Join Siena Chiang for a discussion with Mattie Kahn about her book, Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions, which recounts one of the most foundational and underappreciated forces in moments of revolution in America: teenage girls. Nine months before Rosa Parks kicked off the bus boycotts, Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing…
Calling all Londoners! Join Ben Fleming for this casual October London meetup and forge new friendships, reconnect with old pals, and dive into enriching conversations. Few things make life better…
Calling all Central Texas Interintellects! Join hosts Alaka Halder, Linus Lu, Miriam Gerber Lu and Shahid Nowshad for a casual fall meetup at Easy Tiger at the Linc (North Austin location) Whether you’re a long-time Interintellect member or new to our community, this is a great opportunity to catch up with old friends, form new…
Join Hussain Ather for a fascinating journey into the world of Artificial Curiosity. We'll delve into how AI can exercise the moral virtue of curiosity and what it means for ethics and human-like behavior. Curious? Let's explore together! Can machines be curious? How does this curiosity align with moral virtues? Join us for a thought-provoking…
Join Interintellect founder Anna Gát for this FREE AND PUBLIC session where we'll discuss all you need to know about hosting online: tone, topic selection, listing, promotion, and audience management. Believe me, no Interintellect host is born with the magical knowledge of how to run a successful, engaging, friendly online salon (or offline social)—but these skills are easy…
Navigating the early days of adulthood as a founder, creative, hacker or dropout can be challenging. Let’s talk about it and share our insights! In this weekly event, Zack and Zelda open a space for makers to share what they’re working on, receive support and make new friends. Our ancestors gathered around a fire to…
EVENT UPDATE: This salon is being reframed in light of the current crisis in the Middle East: Arash Azizi, a specialist on Iran, and Celeste Marcus, a liberal Zionist, will discuss how Arash’s socialism and my liberalism inform our views of the current paroxysms. Both of our ideologies are universalist, and that universalism is in tension…
Join Tony Morley, a progress studies writer and communicator, for a discussion on progress, optimism, and the first children's book on progress authored by him! The meeting will be hosted by Chandhana Sathishkumar, an author, research enthusiast, TED-Ed speaker and self-taught artist passionate about sustainable futures. Tony Morley is a progress studies writer and communicator…
Join Vaughn Tan in building a better relationship with the not-knowing that surrounds us. In episodes 6-9 of this series, we discussed how not-knowing arises in relation to actions, outcomes, causation, and values, and how future-ness affects not-knowing. Episode 10 is about how the four types of not-knowing reverberate back and forth between each other over time: a change…
Legendary author Larissa MacFarquhar on how to be good. Existentialist philosopher Skye Cleary and poet Grace Bialecki on how to be poetic. Media expert Kyla Scanlon on how to make sense of the economy. Three incredible offline salons, and then a gentle DJ party to celebrate autumn, ideas, friendship, and community. Come join us! …
Join RJ Barman for an offline SF Bay Area casual discussion about keeping up an interest in the humanities while spending your days working in STEM. How do you manage a case of split-brain? You spend all day working on thinking about programming, math, chemistry, product, software marketing, etc., yet also have a deep interest…
Much has been discussed about the intersection of AI and art, but what about AI and music? Rachel Haywire and Zsolt Török will explore the intersection of AI and music in this premier salon, welcoming everyone to stop by and converse about the future of music and how AI will impact our creative growth as…
