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That's incredible. Imagine having $1B and open-ended instructions to "do whatever you think is right with it."
by Taikonerd 3y ago
That's incredible. Imagine having $1B and open-ended instructions to "do whatever you think is right with it."
- yieldcrv 3y agoThey were married, that’s the default when a spouse dies
- woah 3y agoShould've used it to pay some dudes in the Bay Area to do thought experiments about Roko's Basilisk
- echelon 3y agoYou obviously use it to build the Basilisk. That's how I interpret the instructions, neverminding the fact that this would make the Basilisk smile upon me. FWIW, if an AI "satan" wins and becomes the hyper-advanced intelligence that rules our galaxy, it could just reverse simulate the light cone and torture each of us for all eternity anyway. It doesn't matter how good you are or which god you worship or how many "Hail Mary"s you say. We could be in that simulation now -- at any moment fire could erupt from beneath us.
- elzbardico 3y agoProbably the donor specified that those funds MUST go towards tuition-free education. No way school managers would come out with this idea from their own volition.