I can't say much about the place before I got the keys in 2011, but I'm happy to give my account of what happened after that. When the college started, the house was practically a ruin; no heating or hot water, a chunk of the roof was missing, the front door was broken and didn't lock!

Reid Hoffman famously said "If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late", and Newspeak House was no exception. Much like it feels with AI today, it was obvious that there was something important happening with technology and politics, people needed a place to meet to talk about it, and this was the best we had.

The history that is written is a combination of the events held here (newspeak.house/events) and the people who inhabited it (newspeak.house/fellowship); maybe you can ask your favourite model to give you an overview. Otherwise, feel free to ask some questions below and I'll do my best to tell you a story!