Elo comments on Open Thread, Jun. 29 - Jul. 5, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Arbitrary 30 June 2015 10:02:21PM *  4 points [-]

Has anyone tried advertising existential risk?

Bostroms "End of Humanity" talk for instance.

It costs about 0.2 $ per view for a video ad on YouTube, so if 0.2% of viewers give an average of 100 $ it would break even. Hopefully people would give more than that.

You can target ads to groups likely to give much by the way, like the highly educated

Comment author: Elo 02 July 2015 03:54:26PM 0 points [-]

I agree with Sherincall that there is a smaller number than 0.2%. try do the numbers on 0.00002% of people donating. see if they still work.