I like the idea, as long as (like is said below) the selection process is rigorous. For example perhaps a handful of speaking/workship slots could be left open to a competition of sorts, judged by the organisers well before the event. The winners could even be coached to make the talks even better (A bit like TED). I’m a little surprised something like this isn’t happening already (maybe it is).
Because you need to see people present to judge a talk, I’m not sure blinding can easily work. Perhaps a couple of external speech/presentation experts could be bought in to judge, who were completely unrelated to EA so they wouldn’t know anyone presenting. In any case I would really hope EA types would be able to set aside a decent amount of their bias to judge this kind of thing.
I think its important though to still have many big name, high status people presenting even if their talks aren’t necessarily as good. First this gives the event more gravitas, and helps the excitement and vibe of the event as well. Most of us I’d imagine want to see people we’ve read and heard before presenting on the big stage.
Again, why would anyone “down” karma vote this post? Not clicking is fine as is disagreeing (even strongly) but there’s nothing bad faith about this—I don’t get it...
I like the idea, as long as (like is said below) the selection process is rigorous. For example perhaps a handful of speaking/workship slots could be left open to a competition of sorts, judged by the organisers well before the event. The winners could even be coached to make the talks even better (A bit like TED). I’m a little surprised something like this isn’t happening already (maybe it is).
Because you need to see people present to judge a talk, I’m not sure blinding can easily work. Perhaps a couple of external speech/presentation experts could be bought in to judge, who were completely unrelated to EA so they wouldn’t know anyone presenting. In any case I would really hope EA types would be able to set aside a decent amount of their bias to judge this kind of thing.
I think its important though to still have many big name, high status people presenting even if their talks aren’t necessarily as good. First this gives the event more gravitas, and helps the excitement and vibe of the event as well. Most of us I’d imagine want to see people we’ve read and heard before presenting on the big stage.
Again, why would anyone “down” karma vote this post? Not clicking is fine as is disagreeing (even strongly) but there’s nothing bad faith about this—I don’t get it...