oh no, the organisation founded by a Swedish EA with a racism scandal is defunct! No, not that one, the other one

https://awful.systems/post/1374520

oh no, the organisation founded by a Swedish EA with a racism scandal is defunct! No, not that one, the other one - awful.systems

I’m sure they could have found someone in the EA ecoystem to throw them money if it weren’t for the fundraising freeze. This seems like a case of Oxford killing the institute deliberately. The 2020 freeze predates the Bostrom email, this guy who was consulted by oxford said there was a dysfunctional relationship for many years.

It’s not like oxford is hurting for money, they probably just decided FHI was too much of a pain to work with and hurt the oxford brand.

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Comment by Sean_o_h - I can't imagine it helped in winning allies in Oxford, but relationship with Faculty/University was already highly dysfunctional. (I was consulted as part of a review re: FHI's position within Oxford and various options before said personal controversies). 

my near-completely data-less guess: frozen in 2020 among many other things that year that had sudden stoppages, no clear reason to get unfrozen after that, and then when their ties and batshit ideas got a bit too popular recently it became easy to drop them like a rock