By your definition no name ever was "chosen" by any corporation in history. Organizations are made of people, and when a new org inside the main org is named, it obviously was named by someone (or a committee). In the end, the "organization" choose the name, potato po-ta-to.
You misunderstand. There are many cases where there is a decision making process (either single person or collective) that reasonably represents an organization's decision. But no such organization representing Oxford picked the name of FHI. It was picked by the people, most likely Bostrom, who started FHI, and did not at all represent a decision by greater Oxford.
If you're not feeling the increasing dissatisfaction and worsening conditions that a lot of research reports, that's great for you, but I wouldn't call it nonsense.
My point is a large group of people have been feeling "dissatisfaction and worsening conditions" for thousands of years. It's what growing up and getting older feels like. You yearn for how things were in the past.
It's easy to take for granted the things which got better before you knew about them and to overemphasize things which are getting worse now. There is always something, there always has been something, always will be. And always there have been people insisting that the modern problems are the real serious ones compared to the past.
We've had recorded history of people saying things for less time than we've had a formal scientific method. Surely the accumulation of knowledge through our recording of people saying things carries some weight? It truly has not been that long in which great acceleration of climate conditions have become existential- though I suppose in the timelines of life on earth, the era of recorded human thoughts is itself minuscule.
>We've had recorded history of people saying things for less time than we've had a formal scientific method.
False, we have vast amounts of records of everyday correspondence, written speeches, graffiti, works of fiction, etc. from Romans 2000 years ago, long before scientific method (which I guess is usually attributed to Newton?, anyway approximately contemporary)
Hesiod 2700 years ago wrote about the degradation of society from the Golden Age where people lived among the Gods with a garden of eden vibe down through silver, bronze to "present" iron where life was toil and misery and people were awful and immoral. Ovid said the same 2000 years ago.
"Everything is going to shit, things aren't as good as they used to be and they're getting worse now more than ever" is literally a meme as old as human history.
"A house divided aginst itself cannot stand," part of a speech by Abe and thus credited to him, is also from the Bible: Mark 3:25. I'va a hunch he was religious.
The grandiose name Oxford chose now sounds like they've determined the situation is hopeless.