SENS Victory and Philanthropic Psychology Friday, Oct 2 2009
life extension and singularity 8:20 am
SENS has been officially announced as the winner of the 3banana Share-to-Win competition, but only barely. Thanks to everyone who commented! We transhumanists and early-adopters should be able to dominate the online social media space more aggressively. As Aubrey has pointed out in his Facebook messages, large donors are VERY sensitive to how much public support they see for non-profits before deciding whether to donate a substantial sum. So say I donate $100 to a non-profit I care about, which is something that practically everyone can afford and should donate. Not only does the non-profit gain $100, but it might increase the likelihood that a major donor will donate $100,000 by as much as 0.5% or more, which translates to an expected value of $500. So a donation of $100 can actually have an expected value of $600. In that vein, I really think you should consider donating to the SIAI cause on Facebook. ;-)




> consider donating to the SIAI cause
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> but it might increase the likelihood that a
> major donor will donate
Is SIAI also pushing seriously for larger donations? I haven’t seen a large-scale fund drive, although the recent Facebook campaign is a good start.