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The Jim Rutt Show is a professionally-produced podcast series featuring crisp conversations with critical thinkers at the leading edge of science, technology, politics, economic and social systems.

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EP64 Colin Wright on The Ne...

07.09.2020

Colin Wright talks with Jim about his critiques of the new evolution deniers & the impact it had on his search for academic faculty positions, the connections & differences between sex & gender, primary vs secondary sex traits, the re-emergence ...

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07.09.2020 EP64 Colin Wright on The New Evolution Deniers Colin Wright talks with Jim about his critiques of the new evolution deniers & the impact it had on his search for academic faculty positions, the connections & differences between sex & gender, primary vs secondary sex traits, the re-emergence ...
07.06.2020 EP63 Michel Bauwens on P2P & Commons P2P Foundation founder & director Michel Bauwens talks to Jim about being a 'vision coordinator', history & dynamics of peer to peer (P2P) collaboration, P2P in markets & commons, the evolution of commons, licensing, contributive accounting & other alternative collaborative ...
07.05.2020 Currents 008: Christopher Conselice: Finding Extraterrestrial Intelligence In this Currents episode, Jim talks to astrophysicist Christopher Conselice about his recent paper that estimates the number of communicating intelligent civilizations in the galaxy. Topics include: the history of the 'life off earth' question, current methods of looking for ...
06.29.2020 EP62 Zak Stein on Education, Tech & Religion Zak Stein talks with Jim about the pros & cons of technology in education & the role of the teacher, unrealized education potentials in TV & internet, what advertising is teaching us, the role of religion in education, good vs ...
06.24.2020 Currents 007: David Fuller on the IDW In this Currents episode, Jim talks to Rebel Wisdom founder David Fuller about what the IDW is & how it relates to GameB, common IDW perspectives & its prescient points, the decline of journalism & sensemaking, postmodernism, how Integral theory ...
06.22.2020 EP61 Howard Rheingold on Our Digital Past & Future Howard Rheingold talks with Jim about his interest & experiences with early computers & the internet, online collaboration & sharing, The Source & Well.com, 'realtime' online tribes, 3 risks to the future of the internet, online privacy, social media power ...
06.19.2020 Currents 006: Jim Coan on Our Social Recession In this Currents episode, Jim talks to Jim Coan about social recession, social origins & impacts on humanity, emergent group collaboration, 'selfing' beyond the individual, bioenergetic resource management & its connection to social isolation & depression, physicological weathering & health ...
06.17.2020 Currents 005: John Robb on Protest Tactics & Reforms In this Currents episode, Jim talks to John Robb about an article that describes the military-style tactics leading to the capture and burning of a police headquarters in Minneapolis: specialized units, weapons & tactics, and decentralized communications. How the violent ...
06.15.2020 EP60 Zak Stein on Educational Systems Collapse Zak Stein talks with Jim about the existential risk of oppressive & unjust education systems, the inefficiency of injustice, how Zak sees social justice, Rawls veil of ignorance, creating new types of people, dynamics of revolutions, limitations of cognitive science ...
06.11.2020 EP59 Gregg Henriques on Unifying Psychology Dr. Gregg Henriques talks to Jim about the many facets of his unified theory of psychology -- basic vs human psychology, the value of folk psych, the field of psychology compared to other academic fields, clinical vs scientific psych & ...
06.09.2020 Currents 004: Michael Vassar on Passive-Aggressive Revolution In this Currents episode, Jim talks to Michael Vassar about how he defines the passive-aggressive revolution & the ways it could manifest in the US, how the George Floyd protests impact the revolution, police bureaucracy vs bad actors, potential investigative ...
06.08.2020 EP58 Jake Bornstein on Leadership & Clarity Jake Bornstein talks to Jim about what he learned from his eclectic career, understanding value, competing with Game A, collapse-first vs construction-first approaches to systems change, how Talentism works with & impacts Game A, corporate exploration vs exploitation, the cognitive ...
06.02.2020 Currents 003: Joe Norman on Localism & Scales of Cooperation In this Currents episode, Jim talks to Joe Norman about appropriately-sized community collaboration, family & local organization, government & market dysfunctions, cooperation-based sacrifice, bad actors & sociopaths, unique dynamics of local markets, localism as a complex ecosystem, emergence, the limits ...
06.01.2020 EP57 Zak Stein on Education in a Time Between Worlds Zak Stein has a wide-ranging talk with Jim about our culture's dwindling capacity to understand & address today's increasingly complex problems. Zak starts by defining this moment as a time between worlds & draws its connection to societal transformation. They ...
05.28.2020 EP56 Art Brock on Holo Tech Arthur Brock & Fernanda Ibarra talk to Jim about how Holochain works, its agent-centric design & how it's different from Etherium and Blockchain, key management, intrinsic data integrity, decentralized validation, micro-service development architecture, zomes, DNA, hApp's, UI development, distributed hash ...
