If this behavior is consider appropriate here, then I’ll update my expectations and I apologize for causing such a fuss (least people accuse me of “trolling”), but in this case I’ll suggest explicitely stating in the forum policy that advertising is allowed here, since that’s not the standard expectation on a typical internet forum.
“This behavior” isn’t considered appropriate as a general rule. However, the history of CFAR’s creation reveals that CFAR is pretty much an effort to bring LessWrong material into practical application. Nearly all of the CFAR material is built from or inspired by LessWrong content AFAIK, and some of the more recent LessWrong official posts are closely linked to discussions that happened around CFAR.
As such, it’s reasonable to expect that most people on LessWrong would like to know what’s going on with CFAR and would like to be informed about services CFAR provides, since CFAR is (so far) the best platform we have for structured training of LessWrong skills.
On the other hand, I agree with army1987 that it is questionable whether this belongs in the “Main” section of LW, and I think it belongs more in the Discussion section, even if that would risk getting it less exposure.
Do you know any other meaning [for “commercial”]?
I often hear and use the term to mean “where a provider of goods or services is attempting to maximize profit by getting more customers or getting customers to pay more”, taking the context of advertising into account. By these connotations of the term, CFAR is not a commercial organization, and this advertising isn’t “commercial” because they don’t aim to make as much profit as they can from people who attend the training.
This meaning is often used to put contrast between “commercial intent” and “altruistic intent”, or similar comparisons.
“This behavior” isn’t considered appropriate as a general rule. However, the history of CFAR’s creation reveals that CFAR is pretty much an effort to bring LessWrong material into practical application. Nearly all of the CFAR material is built from or inspired by LessWrong content AFAIK, and some of the more recent LessWrong official posts are closely linked to discussions that happened around CFAR.
As such, it’s reasonable to expect that most people on LessWrong would like to know what’s going on with CFAR and would like to be informed about services CFAR provides, since CFAR is (so far) the best platform we have for structured training of LessWrong skills.
On the other hand, I agree with army1987 that it is questionable whether this belongs in the “Main” section of LW, and I think it belongs more in the Discussion section, even if that would risk getting it less exposure.
I often hear and use the term to mean “where a provider of goods or services is attempting to maximize profit by getting more customers or getting customers to pay more”, taking the context of advertising into account. By these connotations of the term, CFAR is not a commercial organization, and this advertising isn’t “commercial” because they don’t aim to make as much profit as they can from people who attend the training.
This meaning is often used to put contrast between “commercial intent” and “altruistic intent”, or similar comparisons.