Nick Bostrom writes his own clickbait titles in YouTube A/B test; episode hits 100K views in a day
romanyam · x · 2026-10-19
Podcaster Roman Yampolskyi asked Superintelligence author Nick Bostrom to write his own clickbait titles/thumbnails, then A/B tested them on YouTube. The three candidates scored 36.9%, 26.4% and 36.7% watch-time share — with the self-aware "AI is Already Conscious" framing beating the weight-loss/million-dollar bait. The episode hit 100K views in one day and topped the channel's charts.
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