Thanks for writing this; it’s so cool to finally hear what’s going on with Kocherga!
I know some of the people at CFAR are very interested in talking with you about your curriculum. It’s too late to apply now, but CFAR is running a workshop in Prague next month and would be super interested to see someone there who was familiar with Kocherga-style applied rationality. So if any of your alumni are able to get to Prague easily and would be interested in meeting up with people from CFAR, have them email contact@rationality.org to see if they can set something up! Note though that I don’t work for CFAR, so take this all with a grain of salt.
Separately, I’d be interested to know if you’ve pursued any of the larger-scale funding options such as CEA. Kocherga seems like it plausibly could have gotten funded via the EA Community Building grants (although that’s not for sure due to its focus on rationality rather than EA). Note that a comparison to the Berkeley REACH would not be appropriate here because REACH did not exist yet when Stardust applied for the community building grant, whereas Kocherga has a long track record. In any case, it seems worth it for you guys to apply for grants. You’re clearly doing something valuable :)
Thanks for writing this; it’s so cool to finally hear what’s going on with Kocherga!
I know some of the people at CFAR are very interested in talking with you about your curriculum. It’s too late to apply now, but CFAR is running a workshop in Prague next month and would be super interested to see someone there who was familiar with Kocherga-style applied rationality. So if any of your alumni are able to get to Prague easily and would be interested in meeting up with people from CFAR, have them email contact@rationality.org to see if they can set something up! Note though that I don’t work for CFAR, so take this all with a grain of salt.
Separately, I’d be interested to know if you’ve pursued any of the larger-scale funding options such as CEA. Kocherga seems like it plausibly could have gotten funded via the EA Community Building grants (although that’s not for sure due to its focus on rationality rather than EA). Note that a comparison to the Berkeley REACH would not be appropriate here because REACH did not exist yet when Stardust applied for the community building grant, whereas Kocherga has a long track record. In any case, it seems worth it for you guys to apply for grants. You’re clearly doing something valuable :)
Anyway, I’ve pledged $30/month. Best of luck!!
Thank you!
I’ve applied to CFAR’s workshop in Prague myself (and asked for financial aid, of course); they haven’t contacted me yet.
I’ll explain about EA in reply to this comment.