Very cool! I’m curious: what are some concrete use cases here?
Rationalist(adjacent) stuff is somewhat obvious, but I wonder how far it extends. Like, do you envision a local Python meetup maybe wanting to use the space? Random individual rationalists wanting to sleep over for a few days for fun? Google paying to have their Search team go on a retreat and mingle with smart people?
All sizes of rationalist, x-risk, EA type events that seem connected to the mission (who probably get some kind of discount)
Mid-to-large size events from various non-rationalist people or organizations (who probably get charged roughly a typical market rate)
Mostly because all events have some fixed overhead, and it’s not quite worth it for meetups or groups that are smaller. The reason we bought the place was to do various on-mission stuff, the reason we’re marketing it outside of that is for making sure we have enough funding to do our other mission-aligned stuff.
But, this is all my off-the-cuff thoughts, not a considered company policy or anything.
Very cool! I’m curious: what are some concrete use cases here?
Rationalist(adjacent) stuff is somewhat obvious, but I wonder how far it extends. Like, do you envision a local Python meetup maybe wanting to use the space? Random individual rationalists wanting to sleep over for a few days for fun? Google paying to have their Search team go on a retreat and mingle with smart people?
My guess is that the ultimate hope here is for:
All sizes of rationalist, x-risk, EA type events that seem connected to the mission (who probably get some kind of discount)
Mid-to-large size events from various non-rationalist people or organizations (who probably get charged roughly a typical market rate)
Mostly because all events have some fixed overhead, and it’s not quite worth it for meetups or groups that are smaller. The reason we bought the place was to do various on-mission stuff, the reason we’re marketing it outside of that is for making sure we have enough funding to do our other mission-aligned stuff.
But, this is all my off-the-cuff thoughts, not a considered company policy or anything.