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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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EP30 Nora Bateson on Comple...

12.09.2019

Nora Bateson, award-winning filmmaker, writer, educator, and President of the International Bateson Institute talks with Jim about the work of the International Bateson Institute, her father (Gregory Bateson) & grandfather’s (William Bateson) academic histories & the impact they had on ...

The Jim Rutt Show episodes:

12.09.2019 EP30 Nora Bateson on Complexity & the Transcontextual Nora Bateson, award-winning filmmaker, writer, educator, and President of the International Bateson Institute talks with Jim about the work of the International Bateson Institute, her father (Gregory Bateson) & grandfather’s (William Bateson) academic histories & the impact they had on ...
12.02.2019 EP29 Michael Mauboussin on The Success Equation Michael Mauboussin, Director of Research at BlueMountain Capital Management, Author, and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University talks with Jim about how he came to be the Chairman of the Board at the Santa Fe Institute, his perspective on investing & ...
11.25.2019 EP28 Mark Burgess on Promise Theory, AI & Spacetime Author, founder & scientist Mark Burgess talks with Jim about why he made the switch from theoretical physics to computer science, the widely applicable skill set of physicists, what led him to create CFEngine, computer immunology, how he came up ...
11.21.2019 EP27 Jamie Wheal on Flow & the Future of Culture Author Jamie Wheal talks with Jim about working with the Navy SEALs, what characterizes flow, intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation, the Eleusinian Mysteries, Plato, Aristotle & Pythagoras, soft-leadership & dynamic hierarchies, group flow, if courage & integrity can be taught & ...
11.19.2019 EP26 Jordan Hall on the Game B Emergence Jordan Hall and Jim have another wide-ranging conversation about Game B. They start with a quick overview of Game A and then move on to talk about the emerging collaboration of Game B & how it happened, its competitive advantage ...
11.14.2019 EP25 Gary Marcus on Rebooting AI Scientist, author & entrepreneur Gary Marcus talks with Jim about his latest book, Rebooting AI. In this wide-ranging conversation they cover the gullibility gap, the illusory progress gap, the robustness gap, driverless car progress & safety, how narrow AI is ...
11.11.2019 EP24 Bret Weinstein on Evolving Culture Bret Weinstein and Jim talk about the evolutionary & game-theoretic dynamics that have led humanity to an unsustainable place, the impact of today’s algorithms & how they’re connected to human evolution, the recent shift of corporate values, how Game B ...
11.05.2019 EP23 Jeff Gomez on Narrative & Cultural Change CEO Jeff Gomez and Jim have a wide-ranging talk about Jeff’s work with massive movies like Pirates of the Caribbean, his work with transmedia storytelling & worldbuilding, how nerdy Jim really is, how narrative & story differ & the role ...
10.31.2019 EP22 Sara Kindsfater-Yerkes on the Evolution of Business Business Consultant Sara Kindsfater-Yerkes and Jim start this episode by reflecting on working together in their earlier careers. They then go on to talk about today’s multi-generational workforce, commonalities of Gen Z & Boomers, workplace mindsets, recruitment strategies & HR ...
10.28.2019 EP21 Roman Yampolskiy on the Outer Limits of AI This conversation with Jim and Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy–author, tenured associate professor, founding director of Cyber Security Lab–starts by covering the vast variance of possible minds. They then go on to talk about Boltzmann brains, the implications of an infinite ...
10.24.2019 EP20 Pamela McCorduck on Her Life & Times with AI Author Pamela McCorduck talks with Jim about themes of her latest book, This Could Be Important: My Life and Times with the Artificial Intelligentsia. They talk about C.P. Snow’s Two Cultures thesis that explores the divide between the humanities & ...
10.21.2019 EP19 John Robb on Asymmetric & Networked Conflict & Strategy This conversation with Jim and John Robb–author, inventor, entrepreneur, technology analyst, astro engineer, and military pilot–starts by covering the impact of the recent drone attack on a Saudi fuel processing center, and the current US political situation. They then go ...
10.17.2019 EP18 Stuart Kauffman on Complexity, Biology & T.A.P. Professor, MacArthur Fellow and author Stuart Kauffman talks with Jim about the major themes of his career: complexity, auto-catalytic chemical sets, protocells and the origins of life, the problem of the error catastrophe, human evolution, social and technical evolution, the ...
10.14.2019 EP17 – Bonnitta Roy on Process Thinking and Complexity Bonnitta Roy, author of Our Future at Work and editor at Integral Review, talks with Jim Rutt about process thinking, complexity, evolution, and Game B. The discussion begins with a description of Roy's "insight practice," process thinking, complexity science, reification, ...
10.07.2019 EP16 Anaconda CTO Peter Wang on The Distributed Internet Anaconda CTO Peter Wang talks with Jim Rutt about the latest Python tools, deep fakes, nonrivalrous economics, and the distributed Internet. The discussion begins with a slew of new Python tools, including Numba, Dask, PyTorch, Chainer, CuPy, and PyData. That's ...
09.30.2019 EP15 Futurist David Brin on The Case for Optimism Author and futurist David Brin talks with Jim Rutt about optimism, ritualized combat, The Transparent Society, and the search for life in the universe. Beginning with the case for optimism, Brin takes on "Star Wars" and talks up "Star Trek" ...
09.23.2019 EP14 Astrophysicist Jill Tarter on SETI and Technosignatures Astrophysicist Jill Tarter talks with host Jim Rutt about the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), technosignatures + related projects. Starting with the Fermi Paradox and the Drake Equation, they discuss the hunt for life in the universe. While discussing the ...
09.16.2019 EP13 Trent McConaghy: Blockchain, AI and DAOs Trent McConaghy, of Ocean Protocol, talks with host Jim Rutt about blockchain, AI, and DAOs. Beginning with a discussion of Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and public utility networks, the conversation explores the DCS Triangle, the Interplanetary File System (IPFS), Decentralized Autonomous Organizations ...
09.12.2019 EP12 Brian Nosek – Open Science and Reproducibility Brian Nosek, cofounder of the Center for Open Science, and host Jim Rutt discuss the cutting edge in science governance including the reproducibility crisis, the Open Science Framework, OSF Preprints, peer review journals, Registered Reports, Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) ...
09.09.2019 EP11 Dave Snowden and Systems Thinking Dave Snowden is Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Cognitive Edge. He has pioneered a science-based approach to organizations drawing on anthropology, neuroscience, and complex adaptive systems theory. In this podcast, Dave Snowden and Jim Rutt discuss decision-making tools, assessment ...
09.03.2019 EP10 David Krakauer: Complexity Science David Krakauer is President and William H. Miller Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute. David’s research focuses on the evolutionary history of information processing mechanisms in biology and culture. In this podcast, David and Jim begin with ...
08.27.2019 EP9 Joe Norman: Applied Complexity Joe Norman is affiliated with the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI), the Real World Risk Institute (RWRI), and Applied Complexity Science, LLC. In this podcast, Jim and Joe discuss applied complexity, emergence, climate science and GMOs.
08.21.2019 Special Episode: Zachary Vorhies Senior Google executives perjured themselves before Congress, says Google whistleblower Zachary "Zach" Vorhies on a special edition of The Jim Rutt Show
08.19.2019 EP8 Jordan “Greenhall” Hall and Game B "Game A is over," says tech superstar, Jordan Hall, in an interview describing the inevitable collapse of the global economy and the rise of "Game B."
08.12.2019 EP7 Daniel Schmachtenberger and the Evolution of Technology Is civilization doomed? "Yes," says Neurohacker Collective co-founder, evolutionary philosopher Daniel Schmachtenberger, when grilled by host Jim Rutt.
08.05.2019 EP 6 Douglas Rushkoff – Memetics, Money + TeamHuman Jim Rutt interviews author and media critic, Douglas Rushkoff, about his new book, "Team Human," and the dangerous effects of technology on human beings.
07.26.2019 EP5 Lee Smolin – Quantum Foundations and Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution Jim Rutt interviews physicist Lee Smolin of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics about his new book, Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
07.19.2019 EP4 Cory Doctorow – “Radicalized,” Race and Resilience Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist, blogger, and co-editor of Boing Boing. He is the author of the books "Radicalized" and "Walkaway," science fiction for adults; a young adult graphic novel called "In Real Life;" the nonfiction ...
07.15.2019 EP3 Dr. Ben Goertzel – OpenCog, AGI and SingularityNET Dr. Ben Goertzel is Chief Scientist of robotics firm Hanson Robotics and financial prediction firm Aidyia Holdings; Chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC and bioinformatics company Biomind LLC; Chairman of the Artificial General Intelligence Society and the OpenCog Foundation; ...
07.08.2019 EP2 Robin Hanson – Decision Making and “The Age of Em” Jim Rutt interviews Robin Hanson, an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University. His major fields of interest include health policy, regulation, and formal political theory. Subjects covered during the interview include "The Age of Em" , Rates of ...
07.07.2019 EP1 Simon DeDeo – The Evolution of Consciousness Jim Rutt interviews Carnegie-Mellon Assistant professor Simon DeDeo. Simon is also affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute and the Cognitive Science program at Indiana University, where he runs the Laboratory for Social Minds. DeDeo and his colleagues combine data from ...

