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Jim Rutt

@jimrutt.bsky.social

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Jim Rutt Show podcast, Santa Fe Institute, Game B, GameBfilm.org, Network Wars mobile game, NetworkWars.com bio: https://tinyurl.com/y4kuaxen

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Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · 2d

🎙️ w/ @edelwax.bsky.social on “Full Stack Alignment: Co-Aligning AI and Institutions with Thick Models of Value.”

Pluralism as a core principle in social design, thick models of value, multipolar traps, moral graph elicitation, starting with membranes, Moloch-free zones, co-optation risks, & more.

EP 325 Joe Edelman on Full-Stack AI Alignment - The Jim Rutt Show

Jim talks with Joe Edelman about the Meaning Alignment Institute's paper "Full Stack Alignment: Co-Aligning AI and Institutions with Thick Models of Value."

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Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · 11d

I often say, “When I hear the word metaphysics, I reach for my pistol.” Yet, I have a metaphysics—whether I know it or not.

For a while, I’ve been puzzling over the question: What are my metaphysics?

This article offers at least a provisional answer.

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A Minimum Viable Metaphysics

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Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · 29d

🎙️ w/ John Preston on *40 Flushes to Grow Your Business: The World’s #2 Business Series,* designed to be read during bathroom breaks.

Breaking free from being a one-person show, business owner support networks, social media pitfalls, lifestyle creep, transparency with employees, and much more.

EP 324 John Preston on 40 Flushes to Grow Your Business - The Jim Rutt Show

Jim talks with John Preston about 40 Flushes to Grow Your Business, a book designed to be read during bathroom breaks.

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Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · Sep 10

🎙️ w/ Pablos Holman on *Deep Future: Creating Technology That Matters.*

Deep tech vs shallow tech, computational modeling and simulation for real-world problems, space-based solar power, energy storage limitations, the transformation of the apparel industry through automation, and much more.

EP 323 Pablos Holman on Deep Tech - The Jim Rutt Show

Jim talks with Pablos Holman about the ideas in his new book Deep Future: Creating Technology That Matters.

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Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · Sep 5

🎙️ w/ @brendangdempsey.bsky.social on *Psyche and Symbolic Learning,* vol. 2 in his Evolution of Meaning series.

Stage theories of development, the relationship between semantic richness & structural complexity, justification systems theory, cultural evolution, and much more.

EP 322 Brendan Graham Dempsey on Psyche and Symbolic Learning - The Jim Rutt Show

Jim talks with Brendan Graham Dempsey about the ideas in his book Psyche and Symbolic Learning, volume 2 in his Evolution of Meaning series.

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Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · Sep 3

"You have more options to wire and to let go of patterns that aren't working for you and to create new patterns that are going to work for you over time."

- Jordan Gruber on known benefits of microdosing psychedelics

Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · Sep 3

🎙️ w/ James Fadiman & @jordangruber.bsky.social on *Microdosing for Health, Healing, and Enhanced Performance.*

Typical doses, legal status & classification history, dosing protocols, health applications, research methodologies & limitations, commercial potential, global adoption patterns, and more.

EP 321 James Fadiman and Jordan Gruber on Microdosing Psychedelics - The Jim Rutt Show

Jim talks with James Fadiman and Jordan Gruber about their recent book Microdosing for Health, Healing, and Enhanced Performance.

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Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · Aug 27

"Like any highly flexible general-purpose tool, you have to build your own mental model of what it can and cannot do and how to use it."

- David Shapiro on rapidly changing AI capabilities and the development of intuition

Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · Aug 27

🎙️ w/ David Shapiro on how to use AI for research and writing.

Post-labor economics, David’s AI tool stack, writing and editing techniques, critique and perspectives through personas, the rapid adoption of AI tools across industries, understanding limitations, challenges for AI startups, and more.

EP 320 David Shapiro on Mastering AI Tools for Research - The Jim Rutt Show

Jim talks with David Shapiro about how to use AI language models as research and writing tools.

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Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · Aug 22

"The Columbia naturalists... accepted that all qualities and features of human life ... are as natural as anything else in nature. ... Then they added this objective relativism, which said, we don't know what it's like or what it means to say that an object exists in isolation."

- Lawrence Cahoone

Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · Aug 22

🎙️ w/ Lawrence Cahoone on *The Orders of Nature* and his systematic approach to naturalist philosophy.

Objective relativism, the rejection of simples, Wimsatt's notion of emergence, natural religion & the fine-tuned constants of the universe, and much more.

EP 319 Lawrence Cahoone on Emergence and Natural Order - The Jim Rutt Show

Jim talks with Lawrence Cahoone about his book The Orders of Nature and his systematic approach to naturalist philosophy.

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Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · Aug 15

🎙️ w/ Adam B. Levine on humanity’s changing relationship with AI and “thinking on demand.”

The GPT-5 release, the evolution of vibe-coding, the Midnight Protocol project, automated negotiation systems, local AI on personal devices, the future of AI agents as personal representatives, and much more.

EP 318 Adam B. Levine on Thinking on Demand - The Jim Rutt Show

Jim talks with Adam B. Levine about humanity's rapidly changing relationship with AI and "thinking on demand."

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Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · Aug 13

🎙️ w/ @daveshap.bsky.social about his 6-part series on “post-labor economics.”

