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The Center for Applied Rationality is running ~weekly free online test sessions! If you're interested in checking out some (very unpolished!) CFAR content and helping us refine our material for future programs, feel free to sign up at the link. The format for the sessions depends somewhat on the particular...
Hello from the Center for Applied Rationality! Some of you may have attended our classic applied rationality workshops in the past; others of you may have wanted to attend a workshop but not yet had a chance to. It's been a while since we've last run public-facing workshops, but we...
United States Air Force Colonel John Boyd was a fighter pilot and military strategist who developed several important strategic theories. While serving as a jet fighter instructor, he was nicknamed "Forty-Second Boyd" because he had a standing offer that he could go up in his plane and defeat any opponent...
> Today, we’re announcing that Amazon will invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic. The agreement is part of a broader collaboration to develop reliable and high-performing foundation models. (Thread continues from there with more details -- seems like a notable major development!)
One interesting thing I've noticed in the field of game design is that there are some purported features that are so hated that not having them becomes an advertised feature! Here are some quick examples: * In the world of card games, Magic: the Gathering's 'lands'/'mana' system for accumulating resources...
For a while, I've been seeing people commenting about how AI art is on the cusp of shaking up the art world. Quite frankly, at this point I consider such sentiments to be behind the times. AI art is not "on the cusp" of disrupting such things. It is already...
I want to look into the research literature on an issue that has unfortunately become extremely politicized and controversial. (It isn't gun ownership, but let's say for the sake of argument that it is.) If I do a search for, say, "effects of gun ownership on crime", it is quite...