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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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EP121 Broke in America with...

04.12.2021

Joanne Goldblum & Colleen Shaddox talk to Jim about their book, Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty. They cover the "give a man fish" fallacy, poverty quicksand, two vs one-parent households, nurture vs nature, poverty's impact on ...

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04.12.2021 EP121 Broke in America with Joanne Goldblum & Colleen Shaddox Joanne Goldblum & Colleen Shaddox talk to Jim about their book, Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty. They cover the "give a man fish" fallacy, poverty quicksand, two vs one-parent households, nurture vs nature, poverty's impact on ...
04.08.2021 EP120 James Ehrlich on ReGen Villages Part 2 James Ehrlich & Jim continue their conversation on ReGen Villages. They cover smart houses in dumb neighborhoods, defining smart, what COVID exposed about cities, ReGen Village dynamics & their permacultural core, rural jobs, UBI, rural regulatory challenges, village funding & ...
04.05.2021 EP119 Max Borders on Post-Collapse Max Borders & Jim continue their last conversation on his book, After Collapse: The End of America and the Rebirth of Her Ideals. They cover fully automated luxury communism, utilizing traditional economics & markets, Elinor Ostrom's commons, institutional experimentation, post-scarcity ...
03.30.2021 EP118 Matt Ridley on How Innovation Works Matt Ridley talks to Jim about his latest book, How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom. They cover innovation vs invention, improbable order, the value of technological innovation, the importance of the steam engine, innovation as a team ...
03.23.2021 EP117 Samo Burja on Societal Decline Samo Burja talks to Jim about his freely available book, Great Founder Theory. They cover long-lasting societies, theories & limits of history, cultures that prioritize documentation, long-term priorities, institutional organization, social technologies, design vs evolution, what makes a great founder, ...
03.15.2021 EP116 Doug Erwin on the Cambrian Explosion Doug Erwin talks to Jim about his book, The Cambrian Explosion: The Construction of Animal Biodiversity. They cover the unprecedentedly rapid evolution of life seen during the Cambrian explosion (approx 540 million BCE), archeological dating techniques & accuracy, micro-evolution vs ...
03.12.2021 Currents 029: Vance Crowe on the “Well-Actually” Graph In this currents episode, Jim talks to Vance Crowe about what led him to work at Monsanto & the dynamics of its public narrative, how he discovered the "Well_Actually" Graph, limitations of PR firms & communications training, the value of ...
03.08.2021 EP115 Max Borders on America’s Collapse Max Borders talks to Jim about his new book, After Collapse: The End of America and the Rebirth of Her Ideals. They cover the definition of collapse, the potential role of debt in triggering a collapse, what a post-collapse scene ...
03.01.2021 EP114 John Bunzl on his Simpol Solution John Bunzl talks to Jim about his Simpol approach to global cooperation. They cover simultaneous implementation, connections to GameB, feasible viable support, the first-mover disadvantage, regulatory chill, the veto issue, destructive global competition, utilizing competition & cooperation, global problems, the ...
02.25.2021 Currents 028: Simon DeDeo on Explaining Explanation In this currents episode, Jim talks to Simon DeDeo about his recently co-authored (with Zachary Wojtowicz) paper, "From Probability to Consilience: How Explanatory Values Implement Bayesian Reasoning". They cover its connection to AI & human development, description vs power in ...
02.22.2021 EP113 Zak Stein on Hierarchical Complexity Zak Stein & Jim have a wide-ranging talk about hierarchical complexity: its history, horizontal vs vertical development, the chunking property in development, emergence & evolution, success vs understanding, child development, the development advantage of youth, representational thinking & abstraction, the ...
02.17.2021 Currents 027: Charles Hoskinson on Cardano Blockchain Project In this currents episode, Charles Hoskinson talks with Jim about the history of blockchain projects, his history with the Ethereum project and what led him to found Cardano, a 3rd gen project. They cover interoperability & decentralization, other projects & ...
02.15.2021 EP112 Annie Duke on Bets & Better Decisions Annie Duke & Jim talk about some of the key themes in her last two books. They cover how she became a championship level poker player, the deep differences between poker and chess, the complexity of poker & winning strategies, ...
02.11.2021 EP111 Anatol Lieven on Climate & Nationalism Anatol Lieven & Jim talk about his latest book, Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case. They cover motivating populations to take actions on climate change, the key role of nations & nationalism, the huge problem of residual ...
02.08.2021 EP110 Brad Kershner on Education & Complexity Brad Kershner talks to Jim about his book, Understanding Educational Complexity: Integrating Practices and Perspectives for 21st Century Leadership. They cover how Brad defines complexity, key contextual aspects of education, the four quadrants of Integral Theory & how he used ...
02.06.2021 Currents 026: Bill Ottman on Minds.com In this currents episode, Bill Ottman & Jim have a wide-ranging talk on the state of social media and his open-source social platform (Minds.com). They talk about what makes Minds different than other social networks: open-source, community-owned, profit-shared, decentralized, free ...
02.04.2021 EP109 Forrest Landry on Immanent Metaphysics: Part 2 Forrest Landry & Jim build on the foundation they built in his last JRS episode to continue to flesh out Forrest's Immanent Metaphysics. They explore the self, subject/object relationship, perception, the nature of choice & process, causality & determinism, realism ...
02.01.2021 EP108 Bernard Baars on Consciousness Bernard Baars talks to Jim about some of the key ideas in his book, On Consciousness: Science & Subjectivity. They start by covering some of the history of the scientific study of consciousness & its taboo reputation in science, the ...
01.29.2021 Currents 025: Ben Goertzel on Decentralizing Social Media In this Currents episode, Ben Goertzel & Jim have a wide-ranging talk about the urgent need for decentralized tech platforms. They cover Jim's recent banning from Facebook & how it might have happened, the danger of kafkaesque algorithms & the ...
01.28.2021 EP107 Tristan Harris on Our Social Dilemma Tristan Harris talks to Jim about his hugely successful documentary, The Social Dilemma. They start by identifying the good aspects of social media, the obvious harms & exploitation tactics, AI-enabled race to the bottom dynamics, digital regulation approaches, the big ...
01.27.2021 Currents 024: BJ Campbell on the Woke Religion In this Currents episode, BJ Campbell has a wide-ranging talk with Jim about his article, "Social Justice is a Crowdsourced Religion": the history of the wokeism & how it can be seen as a religion, what makes religions efficacious, the ...
01.25.2021 EP106 Michael Strevens on the Irrational History of Science Michael Stevens talks to Jim about some of the ideas & stories in his book, The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science: what the great method debate is & how Popper & Kuhn added to the topic, falsification & ...
01.21.2021 EP105 Christof Koch on Consciousness Christof Koch and Jim have a wide-ranging conversation about the science of consciousness. They start by exploring some key topics brought up in his book, The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread But Can't Be Computed: defining conscious ...
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 ...

