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| 2018 || {{dts|January 19}} || || CFAR instructor Michael "Valentine" Smith begins posting about [[wikipedia:Kenshō|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>
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| 2018 || {{dts|February}} || Workshop || CFAR collaborates with the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) to conduct the first AI Risk for Computer Scientists (AIRCS) workshop. This would be the first of several AIRCS workshops, with seven more in 2018 and many more in 2019.<ref name=miris-2018-fundraiser>{{cite web |url=https://intelligence.org/2018/11/26/miris-2018-fundraiser/ |title=MIRI's 2018 Fundraiser |publisher=Machine Intelligence Research Institute |date=November 26, 2018 |accessdate=February 14, 2019}}</ref> The page about AIRCS on MIRI's website says: "The material at the workshop is a mixture of human rationality content that’s loosely similar to some CFAR material, and a variety of topics related to AI risk, including thinking about forecasting, different people’s ideas of where the technical problems are, and various potential paths for research."<ref>{{cite web|url = https://intelligence.org/ai-risk-for-computer-scientists/|title = AI Risk for Computer Scientists. Join us for four days of leveling up thinking on AI risk.|accessdate = September 14, 2019|publisher = Machine Intelligence Research Institute}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{dts|February 27}} || Leadership || CFAR announces that it has acquired a permanent venue. In addition, executive director Pete Michaud leaves his position to become an advisor and Timothy Telleen-Lawton becomes the new executive director.<ref name="fundraising-and-leadership">{{cite web |url=http://rationality.org/resources/updates/2018/fundraising-and-leadership-updates |title=Fundraising & Leadership Updates |date=February 27, 2018 |first=Pete |last=Michaud |accessdate=March 1, 2018 |publisher=[[wikipedia:Center for Applied Rationality|Center for Applied Rationality]]}}</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>
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| 2019 || {{w|May}} (announcement), {{w|August 13}}{{snd}}{{w|August 23}} (first example) || ESPR || CFAR announces that the European Summer Program on Rationality (ESPR) is being spun off into a separate organization run by Jan Kulveit, with the ESPR for 2019 (August 13 to August 23) being managed by that organization.<ref name=cfar-may-2019-newsletter>{{cite web|url = https://www.rationality.org/resources/updates/2019/may-newsletter|title = CFAR Newsletter (May 2019)|date = May 30, 2019|accessdate = September 14, 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || {{w|July 24}}{{snd}}{{w|August 2}} || SPARC 2019 takes place.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sparc-camp.org/ |title=What is SPARC? {{!}} SPARC on WordPress.com |publisher=SPARC |accessdate=July 4, 2019 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20190704031208/https://sparc-camp.org/ |archivedate=July 4, 2019 |dead-url=no}}</ref>
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