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Soares, Tallinn, and Yudkowsky discuss AGI cognition

  This is a collection of follow-up discussions in the wake of Richard Ngo and Eliezer Yudkowsky’s first three conversations (1 and 2, 3).   Color key:   Chat     Google Doc content     Inline comments    ...

Ngo and Yudkowsky on alignment difficulty

  This post is the first in a series of transcribed Discord conversations between Richard Ngo and Eliezer Yudkowsky, moderated by Nate Soares. We’ve also added Richard and Nate’s running summaries of the conversation (and others’ replies) from Google Docs....

Announcing the new AI Alignment Forum

This is a guest post by Oliver Habryka, lead developer for LessWrong. Our gratitude to the LessWrong team for the hard work they’ve put into developing this resource, and our congratulations on today’s launch! I am happy to announce that...

Jed McCaleb on Why MIRI Matters

This is a guest post by Jed McCaleb, one of MIRI’s top contributors, for our winter fundraiser.   A few months ago, several leaders in the scientific community signed an open letter pushing for oversight into the research and development...

Donor Story #1: Noticing Inferential Distance

2013 was by far MIRI’s most successful fundraising year (more details later), so now we’re talking to our donors to figure out: “Okay, what exactly are we doing so right?” Below is one donor’s story, anonymized and published with permission:...