{"id":3229,"date":"2009-12-24T02:40:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T02:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/singularity-institute-launches-2010-singularity-research-challenge\/"},"modified":"2009-12-24T02:40:21","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T02:40:21","slug":"singularity-institute-launches-2010-singularity-research-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/transhuman\/singularity-institute-launches-2010-singularity-research-challenge.php","title":{"rendered":"Singularity Institute launches &quot;2010 Singularity Research Challenge&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Over at the Singularity Institute, a new fundraising campaign, the \"<a href=\"http:\/\/singinst.org\/challenge\">2010 Research Challenge<\/a>\" has been launched this Christmas:<blockquote><p><i>Offering unusually good philanthropic returns &mdash; meaning greater odds of a positive Singularity and lesser odds of human extinction &mdash; the Singularity Institute has launched a new challenge campaign. The sponsors, Edwin Evans, Rolf Nelson, Henrik Jonsson, Jason Joachim, and Robert Lecnik, have generously put up $100,000 of matching funds, so that every donation you make until February 28th will be matched dollar for dollar. If the campaign is successful, it will raise a full $200,000 to fund SIAI's 2010 activities.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div><div><\/div><div>&mdash;this seems like a great opportunity to donate to the Singularity Institute!<\/div><div><\/div><div>On the <a href=\"http:\/\/singinst.org\/challenge#grantproposals\">Grant Proposals<\/a> section, we see a whole host of valuable academic papers proposed, including<ul><li>Containing Superintelligence: Feasibility and Strategies<\/li><li>The Coherence of Human Goals<\/li><li>Machine Ethics and Superintelligence<\/li><li>Anthropic Reasoning and Decision Theory: What We Don't Know, and Why It Matters<\/li><\/ul><p>Clearly these are important topics, and overwhelmingly deserve to be funded. Definitely <a href=\"http:\/\/singinst.org\/challenge\">worth a look<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/59fb9_7813164664144593334-650745110375643523?l=transhumangoodness.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Singularity Institute, a new fundraising campaign, the \"2010 Research Challenge\" has been launched this Christmas:Offering unusually good philanthropic returns &mdash; meaning greater odds of a positive Singularity and lesser odds of human extinction &mdash; the Singularity Institute &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/transhuman\/singularity-institute-launches-2010-singularity-research-challenge.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transhuman"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}