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Donating to SIAI is pure display of tribal affiliation, and these are a zero sum game. They have nothing to show for it, and there's not even any real reason to think this reduces rather than increasing existential risk.
If you really care about reducing existential risk, seed vaults and asteroid tracking are two obvious programs that both definitely work at decreasing the risk, and don't cost much.
Sounds interesting. Do you have links for charities of this sort that you recommend?
I'm a big fan of the very loosely related http://longnow.org/ although their major direct project is building a very nice clock.
They definitely try to promote the kind of thinking that will result in things like seed vaults though
(I'm a member)
My personal estimate is that better environmental and energy policies would reduce existential risk, but I haven't seen any appealing organisations in this area.
So am I :) Just got my steel card last week, actually.
I had a wonderful moment several months back when I was wandering about in the science museum in London... and stumbled across their prototype clock... SO cool!