Well, some of the people on this list are currently in graduate school (e.g. Paul Christiano and myself). Some others dropped out. There’s something of a culture of dropping out of graduate school in the Bay Area rationality community.
UC Berkeley has the virtue of being physically close to CFAR / MIRI, but it has so many students that “high concentration” is both false and not obviously a good metric to use when commenting on its rationalist population (which includes me, Paul Christiano, Alex Mennen, and probably other people I’m forgetting). MIRI is planning on moving closer to it as well.
Has there ever been any talk of establishing an FHI type thing at UC Berkeley? Liron Shapira might be interested in participating; he’s an alumnus. Their faculty club hosted Robin Hanson’s talk on effective altruism, right?
(The only problem with this plan is that it would leave too many important people vulnerable to a devastating California earthquake.)
Well, some of the people on this list are currently in graduate school (e.g. Paul Christiano and myself). Some others dropped out. There’s something of a culture of dropping out of graduate school in the Bay Area rationality community.
Maybe I need to apply to graduate school in San Francisco and then drop out :)
Incidentally, are there good graduate schools in the area with a high concentration of rationalists or connection to the rationalist community?
UC Berkeley has the virtue of being physically close to CFAR / MIRI, but it has so many students that “high concentration” is both false and not obviously a good metric to use when commenting on its rationalist population (which includes me, Paul Christiano, Alex Mennen, and probably other people I’m forgetting). MIRI is planning on moving closer to it as well.
CFAR and MIRI are both moving shortly to within walking distance of campus (same building).
Has there ever been any talk of establishing an FHI type thing at UC Berkeley? Liron Shapira might be interested in participating; he’s an alumnus. Their faculty club hosted Robin Hanson’s talk on effective altruism, right?
(The only problem with this plan is that it would leave too many important people vulnerable to a devastating California earthquake.)
Okay, physical proximity to those organizations will probably affect my decision. Thanks for the information.
Stanford and Berkeley.
Disclaimer: I’m a Stanford student.
ETA: Also see what Qiaochu said.