RE: [sl4] Profiles of Singularity University 1st course students

From: Marian Iskandar (a1c1d14@msn.com)
Date: Sat Aug 01 2009 - 14:52:31 MDT


25k for a 9 week course?! That's 10k short from the YEARLY tuition prices offered for private universities! This program is obscenely expensive. Is this pseudo-university even accredited?

> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:10:54 +0300
> Subject: [sl4] Profiles of Singularity University 1st course students
> From: aleksei@iki.fi
> To: wta-talk@transhumanism.org
> CC: extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org; sl4@sl4.org; singularity@v2.listbox.com
>
> I noticed that Singularity University has published a substantial
> amount of information on their first class of "students":
>
> http://singularityu.org/news/2009/07/su-names-gsp-09-students/
> (each student has a personal profile page, I recommend you glance them through)
>
> Boy, did I feel elated at seeing the high quality. I heard it was
> good, but I did not expect such a large amount of very accomplished
> entrepreneurs, "a senior adviser to the President of Israel" and never
> mind the amount of doctorates and records set in scholarly
> achievements... quite good for "a random postgraduate course" run by
> people who belong to "a weird cult" if we were to believe the claims
> of certain hilarious individuals...
>
> --
> Aleksei Riikonen - http://www.iki.fi/aleksei



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