Mission | Center for Applied Rationality - on itself  ## Metadata - Author: **on itself** - Full Title: Mission | Center for Applied Rationality - Category: #articles - URL: https://www.rationality.org/about/mission ## Highlights - CFAR exists to try to make headway in this domain—the domain of understanding how human cognition already works, in practice, such that we can then start the process of making useful changes, such that we will be better positioned to solve the problems that really matter. We are neither about pure research nor pure execution, but about applied rationality—the middle ground where the rubber hits the road, where one’s models meet reality, and where one’s ideas and plans either pay off (or they don’t).