Boston 2023

Iterative Improvement

• Still Alive by Jonathan Coulton ◦ A smug, sociopathic celebration of survival and science
• Welcome To New Years by Skyler Crossman
• The Circle by Taylor Smith ◦ Expanding the moral circle
• I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
• Uplift by Andrew Eigel ◦ Human progress, from stone tools to space colonies
• Time Wrote the Rocks by Cat Faber ◦ Truth is found in the world
• Tortoise Skills by AgentyDuck, adapted by Skyler Crossman
• Song Of The Artesian Water by Banjo Paterson and Anna Tchetchekine ◦ A song about human ingenuity in the face of challenges.
• The Starfish and the Net First two paragraphs by Scott Alexander, remainder by Skyler Crossman
• Somebody Will by Sassafrass ◦ I can't solve the entire problem, but I can contribute, and trust my tribe to go the rest of the way
• Have an Plan, Write it Down by Patrick MacKenzie
• Lucifer by Leslie Fish and Don Simpson ◦ Ambition and striving for more

Intermission

• Meselson and Bioweapons by Kelsey Piper
• Chasing Patterns by Raymond Arnold ◦ Our struggle for understanding
• Intelligent Machinery: A Heretical Theory by Alan Turing (Abridged by Skyler Crossman)
• Beautiful Tomorrow by Evgeny Krylatov (Music), Yuri Entin (Original Lyrics) and Anna Tchetchetkine et. al. (English Translation) ◦ Tomorrow calls to me
• What Resembles The Grave But Isn't by Anne Boyer
• The Next Right Thing ◦ by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (from Frozen II) ◦ When your problems are too big to face in their entirety
• Loss and Gain
• Hymn to the Breaking Strain by Rudyard Kipling ◦ Abide the twin damnation, to fail and know we fail
• Moment of Resolution by Skyler Crossman
• Brighter Than Today by Raymond Arnold ◦ Our central anthem of hope, starting from the invention of fire
• Only Human by Jai Dhyani
• The Mary Ellen Carter by Stan Rogers ◦ A folk song of determination and recovery
• Try Everything by Shakira ◦ Don't stop trying things.
• Tsuyoku Naritai by Eliezer Yudkowsky (Abridged by Skyler Crossman)
• Level Up by Vienna Teng ◦ An insistant yet triumphant invitation to grow
• The Aim Was Song by Robert Frost
• Old Devil Time by Pete Seeger ◦ A boast of coming collective victory over time, fear, pain and hate