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Should've used it to pay some dudes in the Bay Area to do thought experiments about Roko's Basilisk

You obviously use it to build the Basilisk. That's how I interpret the instructions, neverminding the fact that this would make the Basilisk smile upon me.

FWIW, if an AI "satan" wins and becomes the hyper-advanced intelligence that rules our galaxy, it could just reverse simulate the light cone and torture each of us for all eternity anyway. It doesn't matter how good you are or which god you worship or how many "Hail Mary"s you say. We could be in that simulation now -- at any moment fire could erupt from beneath us.

Probably the donor specified that those funds MUST go towards tuition-free education. No way school managers would come out with this idea from their own volition.

They were married, that’s the default when a spouse dies

In this case her late husband left that specific direction.

and a spare $1B