To: Jeevacation[jeevacation@gmail.com]
From:  on behalf of Ben Goertzel 
Sent: Thur 4/30/2009 11:51:03 AM

Subject: Re: brief update, and question: Interested to fund the video recording and editing of the AGI Summer School lectures, for $2K?

Great, thanks!

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Jeevacation <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes
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> Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 29, 2009, at 6:57 PM, Ben Goertzel wrote:

>> Hi Jeffrey,
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>> Quick financial update: I've sorted out how to cover my own expenses
>> thru mid-July, via the investment Novamente received.

>>

>> I've been carrying on with the mathematical formalization stuff I've >> been doing for the last couple months.

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» But the main topic of this email is: For 3 weeks in June/July I'll be >> leading the world's first AGI Summer School, which will be in Xiamen, China

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>> http://www.goertzel.org/AGI_Summer_School_2009.htm

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>> As with pretty much every such endeavor in the current economy, >> funding is rather tight. We're right at the point where tuition from >> students will match stipends to faculty (and note that my own stipend >> will be covering my expenses for a couple weeks).

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>> Some of the lectures are quite general in scope, and about 1/3 of them >> are fairly specific to my OpenCog project. There will be 7 >> international faculty giving the lectures, including me.

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>> I'd like to have the lectures effectively recorded and edited and >> placed online, so as to educate folks who can't make it to China this summer.

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>> I don't trust the Chinese university to do this ... to make a long >> story short, they have a special Chinese way of screwing things up. I >> found someone (Raj Dye) who is enthused to record and edit the >> lectures for free, but I need $2000 to cover his airfare and room and >> board. Question is whether you're interested to donate $2K to the >> summer school for this purpose.

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

>> Critical threshold: Being generally intelligent enough to be >> disappointed by one's own lack of general intelligence

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

Critical threshold: Being generally intelligent enough to be disappointed by one's own lack of general intelligence