[Resolution Poll] What would Manifold do with ten trillion dollars and no fingers?

resolved Feb 28

Fund research into cybernetic fingers

Give the Against Malaria Foundation as much funding as they want

Send $1000 to every person on the planet

Hire several hundred billion dollars worth of personal security

Buy every major AI lab.

Eradicate Polio

Take up the entire ad-space of civilization to make everyone see nothing but Manifold Markets ads for 10 years

Cause inflation

Manhattan project for brain uploading

Pay someone to marry @Rucker

Lobby to legalize real-money prediction markets

Fund research into growing back fingers

Buy Sam Altman

Pay a polydactyly person to cut off their fingers and make an instant $90 trillion

Hire the world's best team of butlers/assistants

Renew Firefly

Lose money

Fund embryo selection

Lobby lawmakers to make fingers illegal

Invest in BCIs (Neuralink or other)

Take over the world and establish world domination

Create a Futarchy-run techno-capitalist nation with all the correct socio-economic policies

Pay all the Sane and Smart people in civilization above-market rates to create cool stuff together in a collaborative mega-project to further all the disciplines of knowledge

Buy Twitter, change the name back to Twitter

Buy the best artificial fingers available

Launch the Eliezer Yudkowsky Institute of Datacenter Firebombing Research

buy out the major AI and semiconductor companies and grow them 10x

Give Sam Altman seven trillion dollars

Create a massively scaled up version of Givedirectly to send money to every poor person in the globe

Buy a couple of hands from the individuals willing to sell 5 fingers for $100,000,000.

Hire a team of people to help figure out the most effective way to spend the money to achieve other goals

Start colonizing Mars

Fund research into understanding and harnessing the powers of the devil that took your fingers

Get humanity to live as sinlessly as possible (since you now know that the devil is literally real)

Neuralink finger boy

Anti-aging / longevity research

"wrist"-ing porn

Lobby for, and build nuclear power plants

Fund a city sized UBI experiment

Send a check that equally distributes the $$$ to participants of this poll

You've just exchanged 10 fingers for ten trillion dollars. What will you do with the money?

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We've got a clear first place, but we need to break the tie for second:

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Jokes on the devil, manifold as an entity does not have hands.

@Bayesian It doesn’t need literal hands. It can put its finger in everyone’s pie if it starts overregulating or micromanaging. If someone outside Manifold starts beefing, Manifold can collectively give them the finger. Manifold also collectively puts its finger to the wind.

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@jskf what does this mean?

@TheAllMemeingEye Polls that allow you to vote for multiple options. So in this case, you could vote for every option that you would spend a significant amount of the money on.

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