From: paul@i2.to
Date: Wed Aug 04 1999 - 18:11:26 MDT
On Wed, 04 August 1999, "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
Buy a good cup of coffee to help finish answering the rest of these questions.
> $10
Buy a good paperback on how to manage large sums of money.
> $1 Hundred
Buy a good accounting program to help me manage large sums of money.
> $1 Thousand
Book a few air flights to convene with some of the brightest people on the planet about
organizing some key projects involving large sums of money.
> $1 Million
Start my own nanotechnology reseach company, invest in my own personal longevity.
Use my position to get to know well the most promising longevity researchers.
> $1 Billion
With approzimately $600 Million I would start my own space commercialiation venture.
I would hire the best of the best to design and develope a cheap means of
travel to low earth orbit. Another $200 million would go to the further development
of nanotechnology longevity reseacg as well as complexity design and management
software. Another $196 million would go towards Closed Ecological Support
Systems research. The remaining $4 million would go to hiring the brightest minds
to crack the lightspeed problem - i.e. wormholes, acubierre warp drive,etc.
> $1 Trillion
Research, design, build and implement a large scale space infrastructure that could
operate completely independently of earth. This would include extensive asterioid capture
and resource extraction, L4 & L5 space colony development, and wide spread zero-g
manufacturing and sci/tech reseach facilities. I would prefer that all nanotech and AI research be
conducted in space to insulate any accidents that might occur. At least $5 billion would now be spent
on research to break the lightspeed barrier.
> $1 Quadrillion
This kind of buying power should easily allow the achievment of the assembler breakthrough,
and push nanotech research ahead at breathtaking speed. With this amount of capital
it should become very easy to achieve breakthroughs in uploading, AI, longevity, and
environmental restoration. Futher investments should allow the majority of humans
to live like millionaires, migrate to space, upload themselves, etc. Maybe an FTL breakthrough?
> $1 Pentillion
Colonize the Galaxy
> $1 Hexillion
Use the first of the money to finance the Far-Edge Party. Spend the rest
of the money on figuring out how to create new universe to escape the
eventual heat death or big crunch of this one. Upgrade all known entities
to M-Brain status. Begin to explore the nearest 1000 galaxies.
> $1 Septillion
Explore the nearest 1 million galaxies. Begin Universe creation experiments.
> $1 Octillion
Explore the rest of the universe not yet explored.
> $1 Ninthillion
Create new universes.
> $1 Decillion
Thow a huge 'Welcome to the Omega Point' Party!
Paul Hughes
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