The mission of CFAR isn't to summarize existing research but to reinvent the wheel. To go on to build better wheels. For that mission the act of taking techniques apart and reinventing them is vital.
For that mission it's helpful if people at workshops are in beginner's mind and don't say: "I already know what you are talking about because I already know label X".
Take the word 'rational' as use on LW. The word exists outside of LW. That means it should be easy to understand LW'lers when they use the term? No, because the term means something different on LW than it means outside.
Naming isn't easy. Of course there are bad names both in the sequences and in CFAR, but that doesn't mean that it's always a bad choice to use a new name. Inventing new terms makes it easier to actually align the listener and speaker and both understand the word the same way.
That's a silly mission. There's already a ton of AWESOME wheels out there from psychology research, the self help movement, religious practices, and others. The short term goal shouldn't be to build a new wheel, it should be experiment and figure out which of the existing wheels actually role. Once that's done, you can go about inventing new techniques, but starting from scratch is just a silly way to go about it.
Is rationality training in it's infancy? I'd like to think so, given the paucity of novel, usable information produced by rationalists since the Sequence days. I like to model the rationalist body of knowledge as superset of pertinent fields such as decision analysis, educational psychology and clinical psychology. This reductionist model enables rationalists to examine the validity of rationalist constructs while standing on the shoulders of giants.
CFAR's obscurantism (and subsequent price gouging) capitalises on our [fear of missing out](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_missing_out). They brand established techniques like mindfulness as againstness or reference class forecasting as 'hopping' as if it's of their own genesis, spiting academic tradition and cultivating an insular community. In short, Lesswrongers predictably flouts [cooperative principles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle).
This thread is to encourage you to speculate on potential rationality techniques, underdetermined by existing research which might be a useful area for rationalist individuals and organisations to explore. I feel this may be a better use of rationality skills training organisations time, than gatekeeping information.
To get this thread started, I've posted a speculative rationality skill I've been working on. I'd appreciate any comments about it or experiences with it. However, this thread is about working towards the generation of rationality skills more broadly.