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From: Jeffrey <jeevacation@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, April 6, 2012 12:48 AM To: Ben Goertzel Subject: Re: "Coping with Future Catastrophes" conference: suggestions Great Sorry for all the typos .Sent from my iPhone On Apr 5, 2012, at 8:44 PM, Ben Goertzel > wrote: > Hah ... cool, thanks for the quick reply ;) > BTW, I'm spending most of my time in Hong Kong now, where my little > AGI team is located. But I'll be back in the US for the end of May > and all of June, so if you have time maybe we can briefly get together > then so I can update you on progress toward AGI. Anyway I'll ping you > closer to that time to see if you may be available... > ben > On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Jeffrey <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: » Ok » Sorry for all the typos .Sent from my iPhone » On Apr 5, 2012, at 8:31 PM, Ben Goertzel •Mil l> wrote: >» Hi Jeffrey, >» >» I'll send you an update on my AGI project (which is going reasonably >» well) sometime soon, but what occasioned this email was reading the >» press release for your upcoming meeting on global risks in Dubai: >» http://www.pr.com/press-release/403599 >» >» This topic interests me a lot as you probably know ... attached find >» an almost-final version of a paper on how to mitigate the potential >» risks of advanced AGI systems, which is going to be published >» shortly in the Journal of Evolution and Technology. >» So if you see fit, it would be great for you to reserve a slot for >» me at the Dubai meeting. ;-) >» >» Also, I have some other suggestions for you... >» >» You might want to consider inviting Steve Omohundro, who has written >» some pretty insightful stuff about the potential existential risks EFTA_R1_01708812 EFTA02552200 >>> posed by AGI.... His paper on Basic Al Drives is a good one >>> >>> http://selfawaresystems.com/2007/11/30/paper-on-the-basic-ai-drives/ >>> >>> and I suspect it will appeal to you. Steve and I gave talks >>> together with Larry Krauss (whom it seems you know) at the >>> Singularity Summit Australia last year... >>> There're also the Singularity Institute for Al guys, who are >>> obsessed with the topic of AGI and existential risk. Some of the >>> SRI guys are too kooky for my taste; but Luke Muelhauser, their >>> director, is reasonably solid.. >>> >>> http://singinst.org/aboutus/team >>> >>> Another very obvious suggestion is Nick Bostrom, who coined the term >>> "existential risks", and heads the Future of Humanity Institute at >>> Oxford. We're actually having our AGI 2012 conference at Oxford, >>> and alongside the technical AGI presentations we'll have some >>> discussions with Nick and his Oxford philosophy team on AGI-related >>> "future catastrophe" stuff. >>> >>> Finally Paul Werbos >>> >>> http://www.werbos.com/ >>> >>> is a brilliant cross-disciplinary scientist who knows a hell of a >>> lot about the risks facing humanity on all levels, due to his >>> position with the NSF. He's a rare case of a guy who's a >>> broad-minded, wildly imaginative thinker and ALSO very tight w/ US >>> government science, engineering, military, intelligence, etc. >>> These folks all represent a community that has thought about, and >>> discussed, the "future catastrophes" issue quite a lot, and probably >>> would have a lot to add to your Future Catastrophes conference. >>> >>> And as I said, more on the AGI work a little later ;) >>> >>> thanks much >>> Ben >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Ben Goertzel, PhD >>> http://goertzel.org >>> "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche >>> <EDITED_GoertzelNineWaysToFriendlyAl_v6_BG> 2 EFTA_R1_01708813 EFTA02552201 > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche <?xml version="1.0" encoding='UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/Propertylist-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>conversation-id</key> <integer>215789</integer> <key>date-last-viewed</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>date-receivedgkey> <integer>1333673237</integer> <key>flags</key> <integer>8590195713</integer> <key>remote-id</key> <string>215889</string> </dict> </plist> 3 EFTA_R1_01708814 EFTA02552202