# To: Jeffrey Epstein[jeevacation@gmail.com]
From:

Sent: Thur 8/20/2009 2:58:03 AM

Subject: Follow-up

Hi Jeffrey,

I don't want to pester you excessively as I know you're very busy, but just in case a small nudge will pop my research a little higher in your over-full attentional queue, here it is ;-)

Basically, this is my last-ditch effort to avoid going on the job market for a job as a bioinformaticist or software architect at some government agency ;-p

# To: Jeffrey Epstein[jeevacation@gmail.com]
From: (cont.)

## thanks

Ben

P.S.

I started looking at the 2010 academic job market (ads are already out there a year in advance!) and indeed, once again there no AI jobs but many bioinformatics jobs.

I will apply for them this fall ... so, if some visionary doesn't fund an AGI project or Novamente's virtual pet business doesn't take off, in Fall 2010 I'll get paid to be a "narrow AI / bioinformatics prof" and do my AGI work on the side. Or else I'll move to China where there is AGI funding.

But either way, some research support for the next year (or at least the fall) would be very helpful and would give me time to write up all the "math of AI" stuff I've been doing, giving my AI architecture a more rigorous grounding. (The math in itself doesn't help build the AGI, but it does help suggest ways to streamline the software design, thus making the engineering job easier -- though not easy enough.)

Ben Goertzel, PhD
CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC
Director of Research. SIAI

"Truth is a pathless land" -- Jiddu Krishnamurti