Same question as Luke's. I probably would have jumped at it, if only to make seed money to sponsor other useful projects, like the following. I have a standing offer to make hi-def (1080) video interviews, documentaries, etc and competent, penetrating Q and A sessions and documentaries with key, relevant players and theoreticians in AI and related work. This includes individual thinkers, labs, Google's AI work, the list is endless. I have knowledge of AI, general comp sci, consideralble knowledge of neuroscience, the mind-body problem (philosophically understood in GREAT detail -- college honors thesis at UCB was on that) and deep, long-term evolutionary knowledge of all the big neurophilosphy players' theories. These players include but are not limited to Dennett, Searle, Dreyfus, Turing, as well as modern players too numerous to mention, plus some under-discussed people like the LBL quantum physicist Henry Stapp (quantum zeno effect and it's relation to the possibility of consciousness and free will, whose papers I have been following assiduously for 15 years and think are absolutely required reading for anyone in this business.) I have also closely followed Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose's "Orch OR" theory -- which has just been vindicated by major experiments refuting the long-running, standard objection to the possibility of quantum intra-neuronal processes (the objection based upon purportedly almost immediate, unavoidable, quantum decoherence caused by the warm, wet, noisy brain milleu) -- an objection Hameroff, Penrose, occasionally Max Tegmark (who has waxed and waned a bit over the last 15 years on this one, as I read his comments all over the web) and others, have mathematically dealth with for years, but has lacked --- until just this last year empirical support. Said support is now there -- and with with some fanfare, I might add, within the nich scientific and philosophical mind-body and AI theoretic community that follows this work. Experiment

One of the open threads. At the time I didn't know if it was being done at all. I wanted to give copies to my father and grandfather, who are also the president and board chair of a large family business. If there's a one percent chance of making them one percent better it's a bargain, and it's right up their alley. Problem is I'd never get them to read a printout of a web page or e-book. Real book yes, audio book maybe. Christmas 2015 is a far cry better than never, and I'm glad the work is being done.