Adding onto this, I would broadly say that the Lightcone team did not update that in-person infrastructure was unimportant, even while our first attempt was an investment into an ecosystem we later came to regret investing in.
Also here’s a quote of mine from the OP:
If I came up with an idea right now for what abstraction I’d prefer, it’d be something like an ongoing festival with lots of events and workshops and retreats for different audiences and different sorts of goals, with perhaps a small office for independent alignment researchers, rather than an office space that has a medium-size set of people you’re committed to supporting long-term.
I’d say that this is a pretty close description of a key change that we made, that changes my models of the value of the space quite a lot.
Adding onto this, I would broadly say that the Lightcone team did not update that in-person infrastructure was unimportant, even while our first attempt was an investment into an ecosystem we later came to regret investing in.
Also here’s a quote of mine from the OP:
I’d say that this is a pretty close description of a key change that we made, that changes my models of the value of the space quite a lot.