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02.03.2023

Jim talks with Fred Beuttler and Mark Stahlman about their new online graduate program, Trivium University. They discuss the trivium & the quadrivium, instilling a better sense of grammar, the current digital paradigm, five paradigms in communication technology, the outsourcing ...

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02.03.2023 EP 174 Fred Beuttler and Mark Stahlman on Trivium University Jim talks with Fred Beuttler and Mark Stahlman about their new online graduate program, Trivium University. They discuss the trivium & the quadrivium, instilling a better sense of grammar, the current digital paradigm, five paradigms in communication technology, the outsourcing ...
02.03.2023 Currents 081: Layman Pascal Interviews Jim Rutt on Twitter as Collective Intelligence Layman Pascal interviews Jim about the principles and strategies that could transform Twitter into infrastructure for collective intelligence. They discuss Jim's motivation in engaging the topic, Musk's current lack of strategic intent, the least bad unfairness, avoiding point of view ...
01.30.2023 Currents 080: Joe Edelman and Ellie Hain on Rebuilding Meaning Jim talks with Joe Edelman and Ellie Hain about their new movement, Rebuilding Meaning, and two recent talks introducing ideas towards a better world. They discuss tools for building toward more meaningful lives, the meaning of meaning, looking behind the ...
01.17.2023 EP 173 Hanzi Freinacht on Metamodern Self-Help Jim talks with Hanzi Freinacht about his book 12 Commandments: For Extraordinary People to Master Ordinary Life. They discuss the book as a response to Jordan Peterson & his "12 rules" books, metamodernism, fostering sober crazy people, magical thinking in ...
01.09.2023 EP 172 Brendan Graham Dempsey on Emergentism Jim talks with Brendan Graham Dempsey about his book Emergentism: A Religion of Complexity for the Metamodern World. They discuss the meaning crisis & its symptoms, reciprocal narrowing, the pre-modern & the modern, the emergence of reductionism, the meaning of ...
01.05.2023 Currents 079: Douglas Rushkoff on Tech Escapism and Critiques of GameB Jim talks with Douglas Rushkoff about the ideas in his essay series, "What's a Meta For?" They discuss Facebook's renaming to Meta, the semantic web, ChatGPT, a Turing test recalibration period, Rocco's Basilisk, the conversion of the real world into ...
01.03.2023 Currents 078: John Ash on AI Art Tools Jim talks with John Ash about his use of AI art tools and their implications for society. They discuss the basics of how the latest models work, using AI to communicate complexity, removing noise from noise, style transfer, pursuing knowledge ...
12.29.2022 Currents 077: Serge Faguet on Consciousness and Post-AGI Ethics Jim continues his conversation with Serge Faguet, this time focusing on the nature of consciousness and its implications for the wise and ethical use of AI systems. They discuss a technological Singularity, the evolution & significance of consciousness, integrated information ...
12.20.2022 EP 171 Bruce Damer Part 2: The Origins of Life – Implications Jim continues his discussion with Bruce Damer on the origins of life. They discuss Darwin's "warm little pond" hypothesis, hydrothermal fields as selection engines, wet-dry cycling, proto-cells, competing theories, implications of the hypothesis, niche construction theory, the origin of life ...
12.12.2022 Currents 076: Jamie Joyce on The Society Library Jim talks with Jamie Joyce about the organization she founded and directs, The Society Library. They discuss the Library's mission, its ontological structure, offering diverse interfaces, methods for overcoming limitations & biases, operating with integrity, contextualizing information deeply, intellectual honesty, ...
12.05.2022 Currents 075: Michael Nielsen on Metascience Jim talks with Michael Nielsen about the ideas in his and Kanjun Qiu's recent essay, "A Vision of Metascience: An Engine of Improvement for the Social Processes of Science." They discuss the meaning of metascience, a vivid example in Genovese ...
12.02.2022 EP 170 John Vervaeke and Jordan Hall on The Religion That Is Not a Religion Jim talks with John Vervaeke and Jordan Hall about Vervaeke's concept of "the religion that is not a religion." They discuss the need to create a home for ecologies of practices, Jordan and John's ongoing collaboration, the meaning crisis & ...
11.28.2022 Currents 074: Serge Faguet on Building Metacommunity Jim talks with Serge Faguet about emerging transnational networks of cooperation. They discuss the mismatch between rates of technological development & cooperation abilities, building a good Singularity, uniting an already-existing movement, "the right way to live" as a root of ...
11.25.2022 Currents 073: Owen Cox and Daniel Fraga on Game C Jim talks with Owen Cox and Daniel Fraga of the Technosocial podcast about their critique that the GameB movement has underestimated the importance of sex and violence. They discuss the attempt to deal logically with illogical forces, the origins of ...
11.14.2022 EP 169 Roar Bjonnes on Growing a New Economy Jim talks with Roar Bjonnes about the ideas in his new book co-authored with Caroline Hargreaves, Growing a New Economy: Beyond Crisis Capitalism and Environmental Destruction. They talk about a quote from Naomi Klein, interlocking crises, COP27, the collective cognition ...
