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?

Why CFAR?

The Story CFAR

We run the Cen­ter for Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity, AMA

CFAR: Progress Re­port & Fu­ture Plans

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

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

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

Re­sults of a One-Year Lon­gi­tu­di­nal Study of CFAR Alumni

Open­ing Ses­sion Tips & Advice

Check­list of Ra­tion­al­ity Habits

CFAR Hand­book: Introduction

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

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

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

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

Devel­op­men­tal Think­ing Shout-out to CFAR

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

CFAR and SI MOOCs: a Great Opportunity

Con­crete Take­aways Post-CFAR

No stan­dard met­ric for CFAR work­shops?

Re­view and Thoughts on Cur­rent Ver­sion of CFAR Workshop

CFAR Work­shop Re­view: Fe­bru­ary 2017

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

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

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

Case Stud­ies High­light­ing CFAR’s Im­pact on Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Ozy’s Thoughts on CFAR’s Mis­sion Statement

At­tempted Telekinesis

CFAR 2017 Retrospective

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

CFAR Take­aways: An­drew Critch

Trans­lat­ing CFAR to Therapy

Why CFAR? The view from 2015

Ra­tion­al­ity Habits I Learned at the CFAR Workshop

Why CFAR’s Mis­sion?

Thoughts on the Jan­uary CFAR workshop

The Jan­uary 2013 CFAR work­shop: one-year retrospective

CFAR’s new fo­cus, and AI Safety

CFAR Par­ti­ci­pant Hand­book now available to all

My ex­pe­rience of the re­cent CFAR workshop

Trig­ger-Ac­tion Planning

Ap­pli­ca­tions are open for CFAR work­shops in Prague this fall!

Pen­du­lums, Policy-Level De­ci­sion­mak­ing, Sav­ing State

Build­ing a Bugs List prompts

Unoffi­cial Canon on Ap­plied Rationality

At­ti­tudes about Ap­plied Rationality

Mur­phyjitsu: an In­ner Si­mu­la­tor algorithm

CFAR Reunion

CFAR fundraiser far from filled; 4 days remaining

CFAR’s 2019 Fundraiser

CFAR web­site launched

Sev­eral free CFAR sum­mer pro­grams on ra­tio­nal­ity and AI safety

Want to have a CFAR in­struc­tor visit your LW group?

Ham­mer­time Fi­nal Exam

AI Sum­mer Fel­lows Program

Us­ing ra­tio­nal­ity to de­bug Ma­chine Learning

AI Sum­mer Fel­lows Program

LW 2.0 Strate­gic Overview

The Sin­gu­lar­ity Wars

POSITION: De­sign and Write Ra­tion­al­ity Curriculum

MIRI Sum­mer Fel­lows Program

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

Teach­able Ra­tion­al­ity Skills

Uny­ield­ing Yoda Timers: Tak­ing the Ham­mer­time Fi­nal Exam

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

Help! Name sug­ges­tions needed for Ra­tion­al­ity-Inst!

Ret­ro­spec­tive on Teach­ing Ra­tion­al­ity Workshops

[Question] Why there are no on­line CFAR work­shops?

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

Units of Exchange

Seek­ing PCK (Ped­a­gog­i­cal Con­tent Knowl­edge)