- Lifeboat Foundation
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Mission Statement
The Lifeboat Foundation is a nonprofit nongovernmental organization dedicated to encouraging scientific advancements while helping humanity survive existential risks and possible misuse of increasingly powerful technologies, including genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and robotics/AI, as we move towards the Singularity.Lifeboat Foundation is pursuing a variety of options, including helping to accelerate the development of technologies to defend humanity, including new methods to combat viruses (such as RNA interference and new vaccine methods), effective nanotechnological defensive strategies, and even self-sustaining space colonies in case the other defensive strategies fail.We believe that, in some situations, it might be feasible to relinquish technological capacity in the public interest (for example, we are against the U.S. government posting the recipe for the 1918 flu virus on the Internet). We have some of the best minds on the planet working on programs to enable our survival. We invite you to join our cause!
Main Programs
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NanoShield Fund
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EIN
80-0034805
4192805246
Physical Address
1638 Esmeralda Ave
Minden, NV 89423
Contact
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Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (B12)
Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (T05)
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (W01)
IRS Filing Requirement
This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990 or 990-EZ.
Programs + Results
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Programs
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What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Program 1
NanoShield Fund
The NanoShield Fund is used to turn our NanoShield program into reality.
While we won't be funding the development of massive utility fog curtains or orbiting laser platforms in the near future, we can do something today.
Currently this fund's goal is to pay for the Thermal Censorship of Ecophagy Study by Robert A. Freitas Jr. He has found preliminary evidence that diamond mechanosynthesis may not be reliable enough at ambient temperatures to sustain an existential risk from microscopic ecophagic replicators and needs to investigate this further.
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Category
Science & Technology
Population(s) Served
General Public/Unspecified
Budget
$10,000.00
Funding Needs
Contributions and grants.
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Financials
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Operations
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Lifeboat Foundation
Leadership
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Principal Officer
Eric Klien
Governance
BOARD CHAIR
Eric Klien
Lifeboat Foundation
Term: Jan 2012 - Dec 2013
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ETHICS & TRANSPARENCY
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BOARD COMPOSITION
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BOARD PERFORMANCE
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