There are two failure modes here. There’s failure mode #1, where enthusiastic amateurs teach awful classes and cause some people to think less of ‘rationality’, and there’s failure mode #2 where CFAR graduates want to do cool things and don’t do them because they’re scared of failure, and a community never materializes. I think #2 is the default, and more likely, and thus worth taking more effort to avoid.
There are two failure modes here. There’s failure mode #1, where enthusiastic amateurs teach awful classes and cause some people to think less of ‘rationality’, and there’s failure mode #2 where CFAR graduates want to do cool things and don’t do them because they’re scared of failure, and a community never materializes. I think #2 is the default, and more likely, and thus worth taking more effort to avoid.