About BOINC
Has anyone here done any volunteer computing work by the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software? If yes, which project did you choose and why.
Dec 10, 20193
Teerth Aloke
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Question about a past donor to MIRI.
Is the Jeffrey Epstein who donated 50000 dollar to SIAI, the same as the present famous one. Ps. I think that this question is irrelavent to the normal environment of our forum, but I could not control my curiosity.
Sep 1, 20196
FAI failure scenario
Imagine that research into creating a provably Friendly AI fails. At some point in the 2020s or 2030s it seems that the creation of UFAI is imminent. What measures then could the AI Safety community take?
Jul 16, 20191
It is not actually insanse. Sir Winston Churchill also advocated a preventive nuclear war against USSR in the late 1940s. The rapid rise of World Communism, whether in Europe (including record high vote shares in West Europe), in China, Korea, Indochina, other parts of the world, convinced them that the biggest ethical goal was 'Destruction of USSR'.
Stalin remained a thoroughly criminal despot in this period - the Leningrad Purge, Doctor's Plot, Night of the Murdered Poets, the establishment of Communist Dictatorships across Eastern Europe, with their own ruthless purges and repressions.
USA had the atomic bomb. It seemed the Only Solution to protect liberty.