Whether CFAR staff (qua CFAR staff, as above) will help educate people who later themselves produce explicit knowledge in the manner valued by Gwern, Wei Dai, or Scott Alexander, and who wouldn’t have produced (as much of) that knowledge otherwise.
This seems like a good moment to publicly note that I probably would not have started writing my multi-agent sequence without having a) participated in CFAR’s mentorship training b) had conversations with/about Val and his posts.
This seems like a good moment to publicly note that I probably would not have started writing my multi-agent sequence without having a) participated in CFAR’s mentorship training b) had conversations with/about Val and his posts.