Have you wondered how you'll navigate a world after AI has fully taken root? Join Oliver King to discuss how we might expect to see larger economic and technological forces play out in our own lives. The ability to create and carry out good works is fundamental to our humanity, and a necessary ingredient to…
Minh is an AI researcher, educator, and entrepreneur and we'd like to focus on Questions. Come over to my house and make homemade pizza in my pizza oven. Bring a question to ask other friends that is not related to work to stimulate conversation. This is an introductory event—we'll be hosting more, depending on reception…
Join Topi Heikkerö to read and discuss Emily Dickinson’s classic poems. In this salon, we’ll dive into three powerful poems by Emily Dickinson. The emphasis is more on her vision of life, rather than technical analysis of her writing. The promise is that Dickinson can open up the world and life in ways that are…
Join theology professor and author Matthew Bowman (The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill) in conversation with novelist and theologian Tara Isabella Burton (Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians) for a wide-ranging salon about alien abduction, the New Age, and the countercultural roots of contemporary American spirituality. Today fewer and fewer…
Join scientist and longtime Interintellect host Taylor Pullinger for an IRL hangout while she’s visiting Austin from New York City. Come enjoy the company of your fellow ii members in Austin at a spacious outdoor beer garden! We’ll catch up with old friends, meet new ones, and join together in lively discussion about the topics…
New to the Interintellect community or want to hang out with new and other members? Join Interintellect editor and host, Timothy Wilcox, for a casual hangout. Feel free to bring some drinks and snacks! Come make new connections with the Interintellect community. We’ll introduce ourselves, chat on anything that is on our minds, and have a…
Join Alex Criddle for the sixth salon in the Breakthroughs series and explore the evolution and development of human valuation and moral systems. After exploring the role political structures play in human progress, we'll look at the moral dimension of human progress. Do political systems facilitate breakthroughs in morality? We'll trace the moral trajectories of…
Entrepreneur, death doula, and adventure-seeker. Driven by her curiosities and inquisitive nature, Maura McInerney-Rowley founded Death Archetypes, Hello, Mortal, and Mauri (an end-of-life consultancy) to transform the denial of death into a celebration of life. Are you ready to embrace the reality of your mortality? Honoring our shared mortality can bring us together and awaken…
Join us for coffee, beer, encounter, and conversation in Washington DC! We will be discussing the myriads of projects and preferences that make up an individual life, the many creative directions we need to comb together to feel whole, and how to find the structure for it all. Hosted by Anna Gát and Olga Yakimenko.…
A light exploration of existential and abstract philosophical issues, in dialogue with Christophe Porot, a Scholar in Residence at Cambridge University and a lover of both advanced and amateur explorations…
Join John T. Maier, a philosopher and psychotherapist (PhD/LICSW) based in Boston, and the author of a forthcoming book on the theory of addiction. This is the first episode in…
Interested in cultivating your inner poet? Join us for Poems for Our Time where we'll slow down, explore contemporary poetry, and connect with our creativity. Hosted by writer, workshop facilitator, and…
