From: an on behalf of Ben Goertzel > Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 3:52 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: Re:

Probably so!

But I will send you the "robot child IQ test" proposal today or tomorrow, which hopefully will NOT be too silly to discuss any further

;)

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
> its too silly to discuss any furter
>
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> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Ben Goertzel <███████████> wrote:
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>> Hmmm..
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>> That is interesting data.....
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>> And certainly, I would be willing to cut my hair for a lot of AGI
>> money ;p .... And Ruiting (wife) would rather see me with lots of AGI
>> funding, than see me with the hairstyle that turns her on most...
>>
>> However, I am wondering how much difference cutting my hair could
>> actually make in the near term anyway.
>>
>> I mean, speaking practically: Supposing I cut my hair shorter
>> tomorrow. So what? The Internet is still full of videos of me
>> speaking with the classic long-haired "Ben Goertzel" look. And
>> personality-wise, I'm always going to be somewhat of a hippie and an
>> eccentric guy -- that's just who I am.... Changing my look is an
>> option, but changing my "apparent personality" would require greater
>> acting skills than I possess, even if I wanted to do it...
>>
>> If you organized some important meeting with major philanthropists
>> about funding AGI, I'd of course be willing to cut my hair and buy a
>> nice suit for the meeting, etc. ...
>>
>> But apart from that -- if I cut my hair tomorrow, what difference
>> would it make? How would these philanthropists know? ;-p ...
>>
>> I suppose that if I had short hair for a few years, then a critical
>> mass of videos online would appear featuring the new cleaner-cut Ben,
>> and my "image" would look different when people Googled me. But that
>> would actually take quite a while, because the videos and online
>> photos occur at conferences and other events which get scheduled at a

» certain rhythm....

>>
>> I'm there in the Ray Kurzweil movie "Transcendent Man" with long hair
>> and a zebra-striped cowboy hat.... And Raj Dye, a guy in LA, is
>> about to release an indie-film documentary called "Singularity or
>> Bust", featuring me and Hugo de Garis in HK and Xiamen in 2009 ...
>> again, with the classic long-haired Ben Goertzel.... He screened the
>> film privately in LA last weekend, and is now trying to get it in the
>> film festival circuit...
>>
>> Would me having short hair in mid-2013 really matter, if searching
>> for me online brings up a new film with the long-haired Ben playing
>> with talking robots in China? (which I guess it will, once Raj's film
>> makes it onto YouTube)
>>
>> I know you have a lot of stuff do to in your life, so I do appreciate
>> you taking time to talk with me about this somewhat silly (but, I
>> admit, possibly relevant) topic!!! Obviously I have my own share of
>> human peculiarities, existing in my brain alongside a lot of (IMO)
>> really deep and potentially impactful AGI thinking...
>>
>> I'm thinking about the "robot child IQ test" stuff this morning,
>> btw.... Mainly, about what order it makes most sense to pursue the
>> child IQ test milestones in, given their own relationships and also
>> given the current state of OpenCog development...
>>
>> ;)
>> ben
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>> > is the property of Jeffrey Epstein Unauthorized use, disclosure or
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ben Goertzel, PhD
>> http://goertzel.org
>>
>> "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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> --
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