Curiouskid comments on CFAR in 2014: Continuing to climb out of the startup pit, heading toward a full prototype - Less Wrong

61 Post author: AnnaSalamon 26 December 2014 03:33PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (73)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: ColonelMustard 26 December 2014 10:35:41PM 5 points [-]

How does cfar rank other thinking skills organisations outside the EA/MIRI groups? For instance, is Ember Associates plausibly one of the most important organisations currently existing?

Comment author: Curiouskid 28 December 2014 03:27:38AM *  2 points [-]

What is Ember Associates? I did a quick google search, and when I clicked on their site, I got a page that said "Website Expired". What other groups do you have in mind?

Comment author: ColonelMustard 28 December 2014 10:37:17PM 3 points [-]

It is, or was, an organisation to teach thinking skills. Please don't focus on the example; it was the first one that came to mind and I didn't realise the website had expired. The point is that a lot of groups claim to teach thinking skills. Do you consider all such count to be EA? If not, what distinguishes CFAR from those that don't?

Comment author: malcolmocean 28 December 2014 03:31:14AM 2 points [-]

Was just about to post the same thing. Having your website expired is definitely evidence against effectiveness.