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Michael Anissimov was quietly dismissed from MIRI - I imagine it had something to do with his political views, that or his complete lack of technical expertise
by JamesArgo 13y ago
Michael Anissimov was quietly dismissed from MIRI - I imagine it had something to do with his political views, that or his complete lack of technical expertise.
- AndrewKemendo 13y agoMIRI has quite the history of shape shifting and hiring inexperienced CEOs - the list of which you can't find unless you know the history, so here it is: Michael Vassar, Michael Anissimov, Luke Muehlhauser. None of them have anything close to management experience. Peter Thiel is behind a good proportion of anything these individuals want to do which is interesting in and of itself to me.
- davidgerard 13y agoTo his credit, Luke is pretty much kicking arse now he's in the job. I've seen what not-so-great charity CEOs are like (I have many decades' experience in sub-competent charities of various varieties) and Luke's sheer energy is just what MIRI needed.
- davidgerard 13y agoHe seriously advocated DRM as an effective protection against the nanotechnology grey goo problem: http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/10070-guidelines-for-nanotech/ http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/10070-guidelines-for-na... Geeks tried very patiently to explain mathematics to him in the comments.
- WalterSear 13y agoThat. Is. Fucking. Hilarious.