Austin Meetup — Chasing Hints of a Golden Age

Easy Tiger South 3508 S Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX

At this informal in-person Salon in Austin, Texas, Étienne Fortier-Dubois (currently in the area thanks to Creator Cabins) and Alaka Halder invite you to hang out — and, to the extent that a having a topic might lead to fun conversations, discuss the idea of golden ages. A golden age is an especially prosperous or transformative period. It's often defined…

Free

On the Trail of Ancient Languages: An Etymological Mystery Game

Online

In his debut Interintellect Salon, linguist Colin Gorrie will lead you in an interactive simulation of language change and etymological discovery. Imagine you were transported to a distant time and place, a world full of diverse peoples and languages much like our own. Having given up all hope of returning to our world, you turn…

$20.00

Walking the Pattern Recognition Tightrope

Online

Interintellect Indy Neogy invites you to explore how you and everyone walks the tightrope of pattern recognition.  It is our innate skills in pattern recognition that allow us to sit back on a summer day and perceive some fantastical shapes (horses! dragons! etc) in the clouds we see. Yet in that very moment we're experiencing Apophenia…

$15.00

High Stakes, Fragile Porcelain – Is This ‘The Most Important Century’?

Online

In this salon, Peter Hartree hosts a discussion of Holden Karnofsky’s ‘Most Important Century’ blog post series.   Boris Johnson, UK Prime Minister, addressing the United Nations, September 22, 2021: We have come to that fateful age when we know roughly how to drive and we know how to unlock the drinks cabinet and to engage…

$20.00

Where Are All the Adults?

Online

In her debut salon, Maria Górska-Piszek invites you to explore how we ended in a culture of permanent adolescence, and what would be the best way out of it. Nobody feels like an adult these days, and many young people don't even aspire to be one. The usual badges of adulthood are either out of…

$15.00

An Interintellect Halloween

Online

Interintellect Maybe Gray invites you to a very special Halloween salon! In the wake of the October Full Moon I extend to you a haunting invitation - accept it if you dare. The bravest of us will gather together with tales of terror from childhood nightmares, recitations of poetry that will make your skin crawl,…

$20.00

Sell Your Strengths

Online

Join this Salon with Mike Haber to discuss how we think about, talk about and ideally sell the things we're good at. Share your experiences and get some ideas for talking about what you're good at, and working with what you're not. Can you put what you're good at into words? Tell us about a…

$15.00

“Interintellect 101”: How to Host an Interintellect Salon Series – With Jason Crawford

Online

What if you’re an Interintellect, but you just don’t know it yet…? Every day, we come together from across the world to talk about philosophy and science, art and technology, finance and history, religion and music: all the thoughts and emotions we experience as humans, without judgment or certificates. Sometimes we play games, share music,…

Free

Are Apps Making Us Better Or Worse?

Online

Interintellects Vidhika Bansal and Rosano invite you to reflect on the pivotal role technology plays in our lives, the trade-offs of its everpresence, and finding balance in the digital world. — Post-salon update: read takeaways from our conversation. — Nowadays, so many goods, services, and experiences are just a tap or click away. Need a…

$20.00

In Praise of The Prophet Series – Part 6: Self-Knowledge, Teaching, Friendship

Online

In this salon series, Tanya Raj will lead deep-dive discussions on The Prophet by Khalil Gibran and his philosophy on living a life with purpose and meaning. In this salon, we will delve into what is knowledge, is all knowledge good or even required, what does knowing the self, mean, can knowledge be taught or…

$20.00

NYC Central Park Picnic – Discovering Abundance

Central Park Central Park, New York City, NY

Join Pavel Shibayev for an IRL picnic meetup in Central Park! Location: we'll gather on the Great Hill (close to the northwestern corner of the park; enter from W 106th Street). There should be picnic tables around, so no need to sit on the ground. Some food and snacks will be shared; please feel free…

Free