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Archive for March, 2007

1% for Life = Novamente & Methuselah Foundation

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

Happily, Novamente has donated 1% of its stock to the Methuselah Foundation’s “1% for Life” program:
Pioneering Artificial Intelligence company Novamente LLC has donated one percent of its common stock to the Methuselah Foundation. Currently in stealth mode, San Francisco-based Novamente is working on revolutionary Artificial Intelligence products. The Methuselah Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization [...]

How to Live Forever or Die Trying

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Bryan Appleyard’s new book, How to Live Forever or Die Trying, includes a chapter (available online) about ImmInst’s Atlanta Conference, including commentary about Bruce Klein(me!), Ben Goertzel, Novamente and a number of other life extension pioneers, such as Susan Fonseca-Klein, Aubrey de Grey, Martine Rothblatt, James Hughes, Max More and Eliezer Yudkowsky. Here’s a quick [...]

Novamente Advisory update

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Two new individuals join Novamente’s Strategic Adivisory:

David Gobel - Strategic Advisor
Father of shared 3-D virtual environments and pioneer creator of first avatars. Co-Founder of Knowledge Adventure, earliest and highly successful educational multimedia software company. Founder of Worlds [...]

Novamente’s Second Life Headquarters (grand opening)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Join Ben, Bruce and others! to celebrate the grand opening of Novamente’s new headquarters in Second Life (Thur. March 22nd @ 6pm Pacific).

Location in SL: secondlife://Agard/101/226/27

Ben Goertzel (SL name: Zarathustrapocalypse Zeta)

Bruce Klein (SL name: BruceKlein Yifu)
ImmInst discussion.

The Shtinkularity (by Zebulon)

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

Zebulon, Ben Goertzel’s 13 year old son, created a 3 minuted video w/ a superhero “singularity squad” that “beats up some robots” featuring some of the Novamente team, including Ben, Mike, Matt, Ari and me! Also, discussed at the [singularity] list.