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oh no, the organisation founded by a Swedish EA with a racism scandal is defunct! No, not that one, the other one
(www.futureofhumanityinstitute.org)
Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.
[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]
Sound like Oxford increasingly did not want anything to do with them.
edit: Here's a 94 page "final report" that seems more geared towards a rationalist audience.
Wonder what this was about:
everything in that "why we failed" breakdown is a work of art each to itself. babbie's first interaction with the real world each and every one of 'em
FHI was basically funded by one guy, James Martin - a computer millionaire. (His Wikipedia article misses the source of his wealth, but he owned a private island and the Oxford Martin School donation was the largest single donation in Oxford University's history.) He died in 2013. Its days were numbered at that point. https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/about/founder/