I don’t have any personal investment or affection for the Lifeboat Foundation or Richard Loosemore. But the linked article lost me when it cited the The Southern Poverty Law Center as the “gold standard for monitoring and classifying hate groups.” I’m under the impression that the SPLC is not at all neutral or rationalist, but rather is a heavily ideological and political organization.
The SPLC definitely has issues, but the rest of the article speaks for itself and provides more than enough evidence without that part. There are serious existential risks posed by science and technology, but it seems clear from this that the Lifeboat Foundation isn’t a good group to handle or discuss those issues.
I don’t have any personal investment or affection for the Lifeboat Foundation or Richard Loosemore. But the linked article lost me when it cited the The Southern Poverty Law Center as the “gold standard for monitoring and classifying hate groups.” I’m under the impression that the SPLC is not at all neutral or rationalist, but rather is a heavily ideological and political organization.
The SPLC definitely has issues, but the rest of the article speaks for itself and provides more than enough evidence without that part. There are serious existential risks posed by science and technology, but it seems clear from this that the Lifeboat Foundation isn’t a good group to handle or discuss those issues.
Comments from some folk they smeared.