anyway: CFAR is the Center for Applied Rationality, which offered kind of bullshit "rationalist" self-help classes.
to the credit of the community at large, they seem to have recoiled en masse and refused to take stuff at CFAR any more.
brent dill happened 2018, and cfar shuttered 2020
to the credit of the community at large, they seem to have recoiled en masse and refused to take stuff at CFAR any more.
brent dill happened 2018, and cfar shuttered 2020
September 18, 2026 at 2:33 AM
anyway: CFAR is the Center for Applied Rationality, which offered kind of bullshit "rationalist" self-help classes.
to the credit of the community at large, they seem to have recoiled en masse and refused to take stuff at CFAR any more.
brent dill happened 2018, and cfar shuttered 2020
to the credit of the community at large, they seem to have recoiled en masse and refused to take stuff at CFAR any more.
brent dill happened 2018, and cfar shuttered 2020
A SF startup is secretly testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims
sfstandard.com/2026/05/28/s...
sfstandard.com/2026/05/28/s...
A SF startup is secretly testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims
The guests behind the bookings have received negative reviews from a number of Bay Area hosts, alleging they damaged the property and personal belongings.
sfstandard.com
May 29, 2026 at 2:54 AM
meant to quote this tweet but putting it on a CFAR quote tweet is funnier
(CFAR? get it? see... far.... hahahaha)
(CFAR? get it? see... far.... hahahaha)
in return for this precarity you have access to the best job network on the planet and a house and friends and if you ever disagree that AI is the most important and scariest thing ever you will lose all of that.
you're invited to a rape orgy. your boyfriend wants to do no safeword. can you say no?
you're invited to a rape orgy. your boyfriend wants to do no safeword. can you say no?
September 19, 2026 at 7:57 PM
meant to quote this tweet but putting it on a CFAR quote tweet is funnier
(CFAR? get it? see... far.... hahahaha)
(CFAR? get it? see... far.... hahahaha)
5 strips of latinum says that the Secretary of Defense has never actually watched an episode of Star Trek.
gizmodo.com/star-trek-re...
gizmodo.com/star-trek-re...
'Star Trek Real': Hegseth Praises Grok for Allowing Users to Fight Wars
gizmodo.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:29 PM
We should have nuked LessWrong from orbit. Burned CFAR to the ground and salted the earth. Built a wall around burning man.
fascism is about being scared of how abstractions work. that’s why so many computer programmers love it, because they are scared of abstractions and so over-cathect into abstractions they think they know how to mentally control
February 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We should have nuked LessWrong from orbit. Burned CFAR to the ground and salted the earth. Built a wall around burning man.
Read this. I'm fucking angry at the institutional protection of abuse described here. CFAR admits its failed abuse review could have made people trust an abuser more. I don't owe these institutions deference because their ideas helped shape the systems I think with.
September 24, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Read this. I'm fucking angry at the institutional protection of abuse described here. CFAR admits its failed abuse review could have made people trust an abuser more. I don't owe these institutions deference because their ideas helped shape the systems I think with.
Yes we were going to get to ziz, who proved that saying CFAR is wrong does not mean you are right
September 18, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Yes we were going to get to ziz, who proved that saying CFAR is wrong does not mean you are right
And right about then, I tune out and tune in to a film like this:
bsky.app/profile/cfar...
bsky.app/profile/cfar...
When I watch a film about what the "Greatest Generation" had to go through in this Country right along with our British allies, ONLY TO HAVE IT ALL RUINED AND BLOWN UP by a common white trash, flippant little nothing, no-count smegbag conman, convict and a duncebag to boot, it makes me LIVID!!!
Watch The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare | Netflix
In World War 2, the British military assembles a highly-skilled team of misfit soldiers for a covert mission behind enemy lines to sabotage Nazi U-boats.
www.netflix.com
September 17, 2026 at 5:53 AM
And right about then, I tune out and tune in to a film like this:
bsky.app/profile/cfar...
bsky.app/profile/cfar...
it was actually Ziz's accounts of the workshops and exercises at CFAR events that made me go "OH SHIT this is just AI Synanon"
March 4, 2025 at 4:43 AM
it was actually Ziz's accounts of the workshops and exercises at CFAR events that made me go "OH SHIT this is just AI Synanon"
🚀 Preprint alert: cFAR and Relative Signal: Diagnosing Preferred Orientation in Single-Particle #CryoEM
Explore how cFAR, tFAR, and Relative Signal provide complementary diagnostics for preferred orientation, tested across 14 #EMPIAR datasets and compared with established metrics 👉 bit.ly/4wBY1Ev
Explore how cFAR, tFAR, and Relative Signal provide complementary diagnostics for preferred orientation, tested across 14 #EMPIAR datasets and compared with established metrics 👉 bit.ly/4wBY1Ev
August 17, 2026 at 12:00 PM
🚀 Preprint alert: cFAR and Relative Signal: Diagnosing Preferred Orientation in Single-Particle #CryoEM
Explore how cFAR, tFAR, and Relative Signal provide complementary diagnostics for preferred orientation, tested across 14 #EMPIAR datasets and compared with established metrics 👉 bit.ly/4wBY1Ev
Explore how cFAR, tFAR, and Relative Signal provide complementary diagnostics for preferred orientation, tested across 14 #EMPIAR datasets and compared with established metrics 👉 bit.ly/4wBY1Ev
UNBELIEVABLE!!!
