Compared to its competition in the AGI race, MIRI was always going to be disadvantaged
Is MIRI even in the AGI race? It certainly doesn't look like it.
They're working on figuring out what we want the AGI to do, not building one. (I believe Nate has stated this in previous LW comments.)
There have been a couple of brief discussions of this in the Open Thread, but it seems likely to generate more so here's a place for it.
The original paper in Nature about AlphaGo.
Google Asia Pacific blog, where results will be posted. DeepMind's YouTube channel, where the games are being live-streamed.
Discussion on Hacker News after AlphaGo's win of the first game.