in the eons to come.
$5/moSimple adderFrom this tier onward, we will thank you in the video description.
$10/moCalculatorFrom this tier onward, you will be able to see posts with our work in progress and behind-the-scenes content: screenshots of the animation in progress, thoughts about future topics, and more.
$30/moUniversal Turing MachineIn addition to everything else, we will thank you at the end of our videos.
$50/moVery suspicious language modelBy choosing this tier, you will receive a merch item every three months for an entire year.
$100/moBrainBenefits to be determined. Includes rewards from the previous tiers.
$250/moReverend BayesWe're impressed, thank you!
$500/moSeed AGIIf you've chosen this tier, you have our deepest thanks. We don't have a suitable reward for this level of support. For now, you will have all of the rewards of the previous tiers, but we might think of something more to add in the future.
$1,000/moSuperintelligence:O
Growth signals — Rational Animations
−1.7%
Membership135 paid members · 30-day rate from 13 observed days
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May 202616 weeks trackedNow
Rational Animations135 members · $270/mo
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Ranking data · includes stale rows| Rank | Creator and why included | Paid members | Gap vs Rational Animations | Freshness |
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| #2 |  PfanderfilmsVideoCategory, audience, pricing & cadence | 140 | 5 more | Aug 18, 2026 |
| #3 |  Blackminnow GamesVideoCategory, audience, pricing & cadence | 136 | 1 more | Aug 18, 2026 |
| #4 | Rational AnimationsProfileVideoPaid members position in Recommended cohort | 135 | Reference | Aug 18, 2026Stale |
| #5 |  LittleRoomDevVideoCategory, audience, pricing & cadence | 132 | 3 fewer | Aug 18, 2026 |
| #6 |  Academy of IdeasVideoCategory, audience, pricing & cadence | 114 | 21 fewer | Aug 18, 2026 |
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Video Latest postPublicCan AI Come Up With Original Ideas?AI is often dismissed as a "stochastic parrot": just a word predictor that's incapable of original thought. Is this view correct? In this new video we try to answer by looking at the history of AI, modern interpretability studies, and the way current AI is actually trained to solve complex problems.
July 17 0 likes 2 commentsRational Animations is a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit!Since October 2024, we’ve been a US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit. We’ll keep our Patreon page active, and we’re very grateful to everyone supporting us here. For US taxpayers, Patreon support may be tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law, minus the fair market value of any benefits received. For donors outside the US, tax treatment depends on local rules. Rational Animations also accepts direct, no-benefit donations.ArticleJune 15Public 0 1AIs don't scheme... if they know we're watchingJune 6 View post In this video, we talk about AI scheming. In particular, we walk through a study in which OpenAI and Apollo Research tested whether AI models would take "covert actions": strategically withholding, misrepresenting, or concealing information. The researchers gave two reasoning models a series of challenges to test their propensity to scheme, then tested whether a technique called "deliberative alignment" could reduce this behavior. The results were promising, but came with a complication: models sometimes realized they were being tested, which made them behave better. The video also covers a strange result from the study: the mArticleJune 6Public 0 0This May Be Humanity’s Hardest ChallengeDeveloping a superintelligent AI that does what we want, without killing everyone, might be extremely difficult. In this video, we showcase the arguments from Chapter 10 of the book "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. The chapter draws on analogies with space probes, nuclear reactors, and computer security. You can order "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" from your favorite bookshop, or find links to buy it online here: https://ifanyonebuildsit.com/VideoMay 2Public 0 0Weak-to-Strong GeneralizationThis video is about weak-to-strong generalization: whether a weaker AI can successfully teach a stronger AI. This is important for superintelligence alignment, because humans may eventually need to supervise AIs that are smarter than they are. If weak supervisors can help align stronger AIs, then humans (or future AIs helping humans) might be able to align superintelligence. In this video, we explore OpenAI’s experiments on this question in depth.VideoMarch 7Public 0 1Should we pause AI? Here’s the debate.If superintelligent AI could cause human extinction, why don’t we simply stop building ever more advanced AI? This proposal is widely debated. In our new video, we outline the main arguments, practical difficulties, and proposed responses.VideoJanuary 10Public 0 0How AI Could Break Our Sense of TruthThis time, we talk about AI risks beyond our usual focus on rogue AIs: malicious use and accidents. In particular, we look at how AI could undermine democracy, enable automated cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, lower barriers for biological and chemical misuse, concentrate power in a few governments or corporations, and cause large-scale accidents through bugs, design flaws, and weak safety culture.ImageDec 6, 2025Public 0 0What a 100-year-old horse teaches us about AIHow do we rigorously measure AI's intelligence? We don't really know. What we know is that measuring intelligence is tricky, and if we're not careful, our tests might not measure what we intend. We explore this topic by starting with the story of Clever Hans, a horse who seemingly could do arithmetic. Later, we explain the potential limitations of today's AI benchmarks and how we could do better by looking at the established discipline of cognitive science.Imagetoday at Aug 18 crawlPublic 0 0AI Sleeper Agents: How Anthropic Trains and Catches ThemIn this video, we explain how Anthropic trained "sleeper agent" AIs to study deception. A "sleeper agent" is an AI model that behaves normally until it encounters a specific trigger in the prompt, at which point it awakens and executes a harmful behavior. Anthropic found that they couldn't undo the sleeper agent training using standard safety training, but they could detect sleeper agents through a simple interpretability technique.VideoAug 30, 2025Public 0 5How Misaligned AI Personas Lead to Human Extinction – Step by StepIn this video, we walk you through a plausible scenario in which AI could lead to humanity’s extinction. There are many alternative possibilities, but this time we focus on superhuman AIs developing misaligned personas, similar to how Microsoft’s Bing Chat developed the misaligned “Sydney” persona shortly after its release.VideoJul 19, 2025Public 0 1New video!In the future, AIs will likely be much smarter than we are. They'll produce outputs that may be difficult for humans to evaluate, either because evaluation is too labor-intensive, or because it's qualitatively hard to judge the actions of machines smarter than us. This is the problem of “scalable oversight.” Proposed solutions include “debate” and iterated amplification. But how can we run experiments today to see whether these ideas actually work in practice?Videotoday at Aug 18 crawlPublic 0 0When will AI automate all cognitive labor?Economist Tom Davidson’s 2023 “compute-centric” model answers two questions: when could AI automate all current human labor, and how fast might that transition happen?ArticleMay 31, 2025Public 0 1
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