It's been a long travel day to Madrid, but at least I got to listen to a lot of talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/12)
First was the first day of the National Bureau of Economic Research conference on the economics of technology. I particularly liked the talk by Scott Nelson on regulating algorithmic decisions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCHt5IKwzgc (2/12) #economics
Economics of Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2024

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Next was an excellent talk by @davidthewid and @tamigraph on low-resource NLP and what computer science can learn from anthropology at the Design Justice AI Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-9Oyrf-fbk (3/12) #AI #ethics
DJAI Institute Plenary Panel on Decolonization and Beyond

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Next was an interesting talk by Andrey Fradkin on the role of dark patterns in website competition and data sharing at the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAMqDbtJ4TM&t=3s (4/12) #privacy
Data Sharing and Website Competition: The Role of Dark Patterns

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Next was a great talk by Chris Knight about what chimpanzees can teach us about humanity at @RadicalAnthro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLWKrl_2ZTg (5/12) #anthropology
Being Human - What chimpanzees ­­­­­­can teach us by Chris Knight

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Next was a timely talk by Mert Demirer on the effects of GDPR on firms at the Toulouse School of Economics. Expanding on other research in the area, Demirer convincingly demonstrates that the GDPR reduced the EU's data usage and significantly increased data storage and computation costs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV5qmMz0VNc (6/12) #law #economics #DataProtection
Mert Demirer: Data, Privacy Laws and Firm Production: Evidence from the GDPR

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Next was an intriguing talk by Camilla Power and Ian Watts about the development of human culture, particularly the role of gender, with views from the archaeological record and anthropology at @RadicalAnthro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1uhes_zcCw (7/12) #anthropology #archaeology
Becoming Human 2nd Lecture, 24th of April 2023

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Next was a nice talk by Charles Perreault on cultural evolution at the ASU Institute of Human Origins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba6rtGIH8Pg (8/12) #anthropology
Lucy 50 Monthly Lecture Series—Charles Perreault PhD

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Next was a thought-provoking conversation with Susan Morse on the truth about safe harbors in law on the Business Scholarship Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Qm1M4tOzg (9/12) #law
Business Scholarship Podcast - Ep.231 – Susan Morse on Safe Harbors |

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Next was an amazing discussion with friends of the playlist Michael Levin and @annmlipton on moving corporate domiciles to engage in self dealing and unique paths that shareholders are taking to submit proposals for annual meeting votes on the Shareholder Primacy Podcast. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRcHyvgZ16c (10/12) #law
TripAdvisor, Shareholder Proposals

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Next was a fascinating talk by Chris Campisano on the role of climate change in human evolution at the ASU Institute of Human Origins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhDnVZMtRzw (11/12) #anthropology
Lucy 50 Monthly Lecture Series—Chris Campisano PhD

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Last was "The Story of the Human Body" by Daniel Lieberman. This is very much two books - the first about human evolution, while the second is mostly a philosophical polemic on modern health with many stylized facts but very little rigorous analysis. The first book is worth reading, as it gives not only a good overview of the evolutionary path humans took and our interesting adaptations around things like running and throwing, but I would skip the second book.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/206671/the-story-of-the-human-body-by-daniel-e-lieberman/ (12/12)
The Story of the Human Body by Daniel Lieberman: 9780307741806 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A landmark book of popular science that gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years—with charts and line...

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