Facing the Intelligence Explosion is now available as an ebook! You can get it here. It is available as a “pay-what-you-want” package that includes the ebook in three formats: MOBI, EPUB, and PDF. It is also available on Amazon Kindle (US, Canada, UK, and most others) and the Apple iBookstore (US, Canada, UK and most… Read more »
Posts By: Luke Muehlhauser
The Lean Nonprofit
Can Lean Startup methods work for nonprofits? The Lean Startup‘s author Eric Ries seems to think so: A startup is a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty… Anyone who is creating a new product or business under conditions of extreme uncertainty is an entrepreneur whether he… Read more »
Early draft of naturalistic reflection paper
Update: See Reflection in Probabilistic Logic for more details on how this result relates to MIRI’s research mission. In a recent blog post we described one of the results of our 1st MIRI Workshop on Logic, Probability, and Reflection: The participants worked on the foundations of probabilistic reflective reasoning. In particular, they showed that a careful formalization… Read more »
Upcoming MIRI Research Workshops
From November 11-18, 2012, we held (what we now call) the 1st MIRI Workshop on Logic, Probability, and Reflection. This workshop had four participants: Eliezer Yudkowsky (MIRI) Paul Christiano (UC Berkeley) Marcello Herreshoff (Google) Mihály Bárász (Google) The participants worked on the foundations of probabilistic reflective reasoning. In particular, they showed that a careful formalization… Read more »
Welcome to Intelligence.org
Welcome to the new home for the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), formerly called “The Singularity Institute.” The new design (from Katie Hartman, who also designed the new site for CFAR) reflects our recent shift in focus from “movement-building” to technical research. Our research and our research advisors are featured prominently on the home page,… Read more »
We are now the “Machine Intelligence Research Institute” (MIRI)
When Singularity University (SU) acquired the Singularity Summit from us in December, we also agreed to change the name of our institute to avoid brand confusion between the Singularity Institute and Singularity University. After much discussion and market research, we’ve chosen our new name. We are now the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI). Naturally, both our… Read more »
2012 Winter Matching Challenge a Success!
Thanks to our dedicated supporters, we met our goal for our 2012 Winter Fundraiser. Thank you! The fundraiser ran for 45 days, from December 6, 2012 to January 20, 2013. We met our $115,000 goal, raising a total of $230,000 for our operations in 2013. Every donation that the Machine Intelligence Research Institute receives is… Read more »
2012 Winter Matching Challenge!
Thanks to the generosity of several major donors,† every donation to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute made now until January 5th, 2013 will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to a total of $115,000! Donate Now! $0 $28.75K $57.5K $86.25K $115K Now is your chance to double your impact while helping us raise up to $230,000 to… Read more »
