From: on behalf of Ben Goertzel Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 6:12 AM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: Publicity, funding, book published, AGI, etc. Hi Jeffrey, [Sorry for the semi-long email but there's lots to cover; I know you're busy and your time is appreciated... ;) Firstly -- Wow, it seems your publicity folks have been quite impactful lately! Since your team has issued a number of press releases mentioning me lately, I keep getting emails from people congratulating me on my new AGI funding windfall from the Jeffrey Epstein IV Foundation. (Though of course, I have to disappoint them by telling them that, while you've been consistently and wonderfully helpful to my work over the years, there has been no big-time Epstein/OpenCog AGI funding event... yet ...) Anyway -- on to immediate practical matters -- the time of year has come for me to email you and inquire about the possibility of ongoing research funding... You may recall that my Hong Kong government research grant requires private donations amounting to 10% of the $$, and then the government will put up 90%. last year you donated $20K toward this grant, which was very much appreciat=d. This year I have gotten approval for an increase in the Hong Kong government funding (technically: a separate grant running 2014-2015, overlapping with the current grant which runs 2013-2014). With the increased funding, next year we will have 10 programmers working on OpenCog here in Hong Kong, which will be quite exciting. The 10% payment for the two grants will be 545K in total, due by the end of 2013. If you could help with this, as you did last year, that would be fantastic. (Elsewise, to be quite frank, I have no ready way to come up with that amount of money except to liquidate my minimal pension fund from my university days ;p ) The new grant (2014-2015) is specifically for natural language dialogue, whereas the previous one (2013-2014) was aimed at robotics, and the earlier one (2012-2