Re: $N, a test of imagination

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Aug 04 1999 - 17:52:25 MDT


Bryan Moss wrote:
>
> I think it's about time we had a 'what would you do with nth amount of
> dollars?' thread. The categories are as follows:
>
> $1
Candy bar
> $10
Book
> $1 Hundred
Software
> $1 Thousand
fMRI scan or new computer
> $1 Million
Start a Singularity Institute
> $1 Billion
Start an AI project
> $1 Trillion
Take over the world
> $1 Quadrillion
Restructure the world, colonize the solar system, run a Slow
Singularity, ease off on the desperation and do things the fun way.
> $1 Pentillion
That's "quadrillion".
> $1 Hexillion
That's "sextillion"
> $1 Septillion
> $1 Octillion
> $1 Ninthillion
That's "nonillion"
> $1 Decillion

With those amounts of money, I can't do anything more than "quadrillion"
because of inflation.

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