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The Economics of the Asteroid Deflection Problem (Dominant Assurance Contracts)

Update 2023-09-04: Partial Update: I'm fully funded! Update 2023-09-21: Full Update. Funding is over. Update 2023-11-28: Final Update. Platform Launched! Imagine a world with no ads or paywalls. A world where open-source software gets the same level of funding as proprietary software. A world where people can freely reuse ideas and music without paying royalties. A world where people get paid for writing book reviews. A world where Game-of-Thrones-quality shows are freely available on YouTube. A world where AI safety research gets the same-level of funding as AI capabilities research. Is this a fantasy world? No, this is the world where people use Dominant Assurance Contracts If you are already convinced you can make this idea a reality by donating to create a Platform for Dominant Assurance Contracts. If you are not convinced read on. The Free-rider problem A few months ago I stumbled across this video. (I highly recommend you watch the video, but if you don't have time, I've summarized the video below). Summary of A Deeper Look at Public Goods A good is rival if one person's use of a good diminishes another person's ability to benefit from it. Jeans are rival. If I'm wearing a pair of jeans, you can't wear it at the same time. Asteroid deflection is non-rival. If I deflect an asteroid to protect myself, you are saved with no additional cost. A good is excludable if people who don't pay can be easily prevented from using a good. An example of a good that is excludable is a pair of jeans. You can exclude people by locking the jeans in your closet. An example of a good that is non-excludable is asteroid deflection. You cannot prevent the people who did not pay for the asteroid deflection program from benefiting from the asteroid being deflected. A good which is both rival and excludable is called a private good. A good which is non-rival and non-excludable is called a public good. (Additionally, goods which are excludable and non-rival are called club go

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My name is Yaseen Mowzer. I'm working on using dominant assurance contracts to solve the public good problem. I have a web platform where you can use dominant assurance contracts: EnsureDone.

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Update #2 to "Dominant Assurance Contract Platform": EnsureDone

This is the second update to The Economics of the Asteroid Deflection Problem (Dominant Assurance Contracts). It took a bit longer than I expected but I finally launched a platform for raising money using Dominant Assurance Contracts: EnsureDone. Why is it called EnsureDone? Well, we ran a naming contest on...

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Update to "Dominant Assurance Contract Platform"

Update #2: Platform Launched This is an update to The Economics of the Asteroid Deflection Problem (Dominant Assurance Contracts) How the fundraiser went TL;DR I got $2172.67 dollars even though I only asked for $629. My prediction of how the fundraiser would go I expected that I would get ~1000...

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The Economics of the Asteroid Deflection Problem (Dominant Assurance Contracts)

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An Eternal Company

TL;DR A company that maximizes its bond price instead of its stock price cares about the long-term future and is incentivized to reduce existential risk. The world that solves the alignment problem has an institution with the right incentives There is a world in which we solve the alignment problem....

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The Economics of the Asteroid Deflection Problem (Dominant Assurance Contracts)

Update #2 to "Dominant Assurance Contract Platform": EnsureDone

Update to "Dominant Assurance Contract Platform"

An Eternal Company

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Update #2 to "Dominant Assurance Contract Platform": EnsureDone

Update to "Dominant Assurance Contract Platform"

The Economics of the Asteroid Deflection Problem (Dominant Assurance Contracts)

An Eternal Company

Update #2 to "Dominant Assurance Contract Platform": EnsureDone

Update to "Dominant Assurance Contract Platform"

The Economics of the Asteroid Deflection Problem (Dominant Assurance Contracts)

An Eternal Company

The Economics of the Asteroid Deflection Problem (Dominant Assurance Contracts)

Update #2 to "Dominant Assurance Contract Platform": EnsureDone

Update to "Dominant Assurance Contract Platform"

An Eternal Company