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Your proposal would be a great fit for the Effective Altruism community. Climate change is an existential risk and if this organization has a 0.1% chance of wor
by areoform 7y ago
Your proposal would be a great fit for the Effective Altruism community. Climate change is an existential risk and if this organization has a 0.1% chance of working out. The utility function for that ROI versus failure would still work out I’m the favor of funding this idea.
But the problem will always be. How do we go from designs to an actual, legitimate organization that can play with nuclear materials in Dyson’s little red schoolhouse? https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/the-future-of-nuclear-power-let-a-thousand-flowers-bloom/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunctio...
Funding will always be contingent, in the minds of most readers, the trustworthiness/robustness of a rough path that goes from a brain trust to a prototype reactor. If we can solve that, we could probably get significant funding lined up by 2024