To: Jeffrey Epstein eevacation mail.comi
Cc: Lesley Gro
From: John Brockman
Sent Wed 8/21/2013 6:26:51 PM
Subject Re:
JE,
>>any more thoughts on farm meeting?
On vacation in Napa (at Safra's place) with Kahneman and Thaler. Twcct from last night's dinner:
At dinner in Napa with Danny Kahneman & @r_thaler observing
Kahneman's N+1 rule: If Kahneman comes to dinner # of deserts =
# of guests +1.
Here's what's happening below re the weekend. People like the idea. I have invitations out. I'm on
my cell.
JB
p.s. Got a hundred M fot= property in Calistoga - a high-end resort. He spent 15 years
trying to get approval. The town just had a referendum and voted approval. Can send large file. I
see it as a high end nursing home for people like you - to have interesting people to talk to.
Dear xxxx
Danny Kahneman and Anne Treisman will be our houseguests at
Eastover Farm in Bethlehem, CT the weekend of Sept 6-8 and I want
to plan something entertaining and interesting.
If we can pull it off, I have in mind a rehearsal, or dry run,
for a possible annual event. Here's what I have in mind .
I want to do a weekend the focuses on state of art of what the
social sciences have to tell us about human nature in the past
year or two. For want of something more serious, it's "THE HEAD
CONFERENCE" or "HEADCON". We would host a couple of dinners Fri
and Sat nights, and on Saturday, a day of hanging out at the
Farm. During those periods, there would be a series of talks by
the invited guests. As a guest of Edge we would pick up hotel
room charges and transportation expenses.
Some background: In 1992, when the physicist George Smoot
announced his findings from the COBE satellite regarding cosmic
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background radiation and the beginning of time, I left a message
on the voicemail of the late, great Sidney Coleman of Harvard :
"Sidney, I hear there's something new in the Universe. What is
it?. And what's in it for me?" The message went viral after
Sidney posted it on the electronic bulletin board of the physics
community.
My question was inspired by an annual event in Italy for leading
physicists where Sidney gave the keynote talk. The topic of his
lecture was essentially "What's new in the Universe?" Sidney
would detail the advances and developments in the past year or
two across many areas of physics.
In this case, I would be asking you, and the other guests, to
give a half hour talk responding to a similar question:
"What's new in your field of social science in the last year or
two, and why should I care? Why do I want or need to know about
it and how does it change my view of human nature'?
I would ask you to focus broadly and address the major
developments in your entire field (including but not at all
limited to your own research agenda). It would have to be new,
fresh, and original: an up-to-date field report on your area of
social science. This talk should be, to the extent possible,
conversational, and not a canned Power-Point or slide-driven
conference talk. We would videotape the entire event and present
the videos and texts as an EDGE Special Event.
For this upcoming event, a dry run, we're focusing on one day,
replicating the usual Edge Events at Eastover Farm. See:
http://www.edge.org/events/eastover-farm-meetings
FRIDAY
4:00 arrive at Eastover Farm
6:30pm Dinner at Woodward House (2 miles away)
SATURDAY
Talks and hanging out at farm
5:30 ends.
6:00 Early casual dinner at Good Enough to Eat, a restaurant on
way to the highway. People can get back to Boston or NY by lOpm.
Please advise if you can attend. EDGE will pick up your
transportation costs and room charges at a nearby hotel for
Friday night.
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Best,
JB
John Brockman
917-744-8920 Mobile
President
Edge Foundation, Inc. tel:
260 Fifth Avenue fax:
New York, NY 10001
Visit EDGE at: http://www.edge.org
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