[ExI] What would you do if you won the billion dollar plus MegaMillions Lottery, and are lotteries a bad thing?

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 02:34:43 UTC 2018


On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 6:19 PM William Flynn Wallace
<foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 7:59 PM Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I would invest almost all of it.  Part (most, at first) in making sure
>> there's enough income to make sure the money's still there and growing year after year, part in various projects to make sure I'm still there (in some form, not just "remembered") in a few hundred years.
>
> What if the banking system crashed?  Nobody says that it can't.  Then the first people they would be taking away money from would be dead people!  Dead people don't complain.  Of course the lawyers would.

Part of the investment would be to try to set up so that whoever's
guarding my body and estate has motivation to do their jobs, rather
than just loot my estate and ditch my corpse, long enough for me to
come back.  I hear Alcor's doing a good job of this for its patients
so far.


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