From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Thu May 27 1999 - 01:34:54 MDT
I was reading this over at Edge:
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 :-)
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