MIRI Updates
Richard Waters wrote a story on MIRI and others for Financial Times, which also put Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence at the top of its summer science reading list. It’s a good piece. Go read it and then come back here so...
Today we release a new technical report from MIRI research associate Tsvi Benson-Tilsen: “UDT with known search order.” Abstract: We consider logical agents in a predictable universe running a variant of updateless decision theory. We give an algorithm to predict...
Earlier today I was alerted to the existence of Singularity2014.com (archived screenshot). MIRI has nothing to do with that website and we believe it is a fake. The website claims there is a “Singularity 2014″ conference “in the Bay Area”...
Today we release a paper describing a new problem area in Friendly AI research we call corrigibility. The report (PDF) is co-authored by MIRI’s Friendly AI research team (Eliezer Yudkowsky, Benja Fallenstein, Nate Soares) and also Stuart Armstrong from the...
The [latest IPCC] report says, “If you put into place all these technologies and international agreements, we could still stop warming at [just] 2 degrees.” My own assessment is that the kinds of actions you’d need to do that are...
On September 18th, MIRI research fellow Nate Soares spoke at Purdue University’s Dawn or Doom seminar. Slides, video, and a transcript of his talk — “Why ain’t you rich? Why Our Current Understanding of ‘Rational Choice’ Isn’t Good Enough for...