Fwd: Halfway to 40K Challenge due Thurs; new conference speakers
Bryan Bishop
From: Foresight Institute <nor...@foresight.org>
Date: Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Subject: Halfway to 40K Challenge due Thurs; new conference speakers
To: kan...@gmail.com
We are halfway to our goal of raising $40,000 by THIS THURSDAY to earn the full
matching from our Challenge Grant! Please help if you can; see below.
Foresight 2010: Register by January 10 at the early registration rate of $155.
NEW speakers (see below for full list):
Brad Templeton, Foresight Institute & EFF
Mencius Moldbug, in optional reception debate with Robin Hanson
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Foresight 2010: the Synergy of Molecular Manufacturing and AGI
January 16- 17, 2010
Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel
http://foresight.org/conf2010
Join us for a unique conference focused on the synergy of Molecular
Manufacturing and
general Artificial Intelligence and celebrate the 20th anniversary of
the first Foresight
Conference! The two-day conference fee is only $155 if you register now.
Several rapidly-developing technologies have the potential to undergo
an exponential
takeoff in the next few decades, causing as much of an impact on
economy and society
as the computer and networking did in the past few. Chief among these
are molecular
manufacturing and artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Key in the takeoff phenomenon will be the establishment of strong
positive feedback
loops within and between the technologies. Positive feedback loops
leading to exponential
growth are nothing new to economic systems. At issue is the value of
the exponent: since
the Industrial Revolution, economies have expanded at rates of up to
7% per year;
however, computing capability has been expanding at rates up to 70% per year, in
accordance with Moore's Law.
If manufacturing and intellectual work shifted into this mode, the
impact on the economy
and society would be profound. The purpose of this symposium is to examine the
mechanisms by which this might happen, and its likely effects.
Topics:
Roadmaps to Nanotechnology
Feynman's Path: A top-down roadmap
Roadmaps to general Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Economic effects: Early retirement
Autogeny: Principles underlying exponential manufacturing and intelligence
Additive manufacturing: A roadmap to nanofactories
Open source in manufacturing and AI
Accelerating change
Space development
Revolutionizing transportation with AI
Speakers and prizewinners include:
Oscar Custance
National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Feynman Prize Winner
Robert Freitas
Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
Feynman Prize Winner
J. Storrs Hall
President, Foresight Institute
Ralph Merkle
Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
Hod Lipson
Cornell University
Larry Millstein
Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan
Robin Hanson
George Mason University
Paul Saffo
Stanford University
David Friedman
Santa Clara University
Michael Anissimov
Singularity Institute for AI
Kartik Gada
Reliance GP
Brian Wang
NextBigFuture.com
Monica Anderson
Syntience
Salim Ismail
Singularity University
Brad Templeton
Foresight Institute, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Optional reception debate: Robin Hanson vs. Mencius Moldbug, on futarchy
Register by January 10 to get the early rate of $155. To stay at the conference
hotel, make your reservation now, as rooms at the discounted rate are limited.
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Foresight Challenge Grant
http://foresight.org/challenge
For years now, much of Foresight's funding for the entire year has come from our
annual Challenge Grant.
This has become such a tradition that some of you deliberately delay
your donations,
knowing that at this time of year your donation will be doubled.
It's that time again! Every dollar you give up to the limit by
December 31 will be matched
by our 2009 Challenge Grant.
It's a bigger challenge this year than last -- up by a third, so your
help counts even more
this time.
Your donation helps us offer great conferences like our upcoming
meeting described above.
Foresight works year-round to further the development and positive
uses of advanced
nanotechnology, AI, and other transformative technologies. Help us
make these technological
changes happen in ways that benefit the most the soonest.
Membership levels can be seen at http://foresight.org/members.
Our most popular level:
$250 -- Senior Associate: Get special publications and event
invitations, such as the
January 16 Senior Associate reception and debate during our upcoming conference.
But any amount is welcomed most gladly.
To give, see our page at Network for Good:
https://www.networkforgood.org/donation/MakeDonation.aspx?ORGID2=770119168
Track our progress toward the goal at:
http://www.foresight.org/challenge/
We hope to see you January 16-17 in Palo Alto, and thanks in advance
for any help
you can give in meeting this year's Challenge!
Best wishes,
Josh
J. Storrs Hall
President, Foresight Institute
jo...@foresight.org
Chris
Christine Peterson
Vice President, Foresight Institute
pete...@foresight.org
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