Good riddance to what was a colossal waste of money, energy, resources, and any sane person's time, intellect, and attention. To even call these as exploratory projects is a disservice to human endeavor.

"Future of humanity", it seems. These guys can't even predict their next bowel movement, but somehow prognosticate about the long term future of humanity, singularity blah blah. This is what "philosophy" has come to with silicon valley and its money power: demented behavior is incentivized, douchery is rationalized, while reason is jettisoned.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/28/nick-bostrom-controversial-future-of-humanity-institute-closure-longtermism-affective-altruism

#Longtermism #EffectiveAltruism #Futurism #Philosophy #ExistentialRisk #ArtificialIntelligence

‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute

Founded in 2005 and lauded by Silicon Valley, the Nick Bostrom’s centre for studying existential risk warned about AI but also gave rise to cultish ideas such as effective altruism

^{Andrew Anthony (The Guardian)}

Good news for humans!

"Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher. Nick Bostrom’s Future of Humanity Institute closed this week"

#Shorttermism #TESCREAL #longtermism #EA

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/19/oxford-future-of-humanity-institute-closes?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1

Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher

Nick Bostrom’s Future of Humanity Institute closed this week in what Swedish-born philosopher says was ‘death by bureaucracy’

^{Nick Robins-Early (The Guardian)}