ChristianKl comments on The Centre for Applied Rationality: a year later from a (somewhat) outside perspective - LessWrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 28 May 2013 04:55:45PM 0 points [-]

Growing an organisation such as CFAR isn't easy. It takes some skill. I don't know the CFAR people personally but I have no reason to assume that they are up for that task.

Comment author: Decius 29 May 2013 02:35:38AM 1 point [-]

I have met them, although in a limited context, and using that information I have estimated if they were to try to expand, they would be somewhat more likely to do so successfully than the typical group that attempts to expand.

I think that my prior is poorly grounded because I have experience with only a few small organizations that tried to expand and failed, and a larger number that tried successfully. However, I didn't know of any of the successful groups before they grew.