Let’s do an experiment in "reverse crowdfunding”. I will pay 50 USD to anyone who can suggest a new way of X-risk prevention that is not already mentioned in this roadmap. Post your ideas as a comment to this post.
Should more than one person have the same idea, the award will be made to the person who posted it first.
The idea must be endorsed by me and included in the roadmap in order to qualify, and it must be new, rational and consistent with modern scientific data.
I may include you as a co-author in the roadmap (if you agree).
The roadmap is distributed under an open license GNU.
Payment will be made by PayPal. The total amount of the prize fund is 500 USD (total 10 prizes).
The competition is open until the end of 2015.
The roadmap can be downloaded as a pdf from:
UPDATE: I uploaded new version of the map with changes marked in blue.
http://immortality-roadmap.com/globriskeng.pdf
Email: alexei.turchin@gmail.com
I like all 3 ideas - simulation, nuclear waste reduction and bio-hack awareness groups. I would like to include them in the map and award you 150 usd. How can I pay you?
Simulation is an X-Risk that we stagnate our universal drive to growth and live in a simulation for the rest of our lives and extinguish ourselves from existence.
Bio-Hack is an X-Risk because if done wrong you would encourage all these small bio-tech interests and end up with someone doing it unsafely.
The failure of mini biohack groups could probably be classified as controlled regression->small catastrophy. Similar to the small nuclear catastrophies of current history and their ability to discourage any future risk taking behaviour in the area.
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