[Meta] An experiment, you’re invited…

On-line writing is less social than it used to be. I have long rants about why, and what that even means. Maybe I’ll blog them someday.

Anyway, until we remedy that (I think we should remedy that!), assholes like me will just have to cope. There’s Twitter, which is like the junk-food version of on-line intellectual sociability. I have to confess I draw most of my nourishment, and most of my poison, from there. But I am not happy about it.

In this moment when teleconferencing has replaced almost every other form of human sociability, I wondered, why not this too? So, on Thursday, I’ll host a Zoom “seminar” using the previous post, “Weakness is provocative“, as its launch pad. I’ll make a short presentation of the ideas in that post (I’ll try to keep it interesting even for those who’ve read it), then we’ll segue from a Q&A session and then to free-form chat. Of course, whatever people say about the best-laid plans would never apply to what I arrange, my plans are uncommonly shoddy. So, we’ll see!

The time will be 3pm EDT / 12pm PDT / 7pm UTC, this Thursday August 27th. If you’re interested, I’ll need your e-mail to send an invite. Please add a dummy comment to this post with a real e-mail (the e-mail you provide when you comment is not published), or DM me with your e-mail at @interfluidity on Twitter if you are interested in attending. I’ll send back a Zoom link / invite by Thursday morning.

Thanks, always, for reading!

Update: The slides I presented are available here.

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27 Responses to “[Meta] An experiment, you’re invited…”

  1. Brad Green writes:

    Please send invite to
    Zoom chat!

    August 24th, 2020 at 4:29 pm PDT

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  2. Norbert writes:

    Please send me an invite

    August 24th, 2020 at 5:56 pm PDT

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  3. Jason Bucata writes:

    50% chance I’ll catch this one (if only because it’s during work hours) but I like the concept, would like to see other topics too.

    August 24th, 2020 at 6:10 pm PDT

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  4. Lee writes:

    I’d like to!

    August 24th, 2020 at 7:58 pm PDT

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  5. steve pilon writes:

    Count me in!

    August 24th, 2020 at 8:31 pm PDT

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  6. Eli writes:

    Sounds cool to me.

    August 24th, 2020 at 10:22 pm PDT

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  7. Andrew writes:

    Sounds like fun, hopefully I’ll have time.

    August 24th, 2020 at 10:25 pm PDT

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  8. Steve writes:

    Would love to join in, please send an invite!

    Kind Regards,
    S.

    August 25th, 2020 at 4:58 am PDT

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  9. Brad DeLong writes:

    add me…

    August 25th, 2020 at 7:10 am PDT

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  10. Amir writes:

    Please send me an invite!

    August 25th, 2020 at 8:29 am PDT

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  11. ESDewey writes:

    Sounds interesting…please do send an invite.

    August 25th, 2020 at 9:18 am PDT

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  12. David writes:

    I’m on dad duty with a 13-month old so the two of us will (try to!) tune in.

    August 25th, 2020 at 10:10 am PDT

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  13. Joel Shames writes:

    Please email me the invite to your zoom on Thursday, 8/25. Thanks.

    August 25th, 2020 at 10:13 am PDT

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  14. Zach writes:

    Yee Haw! Sign me up.

    August 25th, 2020 at 11:02 am PDT

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  15. Tom writes:

    Awesome idea, send me an invite please!

    August 25th, 2020 at 1:17 pm PDT

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  16. Matt writes:

    Please include me

    August 25th, 2020 at 3:28 pm PDT

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  17. Cordy writes:

    Sounds intriguing! Please send me an invite.

    August 25th, 2020 at 4:51 pm PDT

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  18. Jim writes:

    I will try to play hooky from work and tune in.

    August 26th, 2020 at 5:03 am PDT

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  19. TJH writes:

    Looking forward to joining.

    August 26th, 2020 at 6:08 am PDT

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  20. BD writes:

    great idea!

    August 26th, 2020 at 12:36 pm PDT

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  21. Caroline writes:

    I’d like to join!

    August 26th, 2020 at 3:51 pm PDT

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  22. Unanimous writes:

    Looks like it’s nearly all blokes that read your blog. Anyway it’d be 5am for me, so it’s apologies from me I’m afraid. Hope it goes well.

    August 26th, 2020 at 8:26 pm PDT

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  23. Zach writes:

    Thanks for hosting Steve. It was a good starting point. I will be interested in similar events in the future.

    August 28th, 2020 at 7:04 am PDT

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  24. Robert writes:

    I missed this one, but would be interested in future versions if you have them!

    August 28th, 2020 at 12:10 pm PDT

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  25. Andrey writes:

    sorry to miss it, great idea & hope it went well!

    August 29th, 2020 at 1:07 pm PDT

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  26. Bolt writes:

    I missed this but I have great interest in the next one.

    August 31st, 2020 at 8:22 am PDT

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  27. Eric Schoenberg writes:

    Sorry I saw this too late but interested for the future.

    One comment about your post: I am a behavioral economist particularly interested in mechanisms for aggregating individual judgments (i.e. “wisdom of crowds”) and am a big fan of the paper by Colin Camerer and Ernst Fehr titled “When does ‘economic man’ dominate social behavior” which seems to me to connect to the issue you raise in “Wekness is provocative”: in a first past-the-post system, there are strong incentives for using complementary rather than substitution strategies. I’ve been thinking for a while that Facebook also faces this problem in spades. So if you haven’t read that piece, I encourage you to do so, and it might be a good basis for further discussion. But its your party!

    August 31st, 2020 at 9:50 am PDT

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