Videos of last week’s salons & what not to miss this week!

1 week and 14 salons in, here are the videos of the Foresight Sanity Preserver, a twice-a-day free global online salon on positive futures from COVID-19 and beyond that many of you have joined.

Last week in review:

Existential Risk Opportunities from COVID-19, Jaan Tallinn, CSER, FLI
Authoritarianism & COVID-19 | Alex Gladstein, Human Rights Foundation
Reasons for COVID-19 “Optimism” | Matt Bell, Matterport
Community Safety Net Fund | Jonathan Cain, Velorum Capital
Health Tips for COVID-19 | Nell Watson, COVID-19 Taskforce
What The CDC is not Telling You | Steven Fowkes
The Pseudo-Time Arrow | Andres Gomez, Qualia Research Institute
Lessons from Hong Kong | De Kai, HKUST
Home Treatment of COVID-19 with Cinchona Alkaloids | Patrick Mellor, Foresight Fellow
“The Renaissance Came from the Plague” | Tyler Alterman
How to Live a Meaningful, Optimistic Life in Times of Radical Change | Lydia Laurenson, New Modality
Understanding the Adaptive Immune Response to COVID-19 | Ravi Pandya, Microsoft
Rapid Production of Human Antibodies Using an Externalized Human Immune System | Melanie Matheu, Prellis
Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing for COVID-19 | Peter Eckersley
Voluntary Cooperation vs. Top-down Control to Manage Crises | Mark Miller, Christine Peterson, Allison, Foresight Institute
Grand Futures: The Very Long Run & Now | Anders Sandberg, FHI

Watch all videos – regularly updated – on our Sanity Preserver playlist:

Up next:

Introduction to Agoric Smart Contracts | Dean Tribble, Agoric
Considering Deliberate Exposure | Robin Hanson, George Mason University
Potential Upsides of COVID-19 | Creon Levit, Planet Labs
Synthetic Coronavirus Vaccines and Peptide Therapeutics | Andre Watson, Ligandal
Pronomos: Better Cities, Better Laws | Patri Friedman, Pronomos Capital
SARS-CoV-2 | Jim O’Neill, SENS Research Foundation
Freak the Data | Jake Harper, Zoox
Managing Public Opinion in Crises and Disasters | Kimberly Osborne, University of Georgia, DoD
… schedule updated regularly: apply to speak!

The Foresight Daily Sanity Preserver

Purpose:

Creating community for isolating folks across the globe and connecting on shared topics of interest
Making sense of COVID-19 and surface projects in need of support
Leveraging the current crisis for change toward long-term beneficial futures

How to join:

We meet twice a day (9-10 am PT to allow Europe & co to join, 6-7 pm PT to allow Asia & co to join)
The daily schedule has speakers, applications, Zoom room, notes, in short, all you need to know, in one place
Track time zones and don’t miss out on future events by saving our Google calendar to your calendar

Can you help us grow community from this crisis?

Please share the Google calendar, the schedule and the Facebook event with your community so we can allow people from across the world to connect!
Help us keep this going by applying to speak at a future salon.

We can’t wait to see you up to twice a day in the coming weeks!

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Videos of last week’s salons & what not to miss this week!

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