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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 …”
Galef: Constrains persuasion attempts strictly to facts and evidence
“I personally feel kind of morally uncomfortable with changing people's minds without facts and evidence. So it's kind of a constraint on my ability to change people's minds that I have to work, that I force myself to work within. Essentially. And that doesn't …”
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.”