Thanks for sharing! We plan to announce some new significant effort in Prague in next ~1 month, and also likely will offer some aid to people moving to Prague. If anyone is interested in moving somewhere in Europe, send me a pm.
Basic reasoning is Prague is pareto-optimal on some combination of ‘existing community (already 10-20 FTE people working on longtermist projects, other ~10FTE job openings this year)’, ‘better quality of living’, ‘costs to relocate’, ‘in Europe’, ‘cultural sanity’. There wasn’t much effort going into promoting Prague in past two years, but that’s likely to change.
FWIW— I don’t think any european AI efforts apart from DeepMind are important - It is something between ‘hard’ and ‘almost impossible’ to start a community somewhere without a strong grass-root effort by a local group; top-down reasoning of the style ‘it would be good to have a hub in Japan’ leads to no practical results
Thanks for sharing! We plan to announce some new significant effort in Prague in next ~1 month, and also likely will offer some aid to people moving to Prague. If anyone is interested in moving somewhere in Europe, send me a pm.
Basic reasoning is Prague is pareto-optimal on some combination of ‘existing community (already 10-20 FTE people working on longtermist projects, other ~10FTE job openings this year)’, ‘better quality of living’, ‘costs to relocate’, ‘in Europe’, ‘cultural sanity’. There wasn’t much effort going into promoting Prague in past two years, but that’s likely to change.
FWIW—
I don’t think any european AI efforts apart from DeepMind are important
- It is something between ‘hard’ and ‘almost impossible’ to start a community somewhere without a strong grass-root effort by a local group; top-down reasoning of the style ‘it would be good to have a hub in Japan’ leads to no practical results
Thanks for the comment. I’ll add it to the post :)