Hey Joshua, thanks for your compliments about the essays and lecture!
Regarding CfAR, we are targeting a much broader audience and less advanced audience, the upper 50-85%, while CfAR primarily targets the top 5-10%. For instance, here is how they describe their workshop audience: “select group of founders, hackers, and other ambitious, analytical, practically-minded people.” What we really want to do is oriented at the broad public, which can gain a great deal from a much lower level of education in rationality made accessible and relevant to their everyday lives and concerns, and delivered in a fashion perceived as interesting, fun, and friendly by mass audiences. We target different audiences, in other words. We had great interactions with Anna Salamon, Julia Galef, Kenzi Amodei, and other CFAR staff, and plan to collaborate with them on various ways to do Rationality outreach.
Regarding LW, we wanted to get out website launched and a credible research piece written before actively engaging with Less Wrong. I myself was a lurker personally for quite a while before starting to post. I wanted to make sure I had something credible and helpful to say before posting :-)
Hey Joshua, thanks for your compliments about the essays and lecture!
Regarding CfAR, we are targeting a much broader audience and less advanced audience, the upper 50-85%, while CfAR primarily targets the top 5-10%. For instance, here is how they describe their workshop audience: “select group of founders, hackers, and other ambitious, analytical, practically-minded people.” What we really want to do is oriented at the broad public, which can gain a great deal from a much lower level of education in rationality made accessible and relevant to their everyday lives and concerns, and delivered in a fashion perceived as interesting, fun, and friendly by mass audiences. We target different audiences, in other words. We had great interactions with Anna Salamon, Julia Galef, Kenzi Amodei, and other CFAR staff, and plan to collaborate with them on various ways to do Rationality outreach.
Regarding LW, we wanted to get out website launched and a credible research piece written before actively engaging with Less Wrong. I myself was a lurker personally for quite a while before starting to post. I wanted to make sure I had something credible and helpful to say before posting :-)