🔥Book Club: The MANIAC II Date Change + AlphaGo Documentary

Fire Philosophers,

We will conclude our conversation about Benjamin Labatut’s The MANIAC on Saturday, March 9th, 5pm TEXAS Central time— 3pm LA, 6pm Eastern.

This shift is one day earlier than the originally scheduled date so please update your calendars.

The MANIAC is a force about the forces and limits of intelligence and the trajectory of humanity’s desire to know at the potential cost of everything.

Or maybe as a solution to everything? Therein lies the no-easy-answers rub.

I hope the contextual breadcrumb below isn’t too much of a spoiler…

…but after you finish reading the book—or perhaps as you near the end— you may wish to consider watching this documentary:

The time spent getting to know our fellow Fire Philosophers one-on-one in conversation is the most rewarding part of the How to Live journey; we learn so much more about the book and ourselves in conversation than we do alone.

Strongly consider joining us.

Zoom link: