Nisan comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (5th thread, March 2013) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nisan 10 April 2013 11:39:08PM 3 points [-]

Welcome! You may want to consider participating in a CFAR workshop. I think it's 1000% as effective for learning instrumental rationality as reading Less Wrong. They're optimized for teaching practical skills, and they tend to attract entrepreneurs.

Also, I think you'd be a valuable addition to the community around CFAR, in addition to the online community around the Less Wrong website.

Comment author: beoShaffer 11 April 2013 07:48:55PM 1 point [-]

As someone who has done a CFAR workshop, and a lot of online rationality stuff (including, but not limited to reading ~90% of the sequences) I second this. I'll also add that do think having a strong theoretical background going in enhances the practical training.