Note that this handbook covers maybe only about 2⁄3 of the progress made in that private beta branch, with the remaining third divided into “happened while I was there but hasn’t been written up (hopefully ‘yet’)” and “happened since my departure, and unclear whether anyone will have the time and priority to export it.”
To be clear, I don’t think you mean “This explains about 2/3rds of what CFAR learned about rationality”. I think you mean “This is an artifact that records about 2/3rds of the concrete, teachable techniques that CFAR’s understanding of rationality has output.” (I think I’m right, but happy to be corrected if I’m wrong.)
I actually think 2/3rds seems high – part of my point of “Moreoever, many of those concepts have went on to become building blocks of further rationality development” was that I think there’s lots of followup work, which is where the “real” value lives.
Some things I’m thinking of include:
The development of Focusing into Belief Reporting (this is, to be fair, more on the Leverage private beta branch, but I think realistically there’s a couple overlapping private beta branches that are co-dependent)
I don’t know if BeWellTuned.com was especially downstream of CFAR, but my own engagement with it was fairly dependent on being enmeshed in the CFAR community.
I have some impression that this is fairly tip-of-the-iceberg-esque (although admittedly I’m not that confident in that)
The author of BeWellTuned.com had contact with the LessWrong community and did go to CFAR. I’m not sure whether they went to CFAR before or after writing the website. It might very well have been writing to show people what they thought when they went to the Bay Area.
Note that this handbook covers maybe only about 2⁄3 of the progress made in that private beta branch, with the remaining third divided into “happened while I was there but hasn’t been written up (hopefully ‘yet’)” and “happened since my departure, and unclear whether anyone will have the time and priority to export it.”
To be clear, I don’t think you mean “This explains about 2/3rds of what CFAR learned about rationality”. I think you mean “This is an artifact that records about 2/3rds of the concrete, teachable techniques that CFAR’s understanding of rationality has output.” (I think I’m right, but happy to be corrected if I’m wrong.)
I actually think 2/3rds seems high – part of my point of “Moreoever, many of those concepts have went on to become building blocks of further rationality development” was that I think there’s lots of followup work, which is where the “real” value lives.
Some things I’m thinking of include:
The development of Focusing into Belief Reporting (this is, to be fair, more on the Leverage private beta branch, but I think realistically there’s a couple overlapping private beta branches that are co-dependent)
I don’t know if BeWellTuned.com was especially downstream of CFAR, but my own engagement with it was fairly dependent on being enmeshed in the CFAR community.
I have some impression that this is fairly tip-of-the-iceberg-esque (although admittedly I’m not that confident in that)
The author of BeWellTuned.com had contact with the LessWrong community and did go to CFAR. I’m not sure whether they went to CFAR before or after writing the website. It might very well have been writing to show people what they thought when they went to the Bay Area.