Qiaochu_Yuan comments on X-Risk Roll Call - Less Wrong

6 Post author: fowlertm 19 June 2013 04:07AM

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Comment author: fowlertm 20 June 2013 01:18:37AM 0 points [-]

Maybe I need to apply to graduate school in San Francisco and then drop out :)

Incidentally, are there good graduate schools in the area with a high concentration of rationalists or connection to the rationalist community?

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 20 June 2013 02:02:45AM 1 point [-]

UC Berkeley has the virtue of being physically close to CFAR / MIRI, but it has so many students that "high concentration" is both false and not obviously a good metric to use when commenting on its rationalist population (which includes me, Paul Christiano, Alex Mennen, and probably other people I'm forgetting). MIRI is planning on moving closer to it as well.

Comment author: fowlertm 21 June 2013 03:36:56AM 0 points [-]

Okay, physical proximity to those organizations will probably affect my decision. Thanks for the information.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 June 2013 02:12:11AM 0 points [-]

CFAR and MIRI are both moving shortly to within walking distance of campus (same building).

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 20 June 2013 06:57:15AM *  3 points [-]

Has there ever been any talk of establishing an FHI type thing at UC Berkeley? Liron Shapira might be interested in participating; he's an alumnus. Their faculty club hosted Robin Hanson's talk on effective altruism, right?

(The only problem with this plan is that it would leave too many important people vulnerable to a devastating California earthquake.)