Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
This is a conversation about the nature of value, wealth and exchange in consideration of the paradigm shifting digital communications platforms we’re almost all inexorably tied to. It's a conversation about collective intelligence, existential risk, and the shadow of the collective unconscious in the context of social media. It begins with my asking Matthew how he thinks about the nature of thinking itself, and also about what matters in life.
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Show notes @ voicecraft.io/e61-value-exchange-w-matthew-pirkowski
Matthew Pirkowski is a philosopher with keen insight into humanity's relationship to an accelerating digital age.
Connect with Matthew at twitter.com/MattPirkowski
A selection of Matthew's publications at medium.com/@matthewpirkowski
Connect with Tim at twitter.com/tim_adalin
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Timestamps:
02:12 What is thinking and how does Matthew think?
06:15 On what matters, values and interaction
12:54 On Twitter and the emergent shadow of the collective unconscious
21:37 Digital communication, sensemaking and existential risk
30:56 Powerful media, foolish motion
35:35 Towards a more adaptive collective intelligence and epistasis
44:17 Considering value and exchange in the context of new representational structures
1:08:11 Money, wealth, fungibility and non-fungibility in the emergent digital landscape
1:22:21 Hopes for the future
This is a conversation about the nature of value, wealth and exchange in consideration of the paradigm shifting digital communications platforms we’re almost all inexorably tied to. It's a conversation about collective intelligence, existential risk, and the shadow of the collective unconscious in the context of social media. It begins with my asking Matthew how he thinks about the nature of thinking itself, and also about what matters in life.
Support this work on Patreon @ patreon.com/voicecraft
Show notes @ voicecraft.io/e61-value-exchange-w-matthew-pirkowski
Matthew Pirkowski is a philosopher with keen insight into humanity's relationship to an accelerating digital age.
Connect with Matthew at twitter.com/MattPirkowski
A selection of Matthew's publications at medium.com/@matthewpirkowski
Connect with Tim at twitter.com/tim_adalin
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Timestamps:
02:12 What is thinking and how does Matthew think?
06:15 On what matters, values and interaction
12:54 On Twitter and the emergent shadow of the collective unconscious
21:37 Digital communication, sensemaking and existential risk
30:56 Powerful media, foolish motion
35:35 Towards a more adaptive collective intelligence and epistasis
44:17 Considering value and exchange in the context of new representational structures
1:08:11 Money, wealth, fungibility and non-fungibility in the emergent digital landscape
1:22:21 Hopes for the future
