This seemed to read to me though that aCFAR is justifying itself as needing funds primarily because of trying to sustain a community. … What did you mean here?
From my POV, the main reason I want aCFAR in existence is to sustain (and allow to better-develop) a particular angle on rationality practice.
Like, suppose there were a bunch of people doing a bunch of bits of neat music, and you sorta had the idea that a jazz-type thing was nascent. And then maybe if you create a really cool bar or something with the right set of musicians and fans and stuff invited at once (a center), jazz congeals and becomes a thing.
My feeling is there’s a particular take on rationality that I want to help pop into existence. There’s a bunch of rhymes between stuff different ones of us staff are doing, near also Friedrich Hayek’s work and Christopher Alexander’s. I think we’re onto something, I want to see where it goes. And I think this thing develops best via practicing it together, in various ways—aCFAR staff trying it on ourselves and each other and volunteers; folks who don’t work for aCFAR but who are independently doing “rhyming” stuff coming and riffing and showing us there angles; the bits and pieces combining; etc.
This is the “community” (of creating / practicing/ refining) that I meant we are trying to cultivate. (Not our new alumni community, although it’ll overlap it.)
From my POV, the main reason I want aCFAR in existence is to sustain (and allow to better-develop) a particular angle on rationality practice.
Like, suppose there were a bunch of people doing a bunch of bits of neat music, and you sorta had the idea that a jazz-type thing was nascent. And then maybe if you create a really cool bar or something with the right set of musicians and fans and stuff invited at once (a center), jazz congeals and becomes a thing.
My feeling is there’s a particular take on rationality that I want to help pop into existence. There’s a bunch of rhymes between stuff different ones of us staff are doing, near also Friedrich Hayek’s work and Christopher Alexander’s. I think we’re onto something, I want to see where it goes. And I think this thing develops best via practicing it together, in various ways—aCFAR staff trying it on ourselves and each other and volunteers; folks who don’t work for aCFAR but who are independently doing “rhyming” stuff coming and riffing and showing us there angles; the bits and pieces combining; etc.
This is the “community” (of creating / practicing/ refining) that I meant we are trying to cultivate. (Not our new alumni community, although it’ll overlap it.)
Does that make sense?