How do we plan on using the Lifeboat Fund?
Our immediate goal is to use it to assemble a small staff and to fund a
few grants. Later on we will have separate funds to fund large prizes
and hope to announce these in the near future.
Here is where it is currently going:
$12,000 to our
EM Launch Competition.
$4,000 towards a Second Life conference headed by
Matt McGuirl.
$2,500 to our
University Outreach Program.
$2,500 to our
Lifeboat Podcast for iTunes.
$2,000 for the
Freitas Research to Evaluate the Possibility of “Thermal
Censorship”
of
the Existential Ecophagic Risk.
The rest is for funding our small staff and outreach
programs.
Future monies will help fund
our International Spokesperson
Philippe Van Nedervelde,
continue to fund our small staff,
fund educational videos,
fund a
conference,
and will fund some small grants.
We also plan on launching a professional scenario-planning project that
scouts possible and
plausible variations of the future and an LF technology development
roadmapping project
that will map out all the smaller and larger technology development and
engineering
steps needed to go from where we are now to where we can actually
help implement defenses against misuses of the increasingly powerful
technologies of genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics. Many of these
steps will require large prizes to inspire people to work on the
problems.