Michael S. Malone, the author of The Big Score, a book recently republished by Stripe Press joins Matjaz Leonardis and Daniel Thomason for an exciting conversation about the past, present and future of Silicon Valley and the culture, values and personalities that have defined it. Michael S. Malone has covered tech and lived in Silicon Valley for…
In this salon, Alex Criddle will lead a discussion on what psychedelic experiences mean for individual spirituality, religions, and the mystical. A significant portion of psychedelic users cite their experience as being one of the top five most profound moments of their life, on par with their marriage or the birth of a child. What…
Celebrate the end of summer with new and old friends at a lovely evening picnic in Palo Alto, hosted by Ashley Zhang! Bring a blanket and your own dinner or snacks (downtown Palo Alto is a block away if you want to grab a meal to-go)! We can end the night with dessert and a…
Debut host Rachel Haywire leads a discussion on the future of art in collaboration with artificial intelligence. From Google's Deep Dream AI to Endel to GPT-3 to the @ai_curio account on Twitter; new forms of art, music, and literature are being developed through Artificial Intelligence. While some claim that this will put the creative class out of…
Psychologist and psychology professor Gena Gorlin invites you to a SuperSalon with our friend Emily Oster, economist and bestselling author, on how to make data-driven decisions even about our most intimate matters, whether doing so is always good, and how COVID has changed our attitude to facts of science. What can and can't science tell…
Join Alex Grin and the rest of the Boston crew for a casual picnic in the park by the Cambridge Public Library. Let's meet our Interintellect locals, welcome new movers to the city, catch up, and discuss plans for the fall. We'll start by exploring the theme of coming to a new city, leaving your…
In this salon, Nat Sharpe & Martha Sharpe will share their unschooling story and lead a discussion on education alternatives. “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education” –Albert Einstein Most people will admit they hated school and were even traumatized by it. But when they have children of their own, they repeat the…
Join ii hosts Irene JK and Matt Neapolitan to discuss Kant's philosophy around ethics and morality and its relevance in the modern technologically advanced society. Our philosopher of the month,…
Interintellect Anwar AlKandari explores narratives in relation to nature, or different natures, of time - inspired by Einstein’s Dreams book Physicist and writer Carlo Rovelli says that we understand reality by looking at how things interact with one another, not how things are: “Reality is the network of the way things affect one another”. And…
In this salon (the third in a three-part series), Jake Orthwein will lead a discussion on the role of political fantasy in the Great Stagnation. "We've substituted the realities of politics for these increasingly fictionalized worlds, and I think that's probably a very unhealthy thing." - Peter Thiel If, as we've discussed in the last…
In this salon Patricia Hurducas leads a discussion on places for thinking and how the places we live in and work in impact our thought processes, mood, creativity, choices, and how we feel. We will start the discussion by looking at the places for thinking (study rooms/cafés/libraries/ateliers) of artists and scientists from Matisse's art studio to…
In an i.i. first, the discussion will take place in virtual reality, via the Virgils VR platform. No headset? No problem. The platform is accessible from any web browser. (Though, we do recommend joining from an Oculus Quest 2.) The salon will be hosted by MIT lecturer & best-selling author Micah Nathan and Virgils co-founder Christian Ulstrup. Who's…
