You must have missed the recent news. Short version is that Peter Thiel got angry at Eliezer’s post about Trump, and he decided to send no more money to MIRI. To secure money for further AI research a few rationalists from Berkeley attempted to rob a bank; things got messy, their attempt at “acausal negotiation” about the hostages failed (predictably, duh); the only good news is that no one got killed. Now Eliezer is trying to lay some groundwork to mitigate the PR damage, in my humble opinion not very convincingly.
You must have missed the recent news. Short version is that Peter Thiel got angry at Eliezer’s post about Trump, and he decided to send no more money to MIRI. To secure money for further AI research a few rationalists from Berkeley attempted to rob a bank; things got messy, their attempt at “acausal negotiation” about the hostages failed (predictably, duh); the only good news is that no one got killed. Now Eliezer is trying to lay some groundwork to mitigate the PR damage, in my humble opinion not very convincingly.
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