(I consider it drop-dead obvious that the task of verifying acquired skills and hence the power to grant degrees should be separated from the institutions that do the teaching, but let’s not go into that.)
Was/are there any organizations that are just dedicated to verifying rationality skills? CFAR tried to do both IIRC. Seems pretty bad if there haven’t been any attempts at this even.
According to me (who worked at CFAR for 5 years) CFAR did approximately 0-rationality verification whatsoever.
Indeed, while that would be crucial to the kind of experimental rationality development that’s described in the Craft and the Community, it isn’t and wasn’t a natural component of CFAR’s functional strategy, which was something more like rationality community-building and culture-building.
[I hope to write more about what CFAR did and why, and how it differed from the sort of thing outlined in the Craft and the Community, sometime.]
I’m currently one of the four members of the core team at CFAR (though the newest addition by far). I also co-ran the Prague Workshop Series in the fall of 2022. I’ve been significantly involved with CFAR since its most recent instructor training program in 2019.
I second what Eli Tyre says here. The closest thing to “rationality verification” that CFAR did in my experience was the 2019 instructor training program, which was careful to point out it wasn’t verifying rationality broadly, just certifying the ability to teach one specific class.
Was/are there any organizations that are just dedicated to verifying rationality skills? CFAR tried to do both IIRC. Seems pretty bad if there haven’t been any attempts at this even.
According to me (who worked at CFAR for 5 years) CFAR did approximately 0-rationality verification whatsoever.
Indeed, while that would be crucial to the kind of experimental rationality development that’s described in the Craft and the Community, it isn’t and wasn’t a natural component of CFAR’s functional strategy, which was something more like rationality community-building and culture-building.
[I hope to write more about what CFAR did and why, and how it differed from the sort of thing outlined in the Craft and the Community, sometime.]
I’m currently one of the four members of the core team at CFAR (though the newest addition by far). I also co-ran the Prague Workshop Series in the fall of 2022. I’ve been significantly involved with CFAR since its most recent instructor training program in 2019.
I second what Eli Tyre says here. The closest thing to “rationality verification” that CFAR did in my experience was the 2019 instructor training program, which was careful to point out it wasn’t verifying rationality broadly, just certifying the ability to teach one specific class.