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To: v gmail.coni From: nbehalfofBenGoenzel Sent ur 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 > • Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 29, 2009, at 6:57 PM, Ben Goertzel rote: » Hi Jeffrey, >> 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. >> » 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 >> • http://www.goertzel.org/AGI_Summer_School_2009.htm >> >> 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). >> 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. >> >> 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. » 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. » -- Ben >> >> • -- >> Ben Goertzel, PhD » cep, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC » Director of Research, SIAI EFTA_R1_01516788 EFTA02442018 > > >> Critical threshold: Being generally intelligent enough to be >> disappointed by one's own lack of general intelligence > 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 EFTA_R1_01516789 EFTA02442019