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CFAR Handbook

Jun 28, 2022 by CFAR!Duncan

The Center for Applied Rationality set out to develop simple, concrete concepts and techniques that could be straightforwardly applied to anyone's problems and goals, (hopefully) resulting in clearer thinking, better decision-making, and better follow-through.  

This is the result of the first five years or so of that research and development.

Getting Started
120CFAR Handbook: Introduction
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96Opening Session Tips & Advice
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69Building a Bugs List prompts
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Flash Classes
50Polaris, Five-Second Versions, and Thought Lengths
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27Socratic Ducking, OODA Loops, Frame-by-Frame Debugging
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30Gears-Level Understanding, Deliberate Performance, The Strategic Level
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41Area under the curve, Eat Dirt, Broccoli Errors, Copernicus & Chaos
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30Pendulums, Policy-Level Decisionmaking, Saving State
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Appendices
41Appendix: Hamming Questions
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34Appendix: Jargon Dictionary
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42Appendix: How to run a successful Hamming circle
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Classes
62Seeking PCK (Pedagogical Content Knowledge)
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101Units of Exchange
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67Murphyjitsu: an Inner Simulator algorithm
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90Trigger-Action Planning
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92Goal Factoring
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82Aversion Factoring
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53Turbocharging
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67Taste & Shaping
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87Goodhart's Imperius
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43Systemization
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50Againstness
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53Comfort Zone Exploration
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140Resolve Cycles
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116Focusing
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94Internal Double Crux
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61Double Crux
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45Bucket Errors
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