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Giving my Harry Potter genetics talk at camp (you may want to click to read the text)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

After spending a week at geek summer camp (not that one!<\/a>) in July 2012, I never got around to assembling the index post for all the blogging I did in response to the workshop. \u00a0But, at least I\u2019m just sneaking in ahead of\u00a0this<\/a><\/em> year\u2019s workshop<\/a>. \u00a0I still think the best summary of CFAR\u2019s workshops is the one I posted last year:<\/p>\n

This is the kind of summer camp where, before you go, they send you and two close friends a detailed survey, so they have a baseline to assess the impact of the camp on you in a year when they do the follow up. \u00a0Squee!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here\u2019s what I ended up writing and learning. \u00a0It starts relatively object level, but, after the classes are over, I wade into some slightly more tangential questions.<\/p>\n

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  1. Happy Birthday to Me! I\u2019m off to Geek Summer Camp!<\/a> \u2013 A brief explanation of CFAR and a link to one of my favorite Less Wrong thought experiments<\/li>\n
  2. Conceding a Point is not a Slippery Slope<\/a> \u2013 Man, if I could magically change one attitude people had about arguments, it would probably be this<\/li>\n
  3. Play Along with Rationality Camp at Home!<\/a> \u2013 A few games you can play (one of which I invented!) to check how confident you are in your beliefs<\/li>\n
  4. Markets in Everything!<\/a> \u2013 In which my schemes in the predictive markets are derailed when I awaken the moral sensibilities of others at an inopportune moment<\/li>\n
  5. If only someone had said this to Stoic!Teenaged!Leah<\/a> \u2013 One rationality class managed to shift how I thought about strong emotions<\/li>\n
  6. 7 Less Wrong Links<\/a> \u2013 For that week\u2019s Quick Takes, a quick tour through some of my favorite posts from Less Wrong<\/li>\n
  7. Which Voldemort is Scariest?<\/a> \u2013 Contrasting Canon!Voldemort and HPMOR!Voldemort and thinking about the Tricky Dick Nixon ploy.<\/li>\n
  8. The Gift my Weirdo Debate Friends Gave Me<\/a> \u2013 It was funny to be at a rationality workshop and notice where the practices were already popping up in my life, like the strange examples my debate friends used to stay relatively grounded while spelunking in metaphysics.<\/li>\n
  9. \u201cDidn\u2019t you ever break on the floor?\u201d<\/a> \u2013 A week of rationalist training, made me very proud and grateful to come out of a debate community<\/a> where it was a virtue<\/em> to admit you were wrong.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    After spending a week at geek summer camp (not that one!) in July 2012, I never got around to assembling the index post for all the blogging I did in response to the workshop. \u00a0But, at least I\u2019m just sneaking in ahead of\u00a0this year\u2019s workshop. \u00a0I still think the best summary of CFAR\u2019s workshops is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":7574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[185],"class_list":["post-7569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sequence-index","tag-lesswrong-retreat"],"yoast_head":"\nMy Week at Rationalist Summer Camp [Sequence Index]<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After spending a week at geek summer camp (not that one!) in July 2012, I never got around to assembling the index post for all the blogging I did in\" \/>\n<meta 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