To: Jeffrey EpsteinUeevacationagmail.comj
From: John Brockman
Sent Wed 8/21/2013 7:29:37 PM
Subject: Re:
sounds good, do you need finding?
Epstcin's third law:
"Learn how to say yes."
(supplants "know when you are winning").
JB
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:26 PM, John Brockman wrote:
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 for Jacques 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
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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 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
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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 10pm.
Please advise if you can attend. EDGE will pick up your
transportation costs and room charges at a nearby
hotel for Friday night.
Best,
JB
John Brockman
Mobile
President
Edge Foundation, Inc.
260 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10001
Visit EDGE at: http://www.edge.org
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