Bitterness doesn't help anything. If publically declaring yourself wanting to save mankind and looking for support doesn't work, pivot and find some other way to achieve your goals.
If the problem is that people can't process the complex chain of logic necessary to understand existential risk, work on IA. Start on working on fixing certain types of brain disease that you think might be beneficial for the rest of humanity as well. For example my brain feels tired after certain activities, and I don't like to think. Why? Is it because I have depleted some nutrient in my brain chemistry? Can this be regulated in some fashion. This must be a chronic problem for some people, so you might be able to get funding.
Or in other words don't go on this path..
Be careful not to use "bitterness is bad" as a way to indulge in anti-epistemology, e.g.
"If I thought that humanity doesn't care about its own future, then I'd be bitter, and bitterness is bad, ergo humanity does, in fact, care about its own future"
I'm trying to better understand the relationship between incentivization and rationality, and it occurred to me that it is a "folk fact" around here that large financial incentives don't make cognitive biases go away.
However, I can't seem to find any papers that actually say this. It's not easy to google for (I have tried) so I wonder if the Less Wrong collective memory knows how to find the papers?
Is there a pattern to which biases go away with incentivization? Do we have at least 5 examples of biases that go away with incentivization and 5 examples that don't go away with incentivization?
As an incentive, I'll paypal $10 to the commenter whose answer is least biased and most useful.