From: a on behalf of Ben Goertzel . - Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 12:17 AM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: List of some interesting people :-) .... Hi Jeffrey, Thanks for taking the time to talk w/ me yesterday! As you requested, here is a quickly-assembled list of some "really smart, interesting people who I think Jeffrey would enjoy meeting" Mostly these are folks I know personally. But, the mix also includes some people whom I don't know, but whose work I greatly respect.... I have annotated each name with some rough, informal notes (which obviously are not for dissemination ;p ...) I haven't restricted attention to science PhD's; but everyone listed is connected closely with groundbreaking science or futuristic tech in some way.... The list also embodies some personality-based filtering -- i.e. these are mostly rather open minded, "a little bit out there" people.... Note that this is NOT a group of folks who agree with me about AGI or much of anything else.... (Though I have relationships of mutual intellectual respect with all of the folks I know and have mentioned, obviously.) They're just brilliant, creative, diverse minds, who would have a hell of a lot of fascinating, productive conversations if all in one place.... The list is in no particular order... ben RS* LIST BELOW "S ter Or. Joscha Bach http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyKzO0MF1zI A young German AGI researcher with a psychology background. His AGI system is called MicroPsi, and it's the inspiration for OpenCog's emotion/motivation system. He had a couple academic post-docs but is now working in industry developing a new version of MicroPsi and applying it to practical problems.... Very deep thinker, though he's kind of an AGI pessimist (he thinks it's 30.50 years off). it* EFTA_R1_01985567 EFTA02679857