#AcademicRunPlaylist - 8/8/24

It stayed (relatively) cool in Boston, so I was able to enjoy the outdoors with less perspiration and lots of talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was a short talk by Robert Freestone on placemaking and the rise of the airport city at UNSW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGeqcld8Gr4

Next was an interesting talk by Annika Stöhr on price effects of horizontal mergers at PLAMADISO – Platforms, Markets, and the Digital Society https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEfRh0FU-U8

Next was an informative talk by Mattia Makovec on the state of the Indonesian labor force and economy more broadly at the Crawford School of Public Policy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvOKCu45jKo

Next was an important session on the '84/85 UK miner's strike at the University of London School of Advanced Study https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvOKCu45jKo

Next was a fantastic talk by Cass Sunstein on the complex tradeoffs between individual liberty, individual and social welfare, and preferences wrt nudge theory at the RSA. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh84BakJpFY

Next was an eye-opening talk by Annelise Riles on legal reasoning in the global financial markets at Brown University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJi2owceD34

Next was an intriguing talk by Kim Hill on the sequence of evolutionary steps leading to human uniqueness at Arizona State University https://youtube.com/watch?v=-OBEeaYynEo

Next was a nice talk by Shiva Shekhar on modeling the welfare effects of GDPR at PLAMADISO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvWvvyvdFiA

Next was an amazing talk by Marti Hearst on text, visualization, and their combination at Ai2. Hearst demonstrates how designers don't always correctly anticipate people's preference for what is expressed via text vs. visuals, how context can alter those preferences, and why. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQpE9DN4xxM

Next was a thought-provoking talk by Giovanna Massarotto on a computer science approach to antitrust at PLAMADISO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5jpCtj4vUU

Next was a great talk by Georgios Petropoulos on the unintended data sharing consequences of the EU's Data Act at PLAMADISO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xs64y4lipM

Next was a fascinating talk by Tom Morgan on how scientists understood evolution in the past and how to experiment with evolutionary drivers using modern tools at ASU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jtqB29dK3U

Next was a vital talk by Christian Peukert on strategic behavior and AI training data at PLAMADISO. Through a rigorous empirical analysis Peukert shows how the release of an online platform's user generated dataset for AI training significantly reduced the quantity, variety, and breadth of future contributions. Profound implications for generative AI, highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diOygIZf6PA&t=4s

Last was an engaging talk by Robert Boyd on cumulative culture and human evolution at ASU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggd-PNRVIVo