Earlier this year, a student told us he was writing an honors thesis on logical decisions theories such as TDT and UDT — one of MIRI’s core research areas. Our reply was “Why didn’t you tell us this earlier? When can we fly you to Berkeley to help you with it?”
So we flew Danny Hintze to Berkeley and he spent a couple days with Eliezer Yudkowsky to clarify the ideas for the thesis. Then Danny went home and wrote what is probably the best current introduction to logical decision theories.
Inspired by this success, today we are launching the Friendly AI Research Help program, which encourages students of mathematics, computer science, and formal philosophy to collaborate and consult with our researchers to help steer and inform their work.
Apply for research help here.
