Well, there is funding like in the Methuselah Mouse project. I am one of "the 300" myself. With enough interested >people it should not be that hard to raise $5 million even on a very long term project. Most of us seem to think that >conquering aging will take longer than AGI but there are fairly successful funding efforts in that space. It is a lot easier >I imagine to find many people willing and able to donate on the order of $100/month indefinitely to such a cause than >to find one or a few people to put up the entire amount.
I am sure that has already been kicked around. Why wouldn't it work though?
You can't just snap your fingers and raise $5 million for a cause with even less public support than anti-aging research, whether you have 1 person with $5 million dollars, or 4,167 people with $1200 a year. I fail to see how the problem would be simplified in this way. I doubt any AGI company could, at this point, find thousands of people willing to give even $10/month, let alone $100. But that doesn't mean that it won't be possible in a few years. AGI could, at any time, receive the funding and publicity that nanotechnology has seen especially since the late 1990s.
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