No.10016
What do we think of CFAR around these parts?
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No.10017
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No.10018
Pedo triangle symbol, kind of.
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No.10019
There's no evidence that it actually works, so by their own standards it's snake oil.
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No.10020
>>10016
See >>4569 and >>3775.
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No.10021
They've pivoted into Center for Recruiting People into the MIRI Cult.
Free market in ideas! Intellectual diversity is good! Don't go to MIRI like everyone else, FFS!
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No.11661
I attended one of their weekend workshops, waaay back in the day. Like 5 or so years ago.
Long story short, it didn't help me and the networking opportunities were negligible, but hey, at least I was so poor that they got me in on a scholarship, so at least I didn't spend any money to find out that the self-help was abstract snake oil.
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No.11662
>>10016
Nice money-making scheme.
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No.11663
>>10016
I'd rather attend a center for applied irrationality.
Just think of all the fun.
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No.11664
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No.11666
Ironically they don't use the methods they teach to evaluate the effectiveness of the methods they teach.
It's snake oil.
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No.11677
>>11666
What if they did, would you trust them then?
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No.11698
>>11677
I don't see a practical way to control for selection bias.
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No.11707
is big-r Rationality simply a form of mental masturbation?
What I can gather from LW and related crowds is their user bases are Low-EQ introvert shut-ins, dorky STEM college students and polyamorous fan fiction writers that need something distracting to think about.
Chad has never once questioned his beliefs or actions, he was born an irrational winner and will die as one. The Rationalist Virgin is stuck in xis head ruminating over self-doubt and inferiority/superiority complexes, mental models and cognitive biases etc, and consistently fails at life. (This is 100% true, don't overanalyse it).
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No.11709
>>11707
>don't overanalyse it
Where do you think you are?
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No.11710
>>11709
im giving you breadcrumbs to bootstrap from virginity to chadhood
it's post-munchhausens (trilemma and syndrome). you cannot logically overcome autism, but you can self-overcome via will-to-power.
would you rather wallow in this wretched tranny-hive or ascend to save The West
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No.11711
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No.11712
I take every idea seriously except for "Rationalists should win"
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No.11713
>>11710
I don't suffer from autism, I enjoy every second of it
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No.13000
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No.13006
>>10016
having a center for applied rationality is good idea but the one that exists under the name is a failure mode THAT WAS WARNED ABOUT IN THE SEQUENCES from the start
and they're employing a literal christian sometimes, a previously sane person who fell into the woo, and a schoolteacher who thinks abuse makes people stronk
burn it the fuck to the ground and salt the earth it grew on
#nukethebayarea
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No.13007
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No.13029
>>13006
There's nothing wrong with Christianity, you profligate.
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No.13031
>>13029
The whole thing is wrong
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No.13038
CFAR is pure cancer that has the side effect of convincing autistic manchildren that Someone is taking 'rationality' seriously. The reality is that nobody seems to be and the entire LW memeplex is this fucked wasteland where nobody has ever heard of Google Scholar.
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No.13041
>>13038
>nobody seems to be
At least AI risk is getting exposure and new powerful believers.
>where nobody has ever heard of Google Scholar
Why do you say that?
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No.13043
>>13041
>powerful
Rats aren't even to shit-tier DEFCON attendee power.
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