Cen­ter for Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity (CFAR)

Three ways CFAR has changed my view of rationality

My ex­pe­rience at and around MIRI and CFAR (in­spired by Zoe Curzi’s writeup of ex­pe­riences at Lev­er­age)

[Question] What is Go­ing On With CFAR?

We run the Cen­ter for Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity, AMA

The Story CFAR

Why CFAR?

CFAR: Progress Re­port & Fu­ture Plans

Com­ment re­ply: my low-qual­ity thoughts on why CFAR didn’t get farther with a “real/​effi­ca­cious art of ra­tio­nal­ity”

More de­tails on CFAR’s new workshops

Fur­ther dis­cus­sion of CFAR’s fo­cus on AI safety, and the good things folks wanted from “cause neu­tral­ity”

Re­sults of a One-Year Lon­gi­tu­di­nal Study of CFAR Alumni

[Question] What’s the CFAR po­si­tion on how the work­book can be used?

Open­ing Ses­sion Tips & Advice

CFAR Hand­book: Introduction

Check­list of Ra­tion­al­ity Habits

[Link] 10 Tips from CFAR: My Busi­ness In­sider article

Ozy’s Thoughts on CFAR’s Mis­sion Statement

CFAR Work­shop Re­view: Fe­bru­ary 2017

Con­crete Take­aways Post-CFAR

Trans­lat­ing CFAR to Therapy

Case Stud­ies High­light­ing CFAR’s Im­pact on Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Thoughts on the Jan­uary CFAR workshop

[link] “The Hap­piness Code”—New York Times on CFAR

CFAR Take­aways: An­drew Critch

CFAR’s todo list re: our workshops

[Question] At what point should CFAR stop hold­ing work­shops due to COVID-19?

Pen­du­lums, Policy-Level De­ci­sion­mak­ing, Sav­ing State

CFAR is run­ning an ex­per­i­men­tal mini-work­shop (June 2-6, Berkeley CA)!

[Re­post] My First In­sight After CFAR, or the Art of Not Need­ing to Ask Permission

[Re­post] CFAR, or The Art of Win­ning at Life

CFAR and SI MOOCs: a Great Opportunity

At­tempted Telekinesis

Devel­op­men­tal Think­ing Shout-out to CFAR

Harper’s Magaz­ine ar­ti­cle on LW/​MIRI/​CFAR and Ethereum

CFAR in 2014: Con­tin­u­ing to climb out of the startup pit, head­ing to­ward a full prototype

[Question] Was CFAR always in­tended to be a dis­tinct or­ga­ni­za­tion from MIRI?

CFAR 2017 Retrospective

[Question] What would 10x or 100x bet­ter than CFAR look like?

What’s go­ing on at CFAR? (Up­dates and Fundraiser)

My ex­pe­rience of the re­cent CFAR workshop

CFAR Par­ti­ci­pant Hand­book now available to all

CFAR’s new fo­cus, and AI Safety

At­ti­tudes about Ap­plied Rationality

Ra­tion­al­ity Habits I Learned at the CFAR Workshop

The Jan­uary 2013 CFAR work­shop: one-year retrospective

No stan­dard met­ric for CFAR work­shops?

Why CFAR? The view from 2015

Trig­ger-Ac­tion Planning

Why CFAR’s Mis­sion?

Unoffi­cial Canon on Ap­plied Rationality

Ap­pli­ca­tions are open for CFAR work­shops in Prague this fall!

Build­ing a Bugs List prompts

Re­view and Thoughts on Cur­rent Ver­sion of CFAR Workshop

Us­ing ra­tio­nal­ity to de­bug Ma­chine Learning

My ex­pe­rience of the 2025 CFAR Workshop

Up­com­ing CFAR events: Lower-cost bay area in­tro work­shop; EU work­shops; and others

New ap­plied ra­tio­nal­ity work­shops (April, May, and July)

The Cen­tre for Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity: a year later from a (some­what) out­side per­spec­tive

AI Sum­mer Fel­lows Program

The Sin­gu­lar­ity Wars

CFAR fundraiser far from filled; 4 days remaining

Sev­eral free CFAR sum­mer pro­grams on ra­tio­nal­ity and AI safety

LW 2.0 Strate­gic Overview

Units of Exchange

POSITION: De­sign and Write Ra­tion­al­ity Curriculum

Teach­able Ra­tion­al­ity Skills

CFAR’s 2019 Fundraiser

AI Sum­mer Fel­lows Program

Ret­ro­spec­tive on Teach­ing Ra­tion­al­ity Workshops

[Linkpost] Guardian ar­ti­cle cov­er­ing Light­cone In­fras­truc­ture, Man­i­fest and CFAR ties to FTX

Ham­mer­time Fi­nal Exam

[Question] Why there are no on­line CFAR work­shops?

CFAR Reunion

Want to have a CFAR in­struc­tor visit your LW group?

Seek­ing PCK (Ped­a­gog­i­cal Con­tent Knowl­edge)

NYT ar­ti­cle about the Zizi­ans in­clud­ing quotes from Eliezer, Anna, Ozy, Jes­sica, Zvi

Mur­phyjitsu: an In­ner Si­mu­la­tor algorithm

MIRI Sum­mer Fel­lows Program

Help! Name sug­ges­tions needed for Ra­tion­al­ity-Inst!

Black­pool Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity Un­con­fer­ence 2025

Uny­ield­ing Yoda Timers: Tak­ing the Ham­mer­time Fi­nal Exam

CFAR web­site launched