CFAR has all of this material readily available likely in a much more comprehensive and accurate format.
My assumption was that they don’t have this because of time and effort constraints as well as other priorities.
I highly value CFAR as an organisation. I want them to be highly funded and want as many people to attend their workshops as possible. It would upset me to learn that someone had read my compilation and not attended a workshop thinking they had gotten most of the value they could.
The CFAR team are valuable because they are practitioners, experimenters and pioneers, not because of their techniques. That is, they are not valuable because they are hoarding potentially valuable information, but because they are at the frontier and are able to teach their material extremely well. The important question is does my material or yours help with improving the art of rationality and peoples understanding of it. I still think it does, but In retrospect, I think that I should have made it clearer that trying to learn this material by yourself is probably a bad idea.
“trying to learn this material by yourself is probably a bad idea.”
I’d say probably a difficult idea, rather than a bad one. Risky, including uncanny valley and disheartening. But that’s literally what the generators of CFAR content did, and others can, too.
My assumption was that they don’t have this because of time and effort constraints as well as other priorities.
The CFAR team are valuable because they are practitioners, experimenters and pioneers, not because of their techniques. That is, they are not valuable because they are hoarding potentially valuable information, but because they are at the frontier and are able to teach their material extremely well. The important question is does my material or yours help with improving the art of rationality and peoples understanding of it. I still think it does, but In retrospect, I think that I should have made it clearer that trying to learn this material by yourself is probably a bad idea.
“trying to learn this material by yourself is probably a bad idea.”
I’d say probably a difficult idea, rather than a bad one. Risky, including uncanny valley and disheartening. But that’s literally what the generators of CFAR content did, and others can, too.