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| 2017 || {{dts|August 6}}–17 || || SPARC 2017 takes place.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sparc-camp.org/ |title=What is SPARC? {{!}} SPARC on WordPress.com |publisher=SPARC |accessdate=February 24, 2018 |quote=SPARC—the Summer Program on Applied Rationality and Cognition—will be hosted in the San Francisco Bay Area from August 6 – 17, with students arriving the evening of the 6th and leaving the morning of the 17th. |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170603013601/https://sparc-camp.org/ |archivedate=June 3, 2017 |dead-url=yes}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|December 17}} || || CFAR publishes three documents on its website: its 2017 Impact Report, a 2017 Retrospective, and information on its 2017 Fundraiser.<ref name="fundraiser-2017" />|-| 2018 || {{dts|January 10}} || || CFAR announces that it has exceeded its 2017 fundraising target.<ref name="fundraiser-2017">{{cite web |url=http://rationality.org/resources/updates/2017/cfar-2017-fundraiser |title=CFAR 2017 Fundraiser |accessdate=February 24, 2018 |publisher=[[wikipedia:Center for Applied Rationality|Center for Applied Rationality]]}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{dts|January 19}} || || CFAR instructor Michael "Valentine" Smith begins posting about kenshō on LessWrong.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/tMhEv28KJYWsu6Wdo/kensh |title=Kenshō |author=Michael "Valentine" Smith |date=January 19, 2018 |publisher=LessWrong |accessdate=February 24, 2018}}</ref> He would follow up on the initial post in late February with "The Real-World Omega"<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/AqbWna2S85pFTsHH4/the-real-world-omega |title=The Real-World Omega |accessdate=February 24, 2018}}</ref> and "Mythic Mode".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/HnWN6v4wHQwmYQCLX/mythic-mode |title=Mythic Mode |accessdate=February 24, 2018}}</ref> Kenshō hasn't been discussed officially by CFAR (in particular, Valentine's post seems to be made from a personal capacity), but it seems to be one of the things being discussed in person by CFAR people.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/tMhEv28KJYWsu6Wdo/kensh#vDST8wTjsiWKCjZ3y |title=Comment on "Kenshō" |accessdate=February 24, 2018 |author=Qiaochu Yuan |quote=It's seemed to me for awhile now that the stuff that people are actually talking about in person (e.g. at CFAR workshops) has far outstripped the pace of what's publicly available in blog post format and I'm really happy to see progress on that front.}}</ref>
