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EP 187 Carlos Perez on A Pa...

06.01.2023

Jim talks with Carlos Perez about the ideas in his new book A Pattern Language for Generative AI: A Self-Generating GPT-4 Blueprint. They discuss GPT-4's ability to introspect on its capabilities, Christopher Alexander's idea of a pattern language, pattern language ...

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06.01.2023 EP 187 Carlos Perez on A Pattern Language for Generative AI Jim talks with Carlos Perez about the ideas in his new book A Pattern Language for Generative AI: A Self-Generating GPT-4 Blueprint. They discuss GPT-4's ability to introspect on its capabilities, Christopher Alexander's idea of a pattern language, pattern language ...
05.24.2023 EP 186 Charles Eisenstein on Climate: A New Story Jim talks with Charles Eisenstein about the environment and the ideas in his book Climate: A New Story. They discuss Charles's involvement with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s presidential campaign, his first encounter with the idea of global warming, the problems ...
05.09.2023 Currents 095: Matt Welsh on the End of Programming Jim talks with Matt Welsh about the ideas in his essay "The End of Programming," arguing that coding as we know it will soon be obsolete. They discuss ChatGPT's ability to perform logical reasoning, whether it thinks, its utility as ...
05.04.2023 Currents 094: Matthew Pirkowski on Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms Jim talks with Matthew Pirkowski about the kinds of consensus mechanisms that can be used to secure blockchains. They discuss active inference, proof of work vs proof of stake & the relationship between them, auto-catalytic networks, proof of work in ...
05.02.2023 Currents 093: Rafe Kelley on Natural Movement Jim talks with Rafe Kelley about the parkour-based movement system he created and teaches, Evolve Move Play. They discuss electromagnetic pulses, combining parkour & martial arts, the importance of nature exploration for children, the historical roots of parkour, using limbs ...
04.27.2023 Currents 092: Peter Wang on The Meaning Crisis and Consequentiality Jim talks with Peter Wang about his idea that meaning comes from making consequential choices. They discuss the immediacy of consequences, the modeling of causal loops, the subjective aspect of causality, two hundred varieties of shampoo, the intersubjective realm, middle-class ...
04.25.2023 Currents 091: Bruce Damer on Psychedelics as Tools for Discovery Jim talks with Bruce Damer about genius and the use of psychedelics for creative thinking. They discuss the roots of genius, the discovery of fire, Einstein's four great discoveries, building blocks of genius, endotripping vs exotripping, set, setting, & setup, ...
04.20.2023 EP 185 Daniel Suarez on the Near Future of Space Exploration Jim talks with Daniel Suarez about his science-fiction imaginings in the near future of space exploration, Delta-V and Critical Mass. They discuss the inspiration for the novels, the beginning of a renaissance in private space exploration, characters in the series, ...
04.18.2023 EP 184 Dave Snowden on Managing Complexity in Times of Crisis Jim talks with Dave Snowden about the document he co-authored, "Managing Complexity (And Chaos) In Times of Crisis." They discuss the Cynefin framework, its development into a complexity-informed framework, distinguishing complex from complicated, emergence, enabling constraints vs governing constraints, openness ...
04.11.2023 Currents 090: BJ Campbell and Patrick Ryan on Egregores Jim talks with BJ Campbell and Patrick Ryan about understanding the present moment through the concept of egregores. They discuss the meaning of the term, its roots in early occultism, social media as the fertile ground, an analogy with neural ...
04.06.2023 Currents 089: Erik Torenberg on Status Games Jim talks with Erik Torenberg about the ideas in his Substack series on navigating the status games of today. They discuss status as reputation allocation, cyclical change in status mobility over time, status in the world of social media, beliefs ...
04.04.2023 EP 183 Forrest Landry Part 2: AI Risk Jim continues his conversation with recurring guest Forrest Landry on his arguments that continued AI development poses certain catastrophic risk to humanity. They discuss the liminal feeling of the current moment in AI, Rice's theorem & the unknowability of alignment, ...
03.30.2023 Currents 088: Melanie Mitchell on AI Measurement and Understanding Jim talks with Melanie Mitchell about her critique of applying standardized exams to LLMs and the debate over understanding in AI. They discuss ChatGPT and GPT-4's performance on standardized exams, questioning the underlying assumptions, OpenAI's lack of transparency, soon-to-be-released open-source ...
03.29.2023 EP 182 Brad DeLong on An Economic History of the 20th Century Jim talks with Brad DeLong about his book Slouching Toward Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century. They discuss how everything changed around 1870, the idea of a polycrisis, Friedrich von Hayek's affirmation of the market system, the calculation ...
03.24.2023 Currents 087: Shivanshu Purohit on Open-Source Generative AI Jim talks with Shivanshu Purohit about the world of open-source AI models and a significant open-source LLM coming soon from Stability AI and EleutherAI. They discuss the reasons for creating open-source models, the release of Facebook's LLaMA model, the black ...
03.23.2023 EP 181 Forrest Landry Part 1: AI Risk Jim talks with recurring guest Forrest Landry about his arguments that continued AI development poses certain catastrophic risk to humanity. They discuss AI versus advanced planning systems (APS), the release of GPT-4, emergent intelligence from modest components, whether deep learning ...
03.16.2023 Currents 086: Monica Anderson on Bubble City Jim talks with Monica Anderson about her paper "Bubble City Design Proposal: A Twitter Alternative Which Is Not a Social Medium." They discuss the origins of the Bubble City idea, its architecture, quenching the flood of social media information, only ...
03.14.2023 Currents 085: Jonny Miller on Self-Unfoldment Jim has a wide-ranging conversation with Jonny Miller about self-development and emotional resilience. They discuss being a natural human, self-help as deconditioning, self-unfoldment, ecologies of practices, giving power back to the individual, Jamie Wheal's hedonic engineering, pushing outside the window ...
03.07.2023 Currents 084: Mirta Galesic on Global Collective Behavior Jim talks with Mirta Galesic about the ideas in her co-authored paper "Stewardship of Global Collective Behavior." They discuss the meaning of collective behavior, a crisis in network structures, the analogy of the printing press, consequences of person-to-person communication, the ...
03.03.2023 EP 180 Lynne Kiesling on the Electrical Grid Jim talks with Lynne Kiesling about the electrical grid and what could and should change in its architecture in the years to come. They discuss electricity as a product, the move away from centralized control rooms, energy storage as the ...
02.28.2023 Currents 083: Joscha Bach on Synthetic Intelligence Jim talks with Joscha Bach about current and future developments in the generative AI space. They discuss the skepticism of the press, small productive applications, questions about intellectual property rights, confabulation in human thinking, nanny rails, 3 approaches to AI ...
02.24.2023 EP 179 Gregg Henriques Part 3: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap Jim talks with Gregg Henriques in the third and final part of a series on his book A New Synthesis for Solving the Problem of Psychology: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap. They discuss the concept of justification, replacing "justice" with "justification," ...
02.22.2023 Currents 082: Dan Shipper on Practical Applications of GPT-3 Jim talks with Dan Shipper about practical uses of GPT-3 and ChatGPT at the personal scale. They discuss how Dan started playing with these tools, the feeling of new generative AIs, GPT-3 vs ChatGPT, writing a screenplay using ChatGPT, using ...
02.21.2023 EP 178 Anil Seth on A New Science of Consciousness Jim talks with Anil Seth about his book Being You: A New Science of Consciousness. They discuss the curious non-experience of general anesthesia, defining consciousness, the difference between consciousness & intelligence, experiential vs functional aspects, the hard problem vs the ...
02.16.2023 EP 177 Gregg Henriques Part 2: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap Jim talks with Gregg Henriques in part two of a series on his book A New Synthesis for Solving the Problem of Psychology: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap. They discuss limitations of the standard natural science perspective, the enlightenment gap, BM3, ...
02.15.2023 EP 176 Gregg Henriques Part 1: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap Jim talks with Gregg Henriques about his book A New Synthesis for Solving the Problem of Psychology: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap. They discuss the book's audacious attempt to explain the universe, definitions of metaphysics & whether it's needed, 4 bins ...
02.10.2023 EP 175 Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater on The Language Game Jim talks with Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater about their new book The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World. They discuss the game of charades & its relevance to the evolution of language, the false myth ...
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 ...

