CronoDAS comments on The efficiency of prizes - Less Wrong

25 Post author: lukeprog 03 April 2012 09:45PM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 04 April 2012 12:58:16AM *  2 points [-]

Let's say I was King of Saudi Arabia and I wanted to offer a prize to be given to the first organization to resurrect a frozen adult dog. Because I'm King of Saudi Arabia, I have great personal wealth as well as the resources of the rest of the Saudi government to draw upon. How big would the prize have to be in order to make venture capitalists (or other profit-seeking entities) interested in funding cryonics research?

Comment author: gwern 06 April 2012 10:40:48PM 1 point [-]

Extrapolate from the M-prize or the various X-prizes?