The Jim Rutt Show

What's The Jim Rutt Show about?

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The Jim Rutt Show episodes:

EP30 Nora Bateson on Complexity & the Transcontextual

EP29 Michael Mauboussin on The Success Equation

EP28 Mark Burgess on Promise Theory, AI & Spacetime

EP27 Jamie Wheal on Flow & the Future of Culture

EP26 Jordan Hall on the Game B Emergence

EP25 Gary Marcus on Rebooting AI

EP24 Bret Weinstein on Evolving Culture

EP23 Jeff Gomez on Narrative & Cultural Change

EP22 Sara Kindsfater-Yerkes on the Evolution of Business

EP21 Roman Yampolskiy on the Outer Limits of AI

EP20 Pamela McCorduck on Her Life & Times with AI

EP19 John Robb on Asymmetric & Networked Conflict & Strategy

EP18 Stuart Kauffman on Complexity, Biology & T.A.P.

EP17 – Bonnitta Roy on Process Thinking and Complexity

EP16 Anaconda CTO Peter Wang on The Distributed Internet

EP15 Futurist David Brin on The Case for Optimism

EP14 Astrophysicist Jill Tarter on SETI and Technosignatures

EP13 Trent McConaghy: Blockchain, AI and DAOs

EP12 Brian Nosek – Open Science and Reproducibility

EP11 Dave Snowden and Systems Thinking

EP10 David Krakauer: Complexity Science

EP9 Joe Norman: Applied Complexity

Special Episode: Zachary Vorhies

EP8 Jordan “Greenhall” Hall and Game B

EP7 Daniel Schmachtenberger and the Evolution of Technology

EP 6 Douglas Rushkoff – Memetics, Money + TeamHuman

EP5 Lee Smolin – Quantum Foundations and Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution

EP4 Cory Doctorow – “Radicalized,” Race and Resilience

EP3 Dr. Ben Goertzel – OpenCog, AGI and SingularityNET

EP2 Robin Hanson – Decision Making and “The Age of Em”

EP1 Simon DeDeo – The Evolution of Consciousness