I don’t believe so. The gossip I’ve heard leads me to think that it was substantially downstream of attempts to scale the institute by GovAI and Research Scholars program (involving hiring lots of junior people, which the university doesn’t like), as well as the university in general being a terrible bureaucracy (e.g. as incompetent and micromanage-y as “remove the plants you bought because the university cannot commit to watering them”).
I sort of want to flag this interpretation of whatever gossip you heard seems misleading/only telling small part of the story, based on my understanding.
I don’t believe so. The gossip I’ve heard leads me to think that it was substantially downstream of attempts to scale the institute by GovAI and Research Scholars program (involving hiring lots of junior people, which the university doesn’t like), as well as the university in general being a terrible bureaucracy (e.g. as incompetent and micromanage-y as “remove the plants you bought because the university cannot commit to watering them”).
“How many Oxford dons does it take to change a lightbulb?”
CHANGE‽‽‽
I sort of want to flag this interpretation of whatever gossip you heard seems misleading/only telling small part of the story, based on my understanding.
Possible to say anything more about the story?
Hmm okay. That does seem encouraging.
Which all seems very much like university bureaucracy, sadly.