Fwd: Singularity Summit Transportation

From: Tyler Emerson (emerson@intelligence.org)
Date: Thu May 04 2006 - 23:52:08 MDT


Micah from Rhode Island is looking for a ride to the Singularity
Summit at Stanford.

If you can pick him up, please let him know: micah@ssdp.org

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Begin forwarded message:
> From: "Micah Daigle" <micah@ssdp.org>
> Date: May 3, 2006 11:52:33 AM PDT
> To: sss-inquiries@lists.Stanford.EDU
> Subject: Singularity Summit Transportation
>
> Hi Tyler,
>
> I am the University of Rhode Island student with whom you just  
> spoke. I appreciate your
> help in getting out to the summit.
>
> Here is my basic information:
>
> Micah Daigle
> Philosophy major at the University of Rhode Island (graduating 2006)
> e-mail: micah@ssdp.org
>
> Here is some additional information:
>
> Approximately a year and a half ago, I became aware of brain- 
> computer-interface programs
> being developed by Cybernetics Inc at Brown University. The  
> implications of this
> research immediately excited me, since my philosophical studies had  
> thus far been
> focused on cognition and information patterning. Ever since  
> discovering this technology,
> I've been writing papers for philosophy, sociology, and political  
> science classes about
> the implications of BCI and subsequent transhuman evolutionary  
> paradigms. The titles of
> my papers include "The Politics of Being Immortal" and "The  
> Technological Marxian
> Evolution".
>
> Within the past few months, I discovered I was not alone in this  
> forward-thinking school
> of thought. I recently bought Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near"  
> and am close to
> finishing it. After discussing the singularity scenario with  
> several professors and
> students at the University of Rhode Island (many of whom are too  
> frightened to even
> discuss the topic), I've decided that my graduate studies must be  
> focused in this field.
> The Symbolic Systems Program at Stanford looks incredibly promising.
>
> I'll be graduating from URI this month, and I'll be moving to  
> Washington DC to work with
> a drug policy reform organization for a few years while I prepare  
> financially and
> academically for graduate school. Attending the Singularity Summit  
> at Stanford would be
> an excellent opportunity for me to meet others who find it equally  
> important to
> anticipate the future of human evolution.
>
> Any help with getting to the Summit would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Micah Daigle
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