If you have a particular researcher or organization that you would fund, please include.
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Posted 27 December 2007 - 03:01 AM
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If you have a particular researcher or organization that you would fund, please include.
Posted 27 December 2007 - 05:49 AM
Posted 27 December 2007 - 07:55 AM
Posted 27 December 2007 - 08:55 AM
If I hit the lottery and was able to donate 10 million I would give some of it to SENS, Alcor, ImmInst (for a scholarship program), Lifeboat and Mr. Gavrilov's lab. The amount would be the limit that the IRS allows to write off on taxes. I would also invest most of the money to Life Extension / Nanotech LLC's for profit so that I could donate more money each year. I would also ask a financial planner (Rudi Hoffman) to help me not to waste the money!
Posted 27 December 2007 - 01:09 PM
Posted 29 March 2008 - 10:35 PM
First, i would do some extensive research so i would find the best place to throw the money. ProbI would probably give it to Aubrey, but i would seriously consider giving it to organizations that are studying the brain with the aim of someday reverse engineering it.
Posted 30 March 2008 - 02:10 AM
First, i would do some extensive research so i would find the best place to throw the money. ProbI would probably give it to Aubrey, but i would seriously consider giving it to organizations that are studying the brain with the aim of someday reverse engineering it.
co-sign. I'd give it to Aubrey and trust he'd spend it better than I could right now. Although an option not on the table which I'd follow first would be to invest it narrowly into me. $10 million is a small sum, so I'd probably just invest it in a diversified way, and wait for tangible life extension products to spend on myself. I'd use that level of wealth to do things like live in a safe place near a good teaching hospital, and have emergency medicine residents live with me for free.
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Posted 05 April 2008 - 02:10 AM
I think this makes it sound too difficult. If we do nothing, the natural course of biomedical research will accomplish substantial life extension eventually. All we have to do is speed up the process. If the level of investment were just 10% of what we spend on cancer research, that would be huge. If it were 10% of what we spend on the military...it is going to take the efforts on the scale which science has never seen to make the progress in life-extension that we all would like to see in our lifetimes
Posted 06 April 2008 - 04:44 AM
Kevin, I think that is a good plan. You would leverage the money by investing in an organization the the MF. I would suggest one other form of leverage that can pay off handsomely: Lobbying the federal government. All kinds of evil groups do it to their great advantage; how about using it for good?
I think this makes it sound too difficult.it is going to take the efforts on the scale which science has never seen to make the progress in life-extension that we all would like to see in our lifetimes
If we do nothing, the natural course of biomedical research will accomplish substantial life extension eventually. All we have to do is speed up the process. If the level of investment were just 10% of what we spend on cancer research, that would be huge. If it were 10% of what we spend on the military...
Posted 07 April 2008 - 12:22 AM
Posted 07 April 2008 - 01:59 AM
With enough funding, I think BB could be quite dramatically accelerated.
Posted 08 April 2008 - 12:04 AM
Moore's law doesn't work fast enough for you?
Posted 13 April 2008 - 11:28 AM
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Posted 22 April 2008 - 09:52 AM
I'd invest it in the Blue Brain project. I think the best hope of true life extension is to hurry along the singularity and I think that the BB project has the best chance of suceeding in this. With enough funding, I think BB could be quite dramatically accelerated.
Posted 22 April 2008 - 02:07 PM
Posted 10 May 2008 - 05:35 PM
Posted 10 May 2008 - 05:43 PM
I cant see any better way than to put it all into the sens mprize right now. Ive read and heard Aubrey talk about it so many times Its really starting to occur to me, like a lot of people around here say that we should give to the mprize until it hurts.
Maybe we could start another matching proposal, of say.. I dont know, how much do you think we could raise here? Ive been thinking about a tv with Aubrey video booth thing for universities that sells merchandise in support of this to profit the mprize. Ill post a new topic about it.
One of the best points that Aubrey made about this was, I thought, that once the mprize creates a mouse that garners positive public opinion and interest and realization that we probably can subdue aging soon, that the public opinion will likely create a situation where it will be impossible to get elected unless you have support for this on your platform. So then of course overall the mprize will probably make this effort go from where it is now, to being on the tips of the tongues and the minds of everybody around the world.
Posted 11 May 2008 - 11:45 AM
Posted 11 May 2008 - 08:46 PM
Some portion would be a lump sum to the MPrize. Another sum to be a matching-grant dealio (it's been a great idea). I guess there are basically two M. Mouse groups, and so both get money.
30% would be reserved to buy-into good startups, at least. I dunno the rest.
Posted 11 May 2008 - 09:49 PM
Posted 11 May 2008 - 11:45 PM
I'm going to change the question... LOL It is now how would you invest 5 billion! Only a few dozen people on the planet could actually do this. I would put together a foundation that would fund SENS research for a very long-term thirty year plan. The interest from the five billion (let's say a conservative 5% a year) would easily cover or exceed the $100 million a year/for 20-30 years project Aubrey deGray dreams of carrying out. And with a properly managed five billion dollar superfund, even inflation would not eat away at it's purchasing power.
Please help us Mr. Gates...
John Grigg
Edited by HYP86, 11 May 2008 - 11:46 PM.
Posted 12 May 2008 - 10:19 PM
I'm going to change the question... LOL It is now how would you invest 5 billion! Only a few dozen people on the planet could actually do this. I would put together a foundation that would fund SENS research for a very long-term thirty year plan. The interest from the five billion (let's say a conservative 5% a year) would easily cover or exceed the $100 million a year/for 20-30 years project Aubrey deGray dreams of carrying out. And with a properly managed five billion dollar superfund, even inflation would not eat away at it's purchasing power.
Please help us Mr. Gates...
John Grigg
Yeah Mr. Gates, are you reading this? Lol. even 5 BILLION is a small fraction of bill gates' fortune
I bet the dozens of billionaires on earth would love the idea to live forever and get chance to spend their billions. Email all of them and ask for the funds!
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