Yes, that’s doable. Though… I find these sorts of things to be California-centric. Perhaps that’s just where most SingInst (and thusly, hi-hitting LWers) folks reside, but the travel barrier is significant for me. The ratio of travel time to class time increases, and the money is [probably] significant. Even if a weekend course was $250/attendee, a trip to CA (going there this month) is about $320-370. That’s more than the course. So… a night class or anything “virtual” is still appealing.
I guess I’m not sure if [the Rationality Bootcamp] ever happened, was cancelled, or whether it morphed or inspired the Rationality Minicamp which I know did happen.)
so my first parsing of your comment was as a (strange) way of saying it was canceled or postponed.
TANSTAAFL. The benefits of being in person as opposed to online need to be compared to the cost of plane tickets, not just shifting the burden. (Shifting the burden can be helpful if people have different preference strengths, but I don’t think that’s the most significant issue here.)
I’d love to hear more about this. While I appreciate the idea, for some budgets, it just might not be an option to spend the extra $300, despite a great desire to do so were money not an issue. Thus the choice might not be between:
Yes, that’s doable. Though… I find these sorts of things to be California-centric. Perhaps that’s just where most SingInst (and thusly, hi-hitting LWers) folks reside, but the travel barrier is significant for me. The ratio of travel time to class time increases, and the money is [probably] significant. Even if a weekend course was $250/attendee, a trip to CA (going there this month) is about $320-370. That’s more than the course. So… a night class or anything “virtual” is still appealing.
As I recall, the Bootcamp was subsided.
Did you mean “subsidized”?
The post contained the following:
so my first parsing of your comment was as a (strange) way of saying it was canceled or postponed.
Yeah, subsidized. Is what I meant.
TANSTAAFL. The benefits of being in person as opposed to online need to be compared to the cost of plane tickets, not just shifting the burden. (Shifting the burden can be helpful if people have different preference strengths, but I don’t think that’s the most significant issue here.)
I’d love to hear more about this. While I appreciate the idea, for some budgets, it just might not be an option to spend the extra $300, despite a great desire to do so were money not an issue. Thus the choice might not be between:
nothing
online but missing the benefit of in person
in person and awesome
But instead between:
something like this
nothing