From a couple of posts put together by Lightowl here, I think it can be read that we found it exceedingly difficult to address excentric billionaires personally, because they naturally surround themselves with elaborate defence systems and gatekeepers against people who want money from them. Yet if only one of them becomes convinced that his money in fact CAN by immortality, this might be the most beneficial thing that can happen to life extension research. Thus, the billionaire problem deserves much more attention than five forum posts.
If it is possible at all to address any billionaires personally at all, we will sure face a high rate of loss due to unopened letters. No billionaire is going to open such a letter, they simply get too many! What we need is a different strategy. We could, for example, find out where they live, and where they work, but rather than writing letters just put up huge advertisement posters near their doorstep. If they are well designed, the billionaires will not be able to help looking, just like any person on the street.
But are posters as persuasive as personal letters?
I think they are even more persuasive. Advertisement posters suggest the presence of a serious, and powerful organization that can afford such a thing, while personal lettes come from sources that include very dubious ones.
In an experiment that is currently under consideration for publication, I found some support for the idea that advertising immortalism is not so much a matter of persuasion, but rather one of informing those already predispoed to immortalism that it is possible. This may be due to the fact that immortalism reflects very deep characteristics of one's personality that are inaccessible to straightforward persuasion. Thus, my prediction would be that a billionaire who is presented with very little information and Imminst's web address on a poster would either take initiative and inquire by himself, or be inaccessible to even an arbitrarily sophisticated attempt of persuasion.
Does anyone already have a project in this direction going? Address lists or anything, or lists of promising neighborhoods? Contact me and I'd be happy to help where I can.