Let us ignore where the money came from and the ripple effects it would have on world economy.
In the beginning I would park it with 10 − 100 different banks that are capable of handling such amounts.
The biggest problem I see is to find the right people to work for me. They are really hard to find.
I would create a small organisation whose job it is to initiate and control all the others that are about to be started. In general I would prefer to give to organisations that are already there and have proven their worth, but in a few cases there might be a lack of those.
So first I search for really good and competent people to help set up a place to steer all the other projects—I actually have a few in mind. But well. The security suggestions from other comment sound good as well.
Then I would do some short term things, but mostly concentrate on long term effects. Without destroying the spirits of those being helped So all plans are subject to revision from my advisory team.
give 100 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation
give some amount in split increments along specific road marks to SIAI
give some amount in split increments along specific road marks to deGrey
fund other institutes for longevity research (including the GRG)
plan PR campaigns against death-ism
select a small island or country where I would subsidize effort to get the rate of accidents that lead to death to 0
fund a few projects I like, incl. sea-steading. and maybe just buying a place for a libertarian experiment.
fund research into systematically overlook areas in the sciences—I mean the finding and pointing out part, not necessarily the funding
support research that is useful, but not currently classy (ref: Seth Roberts)
fund Project Cassandra - a think tank that seeks and invites very bright people and allows them to work on whatever, including suggestion making for real life issues.
identify common values that should and can be changed
PR them
support rationality dojo building
subsidize cryogenics till it has a decent amount of clients. Maybe 99% funding for the first sign-ups, and then continue with decreasing sums till it hits 100k or 1 million clients.
improve schooling in general (incl. competition, and comparison between different ways to do teaching)
lots of public education efforts—not sure how to do them.
efficiency and creativity prices
pay for the basic services for the 3rd world that are relatively cheap and effect full: water, basic health, literacy (probably with gates foundation), the mosquito thing, inoculation where it is still missing—I would be super careful to not crush entrepreneurial spirits. That is a big problem with helping. Maybe have PR campaigns develop that change some local values.
spend time listening to bright people with suggestions.
start a fund for small funding of strange projects, using a simplified process.
Let us ignore where the money came from and the ripple effects it would have on world economy.
In the beginning I would park it with 10 − 100 different banks that are capable of handling such amounts.
The biggest problem I see is to find the right people to work for me. They are really hard to find.
I would create a small organisation whose job it is to initiate and control all the others that are about to be started. In general I would prefer to give to organisations that are already there and have proven their worth, but in a few cases there might be a lack of those.
So first I search for really good and competent people to help set up a place to steer all the other projects—I actually have a few in mind. But well. The security suggestions from other comment sound good as well.
Then I would do some short term things, but mostly concentrate on long term effects. Without destroying the spirits of those being helped So all plans are subject to revision from my advisory team.
give 100 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation
give some amount in split increments along specific road marks to SIAI
give some amount in split increments along specific road marks to deGrey
fund other institutes for longevity research (including the GRG)
plan PR campaigns against death-ism
select a small island or country where I would subsidize effort to get the rate of accidents that lead to death to 0
fund a few projects I like, incl. sea-steading. and maybe just buying a place for a libertarian experiment.
fund research into systematically overlook areas in the sciences—I mean the finding and pointing out part, not necessarily the funding
support research that is useful, but not currently classy (ref: Seth Roberts)
fund Project Cassandra - a think tank that seeks and invites very bright people and allows them to work on whatever, including suggestion making for real life issues.
fund good education for gifted people
fund the search and eduction of prodigies. (people like him: http://www.worlddreambank.org/P/PRODODD.HTM)
identify common values that should and can be changed
PR them
support rationality dojo building
subsidize cryogenics till it has a decent amount of clients. Maybe 99% funding for the first sign-ups, and then continue with decreasing sums till it hits 100k or 1 million clients.
improve schooling in general (incl. competition, and comparison between different ways to do teaching)
lots of public education efforts—not sure how to do them.
efficiency and creativity prices
pay for the basic services for the 3rd world that are relatively cheap and effect full: water, basic health, literacy (probably with gates foundation), the mosquito thing, inoculation where it is still missing—I would be super careful to not crush entrepreneurial spirits. That is a big problem with helping. Maybe have PR campaigns develop that change some local values.
spend time listening to bright people with suggestions.
start a fund for small funding of strange projects, using a simplified process.
Maybe just build my own university.