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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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EP104 Joe Henrich on WEIRD ...

01.19.2021

Joe Henrich talks to Jim about some of the key insights from his book, The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar & Particularly Prosperous. They cover who the WEIRD people are & what impact their ...

The Jim Rutt Show episodes:

01.19.2021 EP104 Joe Henrich on WEIRD People Joe Henrich talks to Jim about some of the key insights from his book, The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar & Particularly Prosperous. They cover who the WEIRD people are & what impact their ...
01.18.2021 Currents 023: Terry Gainer on the January 6th Riot In this Currents episode, Former U.S. Capitol Police Chief, Terry Gainer talks to Jim about his views on the January 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol. He discusses shortcomings in preparations, intelligence, and operations, highlights failure to adjust as new ...
01.14.2021 Currents 022: Curtis Yarvin on Institutional Failure In this Currents episode, Jim talks to Curtis Yarvin about some key points in his recent article, "2020, the year of everything fake". They start by talking about the ability &/or inability to take the world seriously, presentism, history, political ...
01.12.2021 Currents 021: John Robb on Jan 6th, 2021 In this Currents episode, Jim talks to John Robb about the Jan 6th events at the US Capitol. They cover the intelligence & operations failures, the event as an example of domestic opensource insurgency, heterogeneous motivations & intentions among the ...
01.11.2021 EP103 James Ehrlich on Regen Villages James Ehrlich talks to Jim about what makes a regen village, potential community organization types, how regen villages could learn from each other, utilizing machine learning, working with existing government regulations, the importance & urgent need for regen villages, the ...
01.07.2021 EP102 Debora Spar on Technological Impacts on Culture Debora Spar and Jim have a wide-ranging conversation on some of the insights in her book, Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny. They start by focusing on our transition from forager to agricultural life: the creation ...
01.04.2021 EP101 Clayton Banks on the Digital Divide Clayton Banks talks to Jim about bridging the digital divide & the importance of internet access, essential tools & digital literacy, prioritizing digital infrastructure, possible COVID-19 impacts on the digital divide, capitalism with empathy, why & how he started Silicon ...
12.21.2020 EP100 Sam Bowles on Our Cooperative Nature Sam Bowles talks to Jim about his book, A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution, co-authored with Herbert Gintis. They start by exploring cooperation in hunter-gatherer living: how human cooperation is different from other species', collaboration needed for big ...
12.17.2020 Currents 020: Barbara Oakley on Teaching Fluency In this Currents episode, Jim and Barbara Oakley start by talking about her eclectic background & career, then go on to talk about her article, How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math: how a liberal arts person ...
12.14.2020 EP99 Jason Wiener on Alternative Business Structures Practicing business entity attorney Jason Wiener talks to Jim about prioritizing the mission in a business, downfalls of profit-maximizing models & intentions, employee ownership structures, understanding & planning for trade-offs, adaptive vs rigid structures, types of fundraising & their long-term ...
12.10.2020 EP98 Morag Gamble on Permaculture Morag Gamble talks to Jim about the history & definition of permaculture, the different places & styles in which it can be implemented, the best ways of introducing it to others, seeing permaculture as a mycelial network, emersion over theory, ...
12.08.2020 EP97 Emery Brown on Consciousness & Anesthesia Emery Brown joins Jim as the first in a series of guests exploring the science of consciousness. They cover anesthesiology as a probe on consciousness, types of brain observation (EEG & fMRI), propofol's impact on brain networks, brain waves in ...
11.30.2020 EP96 Forrest Landry on Immanent Metaphysics: Part 1 Forrest Landry talks to Jim about the value of metaphysics, how his immanent metaphysics compare to past metaphysical theories, his unique definition of self & its relationship with choice, quantum foundations, the nature of choice, interaction & time, observer as ...
11.23.2020 EP95 Alexander Bard on God in the Internet Age Alexander Bard talks to Jim about Syntheism's new take on theology, the purpose of & roles in religion, post-contemporary God, the role of science in religious history, Zoroastrian history & its western influence, the digital exodus, the early internet, the ...
11.19.2020 EP94 Shahin Farshchi on Self-Driving Tech Shahin Farshchi talks to Jim about self-driving technology. They cover Waymo's driverless taxi launch, the 5 levels of automation, teleoperation, redundant safeguards, self-driving deployment approaches & challenges, planning for corner cases, consumer market speculations, operating costs, Tesla's aspirations & shadow ...
11.17.2020 Currents 019: Alexander Beiner on Indigenous Narcissism In this Currents episode, Jim and Alexander Beiner have a wide-ranging chat about his recent article on Indigenous Narcissism. They cover western cultural norms, tribalism & belonging, social media as a tribal battlefield, addiction dynamics of social media, voluntary organization ...
