Will_Sawin comments on How To Lose 100 Karma In 6 Hours -- What Just Happened - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Sawin 12 December 2010 03:24:16AM -1 points [-]

Instead of trying to convince right wingers to ban FAI, how about trying to convince Peter Thiel to defund SIAI proportional to the number of comments in a certain period of time.

Advantages:

  1. Better [incentive to Eliezer]/[increase in existential risk as estimated by waitingforgodel] ratio

  2. Reversible if an equitable agreement is reached.

  3. Smaller risk increase, as the problem warrants.

Comment author: waitingforgodel 12 December 2010 08:40:39AM *  2 points [-]

It's interesting, but I don't see any similarly high-effectiveness ways to influence Peter Thiel... Republicans already want to do high x-risk things, Thiel doesn't already want to decrease funding.