用彩票债券为寻找外星智慧提供资金
Funding the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence with a Lottery Bond
摘要：
我建议建立一个SETI彩票债券，为搜寻地外文明（SETI）提供持续的资金来源。SETI彩票债券是一种固定利率的永久债券，在到期时进行彩票，只有在发现和确认外星智慧生命时才会到期。SETI彩票债券的投资者购买的股票产生的固定利率，无限期地持续下去，直到SETI成功-在这一点上，随机的股票子集将从彩票池中获得奖品。SETI彩票债券的股票也可以转让，这样投资者就可以将他们的股票转让给亲属或在二级市场上交易。通过这种方式筹集的总资金将提供一个由金融机构管理的基金，每年从该基金中支付款项，用于支持SETI研究，支付投资者利息，并向彩票基金捐款。这样的计划每年可以为SETI研究产生数百万至数千万美元的资金，这将有助于振兴和扩大艾伦望远镜阵列等设施。SETI彩票债券是一种储蓄产品，只能由授权从事银行和博彩活动的金融机构提供。因此，我建议一家或多家银行提供与彩票挂钩的储蓄产品，以支持SETI研究，并增加促进个人储蓄和个人代际财富积累的好处。
英文摘要：
I propose the establishment of a SETI Lottery Bond to provide a continued source of funding for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). The SETI Lottery Bond is a fixed rate perpetual bond with a lottery at maturity, where maturity occurs only upon discovery and confirmation of extraterrestrial intelligent life. Investors in the SETI Lottery Bond purchase shares that yield a fixed rate of interest that continues indefinitely until SETI succeeds---at which point a random subset of shares will be awarded a prize from a lottery pool. SETI Lottery Bond shares also are transferable, so that investors can benefact their shares to kin or trade them in secondary markets. The total capital raised this way will provide a fund to be managed by a financial institution, with annual payments from this fund to support SETI research, pay investor interest, and contribute to the lottery fund. Such a plan could generate several to tens of millions of dollars for SETI research each year, which would help to revitalize and expand facilities such as the Allen Telescope Array. The SETI Lottery Bond is a savings product that only can be offered by a financial institution with authorization to engage in banking and gaming activities. I therefore suggest that one or more banks offer a lottery-linked savings product in support of SETI research, with the added benefit of promoting personal savings and intergenerational wealth building among individuals.
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