Nick Bostrom irked that Oxford University expected his institute to produce work that was of a standard appropriate to its position in their philosophy department
Nick Bostrom irked that Oxford University expected his institute to produce work that was of a standard appropriate to its position in their philosophy department
Surprised they didn't just do the agile thing and seek direct financial support from Peter Thiel.
18Oxford instituted a fundraising freeze. They knew the org could have gotten oodles funding from any number of strange tech people, they disliked it so much they didn't care.
25I wonder how much they disliked it and how much they felt it was just using the Oxford brand and cheapening it. Only a slight but a qualitative difference. You can pump out all the awful shit you want at Oxford, but cheapen the brand with the increasingly zany antics of your dorky club and they might at least look twice.
15I mean they could have cut ties entirely with Oxford.
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Philisophers have kafkaesque bureaucracy? Weird.
6They can’t even have civil conversations about how to eat spaghetti, and none of them will go into the kitchen to see if there’s spare forks or a pair of chopsticks.
10two things: one, limited bureaucracy is not only good, it's required for an institution to thrive. second, we only have bostrom's word on the reasons, and i wouldn't trust the motherfucker even with grating cheese (that is other colour than white).
8Yes, but that’s not relevant here
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