> Re (3) I have often wondered how much time one could really spend > continuously on working on AGI - refer to the Princeton Instititue of > Advanced Studies where established geniuses (such as Einstein) were/are > paid to devote fulltime efforts to thinking but actually not many > earthshaking ideas have come out of it. Don't we need a lot of 'time > wasted' on trivia such as a real job, leaking plumbing and family in > order to have these 1 or 2 hours of creative thinking/work each day? > Would it help to have consolidated 8 hour or longer blocks each day? Do > people like Ben, Leitz and Peter (Voss) really have so much time to > think creatively/design or is my suspicion right that a lot of their > (your :) time is spent on fundraising, PR, communication, management?
I think I personally spend about 30 hours/week actively focused on AGI, these days. However, the rest of my "work time" is spent doing activities that help bring in the $$ that pays other members of the Novamente team to work on AGI. We do have several team members working full-time on AGI R&D. My total work time is probably about 65 hours a week all total, on average, though of course for much of the remainder of the week my mind is still churning about AGI and other related scientific and technology issues! I would of course like to see things shift so that I could spend, say, 50 instead of 30 hours per week on AGI directly. But as things are now, I am the business leader of Novamente LLC as well as the "head AGI guru." -- Ben G ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
