Timeline of Foundational Research Institute
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Full timeline
| Year | Month and date | Event type | Details |
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| 2006 | June | Brian Tomasik's collection of essays on utilitarianism is first posted to his website at utilitarian-essays.com.[1]
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| 2006 | June 12 | Domain | The domain name utilitarian-essays.com is registered.[2]
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| 2008 | Brian Tomasik's "A Collection of Essays on Utilitarianism" is renamed to "Essays on Reducing Suffering".[1] | ||
| 2013 | July 11 | On Facebook, Brian Tomasik begins a poll to name a new organization to research future suffering, which would become FRI.[3] | |
| 2013 | July | Organization | The Foundational Research Institute (FRI) is founded. Some of FRI's work discusses risks from artificial intelligence.[4] |
| 2013 | August 30 | Domain | FRI's domain, foundational-research.org, is registered on this day.[5]
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| 2013 | October | Brian Tomasik leaves Microsoft to focus on research.[6] | |
| 2014 | April 21 | The first snapshot of FRI's website on the Internet Archive is from this day.[7] | |
| 2014 | September 26 | Domain | reducing-suffering.org is registered.[8]
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| 2014 | November 30 | Domain | The domain crucialconsiderations.org is registered.[9] It is the domain for one of FRI's blogs, Crucial Considerations.[10]
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| 2015 | July 1 | Grant | The Future of Life Institute's Grant Recommendations for its first round of AI safety grants are publicly announced. The grants would be disbursed on September 1.[11][12][13] One of the grantees is Kaj Sotala, who is at FRI.[14] |
| 2016 | September | "Reducing Risks of Astronomical Suffering: A Neglected Priority" by David Althaus and Lukas Gloor is published.[15] (This paper seems to already mention s-risks.) | |
| 2016 | October 6 | Luke Muehlhauser of the Open Philanthropy Project has a conversation with Brian Tomasik on which beings are phenomenally conscious, Tomasik's brand of panpsychism, and other related topics. The conversation is part of the Open Philanthropy Project's investigation of moral patienthood.[16] | |
| 2017 | June | Max Daniel introduces s-risks (suffering risks, i.e. risks for astronomical suffering) in a talk at Effective Altruism Global Boston and accompanying notes.[17][18][19][20] | |
| 2017 | June 19 | FRI's new blog launches.[21] | |
| 2017 | July | FRI's page on tranquilism is published.[22] | |
| 2017 | July 20 | Mike Johnson publishes "Why I think the Foundational Research Institute should rethink its approach" on the Effective Altruism Forum. The post argues against FRI's views on consciousness (Type-A materialism).[23] | |
| 2017 | August 10 | "Multiverse-wide Cooperation via Correlated Decision Making" by Caspar Oesterheld is first published.[24] | |
| 2018 | February 20 | "Using surrogate goals to deflect threats" by Tobias Baumann is published.[25] |
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See also
- Timeline of wild animal suffering
- Timeline of Machine Intelligence Research Institute
- Timeline of Center for Applied Rationality
- Timeline of the rationality community
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tomasik, Brian. "History of This Website". Essays on Reducing Suffering. Archived from the original on February 9, 2018. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
- ↑ "Showing results for: utilitarian-essays.com". ICANN WHOIS. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
Creation Date: 2006-06-12T11:34:21Z
- ↑ "Brian Tomasik - Name for a research institute on future suffering". Retrieved February 9, 2018.
- ↑ "Transparency". Foundational Research Institute. Retrieved July 27, 2017.
- ↑ "Showing results for: FOUNDATIONAL-RESEARCH.ORG". ICANN WHOIS. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
Creation Date: 2013-08-30T09:17:33Z
- ↑ "Interview with Brian Tomasik". Everyday Utilitarian. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
- ↑ "Foundational Research Institute". The Foundational Research Institute. Archived from the original on April 21, 2014. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
- ↑ "Showing results for: REDUCING-SUFFERING.ORG". ICANN WHOIS. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
Creation Date: 2014-09-26T19:43:17Z
- ↑ "Showing results for: CRUCIALCONSIDERATIONS.ORG". ICANN WHOIS. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
Creation Date: 2014-11-30T17:27:53Z
- ↑ "About". Crucial Considerations. November 19, 2015. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
- ↑ "Grants Timeline - Future of Life Institute". Future of Life Institute. Retrieved July 13, 2017.
- ↑ "New International Grants Program Jump-Starts Research to Ensure AI Remains Beneficial: Press release for FLI grant awardees. - Future of Life Institute". Future of Life Institute. Retrieved July 13, 2017.
- ↑ "AI Safety Research - Future of Life Institute". Future of Life Institute. Retrieved July 13, 2017.
- ↑ "AI Researcher Kaj Sotala - Future of Life Institute". Future of Life Institute. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
- ↑ "Reducing Risks of Astronomical Suffering: A Neglected Priority – Foundational Research Institute". Foundational Research Institute. January 15, 2018. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
- ↑ "A conversation with Brian Tomasik, October 6, 2016" (PDF). October 6, 2016. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
- ↑ "Max Daniel: S risks why they are the worst existential risks, and how to prevent them". YouTube. June 18, 2017. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
- ↑ "S-risks: Why they are the worst existential risks, and how to prevent them (EAG Boston 2017)". Foundational Research Institute. June 20, 2017. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
- ↑ "11:00am - 11:50am S-risks: why they are the worst existential risks, and how to prevent them". EA Global Boston. June 22, 2017. Archived from the original on February 9, 2018. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
- ↑ "S-risks: Why they are the worst existential risks, and how to prevent them - Less Wrong". LessWrong. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
- ↑ "Launching the FRI blog – Foundational Research Institute". Foundational Research Institute. June 20, 2017. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
- ↑ "Tranquilism – Foundational Research Institute". Foundational Research Institute. August 9, 2017. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
- ↑ "Why I think the Foundational Research Institute should rethink its approach". Effective Altruism Forum. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
- ↑ "Multiverse-wide Cooperation via Correlated Decision Making – Foundational Research Institute". Foundational Research Institute. January 29, 2018. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
- ↑ "Using surrogate goals to deflect threats – Foundational Research Institute". Foundational Research Institute. February 20, 2018. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
