MIRI Updates
What is the world’s current distribution of computation, and what will it be in the future? This question is relevant to several issues in AGI safety strategy. To name just three examples: If a large government or corporation wanted...
Nik Weaver is a professor of mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis. He did his graduate work at Harvard and Berkeley and received his Ph.D. in 1994. His main interests are functional analysis, quantization, and the foundations of mathematics....
From May 3–11, MIRI will host its 7th Workshop of Logic, Probability, and Reflection. This workshop will focus on decision theory and tiling agents. The participants — all veterans of past workshops — are: Mihály Barasz (Google) Paul Christiano (UC...
Recently, Eliezer and I had an email conversation with Holden Karnofsky to discuss future-oriented philanthropy, including MIRI. The participants were: Eliezer Yudkowsky (research fellow at MIRI) Luke Muehlhauser (executive director at MIRI) Holden Karnofsky (co-CEO at GiveWell) We then edited...
John Baez is a professor of mathematics at U.C. Riverside. Until recently he worked on higher category theory and quantum gravity. His internet column This Week’s Finds dates back to to 1993 and is sometimes called the world’s first blog....
This is the 4th part of my personal and qualitative self-review of MIRI in 2013, in which I review MIRI’s 2013 Friendly AI (FAI) research activities. ((What counts as “Friendly AI research” is, naturally, a matter of debate. For most...