Ahhh – I didn’t know MIRI (or similar groups) were allowing people to work remotely.
I think Robin Hanson might be on to something with respect to the looming importance and significance of remote work (e.g. it will effectively create a much larger, more global, labor market) so I’d expect MIRI-like organizations to have to be willing to pay those still-high labor costs regardless of where people live, i.e. rent would be pretty cheap in Montreal (compared to SV or NYC or even Boston).
Ahhh – I didn’t know MIRI (or similar groups) were allowing people to work remotely.
I think Robin Hanson might be on to something with respect to the looming importance and significance of remote work (e.g. it will effectively create a much larger, more global, labor market) so I’d expect MIRI-like organizations to have to be willing to pay those still-high labor costs regardless of where people live, i.e. rent would be pretty cheap in Montreal (compared to SV or NYC or even Boston).
I was talking about MIRI moving to Montreal with all employees, not about remote work
Ohhh – what’s the context of that? A past possibility? Or just a hypothetical?
The context of my comment is this LessWrong post.
The context of writing the Google Doc is just me that wanted to pitch Montreal to EAs in general.
Thanks – that makes sense!