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To: Ben Goertzel[ From: Jeevacation Sent: Wed 4/29/2009 11:48:50 AM Subject: Re: brief update, and question: Interested to fund the video recording and editing of the AGI Summer School lectures, for $2K? Yes Sent from my iPhone On Apr 29, 2009, at 6:57 PM, Ben Goertzel <-> wrote: > Hi Jeffrey, > Quick financial update: I've sorted out how to cover my own expenses > thru mid-July, via the investment Novamente received. > • I've been carrying on with the mathematical formalization stuff I've > been doing for the last couple months. > But the main topic of this email is: For 3 weeks in June/July I'll be > leading the world's first AGI Summer School, which will be in Xiamen, > China > • http://www.goertzel.org/AGI_Summer_School_2009.htm > As with pretty much every such endeavor in the current economy, > funding is rather tight. We're right at the point where tuition from > students will match stipends to faculty (and note that my own stipend > will be covering my expenses for a couple weeks). > Some of the lectures are quite general in scope, and about 1/3 of them > are fairly specific to my OpenCog project. There will be 7 > international faculty giving the lectures, including me. > • I'd like to have the lectures effectively recorded and edited and > placed online, so as to educate folks who can't make it to China this > summer. > I don't trust the Chinese university to do this ... to make a long > story short, they have a special Chinese way of screwing things up. I > found someone (Raj Dye) who is enthused to record and edit the > lectures for free, but I need 52000 to cover his airfare and room and > board. Question is whether you're interested to donate $2K to the > summer school for this purpose > -- Ben > • Ben Goertzel, PhD > CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC > Director of Research, SIAI > • Critical threshold: Being generally intelligent enough to be EFTA_R1_00204078 EFTA01828591 > disappointed by one's own lack of general intelligence EFTA_R1_00204079 EFTA01828592