MIRI Updates
“Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics” Released
MIRI’s new, 93-page technical report by Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics,” has now been released. The report explains one of the open problems of our research program. Here’s the abstract: I. J. Good’s thesis of the ‘intelligence explosion’ is that...
“Singularity Hypotheses” Published
Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment has now been published by Springer, in hardcover and ebook forms. The book contains 20 chapters about the prospect of machine superintelligence, including 4 chapters by MIRI researchers and research associates. “Intelligence Explosion:...
Altair’s Timeless Decision Theory Paper Published
During his time as a research fellow for MIRI, Alex Altair wrote a paper on Timeless Decision Theory (TDT) that has now been published: “A Comparison of Decision Algorithms on Newcomblike Problems.” Altair’s paper is both more succinct and also...
MIRI’s April newsletter: Relaunch Celebration and a New Math Result
Greetings from The Executive Director Dear friends, These are exciting times at MIRI. After years of awareness-raising and capacity-building, we have finally transformed ourselves into a research institute focused on producing the mathematical research required to build trustworthy (or “human-friendly”)...
MIRI’s Strategy for 2013
This post is not a detailed strategic plan. For now, I just want to provide an update on what MIRI is doing in 2013 and why. Our mission remains the same. The creation of smarter-than-human intelligence will likely be the...
Facing the Intelligence Explosion ebook
Facing the Intelligence Explosion is now available as an ebook! You can get it here. It is available as a “pay-what-you-want” package that includes the ebook in three formats: MOBI, EPUB, and PDF. It is also available on Amazon Kindle...
