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John_Maxwell_IV comments on Open Thread, April 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 01 April 2012 07:40:05PM *  6 points [-]

Depends how you're planning to save it. If your plan involves you writing brilliant papers, maybe not.

SI has some folks with the qualities I described, like Louie, who sold his web-based business several years ago. They also have a number of entrepreneurs on the board. And as you suspect, these entrepreneurs' skills are useful for SI's mission to save the world. But they're not so useful that SI wants everyone with those skills to join them as an employee--they have limited funds.

SI does think about how to best allocate the human capital of people concerned with UFAI. But if you have a thoughtful suggestion for how they could allocate their human capital even better, I'm sure they'd love to hear it.