David_Gerard comments on The $125,000 Summer Singularity Challenge - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 29 July 2011 09:02PM

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Comment author: Rain 29 July 2011 06:19:00PM *  7 points [-]

They planned on doing an academic paper on the topic, though it hasn't been completed yet. Here's Anna Salamon's presentation, estimating 8 lives saved per dollar donated to SingInst.

Comment author: David_Gerard 12 June 2014 02:43:48PM *  0 points [-]

Transcript; the precise wording is "You can divide it up, per half day of time, something like 800 lives. Per $100 of funding, also something like 800 lives." It's at 12:31. The slide up at that moment during the presentation emphasises the point, this wasn't a casual aside.

Comment author: arundelo 12 June 2014 05:31:57PM 1 point [-]