11.16.2020 EP93 Brent Cooper on Critique, Consensus & Politics Brent Cooper talks to Jim about his academic & intellectual background, the under-appreciation of sociology, the meta-crisis, useful critique, time-scales & approaches to solving the meta-crisis, Jim & Brent's political perspectives, GameB values, monetary theory, smuggling bad ideas, the cost ...
11.14.2020 EP92 Alexa Clay on Intentional Communities Alexa Clay talks to Jim about similar characteristics of intentional communities & startups, common personalities & intentions in intentional community, meeting their need for diverse skillsets & demographics, governance approaches, avoiding cult dynamics, planning for generational transition, community scales & ...
11.09.2020 EP91 Joe Brewer on Applied Cultural Evolution Joe Brewer talks to Jim about the power & elements of applied cultural evolution, carrying capacity & human impacts on the planet, industrial vs regenerative agriculture, the likelihood of large-scale collapse & mass extinction events, the transition to regenerative living, ...
11.05.2020 EP90 Joshua Epstein on Agent-Based Modeling Joshua Epstein talks to Jim about Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) as a powerful tool in the social sciences. They start with the history of Sugarscape, an early ABM framework, the dynamics of ABM systems, types of agents, ABM vs models based ...
11.02.2020 EP89 Lene Rachel Andersen on Metamodernity Lene Rachel Andersen talks to Jim about the growing number of complex challenges we face today, the need for cultures to evolve, our cultural history & the need to integrate pre-modern norms back into culture, the value & danger of ...
10.30.2020 EP88 Nancy Hillis & Bruce Sawhill on Art & Complexity Nancy Hillis & Bruce Sawhill talk to Jim about the commonalities & dynamics of complexity science & art: innovation & imitation, breaking rules, inseparability, phase transitions, combinatorics & restraints, aesthetics, process vs result orientation, simplicity, paradox, uncertainty, emergence, navigating the ...
10.29.2020 Currents 018: The Future Thinkers Smart Village In this Currents episode, Jim talks to Future Thinkers co-founders Euvie Ivanova & Mike Gilliland about their new Smart Village. They cover details about their selected bioregion, their short & long-term building & scaling plans, governance approaches, the economic models ...
10.27.2020 Currents 017: Bret Weinstein on Unity 2020 In this Currents episode, Jim talks to Bret Weinstein about the possible explanations for his banning from Facebook, social media & ideological bubbles, the history & goals for Bret's Unity 2020 movement & its ballot access strategy, the tyranny of ...
10.26.2020 EP87 Joscha Bach on Theories of Consciousness Joscha Bach and Jim start by talking about the difference between mind & brain, and the body & environment's connection to mind & emotions. Joscha then offers his views on some popular consciousness theories & thinkers: consciousness as frequency, Global ...
10.22.2020 EP86 Nadav Zeimer on Educational Reform Nadav Zeimer talks to Jim about his background & how it informs his work as a high school principal, the educational system's failure to build the right skills, consumption vs information literacy, COVID-19 impacts on education, what digital nativism & ...
10.21.2020 Currents 016: Robin Hanson on Are We Living In A Simulation? In this Currents episode, Jim talks to Robin Hanson about whether we live in a simulation or not, why it would matter if we do, his view of Nick Bostrom's simulation logic, Boltzmann brains & other possible simulation types, the ...
10.19.2020 EP85 Gar Alperovitz on Reinventing Our Systems Gar Alperovitz talks to Jim about what his definition of systems & their relationship to ownership & control, economic & political components in systems, GameB, the legitimacy crisis & systems collapse, the failure mode of the political process, pervasive corporate ...
10.18.2020 Currents 015: Jessica Flack & Melanie Mitchell on Complexity In this Currents episode, Jim talks to Melanie Mitchell & Jessica Flack about their recent Aeon article, Uncertain times. Why R(0) is not a good measure for COVID contagion, network contagion & super spreaders, global non-linear causes & effects, feedback ...
10.15.2020 Currents 014: Steve LeVine on COVID-19 Futures In this Currents episode, Jim talks to Steve LeVine about his article, Remote Work Is Killing the Hidden Trillion-Dollar Office Economy, cultural hysteresis & homeostasis, the challenge of predicting post-pandemic changes & looking to history, the emerging remote business fluency, ...
10.12.2020 EP84 William Perry & Tom Collina on The Nuclear Button Former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry & Tom Z. Collina of the Ploughshares Fund talk to Jim about their book, The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump. They cover today's nuclear weapons ...
10.08.2020 EP83 Michel Bauwens on Our Commons Transition Michel Bauwens talks to Jim about the forms of P2P (peer to peer) implementations & core elements, cosmo-local production, P2P in agriculture & regenerative processes, artificial rivalrous dynamics, capitalist impacts on social media & sensemaking, political polarization, creating better social ...
10.08.2020 Currents 013: Rob Malda on the Slashdot Story In this Currents episode, Jim talks to Rob Malda (AKA: CmdrTaco) about the history & creation of Slashdot, its opensource tech, rapid growth & eventual decline, unique moderation system & community involvement, utilization of scarcity, the down-side of open rating ...
