Join host Thomas Arnold with your questions, scenarios, hopes, and fears about AI, as we explore with Julian Togelius author of "Artificial General Intelligence", what the horizon of AI looks like today and what his book might help us notice. Amid so much hype about Artificial General Intelligence (whose arrival is now cast in thousands…
Hollywood screenwriter Michael Sonnenschein, The Common Reader essayist, literary critic, and Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life writer Henry Oliver, and former screenwriter-playwright and now…
I’m a man with no power. Does that make me a woman? This line from an anonymous Mattel employee might seem like a cheap joke, but MIT professor Sally Haslanger…
Solidarity is often invoked, but it is rarely analyzed and poorly understood. Leah and Astra together developed the first in-depth examination and intellectual history of solidarity. We will discuss the…
In this introductory salon, we’ll define key terms like “psychedelic” and “set and setting” in order to show how Jewish wisdom, practices, and narrative can serve as both the container…
All the Kens will head to the polls and vote to change the Constitution to a government for the Kens, of the Kens, and by the Kens! As the Kens move to legally legitimate their institution of patriarchy, we might wonder just how a government by and for Kens might differ from one by and…
The world is not what we think it is. It is far more mysterious, exciting, connected, and adventurous. But we have a hard time perceiving this truth because we have become "disenchanted"—closed to the idea that the universe contains the supernatural, the metaphysical, or the non-material. In this conversation, Wayfare editor Zachary Davis speaks with…
Join hosts Alaka Halder and Benjamin Woosley for a casual meetup at Easy Tiger in North Austin! This Interintellect offline gathering is a casual meetups devoted to open group discussions of the topics that interest participants the most. From philosophy to science and art, there is nothing that escapes our inquiries! Come, forge new friendships,…
By giving voice to the cognitive dissonance required to be a woman under the patriarchy, you robbed it of its power. Hell, yes, White Savior Barbie! Here Gerwig both channels current visions of the power of speech to achieve decolonial aims by forcing open the internal contradictions of oppressor narratives and indicates meta-awareness of casting…
What if your "weakness" is actually the shadow of an extraordinary gift? Many of history's greatest innovators - from Temple Grandin to Tu YouYou - discovered their breakthrough insights precisely because they saw the world differently. But finding the right soil for your particular variety to flourish isn't always straightforward. Sometimes you can't grow Pinot…
In this first salon, we will be discussing the book at a meta level. We will be discussing the author, George Saunders, the introduction to the book, and if we have time, we might even begin discussing the first short story, In the Cart, by Chekhov. Get your series ticket here!
In his book, The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx, David Lay Williams asks us to consider why the great political thinkers have persistently warned against the dangers of economic inequality - and why we keen on ignoring their prescription. Join us to discuss one of the major…
