Center for Applied Rationality
also referred to as: cfar
5 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 20, 2016 by Julia Galef · said 10 times in 1 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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Feb 20, 2016 positive
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Feb 20, 2016 neutral
Galef: CFAR rejects workshop applicants who want to fix others' irrationality
“And so one of the questions we ask them in the admissions interview is why are you interested in coming? What are you hoping to get out of it? And sometimes, occasionally, we get someone who says, well, I want to, like, learn how to explain rationality to the …”
Feb 20, 2016 positive
Galef: CFAR translates abstract rationality advice into concrete trigger-action plans
“So a lot of what CFAR ended up doing was just taking this sort of abstract advice, like be open-minded, and translating it into these sort of very concrete almost algorithms that have, that start with a cue, with a trigger.”