05.26.2020 Currents 002: Brian Hanley on Releasing the Vaccines In this Currents episode, Jim talks to Brian Hanley about his view on the economic impact & recovery of COVID-19, the dramatic social impacts emerging, his views & experience with vaccine creation, vaccine risks & effectiveness, his proposal for rolling ...
05.25.2020 EP55 Jack Murphy on Leaving the Left Jack Murphy talks to Jim about his professional & political background, why he started The Liminal Order, his book, Democrat to Deplorable, the left's attack on masculinity, Jack's view on the manosphere & men's rights movement, the toxic masculinity meme, ...
05.18.2020 EP54 Robert Conan Ryan on Boom & Bust Cycles Robert Conan Ryan talks with Jim about Neo Schumpeterian economic theory, booms & busts dynamics, leverage cycles, golden ages, nuclear power propaganda & legislation, 5 paradigms of Neo Schumpeterianism & the emerging 6th organic paradigm, organic vs digital dynamics, the ...
05.14.2020 Currents 001: Simon DeDeo on University Censorship In this inaugural Currents episode, Jim talks to Simon DeDeo about speech censorship at elite Anglosphere universities, differing generational perspectives on personal liberty, the coddled mind & postmodern neo-Marxist theories, Simon's platonic cocktail party model, hospitality as a norm, College ...
05.11.2020 EP53 Hanzi Freinacht on the Nordic Ideology Hanzi Freinacht, political philosopher, historian, sociologist, & author talks with Jim about effective value memes, cultural code, what it means to have high depth, dynamics of cognitive complexity, the changeability of culture & systems, social engineering, compulsion vs seduction, prioritizing ...
05.07.2020 Extra: Memetic Warfare & Pandemic Responses with John Robb In this short extra episode, Jim talks to John Robb about the implication of Defeat Disinfo & how social platforms might respond, memetic armies & street fights, weak political responses to the pandemic, the emerging economic implications of COVID-19, the ...
05.04.2020 EP52 Steven Levy on Facebook: The Inside Story Steven Levy has a wide-ranging conversation with Jim about his new book, Facebook: The Inside Story. They cover Steven's multi-year access to Facebook & Mark Zuckerberg while researching the book, Facebook’s initial denial of impact on the 2016 election, hate ...
04.27.2020 EP51 Richard Bartlett on Self-Organizing Collaboration Richard Bartlett talks to Jim about his experiences with decentralized work & organization, transitioning from game a to Gameb, models for financial solidarity, technology-first vs psychology-first approaches to collaboration, dyad vs crew vs congregation dynamics, competency-based networks, practices vs principles, ...
04.23.2020 Extra: Key COVID-19 Decisions with John Robb In this short extra episode, Jim talks to John Robb about network decision making & consensus vs dissent dynamics, COVID as a decision making test, herd immunity vs social distancing, key population dynamics, John’s big tech solution & its main ...
04.20.2020 EP50 Joe Brewer on Earth Regeneration Joe Brewer talks to Jim about the memetics of regeneration & its connection to homeostasis in living systems, eco pessimism & Joe's view of future collapse, foodchain fragility, fat-tail risks, the role of emotions in existential risk, understanding manufacturing disruptions, ...
04.17.2020 Extra: COVID-19 Transformations with Nora Bateson In this short extra episode, Jim talks to Nora Bateson about how the pandemic is changing our relationship to time & mortality, recontextualizing the essential, non-linear future speculation, opportunities & dangers, the fragility of efficiency, changing how we work & ...
04.14.2020 Extra: COVID-19 Network Epidemiology with Michelle Girvan In this short extra episode, Jim talks to Michelle Girvan about the network dynamics of COVID-19 spread, fat-tailed risks, unintuitive network insights, social distancing dynamics, efficiency vs robustness, challenges of modeling the backside of the curve, the need for testing, ...
04.13.2020 EP49 Laurence Gonzales on Deep Survival Author Laurence Gonzales talks to Jim about his book “Deep Survival” a fascinating look at survival in extreme conditions from both a cognitive science and “you are there” narrative perspective. Includes: multiple survival stories, the value of being cool in ...
04.13.2020 Extra: On COVID-19 Opportunities with Jessica Flack In this short extra episode, Jim talks to Jessica Flack about stressing & testing cultural organization styles, optimizing for wholistic robustness, acting-oriented sensemaking, a department of wicked risks, top-down vs bottom-up response dynamics, liminal spaces, speculative market safeguard techniques, long-term ...
04.09.2020 Extra: On COVID-19 Strategies with Robin Hanson In this short extra episode, Jim talks to Robin Hanson about possible dosage related effects on exposure and the related trade-offs of viral dose & deliberate infection strategies, the need for more investment in robustness, capacity vs flexibility, optimizing for ...
04.07.2020 Extra: On Post-COVID-19 Impact with Simon DeDeo In this short extra episode, Jim talks to Simon DeDeo about what moving out of social isolation could be like, social norms for risk management, the wide diversity of COVID reactions, making sense personally & collectively, homeostasis & hysteresis, post-COVID ...
04.07.2020 EP48 Jessica Flack on Complex System Dynamics Professor Jessica Flack talks to Jim about micro vs macro causality in complex systems, coarse-graining, primate power hierarchies, downward causation, robustness, free will as a feeling, consciousness theories, theoretical biology, laws in adaptive systems, the non-spookiness of emergence, her work's ...
