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Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
Plan B - Buy Fox News network. Completely switch its programming from dog whistle racism, white supremacy and authoritarian conservatives to left wing tree hugging multi-cultural liberalism. Besides it would make good business sense. The current Fox News demographics are...
Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
With $100BN I would go full James Bond Villain.... .... and save the world .... using iron sulfate. AKA, ocean fertilization with iron sulfate (my personal favorite since it also replenishes ocean fish stocks) https://planetsave.com/2014/07/02/ocean-fertilization-dangerous-experiment-gone-right/ https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/01/iron-fertilization-of-the-ocean-is-as-natural-as-whale-poop-and-it-can-save-the-planet.html https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2014/06/120-tons-of-iron-sulphate-dumped-into.html https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528744-100-geoengineering-with-iron-might-work-after-all/ http://nextbigfuture.com/2014/06/bureaucracy-and-hurdles-for-attempting.html The...
Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE, Part 2
Anybody else notice that the whole world is coming unraveled with protest in the streets from Santiago, Chile to Hong Kong to Extinction Rebellion to Barcelona to Beirut to Kurdistan? https://www.thenational.ae/world/the-americas/protests-around-the-world-violent-clashes-hit-chile-hong-kong-lebanon-and-barcelona-1.925415 Something is going on here....
Commented on Someone please sack the script-writers
No need for a new script. Our current situation has already been written in John Brunner's "The Sheep Look Up". Environmental degradation endemic corruption, elites living in guarded fortresses, financial collapse,an incompetent president - its all there. The last chapters...
Commented on Someone please sack the script-writers
Operation Green was the German planning document (one of three operational plans during the war coded as "Green"). OKW and the Kreigsmarine thought an invasion of Eire to be a more or less hopeless undertaking. They anticipated any German invasion...

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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...

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
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