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Monday, November 6, 2017 12:54 PM
jeffrey E.
Re: SingularityNET lawyer

Yeah, indeed, going to jail is very strongly undesirable.

But dealing with real $$ is needed to make the biological organism grow.

So yeah, the legal and tax issues need careful attention as this is set up. But we are paying a lawyer a bunch of $$ for this and are doing our best...

ben

On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 6:44 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
> going to jail, not worth, it. . so the details are in the devil
>
> On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Ben Goertzel <ben@goertzel.org> wrote:
>>
>> About the issue of allowing conversion of real $$ into AGI Tokens (or
>> hugs or whatever you want to call them) ....
>>
>> I do understand there is greater legal/regulatory risk in doing it
>> this way...
>>
>> On the other hand, I don't see any other way to make the thing really
>> grow to exceed Google, FB etc. in size (or even become
>> self-supporting)...
>>
>> Even Second Life allowed conversion of their internal Lindedn Dollars
>> to and from USD ...
>>
>> Basically, we need real-world users who need AI services for their
>> businesses to outsource their work to Agents in the SingularityNET ...
>> and these real-world businesses have their assets in fiat currency...
>> so what else can ya do?
>>
>> The exchange can be done in the familiar crypto exchanges, or
>> whatever these are morphed into once the next regulatory changes
>> occur... we don't need to become moneychangers ourselves... but the
>> world needs to have ways to turn fiat back and forth into AGI tokens...
>>
>> Eventually maybe not, if the AGI economy overtakes the normal-world
>> economy. But for the AGI parasite to overcome to
>> regular-human-economy host (so it can grow to be more than a parasite
>> and eventually gain its own superhuman autonomy) it first needs to
>> suck off the resources of the host, and these resources are now

> mainly expressed in fiat currency...
>>
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>> On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Ben Goertzel <ben@goertzel.org> wrote:
>>> It's this guy
>>> https://angel.co/massimilianocaruso
>>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/massimilianocaruso
>>> Acquisition International's 2016 Legal Award Winner - Corporate & IP attorney of the Year Italy
>>> Finance Monthly's 2017 Law Awards - Best Corporate Lawyer Italy
>>> http://www.startuplegale.it/startup-venture-capital/initial-coin-of fer=ng-ico-le-questioni-di-natura-legale/
>>> He is somewhat young, but well connected in Switzerland and quite knowledgeable on the ICO space...
>>> ben
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>> Ben Goertzel, PhD
>> http://goertzel.org
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>> "I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak." -- Alexander Scriabin
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