Community and organisation are two different things. A community by it’s nature contains people from different organisations.
Fair enough, the question was unclear. I’ve changed it to (I hope) better reflect what I wanted to ask: Would you like the European rationality community efforts to be centered around some particular research topics (e.g. AI)?
As such it’s not something that’s usually decided in a top-down way.
E.g. what initially set events in motion in Berkeley seems to have been mostly MIRI-related research, not explicit community building. And it seems very possible to choose this kind of focus top-down.
Btw I think the consequentialist version of your question is “What happens if the EU rationality community centres its efforts around a research topic (with the question being open to different consequences from different topics)”.
Haha, thanks a lot, indeed the questions themselves can be phrased in a way that strongly suggests a consequentialist answer :) I’ll use this a lot for now on :)
E.g. what initially set events in motion in Berkeley seems to have been mostly MIRI-related research, not explicit community building.
There are many different reasons for a computer programmer who’s interested in rationality to move to Berkeley besides MIRI-related research. The good jobs for computer programmers are in Silicon Valley and so computer programmers migrate there.
And it seems very possible to choose this kind of focus top-down.
If you have enough money than you can do everything top-down. If I understand right than MIRI had over a longer time >500,000/per year in donations. Do you think there somebody who would want to invest that kind of money into building a European LW community?
Fair enough, the question was unclear. I’ve changed it to (I hope) better reflect what I wanted to ask: Would you like the European rationality community efforts to be centered around some particular research topics (e.g. AI)?
E.g. what initially set events in motion in Berkeley seems to have been mostly MIRI-related research, not explicit community building. And it seems very possible to choose this kind of focus top-down.
Btw I think the consequentialist version of your question is “What happens if the EU rationality community centres its efforts around a research topic (with the question being open to different consequences from different topics)”.
Haha, thanks a lot, indeed the questions themselves can be phrased in a way that strongly suggests a consequentialist answer :) I’ll use this a lot for now on :)
There are many different reasons for a computer programmer who’s interested in rationality to move to Berkeley besides MIRI-related research. The good jobs for computer programmers are in Silicon Valley and so computer programmers migrate there.
If you have enough money than you can do everything top-down. If I understand right than MIRI had over a longer time >500,000/per year in donations. Do you think there somebody who would want to invest that kind of money into building a European LW community?