10.31.2022 EP 168 Nate Hagens on Collective Futures Jim talks with Nate Hagens about his new book co-authored with DJ White, Reality Blind: Integrating the Systems Science Underpinning Our Collective Futures, volume 1. They discuss Nate's Reality 101 course, the core fundamental drivers of our current situation, writing ...
10.18.2022 Currents 072: Ben Goertzel on Viable Paths to True AGI Jim talks with Ben Goertzel about the ideas in his recent essay "Three Viable Paths to True AGI." They discuss the meaning of artificial general intelligence, Steve Wozniak's basic AGI test, whether common tasks actually require AGI, a conversation with ...
10.13.2022 EP 167 Bruce Damer on the Origins of Life Jim talks with Bruce Damer about the origins of life. They discuss what Earth was like 4 billion years ago, how the oceans formed, the new concept of urability, the distinction between supporting life & bringing it into being, the ...
10.10.2022 Currents 071: Liam Madden on Rebirthing Democracy Jim talks with Liam Madden, a congressional candidate in Vermont who strongly resonates with the GameB ethos. They discuss Liam's decision to run as a Republican, Vermont's primary laws, personal responsibility & community as reciprocal values, stewarding complex & godlike ...
10.06.2022 Currents 070: Brian Chau on Propaganda & Populism Jim talks with Brian Chau about seeing the world as it is, not as we wish it to be. They discuss the firehose of bullshit, how modern-day propaganda works, QAnon & Pizzagate, the idea of egregores, adapting our biases against ...
10.03.2022 Currents 069: Bonnitta Roy and Euvie Ivanova on Collective Intimacy Jim talks with Euvie Ivanova and Bonnitta Roy about a recent Twitter exchange exploring intimacy as "both the problem and the solution." They discuss the context of the exchange, today's shallowness & loneliness epidemics, Bonnitta's recent retreat at the Monastic ...
09.30.2022 EP 166 Lene Rachel Andersen Part 2: Libertism Jim talks with Lene Rachel Andersen in the second of a two-part series about her new book Libertism: Grasping the 21st Century, picking up where they left off in the book's 18 sub-patterns of being. They discuss selfish genes & ...
09.22.2022 EP 165 Lene Rachel Andersen Part 1: Libertism Jim talks with Lene Rachel Andersen in the first of a two-part series about her new book Libertism: Grasping the 21st Century. They discuss rediscovering the word libertism, hypermodernity vs. metamodernity, combining experience from different epochs in fruitful ways, distinguishing ...
09.22.2022 Currents 068: Jonathan Rowson on the Chess Drama Jim talks with Grandmaster chess player and philosopher Jonathan Rowson about the recent drama between Magnus Carlsen and Hans Niemann in the Champions Chess Tour. They discuss Rowson's chess background, the bare facts of the kerfuffle, Niemann's persona & career ...
09.19.2022 EP 164 John Markoff on the Many Lives of Stewart Brand Jim talks with John Markoff about his new biography, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand. They discuss the meme of Brand as a Zelig, his role as a catalyst, the Pace Layers model, why Brand wasn't a pure ...
08.25.2022 EP 163 Benedict Beckeld on Western Self-Contempt Jim talks with Benedict Beckeld about his new book Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations. They discuss the meaning of oikophobia—hatred of one's homeland—its recurrence throughout history, the prevalence of oikophobia in the U.S., a continuum from xenophobia ...
08.15.2022 EP 162 Max Borders on Decentralism Jim talks with recurring guest Max Borders about the ideas in his new book The Decentralist: Mission, Morality, and Meaning in the Age of Crypto. They discuss happiness as a common ground, a eudaimonistic sensibility, the marshmallow experiment & deferred ...
07.25.2022 Currents 067: Zak Stein on Ending Nihilistic Design Jim talks with Zak Stein about the Consilience Project's article "Technology is Not Values Neutral: Ending the Reign of Nihilistic Design." They discuss how technologies actualize & encode values, 2nd- & 3rd-order effects of technologies, the "invisible hand" approach to ...
07.22.2022 Currents 066: Matthew Pirkowski on Emergence in Possibility Space Jim continues his discussion with Matthew Pirkowski on ideas of emergence and how they can be applied to today's meta-crisis. They discuss the meaning of emergence, treating potential as ontologically real, exaptation & meta-adaptation, path dependency in the history of ...
07.18.2022 EP 161 Greg Thomas on Untangling the Gordian Knot of Race Jim talks with Greg Thomas about American democracy & the problems created by racial essentialism & racialization. They discuss the Jazz Leadership Project, jazz as metaphor, the connection between racism & the concept of race, the slave trade's role in ...
07.07.2022 EP 160 Curtis Yarvin on Monarchy in the U.S.A. Jim talks with Curtis Yarvin about his proposal to replace our current government with a monarchy, part of an ongoing exploration of problems with and alternatives to democracy. They discuss a regime-change thought experiment beginning with liquid democracy, the goals ...
07.06.2022 EP 159 Bobby Azarian on the Romance of Reality Jim talks with Bobby Azarian about the ideas in his new book The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity, which Jim calls "the most Jim Rutt Show-ish book ever." They discuss ...
06.30.2022 Currents 065: Alexander Bard on Protopian Narratology Jim talks with Alexander Bard, continuing a series of encounters between GameB and the Dark Renaissance movement. They discuss the Grand Narrative Trilogy Bard has been writing with Jan Söderqvist, the kinds of stories we tell about ourselves, why Hiroshima ...
