Luke's comment talks about "someone like [Bostrom]", not "Bostrom".
Luke's comment talks about "someone like [Bostrom]", not "Bostrom".
Right. That allows the comment to be technically superfluous, given a charitable interpretation. Otherwise it still implies that he either deems the rest of the current staff to be not like Bostrom or that most academics are not like him and instead only care for status while getting nothing useful done. Especially since he could have instead stated that he is happy to see people being involved in the project that are probably going to do useful work.
CSER at Cambridge University joins the others.
Good people involved so far, but the expected output depends hugely on who they pick to run the thing.