Geoff Anders was the first one to teach it at CFAR workshops, I think in 2013. This is the first time I’ve heard claims of independent invention, at the time all the CFAR people who mentioned it were synced on the story that Anders was a guest instructor teaching a technique that Leverage had developed. (Andrew Critch worked at CFAR at the time. I don’t specifically remember whether or not I heard anything about goal factoring from him.)
Anna & Val taught goal factoring at the first CFAR workshop (May 2012). I’m not sure if they used the term “goal factoring” at the workshop (the title on the schedule was “Microeconomics 1: How to have goals”), but that’s what they were calling it before the workshop including in passing on LW. Geoff attended the third CFAR workshop as a participant and first taught goal factoring at the fourth workshop (November 2012), which was also the first time the class was called “Goal Factoring”. Geoff was working on similar stuff before 2012, but I don’t know enough of the pre-2012 history to know if there was earlier cross-pollination between Geoff & CFAR folks.
Geoff Anders was the first one to teach it at CFAR workshops, I think in 2013. This is the first time I’ve heard claims of independent invention, at the time all the CFAR people who mentioned it were synced on the story that Anders was a guest instructor teaching a technique that Leverage had developed. (Andrew Critch worked at CFAR at the time. I don’t specifically remember whether or not I heard anything about goal factoring from him.)
Anna & Val taught goal factoring at the first CFAR workshop (May 2012). I’m not sure if they used the term “goal factoring” at the workshop (the title on the schedule was “Microeconomics 1: How to have goals”), but that’s what they were calling it before the workshop including in passing on LW. Geoff attended the third CFAR workshop as a participant and first taught goal factoring at the fourth workshop (November 2012), which was also the first time the class was called “Goal Factoring”. Geoff was working on similar stuff before 2012, but I don’t know enough of the pre-2012 history to know if there was earlier cross-pollination between Geoff & CFAR folks.
Critch developed aversion factoring.
In this video from March 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k255UjGEO_c Andrew Critch says he developed “Aversion factoring”.
I believe this. Aversion factoring is a separate insight from goal factoring.