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
-- Tyler Emerson, Executive Director, Singularity Institute emerson@intelligence.org | 650-353-6063 | www.singinst.org 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 > -++**==--++**==--++**==--++**==--++**==--++**==--++**== > This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list > server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the > message body of "unsubscribe sss-inquiries" to > majordomo@lists.stanford.edu
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