This is a creative idea, and maybe it’ll even work, but I do not want us to completely dry up the resources of good-natured people like Sam Bankman-Fried. We could, at the absolute minimum, start this mission with 500k per researcher, one to five well respected researchers internal to these organizations, and a million dollar bonus. A billion dollars is a shit ton of money to waste if something like this doesn’t work and I honestly don’t think it’s wise to set a standard of “asking for it” unless we’re literally repelling an asteroid. Six million dollars is a shit ton of money to waste if it doesn’t work.
Things aren’t that desperate (yet). We have at least a few years to scale up.
I expect this proposal would be more likely to receive funding, though normally in funding applications you submit different proposals with various different levels.
This is a creative idea, and maybe it’ll even work, but I do not want us to completely dry up the resources of good-natured people like Sam Bankman-Fried. We could, at the absolute minimum, start this mission with 500k per researcher, one to five well respected researchers internal to these organizations, and a million dollar bonus. A billion dollars is a shit ton of money to waste if something like this doesn’t work and I honestly don’t think it’s wise to set a standard of “asking for it” unless we’re literally repelling an asteroid. Six million dollars is a shit ton of money to waste if it doesn’t work.
Things aren’t that desperate (yet). We have at least a few years to scale up.
I expect this proposal would be more likely to receive funding, though normally in funding applications you submit different proposals with various different levels.