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Want to help MIRI by investing in XRP?

Recently, Mt.Gox and Ripple creator Jed McCaleb gave MIRI a large donation in XRP, which is the #2 cryptocurrency in market cap behind Bitcoin. This gift, along with our recent successful fundraiser, should enable us to hire the beginnings of...

Winter 2013 Fundraiser Completed!

Wow! MIRI’s donors just finished our 2013 winter matching challenge three weeks ahead of the deadline! As it happens, the person who finished this drive was Patrick LaVictoire, who says his donation was the product of his altruism tip jar...

2013 Winter Matching Challenge

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,...

Support MIRI by Shopping at AmazonSmile

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,...

Probabilistic Metamathematics and the Definability of Truth

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...

Upcoming Talks at Harvard and MIT

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...