I’ve been wondering recently whether CFAR should try having some workshops in India for this reason. Far more people speak English than in China, and I expect we’d encounter fewer political impediments.
Also, anecdotally, there have been lots of Indian applicants (and attendees) at ESPR throughout the years. Seems like people there also think rationality is cool (lots of the people I interviewed had read HPMOR, there are LW meetups there, etc. etc.)
I’ve been wondering recently whether CFAR should try having some workshops in India for this reason. Far more people speak English than in China, and I expect we’d encounter fewer political impediments.
Also, anecdotally, there have been lots of Indian applicants (and attendees) at ESPR throughout the years. Seems like people there also think rationality is cool (lots of the people I interviewed had read HPMOR, there are LW meetups there, etc. etc.)
Also fyi, a nontrivial fraction of new users on LessWrong have Indian sounding usernames.