Hi LessWrong, it is my first post here, and I'll be asking for help outright. In my local city I am willing to help with organization of Philosophy Festival. The concept is so and so that there will be 4 Platonic steps of knowledge, and one of them is going to be closely associated with technology and future of humanity, for which your obedient servant is responsible. The audience is going to be very broad, so many concepts obvious for our community would be if not completely unknown, then very vaguely realised by most of the those present. Edutainment is the key feature, people should not get tired of too technical stuff (it is philosophy event after all) and I see the output as a cocktail of talks, visual perfomances and engaging activities.

I am most likely willing to include:

• talk on cognitive biases (mostly entertaining based on sequences, Kahneman&Tversky and Dan Ariely books) by me
• talk on human augmentation (maybe presented by a member of biohacking community, however not very easy to find one in Russia so far)
• talk on artificial intelligence by one of the professors of Technology Institute
• quests on Oculus Rift
• 3d video-mapping
• MindFlex tournament
• Portable planetarium

Epic work, it's always fascinates me when author explores the topic so deep, that doesn't know where to begin, so finally starts with the whole history of the universe or the existence of human race.

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-and-why-spacex-will-colonize-mars.html

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint-Petersburg Meetup

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint-Petersburg Meetup