lukeprog comments on CFAR website launched - Less Wrong

33 Post author: lukeprog 03 July 2012 03:01PM

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Comment author: lukeprog 03 July 2012 08:12:10PM *  7 points [-]

Thank you for using "phyg."

But don't people associate "retreat" with corporate retreats?

Comment author: Raemon 03 July 2012 09:09:11PM 11 points [-]

This was my main association. And "camp" has a sort of kidd-ish association for me. I feel like kids go to camp and adults go to retreats. Not sure how representative this is.

Comment author: aelephant 04 July 2012 10:08:12AM 17 points [-]

How about "workshop"?

I agree about the kiddish vibe of "camp" and I also agree that "retreat" has a sort of religious hue to it as well. Some guy died on a "mysterious Buddhist retreat" recently.

Comment author: Raemon 04 July 2012 04:23:09PM 11 points [-]

I like workshop best of all the options presented so far.

Comment author: gwern 05 July 2012 01:13:50AM 2 points [-]

No one seems to have suggested 'class' yet, which confuses me a little.

Comment author: drethelin 06 July 2012 07:46:06AM 2 points [-]

In my mind classes are things that I take for an hour or two, not a weekend or a whole week.

Comment author: Emile 05 July 2012 08:25:20AM *  3 points [-]

I don't associate it with corportate retreat (religious connotations were the first to string to mind).

But even "corporate retreat" makes me think of teambuilding or blowing off steam or maybe networking or brainstorming in a different environment - not particularly learning (though I agree things like teambuilding are a kind of learning, and there are probably some with some explicit teaching going on). Whereas "camp" seems to be pretty straightforwardly about teaching ("bootcamp").

(on the other hand, you may be able to get companies to pay more for something called a retreat than for something called a camp)

Comment author: VincentYu 03 July 2012 08:26:55PM *  4 points [-]

Oh, I don't consider 'retreats' to be exclusively religious. But for me, it brought up religious undertones that I thought were undersirable and unintended.

Comment author: [deleted] 05 July 2012 05:47:40AM 2 points [-]

Thank you for using "phyg."

You've probably done the SEO research. Does it actually matter?