Now I have both the intelligence and attention span of a doorhinge, so forgive me if Iâm missing something obvious, but Iâm not at all convinced that the counterfactual would be working on their problems in solitude.
What exactly does a hotel in Blackburn provide, that couldnât be provided much cheaper in other ways?
I assume most EAâs would be living in larger cities if not at the EA hotel. Whichever city they would be living in, would gain a lot of value from having their presence. Why couldnât they move in together with a other EAâs from the same city and achieve a social situation roughly as good?
All the problems the EA hotel sets out to solve, I donât understand why we couldnât solve without the need for a large expensive hotel in blackburn of all places.
Itâs Blackpool, and itâs a cheap hotel (ÂŁ130k for 17 bedrooms; ÂŁ6k/âperson/âyear all inclusiveâaccommodation, food, bills, cooking, cleaning, stipend, management). It would be more expensive for EAs to live together in other cities. Also harder to have such a large community in such close proximity. And a big part of the EA Hotel project is providing free living for people unable to fund themselves to study/âresearch/âwork on start-ups.
Relatedly: there already is reasonable infrastructure (and continuing to be more) oriented towards getting EAs to live in a few hub cities.
This is good, but it leaves open an alternate path (living in a cheap place, not optimized for being near silicon-valley money or Oxford respectability), that is currently very underexplored.
Iâm not at all convinced that the counterfactual would be working on their problems in solitude.
I wouldnât be convinced either, but we interviewed our guests and 15 out of 20 were already doing the same work before taking up residence at the hotel. They were either working parttime or burning through runway.
Now I have both the intelligence and attention span of a doorhinge, so forgive me if Iâm missing something obvious, but Iâm not at all convinced that the counterfactual would be working on their problems in solitude.
What exactly does a hotel in Blackburn provide, that couldnât be provided much cheaper in other ways?
I assume most EAâs would be living in larger cities if not at the EA hotel. Whichever city they would be living in, would gain a lot of value from having their presence. Why couldnât they move in together with a other EAâs from the same city and achieve a social situation roughly as good?
All the problems the EA hotel sets out to solve, I donât understand why we couldnât solve without the need for a large expensive hotel in blackburn of all places.
Itâs Blackpool, and itâs a cheap hotel (ÂŁ130k for 17 bedrooms; ÂŁ6k/âperson/âyear all inclusiveâaccommodation, food, bills, cooking, cleaning, stipend, management). It would be more expensive for EAs to live together in other cities. Also harder to have such a large community in such close proximity. And a big part of the EA Hotel project is providing free living for people unable to fund themselves to study/âresearch/âwork on start-ups.
Relatedly: there already is reasonable infrastructure (and continuing to be more) oriented towards getting EAs to live in a few hub cities.
This is good, but it leaves open an alternate path (living in a cheap place, not optimized for being near silicon-valley money or Oxford respectability), that is currently very underexplored.
I wouldnât be convinced either, but we interviewed our guests and 15 out of 20 were already doing the same work before taking up residence at the hotel. They were either working parttime or burning through runway.