Alicorn comments on The Craigslist Revolution: a real-world application of torture vs. dust specks OR How I learned to stop worrying and create one billion dollars out of nothing

Alicorn 10 Feb 2010 20:46 UTC
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Can the SIAI absorb a billion dollars over five years, if it happened that we could get people behind it?
- Eliezer Yudkowsky 10 Feb 2010 20:54 UTC
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  Nope, not even close, but Michael Vassar might be able to think of something else interesting to do with a billion dollars.
  - CannibalSmith 10 Feb 2010 21:34 UTC
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    Buy Iceland and build a volcanic lair there.
    - gwern 10 Feb 2010 22:58 UTC
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      With a GDP of >15 billion, I think you’ll need more than 1 to buy it.