Think of the intended targets and their learning outcomes. What itch of theirs do you intend to scratch?
Do you want to maximize the odds that a couple of people in the audience will type lesswrong.com and don't close the tab a minute later? Despite all the unfamiliar terms in a foreign language? Maybe SSC topical posts will be a better start? Those about the non-central fallacy, or the plight of growing up a nerd (not a big issue in Russia, but still), feminism, or neoreaction? It all depends on your target audience. Can you describe it in a few words?
In a couple of weeks I'll be giving a small (~50m) presentation about LW community on "social sciences sunday" in Saint Petersburg.
Target audience - students, teachers and young recearcher mostly from social sciences and humanities.
I'm planning to at least mention in passing:
1) rationality: epistemological and practical division
2) virtues of rationality
3) big part of learning is by osmosis
4) about sequences => some ideas I found engaging (but those that are at the same time would be easier to explain in 10 minutes)- definetely about inferential distances and looking wise
maybe mention Milgrams experiments or anecdote about Pain and Gain motivation
5) study hall (I tried it just for a bit), meetups, related projects - CFAR (anything else?), International Insights, slatestarcodex?
There is also this:
I am going to spend some more time prepairing and would probably have some good ideas, but I would be really great to have opinions from others. Am I missing something? Or if anyone had relevant experience?