eli_sennesh comments on MIRI's Winter 2013 Matching Challenge - LessWrong

20 Post author: lukeprog 17 December 2013 08:41PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 22 December 2013 01:12:56PM *  2 points [-]

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.

Comment author: lukeprog 22 December 2013 11:36:46PM 3 points [-]

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.

Comment author: [deleted] 23 December 2013 01:11:42PM 0 points [-]

Excellent!