Hmm... that list of projects worries me a little...
It uncomfortably reminds me of preachers on TV/radio who spend all their air time trying to convert new people as opposed to answering the question "OK, I'm a Christian, now what should I do?" The fact that they don't address any follow up questions really hurts their credibility.
Many of these projects seem to address peripheral/marketing issues instead of addressing the central, nitty-gritty technical details required for developing GAI. That worries me a bit.
I expect that developing AI to the desired standards is not currently a project that can be moved forward by throwing money at it (at least not money at the scale SIAI has to work with).
I can't speak for SIAI, but were I personally tasked with "arrange the creation an AI that will start a positive singularity" my strategy for the next several years at least would center on publicity and recruiting.
On October 29th, I asked Eliezer and the LW community if they were interested in doing a video Q&A. Eliezer agreed and a majority of commenters were in favor of the idea, so on November 11th, I created a thread where LWers could submit questions. Dozens of questions were asked, generating a total of over 650 comments. The questions were then ranked using the LW voting system.
On December 11th, Eliezer filmed his replies to the top questions (skipping some), and sent me the videos on December 22nd. Because voting continued after that date, the order of the top questions in the original thread has changed a bit, but you can find the original question for each video (and the discussion it generated, if any) by following the links below.
Thanks to Eliezer and everybody who participated.
Update: If you prefer to download the videos, they are available here (800 MB, .wmw format, sort the files by 'date created').
Link to question #1.
Link to question #2.
Link to question #3.
Link to question #4.
Eliezer Yudkowsky - Less Wrong Q&A (5/30) from MikeGR on Vimeo.
Link to question #5.
(Video #5 is on Vimeo because Youtube doesn't accept videos longer than 10 minutes and I only found out after uploading about a dozen. I would gladly have put them all on Vimeo, but there's a 500 MB/week upload limit and these videos add up to over 800 MB.)
Link to question #6.
Link to question #7.
Link to question #8.
Link to question #9.
Link to question #10.
Link to question #11.
Link to question #12.
Link to question #13.
Link to question #14.
Link to question #15.
Link to question #16.
Link to question #17.
Link to question #18.
Link to question #19.
Link to question #20.
Link to question #21.
Link to question #22.
Link to question #23.
Link to question #24.
Link to question #25.
Link to question #26.
Link to question #27.
Link to question #28.
Link to question #29.
Link to question #30.
If anything is wrong with the videos or links, let me know in the comments or via private message.