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pleeppleep comments on Singularity Institute is now Machine Intelligence Research Institute - Less Wrong Discussion

32 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 31 January 2013 08:25AM

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Comment author: pleeppleep 31 January 2013 02:27:40PM 0 points [-]

Kinda awkward to say aloud. I think Institute for the Research of Machine Intelligence would sound better. Minor nitpick.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 31 January 2013 03:00:16PM 7 points [-]

Really? To me, the extra words in "Institute for the Research of Machine Intelligence" feel redundant, and MIRI is better for being concise and to the point.

Comment author: Kevin 01 February 2013 01:44:56AM 1 point [-]

IRMI?

irm-y? Sounds like squirm. Or the name Erma.