1. How do you think about San Francisco / Oakland / other parts of the bay area, as they relate the Berkeley community? Personally, I wish there were more centers of community in SF. Both areas are near enough to each other that I think it’s possible to make a village that contains people in the adjacent towns, but the commute and network dynamics makes this a bit tricky. I haven’t figured out an ideal vision for this, but I have the sense that there are opportunities here (in SF and other parts of the bay area) that haven’t been explored.
II. Community based religions have churches in many places. I grew up Seventh Day Adventist, and there were Adventist churches in most states and many countries. Whenever a Seventh Day Adventist moves, they find their nearest church and start attending. I wonder if it would be possible / desirable to cultivate this type of network of communities. There already exists some of this between Seattle, the bay, New York, Boston, and elsewhere, but I think it could be intentionally cultivated.
Mission requires people in different places. Oxford, the bay area, and DC are three places where there are cluster of longterm-future-Mission oriented people, who all believe they need to be in those places in order to be able to work on their mission effectively.
I appreciated how Zvi presented different models of paths to AGI. People do believe many of these different models—I hear people discuss them in physical space conversation—but I haven’t seen many of these presented on the internet, apart from random Facebook discussion. Even if models are wrong, if people have put effort into them it’s useful to articulate them.