Historical economic transitions, labor as societal pillar, the pyramid of prosperity, the pyramid of power, blockchain & crypto, radical financial transparency, liquid democracy, and much more.

EP 317 David Shapiro on Post-Labor Economics - The Jim Rutt Show

Jim talks with David Shapiro about the ideas in his recent six-part Substack series on "post-labor economics."

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Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · Aug 11

🎙️ w/ Ken Stanley on the Fractured Entanglement Representation hypothesis in deep learning neural networks.

Open-endedness in AI systems, the paradox of finding things by not looking for them, Unified Factored Representation as an alternative to FER, connections to biological evolution, and more.

EP 316 Ken Stanley on the AI Representation Problem - The Jim Rutt Show

Jim talks with Ken Stanley about the Fractured Entanglement Representation hypothesis in deep learning neural networks. They discuss open-endedness in AI systems & evolution, the Picbreeder experiment...

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Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · Aug 6

🎙️ w/ @edlatimore.bsky.social on *Hard Lessons from the Hurt Business.*

Chess playing & street hustling, childhood trauma & violence, academic struggles, his boxing career, alcohol abuse, Olympic trials, military service, a degree in physics, his current life as an author & speaker, and much more.

EP 315 Ed Latimore on Hard Lessons from the Hurt Business - The Jim Rutt Show

Jim talks with Ed Latimore about his new book Hard Lessons from the Hurt Business: Boxing and the Art of Life. They discuss Ed’s chess playing & street hustling, size differences in modern heavyweight...

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Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · Aug 4

🎙️ w/ Zak Stein & Marc Gafni on consciousness, attention, and value as fundamental aspects of reality.

Emergence, selection theory, attraction/allurement across different emergent layers, desire as disclosing value, the evolution of complexity, perspectives on value, and much more.

EP 314 Zak Stein and Marc Gafni on the Nature of Everything - The Jim Rutt Show

Jim talks with Zak Stein and Marc Gafni about consciousness, attention, and value as fundamental aspects of reality.

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Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · Jul 30

"Literally what we've done is we've taken all of chemistry and built a programming language and a series of systems that allow us to dial a molecule... You come to us with a chemical problem or specification, we will design molecules to it."

@leecronin.bsky.social on Chemify

Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · Jul 28

🎙️ w/ @chriscolin3000.bsky.social on "That Dropped Call with Customer Service? It Was on Purpose."

Customer service hell, sludge, intentional friction, call center tactics, the psychological toll of poor service, enshittification, responses to the article, & more.

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EP 313 Chris Colin on Why Customer Service Sucks - The Jim Rutt Show

Jim talks with Chris Colin about his recent Atlantic article "That Dropped Call with Customer Service? It Was on Purpose."

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Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · Jul 25

🎙️ w/ @leecronin.bsky.social on Chemify, his startup that turns code into molecules.

An AWS for chemistry, a chemical programming language, open source tools & academic access, supply chain implications, distributed manufacturing, personalized medicine, and more.

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EP 312 Lee Cronin on Automating Chemistry - The Jim Rutt Show

Jim talks with Lee Cronin about Chemify, his startup that aims to automate chemistry through "chemifarms" that turn code into molecules.

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Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · Jul 24

"It's muddying the waters. Nonetheless, of course, because it's so romantic and in some sense just because it's so crazy, people latch onto it and love to talk about it."

- Nicholas Humphrey approving of California Institute of Machine Consciousness's rejection of panpsychism

Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · Jul 23

🎙️ w/ Nicholas Humphrey on *Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness.*

Sentience & consciousness, the discovery of blindsight in monkeys, consciousness as art, qualophilia, consciousness in birds & mammals, theory of mind in different species, and much more.

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EP 311 Nicholas Humphrey on the Invention of Consciousness - The Jim Rutt Show

Jim talks with Nicholas Humphrey about the ideas in his 2023 book Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness.

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Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · Jul 11

"One of the most basic observations we can make about the world is that the vast majority of people act on scripts—essentially roles that have been defined in advance."

- Samo Burja on his distinction between live and dead players

Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · Jul 11

🎙️ w/ Samo Burja on defense startup Anduril's plan to modernize the U.S. military.

Live vs. dead players, software-defined conflicts, US vs. China manufacturing capabilities, the scale of drone warfare, AI capabilities gaps between nations, and much more.

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EP 310 Samo Burja on Anduril's Plan to Modernize the US Military - The Jim Rutt Show

Jim talks with Samo Burja about his report on the defense startup Anduril's plan to modernize the U.S. military.

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Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · Jul 9

"Politics and democracy actually don't mix. I really don't think the way politics is practiced, the two can coexist. They're opposed."

- @richardhames.bsky.social on what inspired his recent polemical post on the decline of Western civilization

Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · Jul 9

🎙️ w/ Richard David Hames on the decline of Western civilization.

The retreat from truth in politics & institutions, China’s governance model, social stratification, AI’s disruptive potential, the loss of character & virtue in leadership, living in a liminal period between worlds, and much more.

EP 309 Richard David Hames on the Final Performance of Western Civilization? - The Jim Rutt Show

Jim talks with Richard David Hames, picking up from the ideas in his recent Facebook essay about the decline of Western civilization.

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