06.16.2022 Who Are You EP 01: Seth Jordan on Social Threefolding This is the first, experimental episode of Who Are You, a subseries of the Jim Rutt Show in which Jim has an unplanned conversation with a mystery guest nominated and elected by listeners. In this episode he meets Seth Jordan, ...
06.13.2022 Currents 064: Michael Garfield and J.F. Martel on Art x AI Jim talks with Michael Garfield and J.F. Martel about the intersection of AI and art. They discuss DALL-E & Midjourney, whether conscious agency is necessary for art, artifice vs discernment, Jung's synchronicity, AI art as dreaming, discernment & consecration, the ...
06.09.2022 EP 158 Remzi Bajrami on Flow Currency Jim talks to Remzi Bajrami about the ideas in his book Common Planet: A New Game of Life. They discuss what GameB means to him, three classes of players, whether property or profit is the engine of GameA, the source ...
06.06.2022 Currents 063: Jessica Flack on nth-Order Effects of the Russia-Ukraine War Jim talks with Jessica Flack about nth-order effects of the war in Ukraine. They discuss the meaning of second- and nth-order effects, black swans, Gaussian vs fat-tailed distribution models of extreme social events, the factoring in Ukraine's wheat & Russia's ...
05.16.2022 EP 157 Terrence Deacon on Mind’s Emergence From Matter Jim talks to Terrence Deacon about the ideas in his new book, Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged From Matter. They discuss the story of zero, integrating absence into physical theories, systems that generate entropy to stave off entropy, the history ...
05.05.2022 EP 156 James Poulos on Remaining Human Jim talks with James Poulos about the ideas in his new book Human Forever: The Spiritual Politics of Digital War. They discuss his decision to publish the book on the blockchain, going beginner's-mind on media & communications theory, the meaning ...
05.02.2022 Currents 062: Stephanie Lepp Interviews Jim Rutt on Musk and Moderation In this episode, Jim Rutt is a guest on his own show! He's interviewed by Stephanie Lepp about the ideas in his Quillette essay "Musk and Moderation." They discuss where things stand with Musk's recent purchase of Twitter, Jim's 41-year ...
04.18.2022 EP 155 Iain McGilchrist Part 2: The Matter With Things Jim has a second talk with Iain McGilchrist about the ideas in his book The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World. They discuss whether the continuity of time matters on the human scale, ...
04.11.2022 Currents 061: Nora Bateson on a Return to Earnestness Jim talks with Nora Bateson about ecologies of communication and the value of earnestness. They discuss simple irony, dramatic irony, post-irony, & meta-irony; irony & the ecology of communication, the mistake of pitting earnestness directly against irony, questioning forms of ...
04.04.2022 EP 154 Iain McGilchrist on The Matter With Things Jim talks with Iain McGilchrist about his new book, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World. They discuss issues created by having one word for "know," the separation, asymmetry, & function of brain ...
03.28.2022 Currents 060: Panos Siozos on Online Education Jim talks with Panos Siozos, CEO and co-founder of LearnWorlds, a platform for online education, about alternative routes in education delivery. They discuss how Panos transitioned from science to entrepreneurship, why adult lifetime learning is important right now, an increasing ...
03.24.2022 Currents 059: Samo Burja on RU->UKR 23-MAR-2022 Continuing his series of expert interviews on the Russia-Ukraine War, Jim talks again with Samo Burja about the state of the Russian advance one month in. They discuss Putin's maximum acceptable atrocity level, the complex relationship between public opinion and ...
03.22.2022 EP 153 Forrest Landry on Small Group Method Jim talks with Forrest Landry about his Small Group Method and the obstacles to scaling it up. They discuss why studying group processes is important, the difficulty of doing new things with old structures, 3 classes of decision-making structures (consensus, ...
03.21.2022 Currents 058: John Robb on Russia-Ukraine Outcomes Continuing his series of expert interviews on the Russia-Ukraine War, Jim talks again with John Robb, this time about the likelihood of a settlement. They discuss the pressures currently pushing both sides against negotiating, why Russia is opposed to Ukraine ...
03.16.2022 Currents 057: Timothy Clancy on Russia’s Mid-Game Continuing his series of expert interviews on the Russia-Ukraine War, Jim talks with Timothy Clancy about forecasting the conflict through mid-May. They discuss five likely mid-game scenarios, Ukraine as a Go board, how urban combat has changed in the 21st ...
03.09.2022 Currents 056: Julyan Davey on Weaving a Non-Dual Civilization Jim has a talk with Julyan Davey inspired by Julyan's essay series "Weaving a Non-Dual Civilisation." They discuss the "sublimewe" modality as a means of shifting into a GameB mindset, incorporating the intersubjective world into our models, interweaving inner & ...
03.04.2022 Currents 055: Paul Goble on Putin’s Strategic Mistakes Continuing his series of expert interviews on the unfolding situation in Ukraine, Jim talks with Paul Goble, a longtime specialist on ethnic and religious issues in Eurasia. They discuss Putin's view of Russia as neglected & ignored, Russians' difficulty making ...

