We are just wrapping up renovations so not much yet (though we are done very soon). This summer we are likely hosting a good chunk of the SERI MATS scholars, as well as providing space for various other retreats and events (like the Singular Value Learning Theory workshop and we are talking to Manifold about maybe running a 100+ person forecasting conference here).
In-parallel we are also providing office space to a small number of people that I expect to slowly grow over time, trying to build a tight-knit community of people working to reduce existential risk and develop an art of rationality. Currently this includes John Wentworth, Adam Scholl, Sydney von Arx and a few other people.
I am currently holding this part of our plan kind of lightly, and we might end up mostly just running events here, since I think a bunch of things didn’t work amazingly well with the way we ran the Lightcone Offices, and I don’t want the Rose Garden to become a place with similar dynamics where working here could end up feeling like some kind of status marker or like some necessary component to helping with existential risk when living in the Bay Area.
We are just wrapping up renovations so not much yet (though we are done very soon). This summer we are likely hosting a good chunk of the SERI MATS scholars, as well as providing space for various other retreats and events (like the Singular Value Learning Theory workshop and we are talking to Manifold about maybe running a 100+ person forecasting conference here).
In-parallel we are also providing office space to a small number of people that I expect to slowly grow over time, trying to build a tight-knit community of people working to reduce existential risk and develop an art of rationality. Currently this includes John Wentworth, Adam Scholl, Sydney von Arx and a few other people.
I am currently holding this part of our plan kind of lightly, and we might end up mostly just running events here, since I think a bunch of things didn’t work amazingly well with the way we ran the Lightcone Offices, and I don’t want the Rose Garden to become a place with similar dynamics where working here could end up feeling like some kind of status marker or like some necessary component to helping with existential risk when living in the Bay Area.