Ex-Harvard Med School Dean Jeffrey Flier explains why university leaders cannot be public intellectuals but may only sign off on anodyne, lawyer-vetted boilerplate and pabulum (I can say that because I'm not a university leader). https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/university-leaders-cannot-be-public-intellectuals … via @timeshighered
It's similar for leaders of companies, though probably not as extreme.
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And the same applies at nonprofits. MIRI is shielded from 90% of this pressure, and we've often deliberately decided to ignore 50% of the rest - and even the 5% that's left *still* seems like a ton, making MIRI's current blog sound far more staid than it did 12 years earlier.
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The only leaders in the current ecosystem who express any kind of controversial opinion, ever, are organisms that specialize in subsisting on the resource flows produced by expressing that kind of controversial opinion. The Intellectual Dark Web is no exception to this principle!
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