04.02.2020 Extra: On COVID-19 Potentials with Bonnitta Roy In this short extra episode, Jim talks to Bonnitta Roy about what it means to ‘stay with the trouble’, habitual behavior, the value of reflection, consumerism, scarcity & abundance, resourcefulness, the allure of going back to the rat race, system ...
04.01.2020 Extra: On Post COVID-19 Impacts with Ben Goertzel In this short extra episode, Jim talks to Dr. Ben Goertzel about the economic & cultural impacts we could expect after the peak of COVID-19, the end of the tech backlash, income inequality, homeostasis & hysteresis, business travel bets from ...
03.30.2020 Bonus: Jim on The Stoa, COVID & Game B In this bonus episode, Jim hosts a talk & Q&A on The Stoa. Peter Limberg sets the context for this talk and they then go on to reflect on the impacts & opportunities created by COVID-19, homeostasis vs hysteresis, flaws ...
03.27.2020 Extra: On COVID-19 & UBI with Bob Reid In this short extra episode, Co-Founder & CEO of Everest Bob Reid talks with Jim about the core elements of an effective UBI, short vs long term UBI approaches for the US, the Everest platform’s UBI capabilities & implementation timelines, ...
03.25.2020 Extra: On COVID-19 & Complexity with Jordan Hall In this short extra episode, Jim talks with Jordan Hall about the lessons we are learning with respect to complex system dynamic response capabilities including: our current sensemaking & limitations, distributed decision-making, finding warning signals in cultural noise, potential prevention ...
03.24.2020 Extra: On COVID-19 with John Robb In this short extra episode Jim talks with John Robb about how prepared we were for a pandemic like this, manufacturing, the economic & health impacts, CA & NY trends, impacts of ignoring quarantine, what is needed for a societal ...
03.23.2020 EP47 Mark Burgess on the Physics of Money Author, founder & scientist Mark Burgess talks with Jim about promise theory, the many functions of money, its network transfer & physical components, spacetime’s connection to money’s ability to store value, the role of banks, memory & debt, interest & ...
03.16.2020 EP46 Daniel Schrag on Climate Dynamics Professor Daniel Schrag talks with Jim about Geology’s connection to climate change, the dynamics & scope of abrupt climate changes, global collective action, the value & limits of climate models, thermal inertia in the ocean, the potential impacts of ocean ...
03.09.2020 EP45 Beth Pyles on Faith, Peace & Community Beth Pyles talks to Jim about small community living, why she left trial law to become a pastor, the dynamics affluenza & the hedonistic treadmill, how she views meaning & faith, spirituality vs religion, metaphysics, Presbyterianism vs Methodism, the value ...
03.02.2020 EP44 Steve LeVine on EV Battery Tech Steve LeVine talks with Jim about why battery innovation is so important for sustainable transportation, the challenges & promises of transitioning to electric vehicles, how Steve researched & wrote his book (The Powerhouse), key milestones for electric vehicle range & ...
02.24.2020 EP43 Daniel Christian Wahl on a Regenerative Future Daniel Christian Wahl talks with Jim about catalysis, Game B, geo therapy vs geoengineering, the short-term perspective of fossil fuels & limited resources, viewing population projections in relation to climate impact, the difference between sustainable & regenerative, the bioregional approach, ...
02.17.2020 EP42 Jessika Trancik on Tech & Research vs Climate Change MIT professor & researcher Jessika Trancik talks with Jim about energy return on investment (EROI), the power of learning curves, the feasibility of an all-electric society, base vs intermittent renewable energy, ‘energy storage plus’, the role & power of soft ...
02.13.2020 EP41 Daniel Mezick on the Agile Organization Daniel Mezick talks with Jim about how he got into business consulting & agile processes, what an openspace organization is & how it scales with business size/type, Jim’s experience with agile, how an agile scrum is structured, the value of ...
02.10.2020 EP40 Eric Smith on the Physics of Living Systems Multidimensional thinker Eric Smith has a wide-ranging talk with Jim about the origins of life, monetary systems, language & sustainability. Eric starts by sharing how geochemistry informs the origin of life topic, the dynamics of autocatalytic processes, how little we ...
02.03.2020 EP39 John Koza on Bleeding Edges Multi-talented thinker & creator John Koza & Jim start by talking about what led him to create secure lottery ticket tech early in his career. They then go on to talk about how he got interested in genetic algorithms, his ...
01.27.2020 EP38 Tristan Harris on Humane Tech Tristan Harris & Jim start by talking about how Tristan’s career & education in design ethics are informed by being a magician in his youth. They then go on to talk about his experience at the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab, ...
01.23.2020 EP37 Jared Janes on Spirituality Meditator & thinker Jared Janes talks with Jim about why he still uses the word ‘spiritual’, altered states vs altered traits, the equation & dynamics of suffering, understanding our own intentions, the confabulating mind, embodied intuition, the value & limits ...
01.20.2020 EP36 Hanzi Freinacht on Metamodernism Hanzi Freinacht, political philosopher, historian, sociologist, & author has a wide-ranging talk with Jim that starts by exploring what postmodern views are, how many postmodernists there might be & how they act. They, then go on to cover effective values ...

