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Their videos are worth checking out. http://rationality.org/videos/

That said, I am not sure it is rationale to pay $3,900 for four days of training. At least give me a celebrity like Tony Robbins.

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As someone who went, I agree. I think most people who do it right now consider the high price to be a donation to help them scale, rather than an actual product-for-money trade. I'd pay $500, maybe, if I thought the marginal benefit they'd get from my going was negligible. That's how much conferences of that length usually cost, anyway. Also, it's totally right that the techniques aren't exactly the point - you don't go to a tech conference because you can't read about the things presented there elsewhere, you go because you won't focus enough on them. But it's definitely not 4k of value from the workshop, it's 3.5k of giving them momentum to refine and scale the org, and .5k of actual experience.

If it is effective, that is absolutely a reasonable price to pay. Whether it is reasonable given the uncertainty of the effectiveness is debatable.

I also imagine that the high price might be a conscious tactic to increase effectiveness: People will put more effort into something they paid a lot of money for.

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