Yeah, I've put a fair bit of study into crowdfunding… A few obvious points are…
-- Most lucrative crowdfunding projects involve products that the "donors" will get to own, assuming the project is successful…. -- Most crowdfunding projects that aren't in effect "speculative product purchases", involve pretty small amounts of $$ -- Most scientific research oriented crowdfunding, involves pretty small amounts of $$ (say, thousands to tens of thousands of USD …) Given this, I've thought about doing crowdfunding campaigns for specific OpenCog-related projects that could be done with say US$20K of funding, and have some meaningful, palpable deliverable…. But this hasn't seemed a priority, so I haven't done it yet…. However, I have been thinking about how to do a larger crowdfunding campaign for OpenCog, say US$300K…. This would not get us to a human-level AGI by any means, but it would nicely augment our current funding and let us accelerate our progress…. To make this work, it will have to be done in a very "sexy", media-savvy way…. But I won't say more right now -- if I do go forward with this, you'll hear about it within the next couple months ;) -- Ben G On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 1:23 AM, just camel <[email protected]> wrote: > Even if the promises were somewhat misleading nobody would probably complain > after an intelligence explosion. Just like nobody would complain if you > promised them a typewriter but gave them a desktop and a laser printer (and > a 100 fold IQ upgrade) instead? And if we all die in the process then > clearly the goal of "benevolent (superintelligent) AGI" was not reached ... > ;-) > > You could even make the goal explicit: "benevolent AGI that will give 5kg of > gold to every donator". Maybe you would reach a broader audience (that never > got in contact with Singularitarian/Cosmist memes before) that way. > > Is it unethical to lure a cat into a box in order to take her to the vet? > You could not explain the concept of a veterinarian to her anyway. > > But maybe Ben is afraid of triggering some Luddite shitstorm in the media? > > > -- jc > > On 04/02/2013 03:26 AM, Florent Berthet wrote: >> >> Most Kickstarter's success stories ... > > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279 > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
