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From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>
To: John Brockman
Subject: Re:
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:39:51 +0000
Im in. who s coming? i tried to call
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 1:29 PM, John Brockman < IMIMP wrote:
sounds good, do you need funding?
Epstein'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 < IMIMP wrote:
JE,
>>any more thoughts on farm meeting?
On vacation in Napa (at Safra's place) with Kahneman and Thaler. Tweet from last night's dinner:
At dinner in Napa with Danny Kahneman s @r_thaler observing Kahneman's N+1 rule: If
Kahneman comes to dinner I 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
EFTA00967656
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 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
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