Please only RSVP when you are committed to come! Spots are limited (<12 people)

Fundamentally, this is meant to answer the question of “what ought the world look like?” I think some great discussions come out of topic reading groups, so here we are :D

Before coming, pick 1-2 articles from the list below, read them, and think about what the themes are, ways you agree/disagree, etc. (you’ll be sharing with the group!—not everyone will be reading the same material). The goal is not necessarily to criticize, but to reflect & get exposed to new ideas.

Articles:

Roughly: 1/3 utopian literature from antiquity, 1/3 modern sci-fi fiction, 1/3 attempted futuristic analyses.

• Life of Lycurgus by Plutarch

• The City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella

• The Commonwealth of Oceana by James Harrington

• Crystal Nights by Greg Egan

• Manna by Marshall Brain

• Understand by Ted Chiang

• The Day Before the Revolution by Ursula K. Le Guin

• In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell

• Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead by Leopold Aschenbrenner

• Whole Brain Emulation: A Roadmap by Anders Sandberg and Nick Bostrom

• Nanosystems by Eric Drexler (long! but important)