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The Jim Rutt Show episodes:

EP 174 Fred Beuttler and Mark Stahlman on Trivium University

Currents 081: Layman Pascal Interviews Jim Rutt on Twitter as Collective Intelligence

Currents 080: Joe Edelman and Ellie Hain on Rebuilding Meaning

EP 173 Hanzi Freinacht on Metamodern Self-Help

EP 172 Brendan Graham Dempsey on Emergentism

Currents 079: Douglas Rushkoff on Tech Escapism and Critiques of GameB

Currents 078: John Ash on AI Art Tools

Currents 077: Serge Faguet on Consciousness and Post-AGI Ethics

EP 171 Bruce Damer Part 2: The Origins of Life – Implications

Currents 076: Jamie Joyce on The Society Library

Currents 075: Michael Nielsen on Metascience

EP 170 John Vervaeke and Jordan Hall on The Religion That Is Not a Religion

Currents 074: Serge Faguet on Building Metacommunity

Currents 073: Owen Cox and Daniel Fraga on Game C

EP 169 Roar Bjonnes on Growing a New Economy

EP 168 Nate Hagens on Collective Futures

Currents 072: Ben Goertzel on Viable Paths to True AGI

EP 167 Bruce Damer on the Origins of Life

Currents 071: Liam Madden on Rebirthing Democracy

Currents 070: Brian Chau on Propaganda & Populism

Currents 069: Bonnitta Roy and Euvie Ivanova on Collective Intimacy

EP 166 Lene Rachel Andersen Part 2: Libertism

EP 165 Lene Rachel Andersen Part 1: Libertism

Currents 068: Jonathan Rowson on the Chess Drama

EP 164 John Markoff on the Many Lives of Stewart Brand

EP 163 Benedict Beckeld on Western Self-Contempt

EP 162 Max Borders on Decentralism

Currents 067: Zak Stein on Ending Nihilistic Design

Currents 066: Matthew Pirkowski on Emergence in Possibility Space

EP 161 Greg Thomas on Untangling the Gordian Knot of Race

EP 160 Curtis Yarvin on Monarchy in the U.S.A.

EP 159 Bobby Azarian on the Romance of Reality

Currents 065: Alexander Bard on Protopian Narratology

Who Are You EP 01: Seth Jordan on Social Threefolding

Currents 064: Michael Garfield and J.F. Martel on Art x AI

EP 158 Remzi Bajrami on Flow Currency

Currents 063: Jessica Flack on nth-Order Effects of the Russia-Ukraine War

EP 157 Terrence Deacon on Mind’s Emergence From Matter

EP 156 James Poulos on Remaining Human

Currents 062: Stephanie Lepp Interviews Jim Rutt on Musk and Moderation

EP 155 Iain McGilchrist Part 2: The Matter With Things

Currents 061: Nora Bateson on a Return to Earnestness

EP 154 Iain McGilchrist on The Matter With Things

Currents 060: Panos Siozos on Online Education

Currents 059: Samo Burja on RU->UKR 23-MAR-2022

EP 153 Forrest Landry on Small Group Method

Currents 058: John Robb on Russia-Ukraine Outcomes

Currents 057: Timothy Clancy on Russia’s Mid-Game

Currents 056: Julyan Davey on Weaving a Non-Dual Civilization

Currents 055: Paul Goble on Putin’s Strategic Mistakes