The Center for Applied Rationality is a nonprofit organization based in Berkeley, California, that teaches techniques to improve epistemic and instrumental rationality.

History

CFAR was founded in 2012 by Anna Salamon, Julia Galef, Valentine Smith and Andrew Critch.^[1] Galef served as president until 2016, when Salamon took her place; as of May 2022, she continues to serve in that capacity. Salamon, Jesse Liptrap and Michael Blume currently sit on the board of directors.

Funding

As of June 2022, CFAR has received over 3.5 million in funding from Open Philanthropy,^[2] over $1.6 million from the Survival and Flourishing Fund,^[3]^[4]^[5] and over $300,000 from Effective Altruism Funds.^[6]^[7]

Further reading

Rice, Issa (2017) Timeline of Center for Applied Rationality, Timelines Wiki, July 11.

External links

Center for Applied Rationality. Official website.

Donate to CFAR.

Related entries

Eliezer Yudkowsky | Julia Galef | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | rationality community

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"CFAR is a 501(c)(3) non-profit operating out of Berkeley, California, originally founded in 2012 by Anna Salamon, Julia Galef, Valentine Smith, and Andrew Critch." (Center for Applied Rationality (2022) Mission, Center for Applied Rationality)
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Open Philanthropy (2022) Grants database: Center for Applied Rationality, Open Philanthropy.
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Survival and Flourishing Fund (2018) SFF-2019-Q4 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund.
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Survival and Flourishing Fund (2019) SFF-2020-H2 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund.
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Survival and Flourishing Fund (2020) SFF-2021-H1 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund.
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Long-Term Future Fund (2018) July 2018: Long-Term Future Fund grants, Effective Altruism Funds, July.
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Long-Term Future Fund (2019) April 2019: Long-Term Future Fund grants and recommendations, Effective Altruism Funds, April.

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