RE: stock's pitch on cash prizes

From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Fri Jul 18 2003 - 20:03:50 MDT

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    I should take the moment to note that a far worthier research prize (IHMO,
    with no offence to Spike or GIMPS :) is the Methuselah Mouse Prize:

    http://www.methuselahmouse.org

    This prize aims to revitalize the search for real, meaningful anti-aging
    medicine. It is the first in a series of efforts that depend heavily on the
    success of this first prize.

    If you have not yet contributed to this prize, I suggest you think about
    doing so. It's one of the few opportunities that most of us will have to
    spend a small amount of money to have a large, long-term effect on healthy
    life extension research. Scientific anti-aging research needs invigorating,
    and this is the very start of a process to do just that.

    Reason
    http://www.exratio.com/

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
    > [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of Spike
    > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 11:58 AM
    > To: extropians@extropy.org
    > Subject: stock's pitch on cash prizes
    >
    >
    > Perhaps many of you will recall the excellent
    > pitch by Greg Stock at Extro4 regarding the
    > effect of cash prizes on scientific research.
    > I suggested at that time that we have an excellent
    > test case with the collaborative online background
    > computing effort, GIMPS. With GIMPS we have an
    > hourly-updated measure of participation, so it
    > is idea for testing Dr. Stock's theories. My
    > notion at the time was that not only the amount
    > of the prize but also the actual award structure
    > that is of primary interest.
    >



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