Make minor updates to timelines of MIRI and CFAR

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 | 2020 || {{dts|February}} || Financial || The Open Philanthropy Project makes a $375,000 {{w|exit grant}} to CFAR, that will provide CFAR with approximately one year of operating support.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/grants/center-applied-rationality-general-support-2020|title = Center for Applied Rationality — General Support (2020)|publisher = Open Philanthropy Project|date = April 20, 2020|accessdate = May 16, 2020}}</ref>
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 | 2020 || {{dts|June 11}} (announcement) || || In the face of the {{w|COVID-19 pandemic in the United States}}, CFAR goes on a sabbatical. Adam Scholl, a CFAR instructor, says: "we're reading, and learning and scheming, and in general trying to improve ourselves in ways that are hard to find time for during our normally-dense workshop schedule. We're considering a range of options for what to do next—e.g. online workshops, zoom mentoring, helping other orgs in some way—but we haven't yet settled on a decision."<ref>{{cite web|url = https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/eboo4zuXyXp3KhPus/how-is-it-going-with-cfar|title = How is it going with CFAR?|last = Ljones|first = Jorgen|date = June 11, 2020|accessdate = July 2, 2020|publisher = Effective Altruism Forum}}</ref>
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+| 2020 || {{dts|September 26}} (date first seen) || || CFAR publishes its page about its coaching program (in beta). The page says: "With this break on large in-person events, we’re experimenting with a new rationality coaching program. We’re hoping that it will have mutual benefits of helping you make progress on things you care about, and helping us learn about how progress can happen by being in contact with that."<ref name=coaching>{{cite web|url = https://rationality.org/resources/coaching|title = CFAR Coaching (Beta)|date = September 26, 2020|accessdate = October 11, 2020}}</ref>
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+| 2020 || {{dts|October 9}} || || In response to a post by MIRI research communications manager Rob Bensinger that talks of how MIRI is considering relocating from its current location in Berkeley, California (in the San Francisco Bay Area) to another location in the United States or to Canada, CFAR instruction Adam Scholl responds to a followup question by saying: "Yeah, I think CFAR mostly feels similarly, though we haven't discussed details yet."<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.facebook.com/robbensinger/posts/10163981893970447?comment_id=10163982201640447&reply_comment_id=10163982482675447|title = Yeah, I think CFAR mostly feels similarly, though we haven't discussed details yet.|last = Scholl|first = Adam|date = October 9, 2020|accessdate = October 10, 2020|publisher = Facebook}}</ref>
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 ==Workshops==

misc-timelines/timeline-of-miri.mediawiki

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-This is a '''timeline of Machine Intelligence Research Institute'''. [[wikipedia:Machine Intelligence Research Institute|Machine Intelligence Research Institute]] (MIRI) is a nonprofit organization that does work related to AI safety.
+This is a '''timeline of Machine Intelligence Research Institute'''. {{w|Machine Intelligence Research Institute}} (MIRI) is a nonprofit organization that does work related to AI safety.
 
 ==Sample questions==
 
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 | 2020 || {{dts|March 2}} || Financial || The Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (BERI) grants $300,000 to MIRI. Writing about the grant in April 2020, MIRI says: "at the time of our 2019 fundraiser, we expected to receive a grant from BERI in early 2020, and incorporated this into our reserves estimates. However, we predicted the grant size would be $600k; now that we know the final grant amount, that estimate should be $300k lower."<ref name=miris-largest-grant-to-date/>
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 | 2020 || {{dts|April 14}} || Financial || The Long-Term Future Fund grants $100,000 to MIRI.<ref name=ltf-april-2020>{{cite web|url = https://app.effectivealtruism.org/funds/far-future/payouts/3waQ7rp3Bfy4Lwr5sZP9TP|title = Fund Payout Report: April 2020 – Long-Term Future Fund Grant Recommendations|date = April 14, 2020|accessdate = May 5, 2020|publisher = Effective Altruism Funds}}</ref><ref name=miris-largest-grant-to-date/>
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+| 2020 || May || Financial || The Survival and Flourishing Fund publishes the outcome of its recommendation S-process for the first half of 2020. This includes three grant recommendations to MIRI: $20,000 from SFF, $280,000 from Jaan Tallinn, and $40,000 from Jed McCaleb.<ref name=sff-2020-h1>{{cite web|url = http://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2020-h1|title = SFF-2020-H1 S-process Recommendations Announcement|date = May 29, 2020|accessdate = October 10, 2020|publisher = Survival and Flourishing Fund}}</ref> The grant from SFF to MIRI would also be included in SFF's grant list with a grant date of May 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://survivalandflourishing.fund/|title = Survival and Flourishing Fund|accessdate = October 10, 2020}}</ref>
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+| 2020 || {{dts|October 9}} || || A Facebook post by Rob Bensinger, MIRI's research communications manager, says that MIRI is considering moving its office from its current location in Berkeley, California (in the San Francisco Bay Area) to another location in the United States or Canada. Two areas under active consideration are the Northeastern US (New Hampshire in particular) and the area surrounding Toronto. In response to a question about reasons, Bensinger clarifies that he cannot disclose reasons yet, but that he wanted to announce preeemptively so that people can factor this uncertainty into any plans to move or to start new rationalist hubs.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.facebook.com/881820446/posts/10163981893970447/|title = MIRI, the place where I work, is very seriously considering moving to a different country soon (most likely Canada), or moving to elsewhere in the US.|last = Bensinger|first = Rob|date = October 9, 2020|accessdate = October 10, 2020|publisher = Facebook}}</ref>
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 ==Meta information on the timeline==