Center for Applied Rationality

But really sort of launched behind the Harry Potter and the methods of rationality, there is CIFAR.

which is the Center for Applied Rationality, which is like an offshoot of rationalism.

You might even think of as like quasi the church of rationalism.

This is a thing that exists now.

I'm less familiar with Scott, generally speaking.

I've read more of the LessWrong wiki and not as much of the Slate Stars.

They become like important thought leaders and this rationalism philosophy blossoms into like a pseudo religious group, certainly a very specific online culture that has its own vocabulary, has its own clubs, has the Center for Applied Rationality and those sorts of meetups and lines up on a number of different goals and ways of talking about things.

So that brings us to the EA in the real, which is effective altruism and similar here to rationality where there's like some philosophical ties farther back.

[laughs] Because of that community tab, but they've also done other IRL shit.

Okay, so they established a nonprofit called The Center for Applied Rationality, or CFAR, which is located in Berkeley.

And what if I told you that CFAR sells workshops on how to try out thinking and doing techniques together and geek out on how our minds work and, quote, "Raise the sanity waterline." And these run for four days and operate on a sliding scale cost of $1,900 to $4,900.

Some rationalists live in group houses.

You, you know, it'll be like, "All right," like that it was 18 months until the next time it got bigger of people just like showing up and like arguing in the comments sections, and like wandering in the wilderness when it turned out that the project of raising the sanity waterline wasn't going to work.

And, you know, like the Center for Applied Rationality kind of like, kind of falling apart and then being kind of reconstituted, but much less ambitious and like, uh...

But the, uh...

But meanwhile, a bunch of like artificial intelligence stuff was sort of like people were freaking out because the robot was getting really good at Go, and there was like a bit, a little bit more money for the like, you know, philosophy of artificial intelligence research.

Rationalists do like this style of rug.

Largely thanks to the great work by people at the Center for Applied Rationality.

That's right.

Yes.