Support SIAI’s Matching Challenge
Please vote for this story on Digg and hope it makes it to the front page. We have approximately 10 more hours to make it to the front page so vote as soon as possible. Any reader of this blog who donates $50 or more to SIAI's Matching Challenge will be honored in a future post here, because that's the only incentive I have to offer!
SIAI is one of the only organizations working towards AGI that is thoroughly Singularity-aware and takes the challenge of Friendly AI seriously. Now that SIAI has absorbed the Novamente team, it's an even bigger group of the people who are most devoted towards pushing AGI forward.
Visit the Challenge homepage for a "why donate to SIAI?" video. If you ever plan to donate to SIAI, you should do it now, partly because the funds have greater marginal value the earlier in the game they are donated. SIAI, with the support of prominent figures like Peter Thiel and Ray Kurzweil, is "revving its engines" to become a true mid-sized non-profit. It is very difficult to get government grants for this type of work, and it's a necessity that it be non-profit to keep its freedom of vision, so SIAI absolutely depends on our money for it to succeed. Most of the readers of this blog are probably quite well-educated and make decent salaries, so if we support the idea of the Singularity and the safe development of artificial general intelligence, I think we can afford to give a small portion of our earnings to this organization. Donate now!
May 10th, 2007 - 01:13
Digg sucks. Use reddit.com instead!
Or better yet… use both.
May 10th, 2007 - 01:24
http://reddit.com/info/1lyxe/comments
Vote that up if you want to see it on Reddit. I just did, and now it has 0 points.
Somebody was smart enough to bury this one right away and therefore this Reddit posting never saw the light of day.
May 10th, 2007 - 04:18
from Digg:
“I for one welcome our new AGI overlords.
…and I’m actually being serious when repeating a /. joke. AGI FTW!!1″
it seems the AGI agenda has a bit of a PR problem! The Terminator movies, The Matrix, Frankenstein, all these mean that people will be reluctant to support AGI research. Oh man, I could cry…
May 10th, 2007 - 06:09
That’s just one of two negative comments alongside a bunch of “I donated, so should you.” It’s really not bad.
May 10th, 2007 - 08:39
> it seems the AGI agenda has a bit of a PR
> problem! The Terminator movies, The Matrix,
> Frankenstein, all these mean that people will be
> reluctant to support AGI research.
Or if explained correctly, this could encourage people to donate to Friendliness research.
How about this approach:
This Friendly AGI stuff may seem weird, but imagine if someone had told you in 1938 that technology based on an understanding of little probabilistic particles called neutrons and protons, will within a few years, threaten the destruction of the human race in a matter of minutes by a strange new fire.
You probably would not have believed this, but in hindsight such a prediction, which was actually made by the more insightful of the scientists, was quite realistic.
And imagine that you could donate to a fund trying (with whatever chance of success), to research and plan for dealing with this inevitable technology.
May 10th, 2007 - 16:06
I donated $25.
I want to become a monthly contributor, but I need to figure at what level first.
May 15th, 2007 - 17:24
Thanks for the tip Michael. I contributed $1000 today.
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