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V_V comments on The Brain Preservation Foundation still needs money - Less Wrong Discussion

23 Post author: jaibot 21 August 2012 02:04PM

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Comment author: V_V 21 August 2012 11:43:07PM 7 points [-]

So, some anonymous person can give away 100k$ to back the prize, but not the 25-50k$ to fund the evaluation process needed to award the prize?

Why don't they offer a 50k$ prize and use the other 50k$ to fund the evaluation, instead of soliciting donations? Why don't they just offer a medal of insignificant material value? The winner is going to get lots of bragging rights anyway.