Nick Bostrom irked that Oxford University expected his institute to produce work that was of a standard appropriate to its position in their philosophy departmentawful.systemsimage YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM ( @YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems ) SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish • 7 months ago message-square12fedilinkarrow-up122
arrow-up122imageNick Bostrom irked that Oxford University expected his institute to produce work that was of a standard appropriate to its position in their philosophy departmentawful.systems YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM ( @YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems ) SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish • 7 months ago message-square12fedilink
minus-square jlow (he/him) ( @jlow@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglish6•7 months agoPhilisophers have kafkaesque bureaucracy? Weird.
minus-square flere-imsaho ( @mawhrin@awful.systems ) linkfedilinkEnglish8•7 months agotwo things: one, limited bureaucracy is not only good, it’s required for an institution to thrive. second, we only have bostrom’s word on the reasons, and i wouldn’t trust the motherfucker even with grating cheese (that is other colour than white).
minus-square YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM ( @YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems ) OPlinkfedilinkEnglish5•7 months agoYes, but that’s not relevant here
Philisophers have kafkaesque bureaucracy? Weird.
two things: one, limited bureaucracy is not only good, it’s required for an institution to thrive. second, we only have bostrom’s word on the reasons, and i wouldn’t trust the motherfucker even with grating cheese (that is other colour than white).
Yes, but that’s not relevant here