Ah, well paleontologists aren't exactly our target group.
If you target people likely to understand X-risk, they should have no more crazy sounding people than X-risk currently has, should they? Like IT/computer science people, other technical degrees? Sci-fi people perhaps? Any kind of technophile?
Good points. The first 3 search terms I suggested were more biology related than paleontology, but the bulk were paleontology. Neither are terribly relevant fields, and I get the impression that interdisciplinary research is rare. I guess it's a judgement call as to how large the benefits might be to turn discussion of previous and current extinction events (super-volcanoes, asteroid impacts, ice-ages, etc) toward addressing future events (nuclear winter?).
I'm not quite sure what disciplines would be optimum to target. Are there any talks on engineered pan...
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.
I posted this suggestion in the open thread as well, before I had the karma to make a thread. That okay?