On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 4:56 PM Terren Suydam <[email protected]> wrote:
*> I'm not saying he should be cancelled. I'm only calling out that his > apology fell flat* *Can you give an example of an apology that did NOT fall flat and as a result caused an un-cancellation? * > *expecting better of people who make these kinds of mistakes - > especially when they're in positions of privilege and power.* *27 years ago Nick Bostrom was not in a position of privilege and power, he was just a guy on the Extropian mailing list who wrote some stuff. I was on that same mailing list at the time and knew nothing about him except that he seemed pretty smart. I recall debating with him over some things, but I don't remember that particular email. * *Incidentally, have you read Bostrom's entire apology? If not you can read it below, I thought it was about as good as an apology can be but that's not good enough; I could've told him it wouldn't cause an un-cancellation. Even if Bostrom found the cure for cancer tomorrow some people, some very loud people, would still say because of that 27 year old email he was as evil as a Nazi concentration camp guard. * *Apology for an old email * <https://nickbostrom.com/oldemail.pdf> *If I was running for political office today I'm sure somebody would look through the Extropian List archives and find something that I wrote that would cause me to lose votes, but I wouldn't apologize for them because, although some of the things I said turned out to be incorrect, given what I knew at the time I don't think anything I said back then was particularly stupid. And besides, an apology wouldn't do any good, I still wouldn't get elected. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* an5 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0tv7XEFyneo%2B10bE35xfV3yo8AbqARek5NZ%3DGFYMKzQw%40mail.gmail.com.
