MIRI Updates
July 2021 Newsletter
MIRI updates MIRI researcher Evan Hubinger discusses learned optimization, interpretability, and homogeneity in takeoff speeds on the Inside View podcast. Scott Garrabrant releases part three of "Finite Factored Sets", on conditional orthogonality. UC Berkeley's Daniel Filan provides examples of conditional orthogonality...
June 2021 Newsletter
Our big news this month is Scott Garrabrant's finite factored sets, one of MIRI's largest results to date. For most people, the best introductory resource on FFS is likely Scott’s Topos talk/transcript. Scott is also in the process of posting...
Finite Factored Sets
[mathjax] This is the edited transcript of a talk introducing finite factored sets. For most readers, it will probably be the best starting point for learning about factored sets. Video: (Lightly edited) slides: https://intelligence.org/files/Factored-Set-Slides.pdf (Part 1, Title Slides)...
May 2021 Newsletter
MIRI senior researcher Scott Garrabrant has a major new result, “Finite Factored Sets,” that he’ll be unveiling in an online talk this Sunday at noon Pacific time. (Zoom link.) For context on the result, see Scott’s new post “Saving Time.”...
Saving Time
Note: This is a preamble to Finite Factored Sets, a sequence I’ll be posting over the next few weeks. This Sunday at noon Pacific time, I’ll be giving a Zoom talk (link) introducing Finite Factored Sets, a framework which I...
Our all-time largest donation, and major crypto support from Vitalik Buterin
I’m thrilled to announce two major donations to MIRI! First, a long-time supporter has given MIRI by far our largest donation ever: $2.5 million per year over the next four years, and an additional ~$5.6 million in 2025. This...
