Rebuilding Society on Meaning – Screening and Q&A with Joe Edelman and Ellie Hain
How can we optimise society around that which we find most meaningful?
In a pair of recent talks summarising eight years of work, Joe Edelman and Ellie Hain propose language for articulating the ways in which current social structures fail to support meaningful lives, and outline a concrete vision of how to optimise for meaning in markets, recommender systems, products and organisations. In part, their hope is to prompt a reboot of "Humane Tech", and to motivate research into "meaning-aligned ML" and "big data virtue ethics".
We will screen both talks back-to-back, followed by a Q&A with Joe and Ellie.
6:00–6:35pm, Exit the Void, Ellie Hain (screening)
6:40–8:00pm, Rebuilding Society on Meaning, Joe Edelman (screening)
8:00–8:30ish, Q&A with Joe Edelman and Ellie Hain
For more about Joe and Ellie's work, see rebuildingmeaning.org.