From: Smigrodzki, Rafal (SmigrodzkiR@msx.upmc.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 12 2002 - 21:39:01 MDT
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky [mailto:sentience@pobox.com] wrote:
If you want to make a difference to the world:
1) Don't bother with anything that is not an existential risk.
2) Don't bother with anything that already has dozens of billion-dollar
foundations devoted to it.
### In July I am going to start working on a project analyzing mtDNA changes
in Parkinson's disease, and possibly other neurodegenerative disorders.
Barring a Singularity in the next 15 years, one of these conditions could
become my own existential risk. None of the foundations focusing on PD is a
multi10e9 one, so it looks like I am following your advice in a way.
Rafal
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