Although, I think it trades off with other potential goals, for example: community expansion or access to power. Those of you in miri know better where you are on timeline but research institute in the woods feels like it optimizes for a very particular move and may leave you less flexibility if the game isn’t in the state you imagine. As noted, I lack the information to know whether that’s a good or bad bet.
Great point. I too lack the information to really say, but I would imagine that the endgame would be to ~100x the size of MIRI, and that when you’re at that endgame you would want to be in a place where you can attract the top talent. Which I’ve always presumed to be SF or NY, but perhaps not in MIRI’s case. MIRI is looking for top AI researchers, and maybe that sort of person, for whatever reason, doesn’t prefer a tech hub.
Anyway, I’m thinking that if 100x is the endgame, maybe it’d make sense to optimize for that right now, since moving from one location to another is tough to do, especially once MIRI grows even more. Then again, maybe not. Maybe moving isn’t as difficult as I’m assuming. Or maybe it would make it too hard to reach the 100x point in the first place being in a tech hub, although when I write that out it doesn’t sound correct.
Great point. I too lack the information to really say, but I would imagine that the endgame would be to ~100x the size of MIRI, and that when you’re at that endgame you would want to be in a place where you can attract the top talent. Which I’ve always presumed to be SF or NY, but perhaps not in MIRI’s case. MIRI is looking for top AI researchers, and maybe that sort of person, for whatever reason, doesn’t prefer a tech hub.
Anyway, I’m thinking that if 100x is the endgame, maybe it’d make sense to optimize for that right now, since moving from one location to another is tough to do, especially once MIRI grows even more. Then again, maybe not. Maybe moving isn’t as difficult as I’m assuming. Or maybe it would make it too hard to reach the 100x point in the first place being in a tech hub, although when I write that out it doesn’t sound correct.