To: Ben Goertze
From: Jeffrey Epstein
Sent Thur 9/10/2009 8:20:17 AM
Subject: Re: A modest proposal (the book I'd like to write...)
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Ben Goertzel wrote:
Hi Jeffrey,
I thought about your troubles convincing your colleague that now is
the time for AGI...
Here is the book I'd like to spend the next 6 months writing,
synthesizing the theoretical work I've been doing recently with the
practical work my team has been doing in NLP and embodied learning...
http::•www.opencou.orc .wiki:Buildinc_Better Minds
... I have it in draft form but getting all the details in place will
be take some time...
How about this plan:
I) You fund me for 6 months to write the book
2) Then you give copies to your AGI skeptic friends ... and I bet the
book convinces them AGI is worth funding now...
I have the idea of selling copies of the book in advance, to pay my
expenses while I write it.
But I don't know if that will work... I kinda doubt it, although I
have to give it a shot, unless something else good happens (like you)
I'm happy to chat again when/if you have the time...
thx
Ben
Ben Goertzel, PhD
CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC
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"Truth is a pathless land" -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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