Greetings from the Executive Director Dear friends, The big news this month is that Paul Christiano and Eliezer Yudkowsky are giving talks at Harvard and MIT about the work coming out of MIRI’s workshops, on Oct. 15th and 17th, respectively...
In 1979, Michael Rabin proved that his encryption system could be inverted — so as to decrypt the encrypted message — only if an attacker could factor n. And since this factoring task is computationally hard for any sufficiently large...
On October 15th from 4:30-5:30pm, MIRI workshop participant Paul Christiano will give a technical talk at the Harvard University Science Center, room 507, as part of the Logic at Harvard seminar and colloquium. Christiano’s title and abstract are: Probabilistic metamathematics...
Paul S. Rosenbloom is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California and a project leader at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies. He was a key member of USC’s Information Sciences Institute for two decades, leading new directions...
Last month, MIRI research fellow Carl Shulman ((Carl was a MIRI research fellow at the time of the conversation, but left MIRI at the end of August 2013 to study computer science.)) participated in a recorded debate/conversation about effective altruism...
MIRI has now partnered with Double the Donation, a company that makes it easier for donors to take advantage of donation matching programs offered by their employers. More than 65% of Fortune 500 companies match employee donations, and 40% offer...
