Center for Applied Rationality

As of June 2022, CFAR has received over $1.63.5 million in funding from Open Philanthropy,^[2]  over $1.6 million from the Survival and Flourishing Fund.^[2]Fund,^[3][4][5] and over $300,000 from Effective Altruism Funds.^[6][7]

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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.

Funding

As of June 2022, CFAR has received over $1.6 million in funding from the Survival and Flourishing Fund.^[2][3][4]

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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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   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.

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 JanuaryMay 2022, she continues to serve in that capacity. Salamon, Jesse Liptrap and Michael Blume currently sit on the board of directors.

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The Center for Applied Rationality is a nonprofit organization based in BerkeleyBerkeley, 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 January 2022, she continues to serve in that capacity. Salamon, Jesse Liptrap and Michael Blume currently sit on the board of directors.

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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)

BibliographyFurther reading

Rice, Issa Rice et al (2020)(2017) Timeline of Center for Applied Rationality, Timelines Wiki, July 11.

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

Bibliography

Issa Rice et al (2020) Timeline of Center for Applied Rationality

External links

Center for Applied Rationality. Official website.

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