Jim Rutt Show podcast: http://jimruttshow, Animated GameB film: http://gamebfilm.org
My popular mobile game for Android and iOS: http://networkwars.com. Santa Fe Institute, network culture, metascience, future of human systems, #GameB
More complete bio: https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/jim-rutt
| Jim Rutt Show | https://jimruttshow.com |
| Network Wars Game | https://networkwars.com |
| GameB Film | https://gamebfilm.org |
🎙️ w/ Stuart Kauffman on cosmology, fundamental physics, & the nature of dark matter, dark energy, & inflation.
How Stuart moved into these fields, cosmic background radiation, the new period of precision cosmology, why the universe is expanding faster, the Hubble tension, entanglement, nonlocality & whether it is fundamental, stepping through the delay hypothesis, the life ensemble, why cold dark matter may explain the cosmic web, & much more.
🎙️ w/ Alex Fink about Otherweb, which uses AI to filter out fake news and create a more reliable news ecosystem.
The decline of news media, how advertising wrecked the internet, information filtering systems, the fight between AdBlock and Facebook, economic tradeoffs of paywalling, initial results of the printing press, catering to the 7 deadly sins, public benefit corporations, the stewardship capital model, the crowdfunding process, and much more.
🎙️ w/ Sam Sammane on *The Singularity of Hope: Humanity’s Role in an AI-Dominated Future.*
Generative AI hype, obstacles to AGI, reinforcement learning, intuition & emotion, human-AI augmentation, the age of retraining, the digital proletariat, a priesthood for investing, AI drug discovery, a major uplift in education, love as an engine of learning, personal info agents, brain-computer interfaces, roads to AGI, the pure AI singularity, collecting wisdom, & more.
🎙️ w/ Simon DeDeo on the likelihood of civil violence in America in the next decade.
A wager, Alex Garland’s Civil War, honor cultures, polarization, the one-dimensionality of current elites, statistical distributions of violence, measuring political distance, the constant motion of contemporary American political views, the unreality of woke debates, gun rights, 3 specific scenarios of inciting conflicts, making sense of a post-ideological world, & more.
🎙️ w/ Gregg Henriques about the free will versus determinism debate.
The enlightenment gap, why “will” is confusing & choice is a better referent, description vs explanation, freedom as description, the tree of knowledge system, systems of justification, layered agency, animal decision-making, Mind2 consciousness, freedom as recursive self-awareness, the emergence of personhood, minimal elements of the debate, why Sapolsky’s arguments may be dangerous, and much more.
🎙️ w/ Robin Hanson on Beware Cultural Drift: Thoughts on modernity’s monoculture mistake.
The current unprecedented rate of change, boutique multiculturalism, the decrease in macro-cultures, the convergence of global elite culture, fertility habits & falling fertility, subgoals & deeper goals, conservatism, totalitarianism, deep multiculturalism, coherent pluralism, getting to the stars, artificial minds, why Robin is pro-cult, rates of innovation, & more.
🎙️ w/ Richard Bartlett on a 3-month co-living experiment in Andalusia.
Community & its recent decline, starting small & iterating, co-living plus events, finding the right place, finances, membrane design, TPOT, paying community organizers what they’re worth, weaving weak links & strong links, curation, a pluralistic attitude toward respect, focusing on what you want to see more of, just-in-time system design, unscheduled time, GameB finance, and much more.
🎙️ w/ Robert Conan Ryan on 7 ethical perspectives
Why understanding ethical stances is valuable, pragmatism, virtue ethics, consequentialism, deontology, elitist power, deification, social justice, stacking up ethical stances, coherent pluralism, the multi-perspectival lens, DEI (Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion), the long run vs the short run, the transaction cost theory of ethics, the Main Street problem, and much more.
🎙️ w/ Matthew David Segall on “The Cosmological Context of the Origin of Life: Process Philosophy and the Hot Spring Hypothesis.”
The hot springs origin of life hypothesis, metaphysics in philosophy, rigorous speculation, the incalculability of the adjacent possible, the tension between the actual & possible, why DNA is not a blueprint, social implications of the origin of life, panexperientialism, life wanting to live better, necessity & openness, and more.
🎙️ Vance Crowe interviewed me about how I map the problem-space of current and future AI risk.
The timeline of AGI, FOOM, limitations of current governance structure, bad uses of narrow AI, nanny rails, the multipolar trap, the spark of human ingenuity, taking moral ownership of LLM outputs, economic inequality & unemployment, the flood of sludge, epistemological decay, techno-hygiene, GameB, changing our political OS, and much more.
