Tyler Emerson reports on the newest changes with the Singularity Institute, including new offices in San Francisco at the Letterman Digital Arts Center, courtesy of Clarium Capital:

…and the hiring of the new Director of Development, Allison Taguchi:

…who has an amazing 12 years of fundraising experience, working with UNICEF, US Department of Education, US Department of Defense, Oakland Military Institute, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, SeaStar Foundation, University of Hawaii Biotech Research Center, Rotary International, University of San Diego, and the Mitsubishi Foundation. Now she’s working for the Singularity.

Not to mention the huge success of the recent Stanford Singularity Summit:

Meanwhile, SIAI interns Nick Hay, Peter de Blanc, and Marcello Herreshoff are down in Santa Clara with Eliezer Yudkowsky, working on reflective decision theory problems, among other things:



Herreshoff on left, Hay on right.

The ultra-rare pictures of SIAI interns are courtesy of Google images.

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