> the Machine Intelligence Research Institute [...] exists to make this friendly local god happen before a bad local god happens. Thus, the most important thing

> the Machine Intelligence Research Institute [...] exists to make this friendly local god happen before a bad local god happens. Thus, the most important thing in the world is to bring this future AI into existence properly and successfully [...], and therefore you should give all the money you can to the Institute, who used to literally claim eight lives saved per dollar donated. Oh, so they don't even pretend they're not a cult.