MIRI executive director Nate Soares reports that the "new research directions" we initiated in 2017 have "at this point, largely failed, in the sense that neither Eliezer nor I have sufficient hope in it for us to continue focusing our main efforts there. [...] We are currently in a state of regrouping, weighing our options, and searching for plans that we believe may yet have a shot at working."
Our most interesting (to us) research we've written up publicly this year is Scott Garrabrant's Cartesian Frames and Vanessa Kosoy and Alex Appel's Infra-Bayesianism.
Our funding situation is good, and we aren't running a fundraiser this winter.
We're (still) seriously thinking about the pros and cons of moving out of the Bay Area, and thinking about what other locations have to offer.
Highlights from MIRI's year-end strategy update:
You can find the full post here.