Why I'm personally upset with Nick Bostrom right now
Content warning: discusses race, links to a piece that contains an unredacted racial slur, written while I am very angry Nick Bostrom is not a person I have ever spent much time thinking about and is a person I’ve never interacted with. I am grateful to him for his
Content warning: discusses race, links to a piece that contains an unredacted racial slur, written while I am very angry Nick Bostrom is not a person I have ever spent much time thinking about and is a person I’ve never interacted with. I am grateful to him for his role in thinking through and popularizing a lot of topics related to longtermism and existential risk that I continue to find important, but my thoughts about him never went beyond that. Unfortunately, I have been spending a lot more time thinking about Bostrom because it was revealed that 26 years ago he published an offensive emai
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