WHO IS THE ASIAN MAN STANDING BEHIND DUNCEBAG AND WHAT DID HE DO WITH WITH THAT FILE? IN HIS HAND?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwsd...
WHO IS THE ASIAN MAN STANDING BEHIND DUNCEBAG AND WHAT DID HE DO WITH WITH THAT FILE? IN HIS HAND?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwsd...
Trump welcomes Xi Jinping for a state dinner at the White House
YouTube video by Associated Press
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September 25, 2026 at 1:48 PM
incredible that you unironically have people defending the honor of "does not bathe" lady on here. i could care less about her adult activities! but it feels odd to ignore when rationalists at MIRI/CFAR and all end up in insular relationships and then set policy based on groupthink
like putting aside *what* happens at those events (i could care less, tbf), it would be odd to ignore how insular these communities are
September 17, 2026 at 12:05 PM
incredible that you unironically have people defending the honor of "does not bathe" lady on here. i could care less about her adult activities! but it feels odd to ignore when rationalists at MIRI/CFAR and all end up in insular relationships and then set policy based on groupthink
MIRI and CFAR out here doing everything that people blamed MKULTRA for
The Less Wrong / rationalist scene seems to have spawned its own Manson family openvallejo.org/2025/01/27/s...
Suspects in killings of Vallejo witness, Vermont Border Patrol agent connected by marriage license, extreme ideology
Both suspects attended the prestigious Lakeside School in Seattle, studied computer science, and appear to sympathize with fringe Bay Area group described as a “murder gang.”
openvallejo.org
January 28, 2025 at 4:48 AM
MIRI and CFAR out here doing everything that people blamed MKULTRA for
Right, "debugging", yes, that was the term, that's crystallising the memory I have of how even members of rationalist group houses thought CFAR had gone off the rails by 2022, and specifically I was told multiple people had gone insane and required health intervention for self-harm after "debugging"
September 26, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Right, "debugging", yes, that was the term, that's crystallising the memory I have of how even members of rationalist group houses thought CFAR had gone off the rails by 2022, and specifically I was told multiple people had gone insane and required health intervention for self-harm after "debugging"
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October 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
note:
1) he exploited his partners' desperation for money and housing
2) he used BDSM concepts to justify doing things that are well over the line into abuse
3) IMHO, it seems likely he would have killed someone at some point
4) everyone seems to have felt CFAR covered it up because he was useful
1) he exploited his partners' desperation for money and housing
2) he used BDSM concepts to justify doing things that are well over the line into abuse
3) IMHO, it seems likely he would have killed someone at some point
4) everyone seems to have felt CFAR covered it up because he was useful
September 18, 2026 at 2:33 AM
note:
1) he exploited his partners' desperation for money and housing
2) he used BDSM concepts to justify doing things that are well over the line into abuse
3) IMHO, it seems likely he would have killed someone at some point
4) everyone seems to have felt CFAR covered it up because he was useful
1) he exploited his partners' desperation for money and housing
2) he used BDSM concepts to justify doing things that are well over the line into abuse
3) IMHO, it seems likely he would have killed someone at some point
4) everyone seems to have felt CFAR covered it up because he was useful
September 21, 2026 at 4:07 PM
How effective are license plate readers? Richmond wants to know www.eastbaytimes.com/2026/09/23/r...
How effective are license plate readers? Richmond wants to know
RICHMOND — Before committing to a new automatic license plate readers contract, Richmond officials voted to seek for more information about the surveillance system’s crime-fighting efficacy. Richmond ...
www.eastbaytimes.com
September 23, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Update: Gyges says he can't stand by everything in the article and hasn't been sued. My point about CFAR rests on its own published statement. I should have made clearer that I hadn't independently verified the article's other allegations.
I should clarify that I have not been sued, I just don't think I can stand by everything in the article.
September 24, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Update: Gyges says he can't stand by everything in the article and hasn't been sued. My point about CFAR rests on its own published statement. I should have made clearer that I hadn't independently verified the article's other allegations.
Standard grains of salt for Zizian sources apply here, but they had quite a few things to say about CFAR/MIRI and Anna Salamon you might find of interest here: web.archive.org/web/20230308...
Case study: CFAR – Everything to Save It
web.archive.org
September 26, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Standard grains of salt for Zizian sources apply here, but they had quite a few things to say about CFAR/MIRI and Anna Salamon you might find of interest here: web.archive.org/web/20230308...
It takes less than a minute to figure out that MIRI, CFAR, LessWrong, MATS, Topos, etc are all a closed circle of dark tech (mostly Thiel) money that's bought influence by pretending to be legit scientific institutes. This is not a deep conspiracy, they're very open about it!
November 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
It takes less than a minute to figure out that MIRI, CFAR, LessWrong, MATS, Topos, etc are all a closed circle of dark tech (mostly Thiel) money that's bought influence by pretending to be legit scientific institutes. This is not a deep conspiracy, they're very open about it!
Also, of course the gross men who run the EA cults use their noodle-brained rationalist logic to justify sexually assaulting women:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
April 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Also, of course the gross men who run the EA cults use their noodle-brained rationalist logic to justify sexually assaulting women:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
So much important work being done on HIV research at UAB. Their CFAR group is top-flight.
February 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
So much important work being done on HIV research at UAB. Their CFAR group is top-flight.