In September, MIRI hosted Nick Bostrom at UC Berkeley to discuss his new book Superintelligence. A video and transcript of that talk are now available from BookTV by C-SPAN, which also has a DVD of the event available.
...Nate Soares has written “A Guide to MIRI’s Research,” which outlines the main thrusts of MIRI’s current research agenda and provides recommendations for which textbooks and papers to study so as to understand what’s happening at the cutting edge. This...
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”...
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...
On Thursday, September 18th Purdue University is hosting the seminar Dawn or Doom: The New Technology Explosion. Speakers include James Barrat, author of Our Final Invention, and MIRI research fellow Nate Soares. Nate’s talk title and abstract are: Why ain’t...
Earlier this year, a student told us he was writing an honors thesis on logical decisions theories such as TDT and UDT — one of MIRI’s core research areas. Our reply was “Why didn’t you tell us this earlier? When...
