David_Gerard comments on Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 27 May 2012 03:18:25PM 0 points [-]

Mm. This is why an incompetent nonprofit can linger for years: no-one is doing what they do, so they feel they still have to exist, even though they're not achieving much, and would have died already as a for-profit business. I am now suspecting that the hard part for a nonprofit is something along the lines of working out what the hell you should be doing to achieve your goal. (I would be amazed if there were not extensive written-up research in this area, though I don't know what it is.)