Thanks to Peter Thiel, every donation made to MIRI between now and January 15th, 2014 will be matched dollar-for-dollar! Also, gifts from “new large donors” will be matched 3x! That is, if you’ve given less than $5k to SIAI/MIRI ever,...
If you shop at the new AmazonSmile, Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible purchases to a charitable organization of your choosing. MIRI is an eligible charitable organization, so the next time you consider purchasing something through Amazon,...
On October 15th, Paul Christiano presented “Probabilistic metamathematics and the definability of truth” at Harvard University as part of Logic at Harvard (details here). As explained here, Christiano came up with the idea for this approach, and it was developed...
On October 15th from 4:30-5:30pm, MIRI workshop participant Paul Christiano will give a technical talk at the Harvard University Science Center, room 507, as part of the Logic at Harvard seminar and colloquium. Christiano’s title and abstract are: Probabilistic metamathematics...
MIRI has now partnered with Double the Donation, a company that makes it easier for donors to take advantage of donation matching programs offered by their employers. More than 65% of Fortune 500 companies match employee donations, and 40% offer...
A recent xkcd comic described the Saturn V rocket using only the 1000 most frequently used words (in English). The rocket was called “up-goer five,” and the liquid hydrogen feed line was the “thing that lets in cold wet air...
