2) social effectiveness—fashion training, rejection therapy, persuasion
3) fixing bugs in your emotions—cognitive behavioral therapy, internal family systems, nonviolent communication
4) brain contortions—memory, meditation, drawing, talking with Michael Vassar :)
5) long-term effectiveness—business and entrepreneurship, planning and thinking strategically, high-impact philanthropy
Beyond the sessions, we had a number of people who were just really great rationalists spending time together talking about interesting topics. It was a very social, communal environment.
I’ve talked with several of the other RBCers a few times since the camp, and we became close enough that I would be welcome to visit any of them (I think) whenever I wanted. I’m not currently continuing any explicit rationality training, though I apply a lot of the stuff I learned on a fairly regular basis. I am not sure to what degree RBC affected the trajectory of my life—I seem to already be more successful than I was before, but don’t know whether I can attribute that.
I was at the Rationality Mega-Camp. I and some others blogged about the experience here: http://rationalitybootcamp.blogspot.com/
We had 3-6 hours of daily rationality sessions:
1) basic rationality—cognitive bias, applying Bayes’ theorem, microeconomics, 5-second skills
2) social effectiveness—fashion training, rejection therapy, persuasion
3) fixing bugs in your emotions—cognitive behavioral therapy, internal family systems, nonviolent communication
4) brain contortions—memory, meditation, drawing, talking with Michael Vassar :)
5) long-term effectiveness—business and entrepreneurship, planning and thinking strategically, high-impact philanthropy
Beyond the sessions, we had a number of people who were just really great rationalists spending time together talking about interesting topics. It was a very social, communal environment.
This is great, thanks! I’ll check out the blog as well.
Are campers continuing training now that they’re back home? Are you still in contact?
I’ve talked with several of the other RBCers a few times since the camp, and we became close enough that I would be welcome to visit any of them (I think) whenever I wanted. I’m not currently continuing any explicit rationality training, though I apply a lot of the stuff I learned on a fairly regular basis. I am not sure to what degree RBC affected the trajectory of my life—I seem to already be more successful than I was before, but don’t know whether I can attribute that.