I haven’t had a chance to read the whole blog post, but note for general information David Thorstad’s blog post on this, which alleges:
Unfortunately, Bostrom’s email was not an isolated incident. The Extropians were widely involved in a number of explicitly racist, sexist and otherwise lamentable incidents that Bostrom cannot possibly have failed to be aware of at the time, and many of their former members occupy high positions within the effective altruism movement today.
I’ll defer to someone else as I’m at work and not in a position to carefully read the long blog post and then say something meaningful about the whole.
I haven’t had a chance to read the whole blog post, but note for general information David Thorstad’s blog post on this, which alleges:
Unfortunately, Bostrom’s email was not an isolated incident. The Extropians were widely involved in a number of explicitly racist, sexist and otherwise lamentable incidents that Bostrom cannot possibly have failed to be aware of at the time, and many of their former members occupy high positions within the effective altruism movement today.
https://ineffectivealtruismblog.com/2023/01/12/off-series-that-bostrom-email/
(apologies for formatting, on mobile)
I think it’s worth posting this as a top-level linkpost if it hasn’t been already.
I’ll defer to someone else as I’m at work and not in a position to carefully read the long blog post and then say something meaningful about the whole.
Thanks for linking to that information about the history of the Extropians. Very informative and provides helpful context.
agree with this (and with the other comment that this could warrant a separate linkpost), have strong-upvoted the comment in the meantime.