Alicorn comments on The Craigslist Revolution: a real-world application of torture vs. dust specks OR How I learned to stop worrying and create one billion dollars out of nothing - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 February 2010 08:44:04PM 7 points [-]

Probably. But would the general public find IEC (or SIAI) compelling? I'm thinking not.

Then all versions of this project that I'm interested in won't work. Still seems worth a try.

I guess I'm astounded by the degree to which people seem to value "succeeding at what we set out to do" over "trying to do something important".

Comment author: Alicorn 10 February 2010 08:46:29PM 1 point [-]

Can the SIAI absorb a billion dollars over five years, if it happened that we could get people behind it?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 February 2010 08:54:13PM 3 points [-]

Nope, not even close, but Michael Vassar might be able to think of something else interesting to do with a billion dollars.

Comment author: CannibalSmith 10 February 2010 09:34:27PM 4 points [-]

Buy Iceland and build a volcanic lair there.

Comment author: gwern 10 February 2010 10:58:55PM 2 points [-]

With a GDP of >15 billion, I think you'll need more than 1 to buy it.