To: " n©gmail.com] From: n behalf of Ben Goertzel Sent: Thur 9/10/2009 2:23:17 AM Subject: A modest proposal (the book I'd like to write...) 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.opencog.org/wiki/Building_Better_Minds ... I have it in draft form but getting all the details in place will be take some time... How about this plan: 1) 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 Director of Research, SIAI benegoertzel.org "Truth is a pathless land" -- Jiddu Krishnamurti EFTA_R1_01509594 EFTA02436932