A Field Guide to Internet Emotion > 5.0 Empathy Online

Online

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…

$20.00

Fresh starts – Community Fireside Chat with Visa

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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…

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Introduction, Chapter 1: The Reach of Explanations – The Beginning of Infinity Reading Group (Members Only)

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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…

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Can Knowledge and Love Help Lead the Good Life ? – The Story of Philosophy Series

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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…

$20.00

Welcome New Hosts! Let’s Test Your Salon Ideas

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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…

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Economics for the People – Hosting Econs Salons, 101

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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…

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Quiz Night with Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales! (Members Only) – Session 1

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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…

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How Tumblr Changed American Culture

Miami

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.…

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Puzzled: How To Do Well in Education and in Life

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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…

$15.00

Why Do We Scroll?

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Join Yatharth and Dalton for a mindful exploration of what it’s like to doom scroll, procrastinate, or otherwise feel beheld to our devices. It’s that time of year we make resolutions. We spend so much time thinking about changing our digital habits. How much time have you spent asking what it’s like? What’s it like, to be caught…

$20.00

Peopling – Community Fireside Chat with Visa

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Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy hosts a fireside chat about relationships. It's halfway through January already?! Wew! Let's hang out as usual, and maybe this week let's talk about family and friends and what we've learned about ourselves from them. *** 🗓 ii Calendar 📋 Code of Conduct –   (Image: The Family Stone, 2005 film)  …

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