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Re:Mozilla Announces $225,000 for Art and Advocacy Exploring... by mlthoughts2018 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @11:12AM (#17247770)
This would roughly fund 1-2 technical staff to work on one project for one year. Probably just 1 staff if the project involves statistical methodology work, data collection, and modeling to empirically assess society impacts rather than writing yet another safe AI / AGI risk essay.

Not a normative judgment, just thinking about what people think this labor costs vs. what it actually costs.

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Re:Mozilla Announces $225,000 for Art and Advocacy Exploring... by blackbrokkoli on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @11:16AM (#17247810)
Right, but the open-source community might be involved as well - maybe the money is more about promoting e.g. a platform than paying individual staff
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Re:Mozilla Announces $225,000 for Art and Advocacy Exploring... by mlthoughts2018 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @11:31AM (#17247934)
Yes, that is a good counterpoint.
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