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Torres: "rumors have been swirling about the Future of Humanity Institute shutting down" after they got $665m in ETH from Buterin (twitter.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Btw, rumors have been swirling about the Future of Humanity Institute shutting down(!!)--I've heard this from multiple people at this point. Does anyone have any extra info they can share with me? Off the record or in confidence would be fine. DM or email me!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

The future of humanity institute is the EA longtermist organisation at oxford run by Nick Bostrom, who got in trouble for an old racist email and subsequent bad apology. It is the one that is rumored to be shutting down.

The Future of Life institute is the EA longtermist organisation run by Max Tegmarck, who got in trouble for offering to fund a neo-nazi newspaper (He didn't actually go through with it and claimed ignorance). It is the one that got the half a billion dollar windfall.

I can't imagine how you managed to conflate these two highly different institutions.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

two different ea institutes headed by swedish racists? not very efficient of them

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

my mistake! it is VERY IMPORTANT to distinguish which hat the same bunch of guys is wearing today