Session Proposals
The final schedule for SkeptiCamp NYC 2026 should be published a week or two before the event.
The session ideas listed below have not, yet, been approved; and they are subject to change. These are merely proposals that we have received.
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Jay Friedenberg |
Disinformation and the Truth Apocalypse. How to Save Social Media |
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According to numerous researchers, we are living in an era of "truth decay" in which public knowledge has become subjective, emotional, and irrational. Epistemic organizations that once promoted truth, like universities and journalistic-based news organizations, have fallen in favor of crowd sourced knowledge freely available online. In this talk I will discuss the problems with social media and how to rectify them. I will sketch out how a social media platform should operate in a way that promotes evidence based information reasoned debate and rational inquiry. |
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Mitchell Lampert |
Burning Man: Fact vs Fiction |
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If you've never been there, chances are fairly good that everything you think you know about the annual Burning Man event, taking place in the middle of a desert in Nevada, is either wrong or greatly exaggerated. The media likes to overplay its perceived disasters. Social media has historically made it look like some sort of Coachella clone. Though, recently it has taken on more of a reputation for being a worthless playground of the elitist 1%. NONE of this is accurate! Learn the truth from someone who's been there several times.
I am not here to sell you on going to the event, because it sure ain't for everyone! I simply wish to communicate what this thing actually is, as accurately as I can... for better or worse.
(And, no, my theories on how consciousness works will not be part of it.)
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The opinions of SkeptiCamp presenters do not necessarily reflect those of its organizers.