I agree that there are better articles to direct people towards. I doubt this piece does much damage just by existing, though; it seems more likely that it’s either net neutral or slightly net positive.
Also, from the article,
After a two-year gestation, the CSER gets properly up and running next month.
Thank you! We appear to have been successful with our first foundation grant; however, the official award T&C letter comes next week, so we’ll know then what we can do with it, and be able to say something more definitive. We’re currently putting the final touches on our next grant application (requesting considerably more funds).
I think the sentence in question refers to a meeting on existential/extreme technological risk we will be holding in Berlin, in collaboration with the German Government, on 19th of September. We hope to use this as an opportunity to forge some collaborations in relevant areas of risk with European research networks, and with a bit of luck, to put existential risk mitigation a little higher on the European policy agenda. We’ll be releasing a joint press release with the German Foreign Office as soon as we’ve got this grant out of the way!
I agree that there are better articles to direct people towards. I doubt this piece does much damage just by existing, though; it seems more likely that it’s either net neutral or slightly net positive.
Also, from the article,
Congratulations.
Thank you! We appear to have been successful with our first foundation grant; however, the official award T&C letter comes next week, so we’ll know then what we can do with it, and be able to say something more definitive. We’re currently putting the final touches on our next grant application (requesting considerably more funds).
I think the sentence in question refers to a meeting on existential/extreme technological risk we will be holding in Berlin, in collaboration with the German Government, on 19th of September. We hope to use this as an opportunity to forge some collaborations in relevant areas of risk with European research networks, and with a bit of luck, to put existential risk mitigation a little higher on the European policy agenda. We’ll be releasing a joint press release with the German Foreign Office as soon as we’ve got this grant out of the way!