MIRI’s December 2013 Newsletter

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MIRI’s winter 2013 matching fundraiser is on! All donations made by January 15th will be matched by Peter Thiel, with 3x matching for “new large donors”: if you’ve given less than $5,000 total in the past, and now give or pledge $5,000 or more, your impact will be quadrupled! Reply to this email if you’d like to ask whether you qualify for 3x matching.

Here is a recent snapshot of our fundraising progress so far:

Other News Updates

• Louie Helm’s review of Our Final Invention has been published at Singularity Hub.
• Volunteers are needed to proofread a large ebook of Eliezer’s LessWrong.com writings.

Research Updates

• Our 6th research workshop is ongoing. See details on all our workshops here.
• New paper: “Racing to the Precipice.” A game-theoretic model of AI development.
• New paper: “Predicting AGI: What can we say when we know so little?” Argues for a Pareto-distributed prior over the time until we can see that AGI is within reach.
• New interview: Scott Aaronson (MIT) on philosophical progress.

As always, please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any questions or comments.