The main reason I think the Bay is a bad place is that it has a culture bubble, which causes people to be out of touch with the actual problems in the world.
Couldn’t the same be said of any location in the developed world, which would include any plausible candidate for an EA hub?
To some degree yes. But it’s worse in the Bay than anywhere else. Even developing countries also have a culture bubble too, they just have it in the “wrong direction” (e.g., in Africa, too few people think long term and have experience with science, technology, etc).
To me, if we are choosing the best place to avoid culture bubbles, I would choose someplace cosmopolitan: where tons of different people with different views are mashed together in a way where you can easily juxtapose them. NYC, London, Singapore, Toronto, etc.
Couldn’t the same be said of any location in the developed world, which would include any plausible candidate for an EA hub?
To some degree yes. But it’s worse in the Bay than anywhere else. Even developing countries also have a culture bubble too, they just have it in the “wrong direction” (e.g., in Africa, too few people think long term and have experience with science, technology, etc).
To me, if we are choosing the best place to avoid culture bubbles, I would choose someplace cosmopolitan: where tons of different people with different views are mashed together in a way where you can easily juxtapose them. NYC, London, Singapore, Toronto, etc.