Hiræth Weltschmerz @ae@qoto.org
observing and hypothesizing
Joined Sep 2019
PREPONDERANCE OF THE GREAT. The ridgepole sags to the breaking point. It furthers one to have somewhere to go. Success. THE WELL. The town may be changed, But the well cannot be changed. It neither decreases not increases. They come and go and draw from the well. If one gets…
From now through the end of December, MIRI's 2019 Fundraiser is live! See our fundraiser post for updates on our past year and future plans. One of our biggest updates, I'm happy to announce, is that we've hired five new research staff, with a sixth to join us in February. For…
MIRI’s 2019 fundraiser is concluded. Over the past two years, huge donor support has helped us double the size of our AI alignment research team. Hitting our $1M fundraising goal this month will put us in a great position to continue our growth in 2020 and beyond, recruiting as…
Update December 9, 2019: $77,325 was donated to MIRI through Facebook on Giving Tuesday, of which $67,484 was donated within 20 seconds of the Facebook matching event beginning at 5:00:00AM PT. Thank you to everybody who set their clocks early to support us so generously — and…
I'm happy to announce that Nate Soares and Ben Levinstein's “Cheating Death in Damascus” has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Philosophy (previously voted the second-highest-quality journal in philosophy). In other news, MIRI researcher Buck Shlegeris has written…
observing and hypothesizing
Joined Sep 2019
