I actually voted this up because the instrumental value of growing our offline/in-person community seems to outweigh the slight noise contributed by top-level posts of the “SIAI is calling for visiting fellows / volunteers / donations” or “Meetup at location X” variety.
Meetups are of general interest to the community. Moreover, face to face meetings help movements succeed. In contrast this post is only relevant to people living or about to live in a small area who don’t already have housing arrangements.
Benton House seems to have some net positive effect on the transhumanist/singularity movement. This post is only relevant to a very small number of people (though there are most likely more LW’ers in the Bay Area than any other metropolitan area) but it is of extraordinarily high value to me, Mike Blume, and Emil, as well as our potential roommate. I don’t think that this post has an obviously lower expected value than a meetup post.
I actually voted this up because the instrumental value of growing our offline/in-person community seems to outweigh the slight noise contributed by top-level posts of the “SIAI is calling for visiting fellows / volunteers / donations” or “Meetup at location X” variety.
This seems to be much more of a noise post than a meetup post.
Why?
Meetups are of general interest to the community. Moreover, face to face meetings help movements succeed. In contrast this post is only relevant to people living or about to live in a small area who don’t already have housing arrangements.
Edit: Curious for reason for downvote.
Benton House seems to have some net positive effect on the transhumanist/singularity movement. This post is only relevant to a very small number of people (though there are most likely more LW’ers in the Bay Area than any other metropolitan area) but it is of extraordinarily high value to me, Mike Blume, and Emil, as well as our potential roommate. I don’t think that this post has an obviously lower expected value than a meetup post.