i donated $500 to the general fund (thought a little about whether to give directly to the paper that describes how many lives per dollar could be saved by a friendly singularity, then i decided SIAI is a better judge of where to put the money. If a good massage pillow for eliezer and/or marcello improves the advent of FAI by a couple of weeks, it is money well spent :) ) I donated via my brother in california. Amounts to around 3% of my aftertax yearly income. (Indian rupee ratio is 46 to 1, really pinches)
Reasons for donating—Karmically (universal cosmic karma, not less wrong karma :) ) speaking, I wanted to give back a little. Can’t do much in terms of arguments or thoughts (as my low karma score would testify), but can do in money. :)
Other reasons for donating—I genuinely believe that a friendly AI is one of the genuinely possible superhero scenarios—A bunch of good nobodies suddenly becoming powerful and using that power to help the world.
People keep feeding each other this thing about our technical capabilities exceeding our moral sense. That is true, unfortunately. FAI should finally put a cork into that argument.
i donated $500 to the general fund (thought a little about whether to give directly to the paper that describes how many lives per dollar could be saved by a friendly singularity, then i decided SIAI is a better judge of where to put the money. If a good massage pillow for eliezer and/or marcello improves the advent of FAI by a couple of weeks, it is money well spent :) ) I donated via my brother in california. Amounts to around 3% of my aftertax yearly income. (Indian rupee ratio is 46 to 1, really pinches)
Reasons for donating—Karmically (universal cosmic karma, not less wrong karma :) ) speaking, I wanted to give back a little. Can’t do much in terms of arguments or thoughts (as my low karma score would testify), but can do in money. :)
Other reasons for donating—I genuinely believe that a friendly AI is one of the genuinely possible superhero scenarios—A bunch of good nobodies suddenly becoming powerful and using that power to help the world.
People keep feeding each other this thing about our technical capabilities exceeding our moral sense. That is true, unfortunately. FAI should finally put a cork into that argument.
Also, I plan to make it a yearly habit.