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| 2018 || {{dts|September 21}} || Controversy (Brent Dill) || In response to the controversy surrounding allegations of sexual harassment and other manipulative behavior by community member Brent Dill, CFAR disbands the Alumni Community Disputes Council (ACDC) because of poor decisionmaking by ACDC related to the controversy. CFAR Executive Director Timothy Telleen-Lawton contritely states: "To the extent that CFAR did not provide ACDC with sufficient resources and oversight to properly execute its larger mission, that is our fault and not the fault of the volunteer council members. We want to understand the details of what went wrong and how to do better going forward. We have only just started that process and will provide updates to the community once we have them. In the meantime, in addition to the actions above, we offer our apologies to the involved parties, and to all in our alumni network and in the broader community who needed better leadership in this situation."<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.rationality.org/resources/updates/2018/acdc|title = ACDC Update and Apology|date = September 21, 2018|accessdate = September 14, 2019|last = Telleen-Lawton|first = Timothy|publisher = Center for Applied Rationality}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{dts|October}}{{snd}}{{dts|November}} || Leadership || Around this time, Duncan Sabien transitions from his full-time and key role in CFAR to a part-time role. His involvement would reduce to zero by April 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.facebook.com/duncan.sabien/posts/2483881418313227|title = Hey, everyone, just a quick status update: my part-time professional involvement with CFAR has now gone to zero.|date = April 21, 2019|accessdate = September 14, 2019|last = Sabien|first = Duncan}}</ref> In May 2019, Sabien would say that the CFAR of 2019 and 2020, under Telleen-Lawton, would look quite different from the CFAR shaped by Sabien in the last few years.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.facebook.com/duncan.sabien/posts/2519421394759229|title = I predict that the Center for Applied Rationality of 2019 and 2020 and beyond will be not-at-all "Duncan shaped."|last = Sabien|first = Duncan|date = May 12, 2019|accessdate = September 14, 2019}}</ref> Sabien's treatment of the Brent Dill affair had attracted controversy, and CFAR's post on its mistakes regarding right around the affair mentioned Sabien.<ref name=cfars-mistakes-regardingtime of his transition to a part-brent>{{cite web|url = https://www.rationalitytime role.org/resources/updates/2019/cfars-mistakes-regarding-brent|title = CFAR's Mistakes Regarding Brent|date = March 21, 2019|accessdate = September 14, 2019|publisher = Center for Applied Rationality|last = Telleen-Lawton|first = Timothy}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://jbeshir.tumblr.com/post/178335220773/responses-to-the-brent-dill-affair|title = Responses To The Brent Dill Affair|last = Beshir|first = John|date = September 22, 2018|accessdate = September 14, 2019}}</ref> According to CFAR leadership, Sabien's transition to part-time and later eventual departure was unrelated to the Brent Dill controversy.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://files.vipulnaik.com/correspondence/anna-salamon-email-about-duncan-sabien.txt|title = Anna Salamon email about Duncan Sabien (reproduced with permission)|date = April 10, 2020|accessdate = April 17, 2020|last = Salamon|first = Anna}}</ref>
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| 2019 || {{dts|March 21}} || Controversy (Brent Dill) || CFAR Executive Director Timothy Telleen-Lawton publishes a postmortem of the controversy from the previous year surrounding Brent Dill.<ref name=cfars-mistakes-regarding-brent>{{cite web|url = https://www.rationality.org/resources/updates/2019/cfars-mistakes-regarding-brent|title = CFAR's Mistakes Regarding Brent|date = March 21, 2019|accessdate = September 14, 2019|publisher = Center for Applied Rationality|last = Telleen-Lawton|first = Timothy}}</ref>
