Four older articles have been added to our research page. The first is the early draft of Christiano et al.’s “Definability of ‘Truth’ in Probabilistic Logic” previously discussed here and here. The draft was last updated on April 2, 2013....
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: 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:...
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...
Update: See Reflection in Probabilistic Logic for more details on how this result relates to MIRI’s research mission. In a recent blog post we described one of the results of our 1st MIRI Workshop on Logic, Probability, and Reflection: The...