Eh, it looks like we're becoming the New Hippies or the New New Age. The "sons of Bayes and 4chan" instead of "the sons of Marx and Coca-Cola". Lots of theorizing, lots of self-improvement and wisdom-generation, some of which is quite genuine, lots of mutual reassuring that it's the rest of the world that's insane and of breaking free of oppressive conventions... but under all the foam surprisingly little is actually getting done, *apparently. *

However, humanity might look back on us forty years from now and say: "those guys were pretty awesome, they were so avant la lettre, of course, the stuff they thought was so mindblowing is commonplace now, and lots of what they did was pointless flailing, but we still owe them a lot".

Perhaps I am being overly optimistic. At least we're having awesome fun together whenever we meet up. It's something.