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"From: on behalf of Ben Goertzel To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: quick summary of situation Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009"

"Thanks for taking the time to talk to me, amidst all your busy-ness... This is just a quick summary of the practical points we discussed at the end of"

"If I return to academia I'll keep Novamente operating on the side"

"I didn't do so because I thought Dan Stoicescu would keep funding Novamente, but instead he disappeared and turned anti-AI"

"grounding my AI design in Marcus Nutter's Universal AI mathematics, which I think is of great value for my AGI project"

"But I sent you a careful proposal on that last year, and unfortunately it seems not to have crossed your threshold of fundability"

"boring government AI job I would get around DC... If I didn't have a shared child custody arrangement here"