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Building a Better Society through Writing and Community Management – What’s the Right Balance? A Conversation with Glen Weyl

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Join economist, social technologist and RadicalXChange founder Glen Weyl and Interintellect co-hosts Alaka Halder and Wes Chow for this special members-only salon! Glen Weyl is a rare force in academia, public discourse, and movement building. One of the world’s foremost political economists, he co-invented groundbreaking systems such as quadratic voting to help societies make better…

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Fr€e Ca$h? Let’s talk Universal Basic Income!

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In this salon hosted by Lukas Rosenstock, we'll share our thoughts about the idea behind universal basic income. It's a simple idea with proponents as varied as Martin Luther King and Elon Musk: give every citizen a monthly stipend to cover their essential needs, without conditions or work requirements. Unfortunately, no country or region has…

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$10.00

Cultivating Creativity: Where Do Ideas Come From?

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Eureka! In this salon debut Interintellect host Neville A Mehra leads a discussion on creativity and the origin of ideas. We'll share and explore our beliefs on the nature and origins of ideas and our experiences as creators, artists, knowledge workers, and thinkers of all sorts. Questions for Discussion: Where do ideas come from? Do…

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$19.00

Kayfabe: Politics and Pro Wrestling (Fantasy Politics 1/3)

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In this salon (the first of a three-part mini-series), Jake Orthwein will lead a discussion on the parallels between contemporary politics and professional wrestling. It's difficult to escape the sense that there's something unreal about contemporary politics. The narrowness of the Overton Window, the pageantry of the debate stage, the artificial feuding of cable news…

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$20.00

Herb Simon and Your Life as Nearly Decomposable Systems

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Join Liz Voeller on an exploration through one of Herbert Simon’s key concepts and what it means for addressing complexity in our own lives. Systems demonstrate the property of “near-decomposability” when interactions WITHIN each subsystem are stronger than the interaction AMONG subsystems. This concept, made legible by Herbert Simon in his essay The Architecture of…

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$20.00

Finding Your Movement

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Join Interintellect Host Brian Toh, in this guided physical-exploratory salon, taking you through an experience of discovering your embodiment and how to "move better".   "The Dance is an animate composition in space. Dancing is movement made significant; technique used to express spiritual content in intelligible form" - Armitage, 1969   The Wind once asked a Tree…

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$25.00

Disappearance as Grievance… or as an Act of Resistance?

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In this salon, debut host Eloy Fisher leads a discussion on our reasons for wanting to disappear.  Our world invites us to excel in ways that our forefathers not so long ago deemed impossible. However, how much of that engagement acts as an eraser for our narratives, as we sketch them in thick and dark scrawls given…

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$10.00

Austin Summer Meetup at Easy Tiger East

Austin, Texas TX

Calling all Central Texas Interintellects! Join host Alaka Halder to kick off the summer with an IRL meetup at Easy Tiger East. We'll catch up with all the friends we've made during a year of Zoom-only salons, trade Texas stories and recommendations, and discuss our visions and plans for the Interintellect locally and online. What…

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Silent Salon Vol. III – Collaboration and Togetherness

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After two beautiful Silent Salons, we're coming together once again to sit, read, study, and work together, quietly. As before, we will open and close with short discussions on the nature of silence in our lives, what relaxes and reassures us, and how community can provide a space not just for conversation but contemplation. I…

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How to Think Philosophically about Regret and Failure

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Debut host John Danaher leads a discussion on how philosophy can be applied to our everyday regrets and failures. We all have failures; we all have regrets. How can we live with them? Is it rational to 'minimise regret'? Do we over-ascribe failure to our own lives? This Salon will explore these questions and more, considering in…

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$15.00