The situation actually seems worse, as MIRI got more money than they knew what to do with and still didn’t quite say “oops” (an April Fools’ Day post endorsing “death with dignity” doesn’t count since they didn’t actually do a fault analysis). I think this reflects conditioning to substitute the idea of social validation momentum in place of the idea of object-level efficacy at something you care about.
The situation actually seems worse, as MIRI got more money than they knew what to do with and still didn’t quite say “oops” (an April Fools’ Day post endorsing “death with dignity” doesn’t count since they didn’t actually do a fault analysis). I think this reflects conditioning to substitute the idea of social validation momentum in place of the idea of object-level efficacy at something you care about.