Roger Pollack · 2023-04-02 19:58
Big things that you could do if you had the money.
I would like to see the cultural effects of sudden and widespread close consanguinity in a culture. If I had bill gates cash I could leverage it to impregnate the majority of lactose-tolerant hausa in Niger for a decade while nearly doubling their GDP. Millions of young men who are all each other's half brothers. Would this strengthen the hausa ethnicity by creating a tightly genetically coupled center of power, or weaken it by creating another faction? Would it depend on my genetic similarity to the hausa? What if it were rather cross-sectional to the ethnic groups and factions composing Niger instead? What about applied to another country? I am interested in the results.
I have heard claims that space elevators could cheapen the launching of satellites drastically, that it isn't even technologically infeasible even without meta-materials. Some people suggest solar panel satellites. I wonder if kessler syndrome is the limiting factor.
There is a theory that the brazilian rainforest was created as an infrastructure project. That sort of thing counts.
Neuromancer · 2023-04-03 18:34
1. Fund research of nutritionally complete synthetic meat (because this is probably the only way I'll be able to continue my highly carnivorous diet in the future)
2. Build a stateless autonomous community at sea
3. Establish a scientific society providing grants to other highly disruptive research, stuff that wouldn't make me much money back but would be highly beneficial to genpop
All-in-all, I want to resolve the interlocking prisoners' dilemmas that we find ourselves trapped in today.
Ein · 2023-08-01 14:52
I would like to build a house for my family. Somewhere warm, closer to the sea.
Cereal Killer · 2023-08-01 16:08
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Phase 1: Acquire large datasets of information on large numbers of people, I want to know their education, relationships, their finances, the movies they watch, the books they read, full chatlogs, and if possible means for ongoing surveillance.
Phase 2: Conduct experiments in tipping the scales of their lives. If people of a certain profile receive an anonymously gifted 10k, what will they do with it? How will it affect their relationships, beliefs, and their future behaviors?
Phase 3: On the basis of that research, identify the people most likely to actively adjust society in the direction I want of their own initiative and provide them with ongoing funding to pursue their interests/goals and other forms of support. Strategically introduce them to each other in small groups but keep things compartmentalized and conceal the overall scope of the project to avoid typical problems of ideological and organizational dysfunction. Also because the idea of a large scale conspiracy/secret organization like that is fun to me.
Ivan Petrov · 2023-08-01 21:28
TERRAFORM EARTH
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Leto Atreides I · 2023-08-02 11:50
I would do nothing. Just covert money in ever valuable format (gold jewels etc) and forget about them. Maybe I'd buy education.
I honesty feel like the only thing worth doing is blasting this Earth apart for great good.
Mitnick · 2023-08-06 09:15
Propagandize at a grand scale to steal voters away from the two main US parties and create a 3rd party with a majority.
Koichiro · 2023-08-06 09:54
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Doing gods work .
Leto Atreides I · 2023-08-06 12:58
Best flight training I could get, then obviously some airplanes. Sci Fi esque ocean and space exploration projects. I also think it would be cool if there was a way we could record dreams to replay them after we woke up, but even with all the money in the world I don't know if that technology would be possible. It also would probably turn into a dystopian nightmare fast. But it would be neat.