Hmmm.… I donated earlier this year for the value of several Harry Potter books. Given my income, I think my charitable donations will probably go to GiveDirectly and Christmas gifts for friends this year.
(Blah blah blah, sorry for funding present-day people instead of N^^^M potential future people, blah blah blah.)
Also, Facebook, seriously? And here I was stuck looking at Luke’s So You Want to Save the World page.
One strategic point of my own: as your ideas are moving into the mainstream (someone reviewed Our Final Invention in the Washington Post editorial section a few days ago, taking the ideas very seriously and using the term “friendly AI” explicitly), it’s time to move from “wanting to be a cult” to “wanting to be a large, thriving movement”. If you want someone to write propaganda to this effect, call me ;-). Overall, though, your transition from SIAI to MIRI and your partnership with FHI have rendered you a far more professional organization who can do a better job being taken seriously. Good job on that.
Facebook is only the first step. Part 1 of the second step has now been published. Since Eliezer’s time is the bottleneck, we’re trying to find a way to explain open problems clearly while using as little of Eliezer’s time as possible for each one.
Hmmm.… I donated earlier this year for the value of several Harry Potter books. Given my income, I think my charitable donations will probably go to GiveDirectly and Christmas gifts for friends this year.
(Blah blah blah, sorry for funding present-day people instead of N^^^M potential future people, blah blah blah.)
Also, Facebook, seriously? And here I was stuck looking at Luke’s So You Want to Save the World page.
One strategic point of my own: as your ideas are moving into the mainstream (someone reviewed Our Final Invention in the Washington Post editorial section a few days ago, taking the ideas very seriously and using the term “friendly AI” explicitly), it’s time to move from “wanting to be a cult” to “wanting to be a large, thriving movement”. If you want someone to write propaganda to this effect, call me ;-). Overall, though, your transition from SIAI to MIRI and your partnership with FHI have rendered you a far more professional organization who can do a better job being taken seriously. Good job on that.
Facebook is only the first step. Part 1 of the second step has now been published. Since Eliezer’s time is the bottleneck, we’re trying to find a way to explain open problems clearly while using as little of Eliezer’s time as possible for each one.
Excellent!