To: Ben Goertze From: Jeffrey Epstein Sent Thur 9/10/2009 8:20:17 AM Subject: Re: A modest proposal (the book I'd like to write...) On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Ben Goertzel wrote: Hi Jeffrey, I thought about your troubles convincing your colleague that now is the time for AGI... Here is the book I'd like to spend the next 6 months writing, synthesizing the theoretical work I've been doing recently with the practical work my team has been doing in NLP and embodied learning... http::•www.opencou.orc .wiki:Buildinc_Better Minds ... I have it in draft form but getting all the details in place will be take some time... How about this plan: I) You fund me for 6 months to write the book 2) Then you give copies to your AGI skeptic friends ... and I bet the book convinces them AGI is worth funding now... I have the idea of selling copies of the book in advance, to pay my expenses while I write it. But I don't know if that will work... I kinda doubt it, although I have to give it a shot, unless something else good happens (like you) I'm happy to chat again when/if you have the time... thx Ben Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC EFTA_R1_00189388 EFTA01817552

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