I have donated $6000 to CFAR, an impressive organization with great potential to pay back significant dividends to SIAI in the form of recruiting top talent for an FAI team, and increasing the breadth and depth of the donor and volunteer pools.
I thank Luke, Julia, and Anna for discussing with me which organization most needs my donation, and I would not that although all the funds for the drive have been matched (yay! good job!), both CFAR and SIAI are in a position to get significant value for marginal donations. SIAI has identified several promising mathematicians who could potentially form an FAI team, and has plans to get them to help produce recruitment materials for more potential FAI researchers. These plans take money. CFAR has run some excellent mini camps, and I think they can do even better with more people with more insights into human rationality and how to teach people to actually do it. Those people cost money. So please help support their efforts, and make yourselves stronger so you can support their efforts more.
I know we have heard a lot about how easy it is to screw up the Singularity, and then it is all over. But, after spending a week at CFAR’s minicamp and talking to so many people in the thick of dealing with the problem, I have real hope and that we really can get this right and win, and every bit of support makes this more likely. So, let’s get our acts together, humanity, and take advantage of the huge opportunity and challenge we face right now.
I have donated $6000 to CFAR, an impressive organization with great potential to pay back significant dividends to SIAI in the form of recruiting top talent for an FAI team, and increasing the breadth and depth of the donor and volunteer pools.
I thank Luke, Julia, and Anna for discussing with me which organization most needs my donation, and I would not that although all the funds for the drive have been matched (yay! good job!), both CFAR and SIAI are in a position to get significant value for marginal donations. SIAI has identified several promising mathematicians who could potentially form an FAI team, and has plans to get them to help produce recruitment materials for more potential FAI researchers. These plans take money. CFAR has run some excellent mini camps, and I think they can do even better with more people with more insights into human rationality and how to teach people to actually do it. Those people cost money. So please help support their efforts, and make yourselves stronger so you can support their efforts more.
I know we have heard a lot about how easy it is to screw up the Singularity, and then it is all over. But, after spending a week at CFAR’s minicamp and talking to so many people in the thick of dealing with the problem, I have real hope and that we really can get this right and win, and every bit of support makes this more likely. So, let’s get our acts together, humanity, and take advantage of the huge opportunity and challenge we face right now.