Co-authored with Jonah Sinick. How big is the field of AI, and how big was it in the past? This question is relevant to several issues in AGI safety strategy. To name just two examples: AI forecasting. Some people forecast...
On January 16th, 2014, MIRI met with Holden Karnofsky to discuss existential risk strategy. The participants were: Eliezer Yudkowsky (research fellow at MIRI) Luke Muehlhauser (executive director at MIRI) Holden Karnofsky (co-CEO at GiveWell) We recorded and transcribed the conversation,...
This is the 2nd part of my personal and qualitative self-review of MIRI in 2013. By “outreach” I refer to general outreach efforts, rather than e.g. outreach to specific researchers, which will be discussed in the post about MIRI’s 2013...
Recently, Mt.Gox and Ripple creator Jed McCaleb gave MIRI a large donation in XRP, which is the #2 cryptocurrency in market cap behind Bitcoin. This gift, along with our recent successful fundraiser, should enable us to hire the beginnings of...
Dear friends,Wow! MIRI’s donors finished our Winter 2013 fundraising drive three weeks early. Our sincere thanks to everyone who contributed. Research Updates MIRI’s December workshop resulted in 7 new technical reports and one new paper. Photos from the workshop are...
On October 27th, 2013, MIRI met with three additional members of the effective altruism community to discuss MIRI’s organizational strategy. The participants were: Eliezer Yudkowsky (research fellow at MIRI) Luke Muehlhauser (executive director at MIRI) Holden Karnofsky (co-CEO at GiveWell)...
