While I disagree with Holden that MIRI is near-useless, I think his stated reasons for giving MIRI $500k are pretty good reasons that I’d do myself if I had that money and thought MIRI was near-useless.
(Namely, that so far MIRI has had a lot of good impacts regardless of the quality of their research, in terms of general community building, and that this should be rewarded so that other orgs are incentivized to do things like that)
While I disagree with Holden that MIRI is near-useless, I think his stated reasons for giving MIRI $500k are pretty good reasons that I’d do myself if I had that money and thought MIRI was near-useless.
(Namely, that so far MIRI has had a lot of good impacts regardless of the quality of their research, in terms of general community building, and that this should be rewarded so that other orgs are incentivized to do things like that)