Random fan fiction, might be useful for onlookers:
San Francisco is going to be close to a lot of canonical historical EA stuff:
The city is the home offices of Open Phil, LessWrong
The city is the home offices of Anthropic, Open AI, and several nascent organizations along those lines, working in AI, tech.
Even for people working in non-AI safety, San Francisco, will be big because of associations in animal welfare, cultured and alternative protein.
One thought is that this might naturally make Washington DC look “comparatively shadowed”, but it’s not totally clear.
Obviously, the Washington event is more accessible to people on the US east coast and presumably people interested in government and policy.
Also, more fan fiction, is that the value of events are complicated and individualistic. The focus, size, and a general sense of “atmosphere” or “cohesion” can make a big difference.
Random fan fiction, might be useful for onlookers:
San Francisco is going to be close to a lot of canonical historical EA stuff:
The city is the home offices of Open Phil, LessWrong
The city is the home offices of Anthropic, Open AI, and several nascent organizations along those lines, working in AI, tech.
Even for people working in non-AI safety, San Francisco, will be big because of associations in animal welfare, cultured and alternative protein.
One thought is that this might naturally make Washington DC look “comparatively shadowed”, but it’s not totally clear.
Obviously, the Washington event is more accessible to people on the US east coast and presumably people interested in government and policy.
Also, more fan fiction, is that the value of events are complicated and individualistic. The focus, size, and a general sense of “atmosphere” or “cohesion” can make a big difference.