*That sucks! I've already purchased Bostrom's new book "Deep Utopia" and intend to read it as soon as I've finished reading my current book which is about the making of the H bomb. I tend to get nervous if I don't have three or four books in the pipeline. *
* John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* 2cr On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 6:54 PM Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/19/oxford-future-of-humanity-institute-closes > > Probably a number of you people are already aware of this, but I just > learnt of this through a review of Bostrom's latest book "Deep > Utopia". > > I had heard of the FHI closure, because a close friend of mine who had > contracted with them, tried to visit the on his recent trip to the > UK. But I hadn't heard about Bostrom effectively being cancelled for a > stupid comment he made on a mailing list back in 1996 at the tender > age of 22, one that he has publicly apologised for and > repudiated. Jeez! It was a stupid comment then, but who hasn't made > stupid comments, particularly when young. > > We know now that you should never put anything in email that you don't > want to appear on the front page of a national newspaper - in 1996, > that wasn't so obvious though. > > Cheers > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders [email protected] > http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/Z1I9RcGenvABSnXx%40zen. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2os3NeVVQ1j4mBQP6XOUiCSUR%3DAH3i3YH_XHB0J-qT7g%40mail.gmail.com.