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| 2019 || {{dts|April 23}} || Financial || The Long-Term Future Fund (one of the four Effective Altruism Funds) grants $150,000 to CFAR. The main grant investigator is Oliver Habryka. Habryka explains in the grant write-up that CFAR has a funding shortfall because of their decision not to run a fundraiser in 2018 in the wake of the Brent Dill controversy, so this $150,000 grant helps them get through the next few months without having to make major cuts.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CJJDwgyqT4gXktq6g/long-term-future-fund-april-2019-grant-decisions#CFAR___150_000_|title = CFAR ($150,000)|last = Habryka|first = Oliver|date = April 23, 2019|accessdate = September 14, 2019|publisher = Effective Altruism Forum}}</ref>
| 2019 || {{dts|November}} || Financial || The Survival and Flourishing Fund makes a $150,000 grant to CFAR in its Q4 2019 "S-process" grant round.<ref name=donations-portal-sff/><ref>{{cite web|url = http://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2019-q4|title = SFF-2019-Q4 S-process Recommendations Announcement|publisher = Survival and Flourishing Fund|accessdate = April 18, 2020}}</ref>
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| 2019 || {{dts|November 15}} || Controversy (Jack Lasota) || Four people (Jack Lasota, Gwen Danielson, Emma Borhanian, and Alexander Leatham) wearing Guy Fawkes masks show up to protest a planned CFAR alumni reunion at the te Westminster Woods camp on Bohemian Highway. As children nearby get scared, SWAT teams are called in and police shut down miles of highway. The individuals are arrested, and the alumni reunion resumes the next day.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Mystery-in-Sonoma-County-after-kidnap-arrests-of-14844155.php|title = Mystery in Sonoma County after arrests of protesters in Guy Fawkes masks and robes|last = Gafni|first = Matthias|date = November 18, 2019|accessdate = April 18, 2020|publisher = San Francisco Chronicle}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://sfist.com/2019/11/19/four-people-in-guy-fawkes-masks-scare-sonoma-retreat/|title = Four People In Guy Fawkes Masks Arrested After Scaring Families At West Sonoma Self-Help Retreat|date = November 19, 2019|last = Barmann|first = Jay|date = November 19, 2019|accessdate = April 18, 2020}}</ref> One of the individuals present at the scene would summarize the incident in a Google Doc.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CJPdj0eBg-lII9KKkCAImxkg7x4-Kc4XxfrZTnVfS5c/edit|title = Elizabeth's Account of Reunion Day 1|accessdate = April 18, 2020}}</ref> This is a public manifestation of an ongoing series of accusations against CFAR leadership over the months;<ref>{{cite web|url = https://sinceriously.fyi/|title = Sinceriously|accessdate = April 18, 2020}}</ref> in December, Pete Michaud, former Executive Director of CFAR, would pen on Facebook "a full throated, shameless defense of Anna, my friend and colleague, against untrue and ungrounded accusations."<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157804747854806&id=549224805|title = I’ll preface by saying outright that what follows is a full throated, shameless defense of Anna, my friend and colleague, against untrue and ungrounded accusations. It’s not at all meant to be a sober assessment of verifiable facts, even though it includes some of that.|date = December 19, 2019|accessdate = April 18, 2020|last = Michaud|first = Pete}}</ref> Jack and Gwen would also be banned from commenting on LessWrong for hostile comments on the CFAR AMA.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/96N8BT9tJvybLbn5z/we-run-the-center-for-applied-rationality-ama-happening-now#5W86zzFy48WiLcSg6|title = Moderator note: I've deleted six comments on this thread by users Ziz and Gwen_|date = December 19, 2019|accessdate = April 18, 2020|publisher = LessWrong|last = Habryka|first = Oliver}}</ref>
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| 2019 || {{dts|December 18}}{{snd}}January 15 || Financial || CFAR runs its December fundraiser over this time period. The fundraiser raises $225,552 USD compared to a target of $200,000 and a stretch goal of $650,000.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://rationality.org/fundraiser|title = 2019 CFAR Fundraiser|accessdate = April 18, 2020|publisher = Center for Applied Rationality}}</ref>
===How the timeline was built===
The initial version of the timeline was written by [[User:Issa|Issa Rice]]. The timeline also has significant additions by [[User:Vipul|Vipul Naik]].
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