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The Jim Rutt Show episodes:

EP121 Broke in America with Joanne Goldblum & Colleen Shaddox

EP120 James Ehrlich on ReGen Villages Part 2

EP119 Max Borders on Post-Collapse

EP118 Matt Ridley on How Innovation Works

EP117 Samo Burja on Societal Decline

EP116 Doug Erwin on the Cambrian Explosion

Currents 029: Vance Crowe on the “Well-Actually” Graph

EP115 Max Borders on America’s Collapse

EP114 John Bunzl on his Simpol Solution

Currents 028: Simon DeDeo on Explaining Explanation

EP113 Zak Stein on Hierarchical Complexity

Currents 027: Charles Hoskinson on Cardano Blockchain Project

EP112 Annie Duke on Bets & Better Decisions

EP111 Anatol Lieven on Climate & Nationalism

EP110 Brad Kershner on Education & Complexity

Currents 026: Bill Ottman on Minds.com

EP109 Forrest Landry on Immanent Metaphysics: Part 2

EP108 Bernard Baars on Consciousness

Currents 025: Ben Goertzel on Decentralizing Social Media

EP107 Tristan Harris on Our Social Dilemma

Currents 024: BJ Campbell on the Woke Religion

EP106 Michael Strevens on the Irrational History of Science

EP105 Christof Koch on Consciousness

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?