Lumifer comments on Why CFAR? The view from 2015 - Less Wrong
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I don't claim that it developed skill and talent in all participants, nor even in the median participant. I do stand by my claim that it appears to have had drastic good effects on a few people though, and that it led directly to MIRI hires, at least one of which would not have happened otherwise :-)
Is CFAR going to market themselves like this?
[at the workshop]:
"Look to the left of you, now to the right of you, now in 12 other directions. Only one of you will have a strong positive effect from this workshop."
The search for Kwisatz Haderach is serious business.