Symposium on Power - rough brainstorming doc, date suggestions
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The document below is the result of doing some brainstorming with Joi (who has a better sense of what your specific interests are around power) and Kevin (who is super well connected and insightful), and me.
Interested to know who is absolutely interesting and absolutely not interesting from the list of potential attendees.
Interested to know if there are any formats you think would work especially well. Interested to know which topic areas from below, or others, that you'd like to cover. Finally, below all that, are dates that work for both Kevin and Joi.
Talk Sunday!
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Potential Participants
Joi
Kevin
Jeff
Bamaby
Ehud Barak
Sen George Mitchell
Larry Summers
David Gergen?
Reid Hoffman
Sid Meyer (Kevin)
Danny Hillis
Jim Baker (Joi)
Rand person? (Joi?)
Gen Wes Clark
Jim Pollata (Kevin?) - would JE like him?
George Tennet ?
Jonah Nolan (Kevin)
Josh Ramo
Alan Batkin (Kevin)
Ari Gesher or person Kevin identifies from Palantir
someone from Ripple per Kevin?
Wadah IChanfar (Joi) ???
Ari Emanuel
fallen Japanese politician (Joi)
current or fallen teahouse person/kingmaker (Joi)
Martin Nowak
Neil Gershenfeld
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Nick Christakis ??
Dan Ariely ??
Jeff Jonas (Joi)
Frank Heidt ??
Daniel Suarez
Daniel Freeman? (Kevin)
Roger Meyerson? (Kevin)
Mathematicians?
Martin Nowak
Geoffrey West (Kevin)
Mike Dubno?
Natasha Dashmel? (Kevin)
Person who came up with Texas Hold 'Em algorithm (that can beat people) - Kevin ?
Do we want a librarian or researcher who can rapidly look things up, provide info on demand for attendees?
Discussion Format
TBD
Key Questions and Ideas to Cover
the mathematics of power (e.g., finance, game theory, something) Influence around $$, future of financial systems? Can mathematics of power be applied to non-financial systems?
cooptive power ("soft power") (e.g., hollywood, political) What makes your enemies powerful and how to dominate them?
coercive power (e.g., military, some political, mechanism design) Future of the military, asymmetrical power.
history and future of power (e.g., sociologist, historian, storytellers) Who has it? WHere is it going? Bottom up vs. authority?
Evolution of Power?
Martin Nowak
Geoffrey West: Why cities survive and corporations do not.
Global Issues
What role does culture play? Japan: obligations between people that carry over generationally History of Debt, repayment, and power structures between countries Chinese vs. Arab vs. US Indebtedness vs. corruption: off balance sheet "opaque" obligations vs. cheating Future of international relations
POTENTIAL DATES
Sep 21-23
(Travel on Sep 20 and 24)
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Sep 28-Oct 4 (Travel on Sep 27 and Oct 5)
Oct 26-Nov 2 (Travel on Oct 25 and Nov 3)
Nov 11-15
(Travel on Nov 10 and 16)
Nov 19-Dec 1 (Travel on Nov 18 and Dec 2)
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