MIRI COO Malo Bourgon reviews our past year and discusses our future plans in 2020 Updates and Strategy. Our biggest update is that we've made less concrete progress than we expected on the new research we described in 2018 Update:...
MIRI researcher Scott Garrabrant has completed his Cartesian Frames sequence. Scott also covers the first two posts' contents in video form. Other MIRI updates Contrary to my previous announcement, MIRI won’t be running a formal fundraiser this year, though we’ll still...
Starting today, Scott Garrabrant has begun posting Cartesian Frames, a sequence introducing a new conceptual framework Scott has found valuable for thinking about agency. In Scott's words: Cartesian Frames are “applying reasoning like Pearl's to objects like game theory's, with...
Abram Demski and Scott Garrabrant have made a major update to "Embedded Agency", with new discussions of ε-exploration, Newcomblike problems, reflective oracles, logical uncertainty, Goodhart's law, and predicting rare catastrophes, among other topics. Abram has also written an overview of what good...
MIRI updates Three questions from MIRI's Abram Demski: What does it mean to apply decision theory?, How “honest” is GPT-3?, and How should AI debate be judged? A transcript from MIRI researcher Scott Garrabrant: What Would I Do? Self-Prediction in Simple...
After completing a study fellowship at MIRI that he began in late 2019, Blake Jones is joining the MIRI research team full-time! Blake joins MIRI after a long career working on low-level software systems such as the Solaris operating system...
