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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Welcome aboard Jonathan! </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Gina "Nanogirl" Miller<BR>Nanotechnology Industries<BR><A
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=srndpty@gmail.com href="mailto:srndpty@gmail.com">Jonathan
El-Bizri</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org
href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">ExI chat list</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 13, 2008 1:51
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [ExI] An overdue
introduction</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>(Members of the AGI list, forgive me for this essentially
duplicate message.)<BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><BR>Somewhere in this maelstrom of lions eating zebras
and rounding up zealots for the rapture, an introduction was missed out. I am
sure I have met a number of you at last year's singularity summit, which I
assisted with, or will meet you at this year's, where I will be assisting
again.<BR>
<DIV dir=ltr><BR>I am in my second year of a masters in research psychology at
San Francisco state. My (current) thesis involves the psychological constructs
of the mind in regards to online entities: how we conceive and relate to
synthetic groups, such as this email list, or your friends on facebook, and
also complex non-human systems, as they become more nuanced and intelligent.
<BR><BR>I am also working towards PMP Project and Program Management
Certifications (despite a decade of 'real world' work, one is still required
to take an undergraduate class to qualify for the examination :/), with an eye
towards a career bridging the worlds of research and engineering on graduation
with some writing on the side.<BR><BR>This scholastic endeavour is my second
(third?) life: before this I was a dot-commer, working at start ups, before
eventually getting swallowed by Microsoft and then Juniper Networks. And
before that, I wrote video game soundtracks (I'm sure you've played some of my
games :>) and tv commercials, and managed the production group at a small
game firm.<BR><BR>In addition to working on my thesis project, I am currently
reviewing the developmental psychology texts of my undergraduate days, in
order to refresh myself, and with the additional intention of writing a review
of the literature suitable for the non-developmental, non-psychologist working
in AGI (and as a springboard towards further research of this type). If anyone
can point me in the direction of similar work of this fashion, it would be
appreciated - so far, the topic does not seem well covered, which is good news
for me, after a fashion.<BR><BR>In any case, I am enjoying the chatter here,
and will probably be lurking around here for quite a while, depending on the
anticipated advances in extropian and life extension technologies of course
:><BR><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Jonathan El-Bizri<BR></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV>
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