Fromm: on behalf of Ben Goertzel To: Jeffrey Epstein <Jeevacation@gtnalcont> Subject: Re: Follow-up Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:32:32 +0000 Ok, thanks... On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Jeffrey Epstein<jeevacationggmail.com> wrote: > email me again on sat > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Ben Goertzel < wrote: >> >> 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 >> >> 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 ww**www**www**www************www**www**www*******www**www** > The information contained in this communication is EFTA00773848