E140| Money, Power, Inequality and AI w/ Forrest Landry and Tim Adalin
Welcoming master craftsman and philosopher Forrest Landry in dialogue on the deep structures underlying money, power, and inequality in modern civilization. The discussion moves from fundamental questions about what money really is, through an analysis of why inequality has reached unprecedented levels, to urgent questions about artificial intelligence and the future of human choice-making, and a foundational orientation of response.
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Keywords
money, power, inequality, capitalism, governance, choice, care, transaction, artificial intelligence, economic systems, artificial intelligence, freedom, power structures, value production, social norms, humility, rewilding, human nature, community, choices
Chapters
0:00 Introduction: Money, Power & AI
0:55 Lenses for Understanding Money: Choice, Energy & Game Theory
06:12 Why Inequality Exploded: Technology as Extraction Amplifier
29:30 The Three Stages of Mastery: Change, Causation & Choice
41:05 Beyond Capitalism vs Socialism: Upgrading the Game
57:40 The Maker-Taker Inversion: When Extraction Became Valued Over Creation
1:16:08 Virtual vs Virtue: Humility and Being Rooted in Reality
1:26:38 Rewilding Ourselves: Embodiment and Collective Wisdom
1:38:31 Why Everyone's Investing in AI: The Loss of Trust in Ourselves
1:47:40 The Path Forward: Distributed, Embodied, Contextualized Choice-Makin
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Forrest Landry is a philosopher, writer, researcher, scientist, engineer, craftsman, and teacher focused on metaphysics and the thriving of all forms of life on this planet. He has particular insight into social architecture, choice & sensemaking, sustainability, complicated & complex systems, ethics & governance, existential risk, collective intelligence, and more.
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Tim is the founder of Voicecraft and a philosopher with a focus on the relation between participation and transformation.
You can work with Tim individually @ https://www.timadalin.xyz
On X @ https://x.com/tim_adalin
And on LinkedIn @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-adalin/
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Voicecraft conversations deepen how the world is known across themes of psyche, culture and nature.
The Voicecraft Project is comprised of a media & events platform, academy, and participatory membership network.
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