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The Jim Rutt Show episodes:

EP64 Colin Wright on The New Evolution Deniers

EP63 Michel Bauwens on P2P & Commons

Currents 008: Christopher Conselice: Finding Extraterrestrial Intelligence

EP62 Zak Stein on Education, Tech & Religion

Currents 007: David Fuller on the IDW

EP61 Howard Rheingold on Our Digital Past & Future

Currents 006: Jim Coan on Our Social Recession

Currents 005: John Robb on Protest Tactics & Reforms

EP60 Zak Stein on Educational Systems Collapse

EP59 Gregg Henriques on Unifying Psychology

Currents 004: Michael Vassar on Passive-Aggressive Revolution

EP58 Jake Bornstein on Leadership & Clarity

Currents 003: Joe Norman on Localism & Scales of Cooperation

EP57 Zak Stein on Education in a Time Between Worlds

EP56 Art Brock on Holo Tech

Currents 002: Brian Hanley on Releasing the Vaccines

EP55 Jack Murphy on Leaving the Left

EP54 Robert Conan Ryan on Boom & Bust Cycles

Currents 001: Simon DeDeo on University Censorship

EP53 Hanzi Freinacht on the Nordic Ideology

Extra: Memetic Warfare & Pandemic Responses with John Robb

EP52 Steven Levy on Facebook: The Inside Story

EP51 Richard Bartlett on Self-Organizing Collaboration

Extra: Key COVID-19 Decisions with John Robb

EP50 Joe Brewer on Earth Regeneration

Extra: COVID-19 Transformations with Nora Bateson

Extra: COVID-19 Network Epidemiology with Michelle Girvan

EP49 Laurence Gonzales on Deep Survival

Extra: On COVID-19 Opportunities with Jessica Flack

Extra: On COVID-19 Strategies with Robin Hanson

Extra: On Post-COVID-19 Impact with Simon DeDeo

EP48 Jessica Flack on Complex System Dynamics

Extra: On COVID-19 Potentials with Bonnitta Roy

Extra: On Post COVID-19 Impacts with Ben Goertzel

Bonus: Jim on The Stoa, COVID & Game B

Extra: On COVID-19 & UBI with Bob Reid

Extra: On COVID-19 & Complexity with Jordan Hall

Extra: On COVID-19 with John Robb

EP47 Mark Burgess on the Physics of Money

EP46 Daniel Schrag on Climate Dynamics

EP45 Beth Pyles on Faith, Peace & Community

EP44 Steve LeVine on EV Battery Tech

EP43 Daniel Christian Wahl on a Regenerative Future

EP42 Jessika Trancik on Tech & Research vs Climate Change

EP41 Daniel Mezick on the Agile Organization

EP40 Eric Smith on the Physics of Living Systems

EP39 John Koza on Bleeding Edges

EP38 Tristan Harris on Humane Tech

EP37 Jared Janes on Spirituality

EP36 Hanzi Freinacht on Metamodernism

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