MIRI: 2020 Updates and Strategy

post by Rob Bensinger (RobbBB) · 2020-12-23T21:27:39.206Z · LW · GW · 0 comments

This is a link post for https://intelligence.org/2020/12/21/2020-updates-and-strategy

Highlights from MIRI's year-end strategy update:

• MIRI executive director Nate Soares reports that the "new research directions" we initiated in 2017 have "at this point, largely failed, in the sense that neither Eliezer nor I have sufficient hope in it for us to continue focusing our main efforts there. [...] We are currently in a state of regrouping, weighing our options, and searching for plans that we believe may yet have a shot at working."
• Our most interesting (to us) research we've written up publicly this year is Scott Garrabrant's Cartesian Frames [LW · GW] and Vanessa Kosoy and Alex Appel's Infra-Bayesianism [LW · GW].
• Our funding situation is good, and we aren't running a fundraiser this winter.
• We're (still) seriously thinking about the pros and cons of moving out of the Bay Area [LW(p) · GW(p)], and thinking about what other locations have to offer.

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