NYC 2024

Coordination and Miscoordination

Evening

• Always Look on the Bright Side by Monty Python ◦ A silly song about making the best of terrible things
• Tit For Tat by Ben Newman ◦ Simple selfish interest still may serve the greater good
• We Are Gathered by Daniel Speyer
• When I Die by Glen Raphael ◦ A light-hearted song about death
• Bold Orion by Leo Kretzner and Jon Bell ◦ A mythologically inspired ode to Orion the Hunter

Dusk

• One Shot by Daniel Speyer ◦ One shots make the prisoners' dilemma much harder

Twilight

• Bitter Wind Blown by Raymond Arnold ◦ A lullaby for a child that is shivering in the cold
• Find My Tribe by Raymond Arnold ◦ Seeking a community, despite our individualist natures
• Dath Ilan by Eliezer Yudkowsky (mostly)
• Build This World Together by Debbie Friedman ◦ Strength in togetherness

Night

• Beneath Midwinter Midnight by Raymond Arnold ◦ A lament of winter, contrasting with repeated "we are not alone"s
• Howl Abridged ◦ by Allen Ginsberg (abridged by Daniel Speyer ◦ What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?
• Meditations on Moloch (Abridged) by Scott Alexander (abridged by Daniel Speyer)
• The Voicing of Fear by Daniel Speyer ◦ How much we have to lose and how little chance we have to keep it
• Hymn to the Breaking Strain by Rudyard Kipling ◦ Abide the twin damnation, to fail and know we fail
• Beyond All Towers by JRR Tolkien, Clamavi de Profundis, and Daniel Speyer ◦ Sam Gamgee alone in the Tower of Cirith Ungol
• Bitter Wind March by Raymond Arnold ◦ A return to Bitter Wind Blown, but with determination to do something about it
• We Are Here by Daniel Speyer
• Call and Response: Defiance by Jai Dhyani

Dawn

• Brighter Than Today by Raymond Arnold ◦ Our central anthem of hope, starting from the invention of fire
• Endless Lights by Raymond Arnold ◦ A song of hope, generations, stories and infinite possibilities

Morning

• The Sun Will Come Up Tomorrow by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin (mostly) ◦ A naive orphan's simple optimism, slightly tweaked
• Here and Now by Raymond Arnold ◦ A celebration of now
• I Have Seen the Tops of Clouds by Daniel Speyer ◦ The miracles of today taken in context
• Invisible Republic by Scott Alexander
• Landsailor by Vienna Teng ◦ A salute to industrialization and its fruits

Days to Come

• Trans-Humanism and Hubris by Scott Alexander (mostly)
• Uplift by Andrew Eigel ◦ Human progress, from stone tools to space colonies
• Five Thousand Years by Raymond Arnold ◦ Looking to the far future