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Lydia Laurenson recently posted an article called "The Inside Story of Leverage Research" that gets into substantially more detail on what went on in that organization and I thought made quite an interesting read. However, note also relevant Twitter comments from Oliver Habryka: > Having been around the ecosystem, having...

Hello from CFAR! We’re happy to announce that we have an upcoming workshop on the schedule -- we will be holding one of our applied rationality workshops from September 30th to October 4th in the San Francisco Bay Area. Like the two workshops we ran in late 2025/early 2026, this...

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...