With companies, the environment is always changing so there is less value in knowing about previous attempts. How many rationalist enterprises fit that mold rather than the scientific one I don’t know.
In science the available tools are also always changing. Molecular biology couldn’t have been done fifty years earlier.
Paradigm change is quite often due to new tools that allow new ways of doing research.
If you can fit your interest into LW or EA, or happen to have people in your area you are okay.
I don’t think the goal of providing places to meet for every possible interest is valuable. You can’t discuss every kind of question at a university either. The kind of questions that GiveWell investigates aren’t traditional academic questions.
I think the domain of questions that can be ask in LW and EA is quite broad.
When it comes to places to meet events like the European Community Weekend are good. EA Global also exists for getting people to meet.
The Accelerator Project might create a more permanent place for people to go and find people to do projects with.
In science the available tools are also always changing. Molecular biology couldn’t have been done fifty years earlier. Paradigm change is quite often due to new tools that allow new ways of doing research.
I don’t think the goal of providing places to meet for every possible interest is valuable. You can’t discuss every kind of question at a university either. The kind of questions that GiveWell investigates aren’t traditional academic questions.
I think the domain of questions that can be ask in LW and EA is quite broad.
When it comes to places to meet events like the European Community Weekend are good. EA Global also exists for getting people to meet.
The Accelerator Project might create a more permanent place for people to go and find people to do projects with.