Brian Atkins wrote:
> I was reading this over at Edge:
Is your idea to set up an informational site with links to current prizes that
accept donations, or to establish prize categories and accept donations
>
> http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/prize/prize_index.html
>
> regarding the usefulness of giving away prizes for certain
> science and/or tech advances. It seems to me that in general
> this is a good idea, although as discussed on the site there
> are certain limitations. I'd be curious if this has come up
> on the list before, and what the consensus (if any) was.
>
> So what if there was a site, say scitechprizes.org, where
> anyone could go and make donations using their credit card
> to a prize of their choice? Would this be worth setting up
> to get us moving even faster to the maybe-Singularity?
>
> Lemme know what you think, because I have to decide eventually
> whether or not to pay for the domain :-)
Cheers,
Jon
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