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"... around one and a half years ago ... [t]here appeared a positive, encouraging theme that since then has kept growing and mutating, and bringing a lot of us together in conversation — unlikely companions, from all over the world and layers of society."
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In this insightful SuperSalon, host @HalderAlaka and author and chess player @JenShahade discussed Jen’s book "Thinking Sideways" and what chess can teach us about thinking in an age of rapidly advancing AI.
Drawing on decades of chess adapting to superhuman intelligence, they explored why thinking a few moves ahead may be more valuable than ever.♟️
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Being single comes with an astonishing amount of unsolicited advice. Maybe it’s time to look beyond the person who’s single.
Columbia-trained relational psychologist and former Meta wellbeing leader Shazaf Moonis brings a different lens to dating, asking what our culture and social expectations might be getting wrong about being single today.
A candid conversation about the strange conditions we’ve created for meeting each other.
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Three thousand years later, we’re still trying to work out what happened in 1177 BC.
Author @krishnanrohit sits down with archaeologist and ancient historian @digkabri to revisit the civilizations, trade routes, disasters, and decisions surrounding the Bronze Age collapse, and the societies that managed to survive it.
A live conversation about a world that was far more connected than we tend to imagine.
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In our SuperSalon, "Bildung and Literacy," @alastair_benn joined host @megan_gafford to explore why reading and intellectual life are fundamentally rooted in human relationships and lived experience, pushing back against the obsession with endless content generation and outsourcing thought to language models.
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Love, freedom, desire, and the fear of losing yourself in another person. D.H. Lawrence had very little interest in making any of it comfortable.❤️🔥
Interintellect CEO @TheAnnaGat leads a book club where intimacy is never simple and desire is tangled up with power, independence, and the question of how two people can belong to each other without becoming one another.
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History, science fiction, and mythology get wonderfully tangled when @Ada_Palmer is in the room.
Novelist and engineer @rezendi hosts an evening with Ada to explore her new novel "And Loki in His Prison", alongside her work across history and speculative fiction, and the ways she brings distant worlds and eras to life.
Come join!
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Navigating the realities of aging parents isn't just about managing schedules, it often means stepping onto a battlefield of unexpected betrayals, financial predators, and systemic vulnerabilities.
Journalist @NancyRomm joined host @HalderAlaka for a deeply moving SuperSalon exploring the hidden shocks of caregiving, from family conflicts to hard-earned lessons on protection.
If you are caring for aging loved ones or know you will be down the road, carve out time for this eye-opening conversation.
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Physicist, science communicator, and former professional poker champion @Liv_Boeree joins Interintellect founder @TheAnnaGat for a conversation on factory farming, animal welfare, and the gap between what we believe and what our everyday choices support.
An honest reflection about a system that affects billions of animals, and why changing it is so difficult.
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Hamilton ends the series with a deceptively simple idea: energy.⚡️
For the final salon in the series, Interintellect founder @TheAnnaGat leads a close reading of "The Federalist Papers No. 70", where Hamilton makes the case for a single, decisive president and wrestles with the fear that such power could resemble monarchy.
Join us here:
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A failing marriage, a mysterious psychiatrist, and a cocktail party where everyone has something to hide. 🍸
Join Interintellect CEO @TheAnnaGat for a play-reading of T.S. Eliot’s "The Cocktail Party", where drawing-room comedy gives way to questions of marriage, faith, sacrifice, and the strange paths people take toward a meaningful life. 🎭
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Sometimes letting go isn’t about giving up. It’s about realizing what was never yours to control in the first place.
Join host Saniah Simpson for an evening of honest conversation, reflection, journaling, and connection as we explore what happens when we stop forcing and make room for what’s next.
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Physicist, science communicator, and former professional poker champion @Liv_Boeree joins Interintellect founder @TheAnnaGat for a conversation on factory farming, animal welfare, and the gap between what we believe and what our everyday choices support.
An honest reflection about a system that affects billions of animals, and why changing it is so difficult.
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Political scientist and author @FukuyamaFrancis recently joined host @krishnanrohit for a SuperSalon to discuss, among other things, how technology interacts with society.
Focusing on specific sectors like self-driving cars, Francis highlighted how a future with autonomous vehicles could dramatically reduce traffic accidents and save lives.
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T.S. Eliot before "The Waste Land" is a fascinating writer in his own right.
Poet and editor @plfrnz leads a close look at Eliot’s early Boston poems, Prufrock, and the essays and letters that reveal a young writer finding his voice.
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