This field guide was written by the MIRI team with MIRIx groups in mind, though the advice may be relevant to others working on AI alignment research.
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Hello! You may notice that you are reading a document.
This fact comes with certain implications. For instance, why are you reading this? Will you finish it? What decisions will you come to as a result? What will you do next?
Notice that, whatever you end up doing, it’s likely that there are dozens or even hundreds of other people, quite similar to you and in quite similar positions, who will follow reasoning which strongly resembles yours, and make choices which correspondingly match.
Given that, it’s our recommendation that you make your next few...
The name was by analogy to TEDx, yes. MIRI was running official MIRI workshops and we (Scott Garrabrant, me, and a few others) wanted to run similar events independently. We initially called them "mini miri workshops" or something like that, and MIRI got in touch to ask us not to call them that since it insinuates that MIRI is running them. They suggested "MIRIx" instead.