I see what you are saying. But either MIRI won’t decrease salary, in which case rent will be really cheap, or it will, in which case they’ll have more AI safety progress per dollar (or so would the simple surface level analysis say)
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 see what you are saying. But either MIRI won’t decrease salary, in which case rent will be really cheap, or it will, in which case they’ll have more AI safety progress per dollar (or so would the simple surface level analysis say)
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!