The Jim Rutt Show

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 a discussion of complexity, reductionism and emergence, before taking off to explore the nature of time, the evolution of intelligence, the role of policing in maintaining order, memetics, computational evolution, evolutionary algorithms, before ending with The Fermi Paradox and the James Webb Space Telescope.

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.

Senior Google executives perjured themselves before Congress, says Google whistleblower Zachary "Zach" Vorhies on a special edition of The Jim Rutt Show

"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."

Is civilization doomed? "Yes," says Neurohacker Collective co-founder, evolutionary philosopher Daniel Schmachtenberger, when grilled by host Jim Rutt.

Jim Rutt interviews author and media critic, Douglas Rushkoff, about his new book, "Team Human," and the dangerous effects of technology on human beings.

Jim Rutt interviews physicist Lee Smolin of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics about his new book, Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

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 business book "Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free," and more.

Cory works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University, a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of South Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science, and the co-founder of the U.K. Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Los Angeles.

In this podcast, Jim Rutt and Cory Doctorow discuss Cory's new book, "Radicalized," and the following subjects: Techno-Utopians vs. Techno-Cassandras; "Adversarial Interoperability" and Walled Gardens in Technology; Racial Violence and Responsibility; The U.S. Healthcare System, Incel and AntiVax; Social Collapse, Survivalism and Resilience.

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; Vice Chairman of futurist nonprofit Humanity+; Scientific Advisor of biopharma firm Genescient Corp.; Advisor to the Singularity University and Singularity Institute; Research Professor in the Fujian Key Lab for Brain-Like Intelligent Systems at Xiamen University, China; and general Chair of the Artificial General Intelligence conference series.

His research work encompasses artificial general intelligence, natural language processing, cognitive science, data mining, machine learning, computational finance, bioinformatics, virtual worlds and gaming and other areas. He has published a dozen scientific books, 100+ technical papers, and numerous journalistic articles.

In this podcast, Jim Rutt and Ben Goertzel discuss the following subjects: Artificial Intelligence and General Artificial Intelligence; OpenCog and Cognitive Synergy; Language Understanding; Robotics, AGI and “The Artificial Toddler”; SingularityNET – The Singularity Network; AI and AGI in Complex Systems.

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 Change, The Fermi Paradox, "The Elephant in the Brain," Political Decision Making, and Should We Publish Tax Returns?