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To:
Ben Goertzelt
Fran:
Jeffrey Epstein
Sent
Tue 2/12/2013 1:56:06 PM
Subject Re:
its too silly to discuss any flirter
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Ben Goertzel
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
finding, 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
wrote:
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
certain rhythm....
I'm there in the Ray Kurzweil movie "Transcendent Man" with long hair
and a zebra-striped cowboy hat.... And Raj Dye, a guy in LA, is about
to release an indie-film documentary called "Singularity or Bust",
featuring me and Hugo de Garis in HK and Xiamen in 2009 ... again,
with the classic long-haired Ben Goertzel.... He screened the film
privately in LA last weekend, and is now trying to get it in the film
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festival circuit...
Would me having short hair in mid-2013 really matter, if searching for
me online brings up a new film with the long-haired Ben playing with
talking robots in China? (which I guess it will, once Raj's film makes
it onto YouTube)
I know you have a lot of stuff do to in your life, so I do appreciate
you taking time to talk with me about this somewhat silly (but, I
admit, possibly relevant) topic!!! Obviously I have my own share of
human peculiarities, existing in my brain alongside a lot of (IMO)
really deep and potentially impactful AGI thinking...
I'm thinking about the "robot child IQ test" stuff this morning,
btw.... Mainly, about what order it makes most sense to pursue the
child IQ test milestones in, given their own relationships and also
given the current state of OpenCog development...
;)
ben
On The, Feb 12, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@jgmail.com> wrote:
> I ve spoken to more than five large philantropists. on really getting
> behind Al „ they have gone online , and unfortunatly my bayesian
> prediction, came true, there was real interest tempered by unanimous
> comments on your dishelveld 80s appearance. I hestitated to write this, as
> you should decide if your wifes likes/dislikes are your prioirty, i fully
> support rebellious tendencies, but thought i should now reiiterate my
> spinach in the teeth of a friend metaphor.
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"My humanity is a constant self-overcoming"
Friedrich Nietzsche
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