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

need approval voting on Manifold

@jskf @JamesGrugett 👀

@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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