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2026-08-23 22:02:44

alineblankertz@indieweb.social

Good news: “Oxford University closed the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI), a research organization led by philosopher Nick Bostrom, who is backed by Elon Musk”

https://londondaily.com/oxford-shuts-down-elon-musk-funded-institute-led-by-controversial-philosopher-nick-bostrom-death-by-bureaucracy

Edit: Adding an original, non-"AI" source from 2024: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/19/oxford-future-of-humanity-institute-closes (thx @davidgerard and @jztusk)

2026-08-23 22:08:54

Aline Blankertz

alineblankertz@indieweb.social

I wish we would do that with all those terrible “research” institutes and think tanks infused with Effective Altruism. That stuff is still spreading across Continental Europe at least in my perception - the “AI alignment”, “AI doom” discourses and “we need new institutions” is often rife with deeply antidemocratic EA thinking.

2026-08-23 22:47:08

Knud Jahnke

knud@mastodon.social

@alineblankertz

Good! F*cking pseudo science.

2026-08-23 23:15:05

David Gerard

davidgerard@circumstances.run

@alineblankertz this was in 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/19/oxford-future-of-humanity-institute-closes

you still love to see it, though

2026-08-23 23:41:11

Hot Dog Water

GGMcBG@mstdn.plus

@alineblankertz
Make Philosophers Live in Ewers Again!

2026-08-23 23:59:17

Uriel Fanelli

uriel@x.keinpfusch.net

are we now at this point? people being fired from universities, on both sides, because of politics?

2026-08-24 02:27:40

Margret Kuarell

greensofshade@mastodon.social

@alineblankertz that's the guy who talks about turning poor people into fuel, isn't it?

2026-08-24 02:57:32

jz.tusk

jztusk@mastodon.social

@alineblankertz

Cool, but can we have a better source?

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2026-08-24 03:21:09

Mx. Chara Aznable of Pnictogen

mxchara@cyberpunk.lol

@alineblankertz that's a hopeful sign. maybe there's actually some hope that Musk will be ejected from the Royal Society

2026-08-24 06:07:34

skua

skua@mastodon.social

@alineblankertz

Seems nothing was learnt (or the realisation dawns so slowly that lots if damage is done first) from what grew in academia and then expanded into common delusion and The Holocaust when the elite began funding scientific investigations into eugenics.

"You got dollars?
We'll make a place for you at our university!"

#Eugenics #Nazis #Fascism #CarnegieMellon #OxfordUniversity #FutureOfHumanityInstitute #FHI #NickBostrom #EliezerYudkowsky #TESCREAL #BjornLomborg

2026-08-24 08:05:51

Alexander Goeres 𒀯

jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Aline Blankertz what should this be: "effective altruism"???