Will Nick Bostrom apologize for his apology regarding his old email?
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Apologies or lack thereof assessed by close date.

Nick Bostrom (FHI, Oxford) recently apologized for a controversial, racist mass email he sent in 1995. The apology itself has been widely criticized.

See this tweet for context.

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If no one has seen any apology I'm happy to resolve this today or tomorrow. We can always un-resolve in the unlikely event Bostrom writes an apology before EOY.

@NicoDelon What's the point of resolving the market improperly, and then correcting it later? Why not just resolve it at the correct time as normal?

@IsaacKing To avoid the EOY resolution crunch, to free people’s mana. But I can totally wait!

@NicoDelon Hmm, I think that only helps if people have placed large bets in the market in the past few days. Any earlier bets will already have been lent back, so closing the market early is unnecessary there.

While I agree that resolving them early and then re-resolving as necessary would not have any hugely bad outcome, I think it's good to have a norm of "resolve markets correctly and on time", and this doesn't seem like an extenuating circumstance. Any active trader will always have liquidity issues, and I think that's "their problem".

@IsaacKing Agreed.

Does it matter in which direction the apology was? If Nick comes out with a "I'm sorry for caving to the crowd, I didn't actually do anything wrong", would this still resolve YES?

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