Every Dear Crisis Metacrisis Salon in Brooklyn, NYC — distilled. Speakers, ideas, and how the room thought before and after.
Salon #11 · June 6, 2026
The system isn't broken. It's doing exactly what it was built to do — extract, exploit, accelerate. So we don't fix it. We build the one that makes it obsolete.
Jeremy Lent · Jeremy Lent
Salon #10 · May 16, 2026
We are already engineering the planet — recklessly, as an externality, in the dirtiest, most inequitable way. The question isn't whether. It's whether to do it consciously, to understand what we are doing, and to apply rigorous scientific research to understand what could be done safely and responsibly from here.
Kelly Erhart · Kelly Erhart
Salon #9 · April 18, 2026
We are an egalitarian species. We keep building cages. AI is the newest one.
Luke Kemp · Samantha Sweetwater
Salon #8 · February 21, 2026
We're not divided on issues. We've become contemptuous of each other — and contempt is a different problem entirely.
Emily Graham · Shia Levitt