Join us for a casual Town Hall in the Interintellect Discord to discuss the state of Twitter and planning the next stage of Interintellect hosts' social media use. (Click on the ii Cafe voice channel upon arrival and join via audio or video as you prefer). *** NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE…
Web3 leans on Albert Hirschman’s political framing of “exit”: the belief that ultimate freedom to port a person’s life data from one service to another leads to competitive platforms that…
Join us for our next author talk, with Mary Gray, to discuss her book “Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass,” and Ryan Gerety,…
Flying saucers? Government conspiracies? Psychedelics? Little green men? Just what the f*ck are we talking about when we talk about UFOs? Join Leah (Prime) on a guided tour through modern…
Come join David White for the next installment of a salon series dedicated to exploring the themes, ideas, and world-building of science fiction. We will be venturing into the world of The Left…
It feels like generative AI is coming for everyone's jobs—from artists to writers to lawyers to programers. When computers can do what we do (but better) is there any circumstance…
Journalist and cultural critic Virginia Heffernan joins Interintellect founder Anna Gát for a meditation on where journalism is going in 2023 and beyond. Will it survive the ad crisis, Elon's Twitter, and the public's growing distrust? Does…
Rhys Lindmark is writing a book about how information flows and how it’s changing on the internet. In a series of salons, we will explore this content together, chapter by chapter,…
In our first Web3 and Society Series salon of 2023, Packy McCormick joins us for a conversation on writing about web3 (co-hosted by Alaka Halder and Wes Chow) Packy McCormick…
Mercatus Center's Tyler Cowen and Shruti Rajagopalan join us to discuss whether our conventional ideas about talent (that it's evenly distributed, the importance of grit, and so on) stand closer…
Meta has set out to reshape our collective vision for an embodied, virtual utopia, but at what cost? What type of future does Meta want? What type of future is it trying to get us to forget? Brent Lucia, professor of communications at the University of Connecticut, will guide a conversation regarding the strategies Mark…
Evan Henshaw-Plath (Rabble) and Nathan Schneider will discuss decentralized social networks and their future role in public discourse. Both are veterans in the decentralized space, and in the wake of Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, their experience and thinking has become especially salient. We will discuss the technology of decentralization and differing philosophical approaches. Some of the…
