ahbwramc comments on MIRI's technical agenda: an annotated bibliography, and other updates - LessWrong

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Comment author: ahbwramc 06 February 2015 06:47:41PM 4 points [-]

I'm curious, has this recent series of papers garnered much interest from the wider (or "mainstream") AI community? It seems like MIRI has made a lot of progress over the past few years in getting a lot of very smart people to take their ideas seriously (and in cultivating a more respectable, "serious" image). I was wondering if similar progress had been made in creating inroads into academia.

Comment author: So8res 06 February 2015 09:41:19PM *  6 points [-]

Seven of the papers (every one except the annotated bibliography) are referenced in the FLI research priorities document attached to the open letter which received a whole lot of recent publicity :-) Beyond that, it's a bit too early to guess how these particular papers will affect academia more broadly, but recent progress looks promising.

Comment author: ahbwramc 07 February 2015 04:28:37AM 3 points [-]

As a MIRI donor, glad to here it! Good luck to you guys, you're doing important work to say the least.