Glad you’re keeping your eye out for these things!
It’s 8 hours away from the Bay, which all-in is not that different from a plane flight to NY from the Bay, so the location doesn’t really help with being where all the smart and interesting people are.
Before we started the Lightcone Offices we did a bunch of interviews to see if all the folks in the bay-area x-risk scene would click a button to move to the Presidio District in SF (i.e. imagine Lightcone team packs all your stuff and moves it for you and also all these other people in the scene move too) and IIRC most wouldn’t because of things like their extended friend network and partners and so on (@habryka@jacobjacob am I remembering that correctly?). And that’s only a ~1.5-hr move for most of them.
I don’t know how to convince anyone of this but just having low network latency to California may be worth a lot after VR gets good. Physical access will matter much less than the quality of your network connection, the delay between speaking and seeing and hearing others’ reactions, and timezone overlap.
I’m not sure how to put a price on these things. People seem to be able to adjust to the delay in conversation, but adjusting requires becoming comfortable with talking over people sometimes, it can get noisy. The timezone overlap issue also seems important, if you don’t get off work/have your mid day break at the same time as others, you get left out of things, but people can adjust their sleep/wake time (I certainly can) and synch with a remote timezone so idk.
Glad you’re keeping your eye out for these things!
It’s 8 hours away from the Bay, which all-in is not that different from a plane flight to NY from the Bay, so the location doesn’t really help with being where all the smart and interesting people are.
Before we started the Lightcone Offices we did a bunch of interviews to see if all the folks in the bay-area x-risk scene would click a button to move to the Presidio District in SF (i.e. imagine Lightcone team packs all your stuff and moves it for you and also all these other people in the scene move too) and IIRC most wouldn’t because of things like their extended friend network and partners and so on (@habryka @jacobjacob am I remembering that correctly?). And that’s only a ~1.5-hr move for most of them.
I don’t know how to convince anyone of this but just having low network latency to California may be worth a lot after VR gets good. Physical access will matter much less than the quality of your network connection, the delay between speaking and seeing and hearing others’ reactions, and timezone overlap.
I’m not sure how to put a price on these things. People seem to be able to adjust to the delay in conversation, but adjusting requires becoming comfortable with talking over people sometimes, it can get noisy. The timezone overlap issue also seems important, if you don’t get off work/have your mid day break at the same time as others, you get left out of things, but people can adjust their sleep/wake time (I certainly can) and synch with a remote timezone so idk.
Thanks for the answer it makes sense.
To be clear I saw it thanks to Matt who did this tweet so credit goes to him: https://x.com/SpacedOutMatt/status/1794360084174410104?t=uBR_TnwIGpjd-y7LqeLTMw&s=19