<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Anna,<br><br>I asked, following your question.<br><br></div>A reply from Ben ...<br><br></div>Cordially, Dante<br><div><br><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ben Goertzel</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben@goertzel.org">ben@goertzel.org</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:03 AM<br>Subject: Re: Book "The End of the Beginning" finally published!<br>To: <a href="mailto:gbrain@listserv.vub.ac.be">gbrain@listserv.vub.ac.be</a><br><br><br><span class="">On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson<br>
<<a href="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com">dante.monson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> after forwarding this message about the book, I was asked why there are only<br>
> men within the author list ?<br>
<br>
<br>
</span>Well, we made a web page for the book and sent out a bunch of emails<br>
and social media announcements soliciting authors.... Adult males<br>
were the ones who responded by sending chapters.... The author list<br>
wasn't restricted to our chums, though many who responded were in fact<br>
our chums...<br>
<br>
I did make an effort to get geographical/cultural representation ...<br>
but it happened that of the African and Asian transhumanists I<br>
solicited, the ones who responded favorably and wanted to submit<br>
chapters, were both young males...<br>
<br>
So I think this really reduces to the question of why the overall<br>
topic of the Singularity, transhumanism and advanced tech appeals to<br>
men more than women.... When I used to organize transhumanist<br>
conferences, recruiting one or two good on-topic female speakers was<br>
always something I had to explicitly strive for... I generally found<br>
men more eager to push themselves forward and advertise themselves in<br>
this way, than women...<br>
<br>
(Note, I am simply being empirical in the above observations, not<br>
making any hypotheses about the causes.... But I note that when I<br>
was working in psychology for a while in the 90s, things I organized<br>
attracted a high proportion of females.... So this doesn't seem to be<br>
an artifact of my or Ted's personal styles, but more of the subject<br>
area...)<br>
<br>
-- Ben<br>
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-- Ben<br>
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