10.05.2020 EP82 Hanzi Freinacht on Building a Metamodern Future In a wide-ranging all-new episode, Hanzi Freinacht talks to Jim about the dynamics of political metamodernism & commonalities with Gameb, our meta-crisis & diminished sensemaking capabilities, our culture of alienation, conspiracy theories, collective sensemaking, negative impacts of market economies, top-down ...
10.01.2020 EP81 Renée DiResta on Social Media Warfare Renée DiResta talks to Jim about her work at the Standford Internet Observatory, identifying foreign social media influence, the challenge of defining state media, her work on the Election Integrity Project, sourcing social media data, foreign vs domestic disinformation & ...
09.28.2020 EP80 Daniel Schmachtenberger on Better Sensemaking Daniel Schmachtenberger talks to Jim about the increasing importance of sensemaking in our globalized culture, internet algorithm impacts on narrative warfare, digital dopamine hijacking & addiction dynamics, dangerous contemporary authority dynamics, global government vs governance & other coordinating processes, the ...
09.24.2020 EP79 Seth Lloyd on Our Quantum Universe Seth Lloyd starts this episode by talking to Jim about the fundamentals of quantum physics: the quantum vs classical world, quantum interpretations, causality & randomness, the many-worlds theory, entanglement, and coherence. They then go on to talk about the emerging ...
09.23.2020 Currents 012: Andrew Taggart on Narcissism, Culture & Dying In this Currents episode, Jim talks to Andrew Taggart about what philosophy is & once was, the impacts of our psychotherapeutic culture, the good life & virtue, narcissism, friends of utility, changing family dynamics, GameB, close community living, what polling ...
09.21.2020 EP78 Ran Abramitzky on the Mystery of the Kibbutz Ran Abramitzky talks to Jim about his book, The Mystery of the Kibbutz: history of the kibbutz movement, social and economic impact in Israel, group governance, family life, the role of coherence & homogeneity, economic forces vs egalitarianism, kibbutz life ...
09.14.2020 EP77 Kamal Sinclair on Science, Storytelling & VR Kamal Sinclair talks with Jim about being an art doula, the role of fiction in science, the power of storytelling, impacts of new media & technology, mind & perception, the Question Bridge project's view into the lives of black men, ...
09.07.2020 EP76 Max Borders on the Social Singularity Max Borders talks to Jim about how he sees the role of the futurist, optimism, the characteristics of singularities, types of social innovation, collective intelligence, signaling systems & incentives, our dysfunctional &/or out-dated politics, analyzing our democracy, re-embracing local experimentation, ...
08.31.2020 EP75 Nick Chater: “The Mind Is Flat” Nick Chater talks to Jim about using fictional characters to explain his flat mind theory, depth psychology, the grand illusion & visual processing, perceptual processing & memory, object perception, dynamics of memory, unpacking attention, the illusion of background processing, principals ...
08.27.2020 EP74 Daniel Christian Wahl on Regeneration Dynamics Daniel Christian Wahl talks with Jim about living at a Findhorn eco-village, humanity as a capstone species, regenerative vs sustainable, the three horizons & GameB, night soil in urban & rural contexts, recycling essential resources, personal & collective development, defining ...
08.24.2020 EP73 James Lindsay on Cynical Theories James Lindsay talks with Jim about his parody scholarly article project, intentions of his latest book, liberalism as a process, history of social progress, illiberalism from the left, the history of postmodernism & its impact on science, cultural & economic ...
08.17.2020 EP72 Joscha Bach on Minds, Machines & Magic Joscha Bach talks to Jim about better understanding ourselves via AI, narrow vs general AI incentives, AGI & human-level intelligence, philosophy of AI, limitations of the human brain, GPT-2 & 3, understanding language, layers of meaning, brains columns & mini ...
08.11.2020 Currents 011: Robin Hanson on RightTalkism In this Currents episode, Jim talks to Robin Hanson about RightTalkism & our word fixation, social signaling, corporate speech, police reform, education & IQ, legalism vs Confucianism in China, Protestant & Catholics wars, floating abstractions, the tribal roots of our ...
08.10.2020 EP71 Philip Howard on Computational Propaganda Philip Howard talks with Jim about the impacts of organized & paid digital disinformation, the interconnection of technology & politics, foreign election influence, how narrow targeting compares to older direct marketing strategies, political advertising, political lies, visual misinformation, the broad ...
08.03.2020 EP70 Art Brock & Ferananda Ibarra on Currencies Art Brock & Ferananda Ibarra talk with Jim about the dynamics & characteristics of currencies, credentials, competence, reputation, the broad range of non-monetary currencies, relational-backed social currency, pros & cons of scarcity & measuring, time banks, how mutual credit systems ...
07.31.2020 EP69 Rachel Haywire on Free Thinking & Expression Rachel Haywire talks to Jim about running for president in the transhumanist party, her Elixer Salon, her Pulling out of the Narrative article, GameB, acting vs philosophizing, taking our work & selves seriously, neo-reactionaries, understanding & working with people who ...
07.28.2020 Currents 010: Tyson Yunkaporta on Humans As Custodial Species In this Currents episode, Jim talks to Tyson Yunkaporta about seeing humanity as a custodial species, our unique capacities, creation myths, the significance of the human hand, haptic cognition, tool making & syntactic language, our singing instinct, in-between space & ...

