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The Future of Humanity Institute closed this week
- dredmorbius 3y agoNB: Title changed from the likely overly provocative "Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher", and is wordsmithed from the article text "The Future of Humanity Institute, dedicated to long-termism and effective altruism, closed this week", per HN guidelines on clarity, linkbait, and length: <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>
- nonrandomstring 3y agoI'm kinda conflicted and confused by this, as I think a lot of people are. The value of long-term thinking seems laudable and vital right now. But the only exposure I aver had to this crowd was people talking about escaping the heat death of the universe - which frankly all seemed a little unhinged given more pressing slightly less "long term" matters. Also what seemed on the face of it to be a Humanist creed seemed to have "transhumanist" or even anti-humanist elements. Or did I misread that? I know some of these folks hang out here, and I'd rather get a different take on it than from The Guardian. So what went wrong? Also just reading the headline "The Future of Humanity Institute closed this week" kinda has overtones of really dark humour... like "We won't be needing that any more!"
- BMc2020 3y agoIronically 'The Future of Humanity Institute' did not see this coming.