From: an behalf of Ben Goertzel > Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 3:52 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: Re: Probably so! But I will send you the "robot child IQ test" proposal today or tomorrow, which hopefully will NOT be too silly to discuss any further :) On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> wrote: > its too silly to discuss any furter > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Ben Goertzel <la wrote: >> » 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 » funding, 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 » 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 EFTA_R1_01731569 EFTA02566389