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The Jim Rutt Show episodes:

EP 187 Carlos Perez on A Pattern Language for Generative AI

EP 186 Charles Eisenstein on Climate: A New Story

Currents 095: Matt Welsh on the End of Programming

Currents 094: Matthew Pirkowski on Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms

Currents 093: Rafe Kelley on Natural Movement

Currents 092: Peter Wang on The Meaning Crisis and Consequentiality

Currents 091: Bruce Damer on Psychedelics as Tools for Discovery

EP 185 Daniel Suarez on the Near Future of Space Exploration

EP 184 Dave Snowden on Managing Complexity in Times of Crisis

Currents 090: BJ Campbell and Patrick Ryan on Egregores

Currents 089: Erik Torenberg on Status Games

EP 183 Forrest Landry Part 2: AI Risk

Currents 088: Melanie Mitchell on AI Measurement and Understanding

EP 182 Brad DeLong on An Economic History of the 20th Century

Currents 087: Shivanshu Purohit on Open-Source Generative AI

EP 181 Forrest Landry Part 1: AI Risk

Currents 086: Monica Anderson on Bubble City

Currents 085: Jonny Miller on Self-Unfoldment

Currents 084: Mirta Galesic on Global Collective Behavior

EP 180 Lynne Kiesling on the Electrical Grid

Currents 083: Joscha Bach on Synthetic Intelligence

EP 179 Gregg Henriques Part 3: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap

Currents 082: Dan Shipper on Practical Applications of GPT-3

EP 178 Anil Seth on A New Science of Consciousness

EP 177 Gregg Henriques Part 2: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap

EP 176 Gregg Henriques Part 1: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap

EP 175 Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater on The Language Game

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