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The Jim Rutt Show episodes:

EP104 Joe Henrich on WEIRD People

Currents 023: Terry Gainer on the January 6th Riot

Currents 022: Curtis Yarvin on Institutional Failure

Currents 021: John Robb on Jan 6th, 2021

EP103 James Ehrlich on Regen Villages

EP102 Debora Spar on Technological Impacts on Culture

EP101 Clayton Banks on the Digital Divide

EP100 Sam Bowles on Our Cooperative Nature

Currents 020: Barbara Oakley on Teaching Fluency

EP99 Jason Wiener on Alternative Business Structures

EP98 Morag Gamble on Permaculture

EP97 Emery Brown on Consciousness & Anesthesia

EP96 Forrest Landry on Immanent Metaphysics: Part 1

EP95 Alexander Bard on God in the Internet Age

EP94 Shahin Farshchi on Self-Driving Tech

Currents 019: Alexander Beiner on Indigenous Narcissism

EP93 Brent Cooper on Critique, Consensus & Politics

EP92 Alexa Clay on Intentional Communities

EP91 Joe Brewer on Applied Cultural Evolution

EP90 Joshua Epstein on Agent-Based Modeling

EP89 Lene Rachel Andersen on Metamodernity

EP88 Nancy Hillis & Bruce Sawhill on Art & Complexity

Currents 018: The Future Thinkers Smart Village

Currents 017: Bret Weinstein on Unity 2020

EP87 Joscha Bach on Theories of Consciousness

EP86 Nadav Zeimer on Educational Reform

Currents 016: Robin Hanson on Are We Living In A Simulation?

EP85 Gar Alperovitz on Reinventing Our Systems

Currents 015: Jessica Flack & Melanie Mitchell on Complexity

Currents 014: Steve LeVine on COVID-19 Futures

EP84 William Perry & Tom Collina on The Nuclear Button

EP83 Michel Bauwens on Our Commons Transition

Currents 013: Rob Malda on the Slashdot Story

EP82 Hanzi Freinacht on Building a Metamodern Future

EP81 Renée DiResta on Social Media Warfare

EP80 Daniel Schmachtenberger on Better Sensemaking

EP79 Seth Lloyd on Our Quantum Universe

Currents 012: Andrew Taggart on Narcissism, Culture & Dying

EP78 Ran Abramitzky on the Mystery of the Kibbutz

EP77 Kamal Sinclair on Science, Storytelling & VR

EP76 Max Borders on the Social Singularity

EP75 Nick Chater: “The Mind Is Flat”

EP74 Daniel Christian Wahl on Regeneration Dynamics

EP73 James Lindsay on Cynical Theories

EP72 Joscha Bach on Minds, Machines & Magic

Currents 011: Robin Hanson on RightTalkism

EP71 Philip Howard on Computational Propaganda

EP70 Art Brock & Ferananda Ibarra on Currencies

EP69 Rachel Haywire on Free Thinking & Expression

Currents 010: Tyson Yunkaporta on Humans As Custodial Species