Liv is a professional speaker who inspires and enducates audiences of clients from a broad range of industries.
Wielding such maxims as “your gut is your friend… but so is a cost-benefit analysis” and “don’t hate the players, change the game,” she has become a popular speaker in the TED community and other major institutions such as Oxford and Cambridge University Unions, Websummit, Devcon, Summit-at-Sea, Earth One and many more.
Check out some of her most popular talks below.
Navigating The Artificial Intelligence Paradigm
Artificial Intelligence is the most impactful technological breakthrough of the 21st century. Can humanity successfully navigate revolution, and get all the upsides, while minimizing the risks? How do we adopt the principles of the Win-Win philosophy to ensure that AI serves the many, not just the few, while also preserving human agency and dignity?
Introduction to Statistics, Game Theory and Forecasting
We live in an increasingly complex and uncertain world, so how do we keep our sense-making capabilities in top shape? Drawing from her background in science, poker and applied rationality, Liv explains how to upgrade your prediction skills with techniques such as expected value thinking and Bayes Rule.
Poker Strategies for Business & Life
Like poker, life is a game of high-stakes decisions under uncertainty. Liv explores the thinking techniques of top poker players, including cognitive bias reduction, emotional control and the role of intuition in decision-making.
Optimize Your Philanthropy
Philanthropy is undergoing a scientific revolution. Previously, philanthropy was a fuzzy, unmeasurable concept that most people felt couldn’t — or maybe even shouldn’t — be evaluated or quantified. But nowadays, improved data and evidence allows us to better measure the impact of our philanthropic actions. In this illuminating talk, Liv discusses how, and why, we should prioritize between cause areas, and how we can maximize the positive impact we want to achieve on the world.
Counter-Intuitive Phenomena
How far does the Earth stretch if you cut it into one metre cubes and lay them out in one long line? When is a positive medical test result still more likely to be false than it is to be true? And which likelihoods are closer together: 50% and 1%, or 1% and 0%? Prepare to have your mind blown as Liv explores fascinating counterintuitive concepts that defy our deepest instincts.
Win-Win Thinking
What is Win-Win thinking, and why is it so important? In this deeply personal talk, Liv explores her complex relationship with her own competitiveness, why zero-sum thinking makes us miserable, and why training ourselves to break out of it is the solution to many of our biggest global issues.