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• opsec commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
  There's a Sci-Fi already written about this (from Germany) http://www.andreaseschbach.de/werke/romane/billion/billion.html...
• bertiebond commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
  Although I hate his books (his writing style is as exciting as a 15 year old GCSE student) Dan Brown's Inferno probably is a good short cut way to explain what I want to achieve. A significant proportion of the worlds problems - pollution, conflict, resource scarcity, Global warming, poverty etc - is in someway influenced by TOO MANY PEOPLE. Can't kill em all. And like hell voluntary family planning education is efficient enough. Enforced sterility on a world wide scale. Use my billions to pay for research That or spend it all training/cyber-upgrading myself into the ultimate assassin ninja...
• Rick Adams commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
  Billions, Fiat money only means something by persistent agreement so for the fiction, and in real life, one would probably not want to destroy the structures that maintain its worth.. at least until preferred structures are available and proven. It is unlikely one could develop a single biological agent that appropriately targets populations in a way that can allow the rapid reforestation that is needed. Distribution methods are available, the Haj, Christmas, New Year, Thanksgiving and other celebrations. Existing illnesses, even if they are only available in electrical recording or presumable various bio-war repositories (Russian) can thus repurposed ( the...
• Gerald Fnord commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
  Investments, whether in fiat money or any other, also get tricky: Selling-off any substantial amount of what you've got would likely cause a change in value of whatever you didn't sell. The coupling between the monetary value of investments and—I'll call it the 'effective value'—would seem to 'run' for high values, decreasing. (See: 'running coupling constant'.)...
• LAvery commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
  An interesting read relevant to this post (although Abigail Disney is probably not in the $100G range). What It’s Like to Grow Up With More Money Than You’ll Ever Spend...