bootcamps which require application and significant monetary payment have a fairly bad track record of worst case outcomes, with recent semi-negative examples such as CFAR and Leverage both producing fairly notable worst-case outcomes. The warnings about “culty behavior” around lesswrong often relate to groups like that; because it is one of the categories that has had an elevated error rate, I ask for the purpose of shifting attendance towards those who will benefit -
what is your plan for how to ensure that participants do not accumulate habit of taking verbal commands from the event hosts, and that people whose habit-shards crash in the context of this event have enough slack to notice and recover?
Thanks for your comments, we have indeed changed our Bootcamp from paid to free, because: 1) we found our price has greatly limited the quality and quantity of our applicants; 2) we introduced some experimental activities (which are experimental features in our Ultrabrain Principles Assistant) which needs more validation.
In this event, we will be very careful with giving people verbal commands. We make it clear where is the source of our teaching—which are different ways / methods of “living a principled life” taught by the different schools of thought, and we let the participants to discuss and decide which ones they like to adopt.
bootcamps which require application and significant monetary payment have a fairly bad track record of worst case outcomes, with recent semi-negative examples such as CFAR and Leverage both producing fairly notable worst-case outcomes. The warnings about “culty behavior” around lesswrong often relate to groups like that; because it is one of the categories that has had an elevated error rate, I ask for the purpose of shifting attendance towards those who will benefit -
what is your plan for how to ensure that participants do not accumulate habit of taking verbal commands from the event hosts, and that people whose habit-shards crash in the context of this event have enough slack to notice and recover?
Thanks for your comments, we have indeed changed our Bootcamp from paid to free, because: 1) we found our price has greatly limited the quality and quantity of our applicants; 2) we introduced some experimental activities (which are experimental features in our
Ultrabrain Principles Assistant
) which needs more validation.In this event, we will be very careful with giving people verbal commands. We make it clear where is the source of our teaching—which are different ways / methods of “living a principled life” taught by the different schools of thought, and we let the participants to discuss and decide which ones they like to adopt.
Great to hear! Sounds like a fun event :)