FHI is dying under Nick Bostrom. It doesn’t matter if you think he’s done good work as director before. The dispute with the faculty means that either he goes or FHI goes, for all intents and purposes. FHI is down to a handful of people and the university makes it hard for them to hire or renew contracts, de facto sunsetting the organization.
That said, this post is sadly perhaps counterproductive, because according to several people Nick might otherwise consider stepping down but in the wake of the apology this has become less likely.
It frustrates me that a lot of the comments appear to be based on “vibes”. This is not a referendum on the apology nor about whether you generally like the work FHI has produced.
No matter whether he was the only person who could have led FHI so well before, at this point he should step down before FHI goes completely defunct. I don’t think it would make him look bad to step down. I think it looks bad for him to stay at the expense of FHI. There is not another place like FHI in the world, and it would be really bad for it to shut down, or even for it to hobble along as a shell of its former self.
FHI is dying under Nick Bostrom. It doesn’t matter if you think he’s done good work as director before. The dispute with the faculty means that either he goes or FHI goes, for all intents and purposes. FHI is down to a handful of people and the university makes it hard for them to hire or renew contracts, de facto sunsetting the organization.
That said, this post is sadly perhaps counterproductive, because according to several people Nick might otherwise consider stepping down but in the wake of the apology this has become less likely.
It frustrates me that a lot of the comments appear to be based on “vibes”. This is not a referendum on the apology nor about whether you generally like the work FHI has produced.
No matter whether he was the only person who could have led FHI so well before, at this point he should step down before FHI goes completely defunct. I don’t think it would make him look bad to step down. I think it looks bad for him to stay at the expense of FHI. There is not another place like FHI in the world, and it would be really bad for it to shut down, or even for it to hobble along as a shell of its former self.