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Timeline of Center for Applied Rationality

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| 2011 || || || "Over the years, Yudkowsky found that people struggled to think clearly about A.I. risk and were often dismissive of it. In 2011, Salamon, who had been working at MIRI since 2008, volunteered to figure out how to overcome that problem."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/magazine/the-happiness-code.html |date=January 14, 2016 |publisher=[[wikipedia:The New York Times|The New York Times]] |title=The Happiness Code: A new approach to self-improvement is taking off in Silicon Valley: cold, hard rationality. |author=Jennifer Kahn |accessdate=July 12, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2011 (summer) || || Workshop || A rationality minicamp takes place.<ref name="salamon-2012-03-29-minicamps" />
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| 2011 || {{dts|July 18}} || Legal || The Articles of Incorporation for CFAR, at the time called the Feynman Foundation, are written. It would be approved on July 26.<ref name="articles-of-incorporation">{{cite web |url=http://www.rationality.org/files/center-for-applied-rationality-articles-of-incorporation.pdf |title=Articles of Incorporation Of Feynman Foundation |accessdate=July 9, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2011 || {{dts|July 26}} || Legal || CFAR, at the time called the Feynman Foundation, is approved by the US Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rationality.org/files/center-for-applied-rationality-nonprofit-irs-approval.pdf |title=Center for Applied Rationality Nonprofit IRS Approval |accessdate=July 8, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{dts|May 8}} || || MIRI's April 2012 progress report is published, in which CFAR's name is announced. Until this point, CFAR was known as the "Rationality Group" or "Rationality Org".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://intelligence.org/2012/05/08/singularity-institute-progress-report-april-2012/ |title=Machine Intelligence Research Institute Progress Report, April 2012 |publisher=Machine Intelligence Research Institute |date=May 8, 2012 |author=Louie Helm |accessdate=June 30, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{dts|May 11}}–13 || Workshop || A rationality minicamp takes place.<ref name="salamon-2012-03-29-minicamps">{{cite web |url=http://lesswrong.com/lw/b98/minicamps_on_rationality_and_awesomeness_may_1113/ |title=Minicamps on Rationality and Awesomeness: May 11-13, June 22-24, and July 21-28 |date=March 29, 2012 |author=Anna Salamon |accessdate=July 11, 2017 |publisher=[[wikipedia:LessWrong|LessWrong]]}}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{dts|June 22}}–24 || Workshop || A rationality minicamp takes place.<ref name="salamon-2012-03-29-minicamps" />
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| 2012 || {{dts|July 7}} || || CFAR's Twitter account, CFARnews, is created.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/cfarnews |title=CFAR news (@CFARnews) |publisher=Twitter |accessdate=July 11, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{dts|July 10}} || Legal || The CFAR Articles of Incorporation are amended to rename the corporation from "Feynman Foundation" to "Center For Applied Rationality".<ref name="articles-of-incorporation" />
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| 2012 || {{dts|July 21}}–28 || Workshop || A rationality minicamp takes place.<ref name="salamon-2012-03-29-minicamps" />
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| 2012 || {{dts|August 6}}–13 || SPARC || SPARC 2012 takes place.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c1874h1028489_new_free_summer_camp_on_math_and_rationality |title=Art of Problem Solving Blog : New Free Summer Camp On Math and Rationality |date=April 20, 2012 |author=rrusczyk |quote=SPARC will be held at UC Berkeley from August 6th to 13th and is open to high school students, including rising freshmen and graduating seniors.|accessdate=July 13, 2017}}</ref> This is the first SPARC.

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