ii’s very own Camp Curiosity hosts Jeeva Vijay, Helena Ng, and Luke Butler invite you to a wholesome gathering to inspect our emotional experiences through collective metaphor building. This event is a rerun of last month’s Metaphoring salon, and is now adapted for European and Asian timezones. Whether it’s as stiff as a dead leaf,…
Join Russel Ramos and Vivek in exploring one of humanity's most mysterious and effective methods of problem-solving: asking for help. As we become accustomed to the near-limitless access of information on the internet, we can find ourselves believing that all our problems could be solved by finding the right YouTube video or Twitter thread. How…
Tech emotionographer Pamela Pavliscak hosts an 8-month Interintellect Salon series while writing her new book #Feels: How Technology is Changing Our Emotional Life for the Better. Have you ever wondered why we feel compelled to note and name every new variation of sadness online? Or what you call that emotional hangover you can get after scrolling social…
Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy hosts a fireside chat about fresh starts. It’s 2022! A time for new beginnings! Let's discuss plans, hopes, goals, ideas. (This is the fifth of a monthly-ish hangout series for the Interintellect community.) Recommended reading: None! Just come and share your own stories and experiences! – Cover photo via @crystalweed…
Join members of the completed "Gödel, Escher, Bach" reading group in reading through David Deutsch's "The Beginning of Infinity." Share the pleasure of reading a challenging, thought-provoking book boosted by your friendly peers' additional eyes, hearts, minds, and life experiences. What is “The Beginning of Infinity” about? What kinds of explanations have universal reach? What…
Join London ii hosts Flick Hardingham, and Irene JK as we reflect on Bertrand Russell's ideas are relevant (or not) in today's society and our own lives. Some questions to prompt your curiosity. Nobel-winning English mathematician, logician, philosopher, and humanist Bertrand Russell, was one of the most influential thinkers of his time. His views on mathematics and…
Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy leads an experimental mini-salon made up of your micro-salon ideas. Friends, new and old, welcome to Interintellect! We've now hosted a couple of events where we discuss, broadly speaking, what makes a good ii salon. Let's try something slightly different: bring us your salon ideas, and let's try them out in…
You do good work. You have great ideas. You understand trade offs, constraints, and incentives and policy. Why not share your ideas directly with the general public who they are about and for? If you're an economist - practicing, lecturing, researching - of any level, a graduate student, post-doc, or professor - come find out…
Join Jimmy Wales for a fun quiz on his platform inspired by his family quiz nights during lockdown. Quiz Night Beyond is a way to do fun pub quizzes over video online with friends and family. Jimmy designed QuizNightBeyond.com during lockdown as a part of his exploration in how to build healthier social spaces online - an extension of…
Default Friend hosts a members-only meetup in Miami (with Interintellect founder Anna Gát attending, if COVID allows travel). “Tumblr beats Facebook in everything. People spill their hearts out on Facebook and no one gives a s*it I spill my heart out on here and get props for it. You post something on Facebook, zero likes.…
Join Eyal Shay, dialectician and philosopher, and Plato to learn about learning how to do well in life. In this salon we will discuss learning, rationality, critical thinking, puzzles, and Plato's work (no prior knowledge necessary), and try our hands at a hands-on exercise in learning. There are few things more exciting than a treasure…
Progress writer Jason Crawford is writing a book about the modern world and how it was invented. In a series of salons, we will explore this content together, chapter by chapter, and get an inside look at the author’s creative process. Behind the world of our daily lives, there is a hidden world, one that keeps our world…
