[extropy-chat] RE: [wta-talk] SIAI seeking seed AI programmer candidates

[Mike Lorrey]

Giulio, bud, WAY too high on earnings estimates. THis is the post dot
com era, and many areas of the country have plenty of top notch IT
people for $40k-$90. Try out-sourcing to New Hampshire, where there is
no income tax, no sales tax, and extremely minor business enterprise
and profits taxes. Ranked by Fortune as 7th most business friendly
state, 3rd or 4th in other publications rankings (Nashua is most
livable city in the US twice in the past few years.)

--- Giu1i0 Pri5c0 <pgptag at gmail.com> wrote:
> Very interesting Tyler. First, kudos for your "Becoming a Seed AI
> Programmer" article which is one of the very best job offered texts
> that I
> have ever seen.
> To business: reading the description of your project, and having some
> experience in managing large software development proejcts, I found
> myself
> trying to quantify your human resource needs and came up with a core
> staff
> of 50 software managers, architects, designers, coders, testers, plus
> cognitive scientists, mathematicians, hardware and communications
> experts,
> *insert here all current IT buzzwords*, and of course you also need
> support
> staff. As part of the team you need some of the very best money can
> buy,
> people who would command a salary of 250k+/yr in the job market. Your
> total
> budget requirement is, I believe, between 10 and 20M/yr, and these
> may well
> be very conservative estimates. How good are your funding projections
> over
> the next few years? Of course we will try contributing individually a
> few
> tens of bucks every now and then but you know this is not enough.
> Yes of course you can use volunteers, but my advice is not to
> underestimate
> the requirement for paid staff. Volunteers can contribute very
> brilliant but
> intrinsically unreliable work (they are available today, tomorrow
> they need
> money find a job and go), you need paid staff for reliability.
> Have you thought of intermediate marketable results that would look
> good on
> a business plan?
> G.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wta-talk-bounces at transhumanism.org
> [mailto:wta-talk-bounces at transhumanism.org]On Behalf Of Tyler Emerson
> Sent: 01 June 2004 20:10
> To: SL4; SIAIv; Extropy Chat; WTA-Talk; AGI
> Subject: [wta-talk] SIAI seeking seed AI programmer candidates
> 
> 
> Although we are not ready to begin our AI project, we are close
> enough to
> begin forming the development team. Presently, we have two confirmed
> team
> members. We're now actively searching for Singularitarians with
> software
> engineering and cognitive science expertise to join the development
> team. If
> you believe you may be a suitable candidate, or know someone who may,
> please
> read "Becoming a Seed AI Programmer," and consider getting in touch
> at
> institute at singinst.org. The Institute is searching for nothing less
> than
> the core team to fulfill our mission; we need the very best we can
> find.
> 
> http://www.singinst.org/action/seed-ai-programmer.html
> 
> Sincerely,
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Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                         -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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