I will back up lukeprog here, things should get exciting soon if all goes well, and I really hope it does.
I will also point out that SingInst not reporting/knowing what SingInst does doesn’t mean that SingInst doesn’t do things—though it does mean that they’re somewhat bad at cataloging progress. (Though see the quarterly reports, et cetera; many SingInst-critics don’t even read those for some reason.) Michael Anissimov is the media director and doesn’t hang out with the Research Fellows often, Eliezer doesn’t know much about anything anyone else is doing (by his choice, I think), and Michael Vassar is busy all the time with important things. Anna Salamon does a lot of visible work with Carl Shulman, Steve Rayhawk doesn’t do much visible work (though SIAI should be announcing one of his recent accomplishments soon I think). Steve does a fair bit of invisible work that I’m pretty sure most of SIAI mostly doesn’t even know about (though he’d probably be quick to dismiss my promotion of his efforts as misguided or exaggerated). Jasen Murray is the organizational wizard running the rationality training stuff, Louie Helm just got back into town and is working on the exciting stuff lukeprog mentioned, and lukeprog himself is being insanely productive like usual. (Luke, are you officially employed/contracted by SIAI?) People loosely associated with SingInst are also doing interesting things, often with the help of SingInst researchers.
I’ll give $500 to SIAI now if you can put a date on this ‘exciting things’ prediction. It doesn’t have to be exact, but accurate to within a few weeks. $500 more on delivery of said excitement within said time window.
Also, I too would like to know where these quarterlies are stored.
The SIAI Newsletter is sent as an email to people who sign up here, I believe. Note that I am not certain about this, since I’ve signed up to lots of stuff over the years, and there’s no obvious link in the newsletters. They also post some, though not all, of the newsletters to the SIAI blog.
Thanks for the explanation. I’m looking forward to seeing the results whenever SIAI can/wants to reveal them. I can’t find the quarterly reports, though; can you post a link?
I will back up lukeprog here, things should get exciting soon if all goes well, and I really hope it does.
I will also point out that SingInst not reporting/knowing what SingInst does doesn’t mean that SingInst doesn’t do things—though it does mean that they’re somewhat bad at cataloging progress. (Though see the quarterly reports, et cetera; many SingInst-critics don’t even read those for some reason.) Michael Anissimov is the media director and doesn’t hang out with the Research Fellows often, Eliezer doesn’t know much about anything anyone else is doing (by his choice, I think), and Michael Vassar is busy all the time with important things. Anna Salamon does a lot of visible work with Carl Shulman, Steve Rayhawk doesn’t do much visible work (though SIAI should be announcing one of his recent accomplishments soon I think). Steve does a fair bit of invisible work that I’m pretty sure most of SIAI mostly doesn’t even know about (though he’d probably be quick to dismiss my promotion of his efforts as misguided or exaggerated). Jasen Murray is the organizational wizard running the rationality training stuff, Louie Helm just got back into town and is working on the exciting stuff lukeprog mentioned, and lukeprog himself is being insanely productive like usual. (Luke, are you officially employed/contracted by SIAI?) People loosely associated with SingInst are also doing interesting things, often with the help of SingInst researchers.
I’ll give $500 to SIAI now if you can put a date on this ‘exciting things’ prediction. It doesn’t have to be exact, but accurate to within a few weeks. $500 more on delivery of said excitement within said time window.
Also, I too would like to know where these quarterlies are stored.
The SIAI Newsletter is sent as an email to people who sign up here, I believe. Note that I am not certain about this, since I’ve signed up to lots of stuff over the years, and there’s no obvious link in the newsletters. They also post some, though not all, of the newsletters to the SIAI blog.
Here are some of them:
2009 SIAI Accomplishments
SIAI Newsletter June-July 2010
Singularity Institute Newsletter August — October 2010
Thanks for the explanation. I’m looking forward to seeing the results whenever SIAI can/wants to reveal them. I can’t find the quarterly reports, though; can you post a link?
Barring an official response from SIAI, I’ve compiled what I know here.