[extropy-chat] Re: Worthy causes (was: Encryption revolution)

[J Corbally]

>Message: 22
>Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 20:19:56 -0800
> >From: "Reason" <reason at exratio.com>
>Subject: RE: [extropy-chat] Re: Encryption revolution
>To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
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>You're missing the point. When building a prize, most of the final amount
>will come from wealthy philanthopists. The purpose of the large amount of
>smaller donations is to demonstrate viability, will, and widespread
>interest. It engages people; all social engineering. It's part of the
>bootstrap effect: people like the chair of HGSI aren't going to donate to a
>prize until hundreds of people have made their voice heard and made smaller
>donations. Paul Allen isn't going to donate until many people at the renown
>level of the chair of HGSI have donated, and so forth.
>This is the way it works when you're trying to convince philanthopists that
>something is worthwhile. It's exactly the same way it worked for the X
>Prize, you'll note, which started out at $10,000 seven years ago. The
>Methuselah Mouse Prize is only six months old, and has grown faster than the
>X Prize in its first six months.

Not forgetting that, as noble as the X-Prize goal is, it's far more distant 
from most peoples daily experience than having extra years of life.

The MMP is the first overtly >Human research project I've donated to.  As 
Reason suggested, throw some silver their way.



James...

>Again, this is the process, this is the way it works. It's working, and it's
>working very well. Don't dismiss it: instead, make a donation and help it to
>succeed.
>Reason
>http://www.exratio.com/
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