Comment on Why CFAR's Mission?

Wed, 06 Jan 2016 08:13:12 GMT

This is my main question. I've never seen anything to imply that multi-day workshops are effective methods of learning. Going further, I'm not sure how Less Wrong supports Spaced Repetition and Distributed Practice on one hand, while also supporting an organization that's primary outreach seems to be crash courses. It's like Less Wrong is showing a forum wide cognitive dissonance that nobody notices.

That leaves a few options:

I'm wrong (though I consider it highly unlikely)

CFAR never bothered to look it up or uses self selection to convince themselves it's effective

CFAR is trying to optimize for something aside from spreading rationality, but they aren't actually saying what.

Discuss