Wednesday 30 January 2013

Singularity Research Challenge

SIAI (where I'm currently voluntary) is another campaign's matching challenge. This time, you get to choose what to fund specific projects. Michael Nicholas has more details.

Here are some reasons to invest in reducing existential risk that you may have not considered before: "religions disperse, kingdoms are apart, works of science would have invented anyway, but exploits of existential risk reduction remain for all ages.»Stories where the world is saved excitingly necessarily depend on the actual situation is recorded less exciting.To make the world a better place, you must you the world a place.Think of it as extreme survivalism: everyone lives.Even if you believe that armageddon is to come, would not embarrassing if we went off before that happened?Just existential risk reduction means save the whales with margins of extremely broad security around the definition of "whale".If we go extinct, the terrorists can win.

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