I’ve had an idea that tried to tie together game development and X-Risk reduction.
Earn some money
Hire Eliezer to write an online Singularity-themed Visual Novel that will draw more attention to the activities of Singularity Institute.
Alas, I stumbled on stage 1. But I think it could work. Eliezer is known to love writing, anime and I think visual novels too; and I think money plus the chance of advancing the cause could have seduced him into this project.
This was before Eliezer started Methods of Rationality. It turned out to be more successful that I could have hoped for a game, and it’s just text! SIAI funding is on the rise too, I think. Just online visual novels are non-existent to this day (for reasons incomprehensible to me).
P.S. But I didn’t try to mix in the third goal, earning lots of money as well as making games and reducing X-Risk!
Hire Eliezer?!?! One doesn’t simply hire Eliezer! :O He has better things to be doing.
Realize that the problem of mixing goals is you have to compromise a lot, and that sacrifices a lot of edge you could have if you focused on just one goal.
I’ve had an idea that tried to tie together game development and X-Risk reduction.
Earn some money
Hire Eliezer to write an online Singularity-themed Visual Novel that will draw more attention to the activities of Singularity Institute.
Alas, I stumbled on stage 1. But I think it could work. Eliezer is known to love writing, anime and I think visual novels too; and I think money plus the chance of advancing the cause could have seduced him into this project.
This was before Eliezer started Methods of Rationality. It turned out to be more successful that I could have hoped for a game, and it’s just text! SIAI funding is on the rise too, I think. Just online visual novels are non-existent to this day (for reasons incomprehensible to me).
P.S. But I didn’t try to mix in the third goal, earning lots of money as well as making games and reducing X-Risk!
Hire Eliezer?!?! One doesn’t simply hire Eliezer! :O He has better things to be doing.
Realize that the problem of mixing goals is you have to compromise a lot, and that sacrifices a lot of edge you could have if you focused on just one goal.