To: Ben Goertze Fran: Jeffrey Epstein Sent Tue 1/22/2013 11:43:03 AM Subject Re: obvivously you are stuck in an old paradigm re your appearence. it is what youlecture othres about, I am trying to help. it is silly, i hope if your robot is wise it will concur and tell you to cut your hair, that probably would be a demonstration of the technology that would finally wow people . serioulsy , thanks for your intros to yoru frineds On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:35 AM, Ben Goertzel 4:: wrote: hah... I mentioned this email to my wife and she said "Noo, don't cut your hair, it's so sexy', You managed to get a hedge fund started with long hair, so what's the problem?" But of course, if some sufficiently awesome opportunity comes up that requires me to adopt a different look or persona, I'm wilting to do that.... Getting AGI built is more important than preserving the look I'm used to and my wife likes .... Back in 2000 I had short hair for a while... It seems, though, that long hair has been no obstacle to me getting taken seriously as a futurist pundit.... And short hair has not caused Joscha, Itamar etc. etc. to get ►oads of AGI funding ;p If there are folks you'd like to introduce me to, who you think would be put off by my current appearance, I can buy a nice suit and tie my hair back in a ponytail, and I guess that may suffice? ;) On a more interesting note, I just heard from David Hanson that he's been talking to you about you potentially funding our joint AGUrobotics research efforts, as well as about him sculpting a robo-Epstein for you That would be awesome. I'm sure you will really enjoy meeting David, he's a dynamic guy as well as a canny entrepreneur, an innovative scientist and an amazing artist.... He is exactly the collaborator I needed in order to work on robotics.... I feared dealing with robotics for a long time, because working with robot mechanics can be a huge time sink. But with an innovative, AGI-friendly roboticist as