MIRI's 2017 Strategy: Retaining Optionality on Alignment-Capabilities Insights
jessi_cata · x · 2026-08-16
jessicata cites MIRI's 2017 fundraiser and strategy update, noting that MIRI's strategy is closer to 'retaining optionality about which projects to help with our integrated alignment-capabilities insights on the task AGI / pivotal act path, which we pre-emptively keep secret' than 'we think <X org> should do a task AGI'. This responds to the debate about whether MIRI tried to take over the world, showing it retained optionality and secretly assisted.
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