The June meetup will be held on Thursday, June 19th at 7:00 PM. 

Location: Irrational Brewing

Note that this venue has very limited food, but they don't mind if you order food from elsewhere and bring it inside.

Discussion Topic: Subcultures and Cultural Stagnation

Here is an article about cultural stagnation. This particularly article is from an economics and entertainment lens, but I have seen various versions of this argument pop up frequently over the past few years.

Meanwhile, here we are, part of a hyper-specific subculture where communicating in terms of priors does not make you a weirdo. It's easier than ever to form subcultures around sometimes extremely niche ideas; shouldn't this accelerate cultural evolution?

As a fun test: ask your favorite LLM what online subculture you belong to based on your conversation history. If it can give a reasonable guess based on solely the way you communicate, should this make us doubt the idea that modern culture is stagnating?