MIRI Updates
January 2015 Newsletter
Thanks to the generosity of 80+ donors, we completed our winter 2014 matching challenge, raising $200,000 for our research program. Many, many thanks to all who contributed! Research Updates Our major project of the past five months has been...
Our new technical research agenda overview
Today we release a new overview of MIRI’s technical research agenda, “Aligning Superintelligence with Human Interests: A Technical Research Agenda,” by Nate Soares and Benja Fallenstein. The preferred place to discuss this report is here. The report begins: The characteristic...
2014 Winter Matching Challenge Completed!
Wow! Thanks to the generosity of 75+ donors, today we successfully completed our 2014 Winter Matching Challenge—over 3 weeks ahead of our deadline—raising more than $200,000 total (with matching) for our research program. Many, many thanks to everyone who contributed!
...New report: “Computable probability distributions which converge…”
Back in July 2013, Will Sawin (Princeton) and Abram Demski (USC) wrote a technical report describing a result from that month’s MIRI research workshop. We are finally releasing that report today. It is titled “Computable probability distributions which converge on...
New report: “Toward Idealized Decision Theory”
Today we release a new technical report by Nate Soares and Benja Fallenstein, “Toward idealized decision theory.” If you’d like to discuss the paper, please do so here. Abstract: This paper motivates the study of decision theory as necessary for...
New report: “Tiling agents in causal graphs”
Today we release a new technical report by Nate Soares, “Tiling agents in causal graphs.” The report begins: Fallenstein and Soares [2014] demonstrates that it’s possible for certain types of proof-based agents to “tile” (license the construction of successor agents...
