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