In my view, Bostrom’s email would have been offensive in the 90s and it is offensive now, for good reason.
Agree.
Bostrom’s apology is defensively couched—emphasising the age of the email, what others wrote on the listserv, that it would be best forgotten, that fear that people might smear him. I think that is cowardly and shows a disappointing lack of ownership of his actions.
I think these details are important context. I disagree with the final sentence.
When you are willfully disengaged from the empathy that underlies common decency
I don’t see grounds for describing Bostrom in such harsh terms.
I think that there’s an unfortunate social dynamic where it is difficult in today’s climate for people to take full ownership of their mistakes because sadly there are some people who would simply see blood in the water and pick it up and use it as a club to beat you around the head with.
So while I’d like people to take more ownership of their mistakes then they do, I see it more as a matter of “Don’t hate the player, hate the game”.
Agree.
I think these details are important context. I disagree with the final sentence.
I don’t see grounds for describing Bostrom in such harsh terms.
Yeah, I disagree with the final sentence as well.
I think that there’s an unfortunate social dynamic where it is difficult in today’s climate for people to take full ownership of their mistakes because sadly there are some people who would simply see blood in the water and pick it up and use it as a club to beat you around the head with.
So while I’d like people to take more ownership of their mistakes then they do, I see it more as a matter of “Don’t hate the player, hate the game”.