5-Day Applied Rationality Workshop for Machine Learning Students & Researchers

The Center for Applied Rationality is a Berkeley-based nonprofit that runs immersive workshops for entrepreneurs, researchers, students, and other ambitious, analytical, practically-minded people. The practice of “applied rationality”, which the workshops aim towards, involves noticing what cognitive algorithms you seem to be running, checking whether those algorithms seem to be helping you form accurate beliefs and achieve your goals, and looking for ways to improve them.

A typical 4-day CFAR workshop costs $3900 to attend, but thanks to a generous grant from the Future of Life Institute this fall we will be running a free five-day workshop for students and researchers in the fields of machine learning and artificial intelligence. All costs are covered by this grant, including room, board, and flights.

The workshop will take place this Aug 30 through Sep 4 in the San Francisco Bay Area and will include:

• 2 days focused on learning models and skills, such as how habits develop and how to redesign your habits.
• 2 days focused on practicing skills and applying them to whichever areas of your life you would like to make improvements on, such as how to make faster progress on projects or how to have more productive collaborations with colleagues.
• 1 day (special to this workshop) focused on discussion of the long-term impact of artificial intelligence, and on what reasoning habits — if spread across the relevant research communities — may increase the probability of positive long-term AI outcomes.

Go here to read more or to apply, or ask questions here.