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The Jim Rutt Show

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The Jim Rutt Show

Crisp conversations with critical thinkers at the leading edge of science, technology, politics, and social systems.

#443

EP 328 Brendan Graham Dempsey Interviews Jim Rutt on Minimum Viable Metaphysics

In this flipped episode, Brendan Graham Dempsey interviews Jim about the ideas in his rece... more

04 Nov 2025

55 MINS

55:58

04 Nov 2025

#442

EP 327 Nate Soares on Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All

Jim talks with Nate Soares about the ideas in his and Eliezer Yudkowsky's book If Any... more

15 Oct 2025

1 HR 37 MINS

1:37:07

15 Oct 2025

#441

EP 326 Alex Ebert on New Age, Manifestation, and Collective Hallucination

Jim talks with Alex Ebert about the ideas in his Substack essay "New Age and the Religion ... more

14 Oct 2025

1 HR 13 MINS

1:13:47

14 Oct 2025

#440

EP 325 Joe Edelman on Full-Stack AI Alignment

Jim talks with Joe Edelman about the ideas in the Meaning Alignment Institute's recen... more

07 Oct 2025

1 HR 12 MINS

1:12:12

07 Oct 2025

#439

EP 324 John Preston on 40 Flushes to Grow Your Business

Jim talks with John Preston about his book 40 Flushes to Grow Your Business: The World&#03... more

11 Sep 2025

1 HR 34 MINS

1:34:05

11 Sep 2025

#438

EP 323 Pablos Holman on Deep Tech

Jim talks with Pablos Holman about the ideas in his new book Deep Future: Creating Technol... more

09 Sep 2025

1 HR 27 MINS

1:27:45

09 Sep 2025

#437

EP 322 Brendan Graham Dempsey on Psyche and Symbolic Learning

Jim talks with Brendan Graham Dempsey about the ideas in his book Psyche and Symbolic Lear... more

04 Sep 2025

1 HR 53 MINS

1:53:32

04 Sep 2025

#436

EP 321 James Fadiman and Jordan Gruber on Microdosing Psychedelics

Jim talks with James Fadiman and Jordan Gruber about the findings in their recent book Mic... more

02 Sep 2025

1 HR 29 MINS

1:29:42

02 Sep 2025

#435

EP 320 David Shapiro on Mastering AI Tools for Research

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

26 Aug 2025

55 MINS

55:07

26 Aug 2025

#434

EP 319 Lawrence Cahoone on Emergence and Natural Order

Jim talks with Lawrence Cahoone about his book The Orders of Nature and his systematic app... more

21 Aug 2025

1 HR 32 MINS

1:32:55

21 Aug 2025

#433

EP 318 Adam B. Levine on Thinking on Demand

Jim talks with Adam B. Levine about humanity's rapidly changing relationship with AI ... more

14 Aug 2025

1 HR 15 MINS

1:15:50

14 Aug 2025

#432

EP 317 David Shapiro on Post-Labor Economics

Jim talks with David Shapiro about his six-part series on "post-labor economics." They dis... more

12 Aug 2025

1 HR 39 MINS

1:39:16

12 Aug 2025

#431

EP 316 Ken Stanley on the AI Representation Problem

Jim talks with Ken Stanley about the Fractured Entanglement Representation hypothesis in d... more

08 Aug 2025

56 MINS

56:53

08 Aug 2025

#430

EP 315 Ed Latimore on Hard Lessons from the Hurt Business

Jim talks with Ed Latimore about his new book Hard Lessons from the Hurt Business: Boxing ... more

05 Aug 2025

2 HR 09 MINS

2:09:32

05 Aug 2025

#429

EP 314 Zak Stein and Marc Gafni on the Nature of Everything

Jim talks with Zak Stein and Marc Gafni about consciousness, attention, and value as funda... more

01 Aug 2025

1 HR 38 MINS

1:38:59

01 Aug 2025

#428

EP 313 Chris Colin on Why Customer Service Sucks

Jim talks with Chris Colin about his recent Atlantic article "That Dropped Call with Custo... more

25 Jul 2025

44 MINS

44:09

25 Jul 2025

#427

EP 312 Lee Cronin on Automating Chemistry

Jim talks with Lee Cronin about Chemify, his startup that aims to automate chemistry throu... more

24 Jul 2025

1 HR 04 MINS

1:04:49

24 Jul 2025

#426

EP 311 Nicholas Humphrey on the Invention of Consciousness

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

22 Jul 2025

1 HR 29 MINS

1:29:15

22 Jul 2025

#425

EP 310 Samo Burja on Anduril’s Plan to Modernize the US Military

Jim talks with Samo Burja about his report on the defense startup Anduril's plan to m... more

10 Jul 2025

1 HR 18 MINS

1:18:01

10 Jul 2025

#424

EP 309 Richard David Hames on the Final Performance of Western Civilization?

Jim talks with Richard David Hames, picking up from the ideas in his recent Facebook essay... more

08 Jul 2025

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08 Jul 2025

#423

EP 308 David Chapman on Rethinking Nobility

Jim talks with David Chapman about rethinking nobility for the modern age through his rece... more

03 Jul 2025

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03 Jul 2025

#422

EP 307 Thomas Schindler on Heliogenic Civilization

Jim talks with Thomas Schindler about heliogenic civilization as a vision for a regenerati... more

01 Jul 2025

1 HR 30 MINS

1:30:27