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gwern 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: gwern 31 January 2013 05:04:49PM 0 points [-]

By whom? I think the only time I personally saw that happen online was in one British newspaper article.

Comment author: Alex_Altair 31 January 2013 05:34:27PM 22 points [-]

My impression is that anyone who has ever heard of Singularity University doesn't even have it in their hypothesis space that you mean something different when you say Singularity Institute.

Comment author: Kevin 03 February 2013 06:02:24AM 2 points [-]

Yup.

Even when they do have it in their hypothesis space, it still gets mangled. I recently got a follow-up email from someone that still thought I was Singularity University. I had briefly explained to him about how SU had acquired the Singularity Summit from us, and his follow-up email said "now that you have acquired the Singularity Summit, you may be interested in my product..."

Comment author: lukeprog 31 January 2013 08:57:47PM *  12 points [-]

By whom?

Almost every time I spoke to anyone who wasn't deeply familiar with either SU or SI. Including almost every press person.

Comment author: Alicorn 31 January 2013 06:30:40PM 11 points [-]

Rudi Hoffman confused them when I sought a quote from him and mentioned Singinst. And him you'd expect to move in the right circles to know the difference.

Comment author: ciphergoth 03 February 2013 08:10:59AM 3 points [-]

When I stayed with a friend in the Bay Area, I was confused that he said he knew loads of people in SingInst, but kept naming people I'd never heard of - and guess why!