MIRI Updates
Security Mindset and the Logistic Success Curve
Follow-up to: Security Mindset and Ordinary Paranoia (Two days later, Amber returns with another question.) AMBER: Uh, say, Coral. How important is security mindset when you’re building a whole new kind of system—say, one subject to potentially adverse optimization pressures,...
Security Mindset and Ordinary Paranoia
The following is a fictional dialogue building off of AI Alignment: Why It’s Hard, and Where to Start. (AMBER, a philanthropist interested in a more reliable Internet, and CORAL, a computer security professional, are at a conference hotel together...
Announcing “Inadequate Equilibria”
MIRI Senior Research Fellow Eliezer Yudkowsky has a new book out today: Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck, a discussion of societal dysfunction, exploitability, and self-evaluation. From the preface: Inadequate Equilibria is a book about a generalized notion...
A major grant from the Open Philanthropy Project
I’m thrilled to announce that the Open Philanthropy Project has awarded MIRI a three-year $3.75 million general support grant ($1.25 million per year). This grant is, by far, the largest contribution MIRI has received to date, and will have a...
November 2017 Newsletter
Eliezer Yudkowsky has written a new book on civilizational dysfunction and outperformance: Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck. The full book will be available in print and electronic formats November 16. To preorder the ebook or sign up...
New paper: “Functional Decision Theory”
MIRI senior researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky and executive director Nate Soares have a new introductory paper out on decision theory: “Functional decision theory: A new theory of instrumental rationality.” Abstract: This paper describes and motivates a new decision theory known as...
