To: Ben Goertzelt Fran: Jeffrey Epstein Sent Tue 2/12/2013 1:56:06 PM Subject Re: its too silly to discuss any flirter On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Ben Goertzel Hmmm.. That is interesting data And certainly, I would be willing to cut my hair for a lot of AGI money ;p .... And Ruiting (wife) would rather see me with lots of AGI finding, than see me with the hairstyle that turns her on most... However, I am wondering how much difference cutting my hair could actually make in the near term anyway. I mean, speaking practically: Supposing I cut my hair shorter tomorrow. So what? The Internet is still full of videos of me speaking with the classic long-haired "Ben Goertzel" look. And personality-wise, I'm always going to be somewhat of a hippie and an eccentric guy -- that's just who I am.... Changing my look is an option, but changing my "apparent personality" would require greater acting skills than I possess, even if I wanted to do it... If you organized some important meeting with major philanthropists about funding AGI, I'd of course be willing to cut my hair and buy a nice suit for the meeting, etc. ... But apart from that -- if I cut my hair tomorrow, what difference would it make? How would these philanthropists know? ;-p wrote: I suppose that if I had short hair for a few years, then a critical mass of videos online would appear featuring the new cleaner-cut Ben, and my "image" would look different when people Googled me. But that would actually take quite a while, because the videos and online photos occur at conferences and other events which get scheduled at a certain rhythm.... I'm there in the Ray Kurzweil movie "Transcendent Man" with long hair and a zebra-striped cowboy hat.... And Raj Dye, a guy in LA, is about to release an indie-film documentary called "Singularity or Bust", featuring me and Hugo de Garis in HK and Xiamen in 2009 ... again, with the classic long-haired Ben Goertzel.... He screened the film pri