Awesome. I did the "Rationality Boot Camp" with these folks this past summer, and learned a hell of a lot, and they're a great (and very impressive) group. I would highly recommend taking a Saturday to do this.
The Center for Modern Rationality? I haven't seen that name before, and apparently neither has Google. Is this the announcement of it as the choice for the spin-off organization which Eliezer mentioned? http://lesswrong.com/lw/9lx/help_name_suggestions_needed_for...
Not really an official announcement so much as the name we're calling it now until we settle on a decisive, permanent name by the time we launch not-free workshops. But probably since we've just anchored on it we'll stick with it unless we get hiccups in market testing. From what we've seen, the most common response/objection we've heard is "but what do you mean modern?" which in the scheme of objections we've ever heard is a pretty good one, as that's a good conversation starter for about how modern means based on current cognitive science.
We're doing these on Saturday afternoons at my house near Ashby BART from now until the foreseeable future. Come on by, say hi, and hopefully enjoy an interesting workshop. These are most intended for people without much prior exposure to Less Wrong.
Right now we're testing drafts of interactive units of curriculum, so it's not really a talk format that we can record and upload. Hopefully at some point we'll get to a format more digestible online but for now we're testing locally.
