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lincolnquirk comments on Minicamps on Rationality and Awesomeness: May 11-13, June 22-24, and July 21-28 - Less Wrong
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I think it was a selection effect: at Mini-Camp, the people who went were chosen from a broad pool, of anyone who could take a week off at the beginning of summer. But the only people who went to Mega-Camp were the types of people who could afford to take a whole summer off. So the Mega-Camp attendees were younger, more likely to be a student, less likely to have other things going on in their lives.
(I was a Mega-Camp attendee.)
Other potential reasons: it started to suck living & eating together in a tight, crowded space. It's tolerable (and even fun!) for a week, but after a few weeks, privacy & space become an issue.
These are all good reasons why RBC would seem less awesome than Mini-Camp, but they aren't actually good reasons why it should have been less effective at teaching people rationality. If anything, surely one would expect people who were younger and had less going on in their lives to benefit more from rationality training.
Basically, I agree with you that these are the reasons that Eliezer describes RBC as "less of a success", but this just means that Silas is right, and the measure of "success" being used is "how awesome did everyone think it was", not "how much rationality did we manage to teach".
Agreed.