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The Jim Rutt Show
The Jim Rutt Show
Show • 440 episodes
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Crisp conversations with critical thinkers at the leading edge of science, technology, politics, and social systems.
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EP 324 John Preston on 40 Flushes to Grow Your Business
Episode • Sep 11
EP 323 Pablos Holman on Deep Tech
Episode • Sep 9
EP 322 Brendan Graham Dempsey on Psyche and Symbolic Learning
Episode • Sep 4
EP 321 James Fadiman and Jordan Gruber on Microdosing Psychedelics
Episode • Sep 2
EP 320 David Shapiro on Mastering AI Tools for Research
Episode • Aug 26
EP 319 Lawrence Cahoone on Emergence and Natural Order
Episode • Aug 21
EP 318 Adam B. Levine on Thinking on Demand
Episode • Aug 14
EP 317 David Shapiro on Post-Labor Economics
Episode • Aug 12
EP 316 Ken Stanley on the AI Representation Problem
Episode • Aug 8
EP 315 Ed Latimore on Hard Lessons from the Hurt Business
Episode • Aug 5
EP 314 Zak Stein and Marc Gafni on the Nature of Everything
Episode • Aug 1
EP 313 Chris Colin on Why Customer Service Sucks
Episode • Jul 25
EP 312 Lee Cronin on Automating Chemistry
Episode • Jul 24
EP 311 Nicholas Humphrey on the Invention of Consciousness
Episode • Jul 22
EP 310 Samo Burja on Anduril’s Plan to Modernize the US Military
Episode • Jul 10
EP 309 Richard David Hames on the Final Performance of Western Civilization?
Episode • Jul 8
EP 308 David Chapman on Rethinking Nobility
Episode • Jul 3
EP 307 Thomas Schindler on Heliogenic Civilization
Episode • Jul 1
EP 306 Anders Indset on The Singularity Paradox
Episode • Jun 25
EP 305 J. Doyne Farmer on Complexity Economics
Episode • Jun 19
EP 304 Samuel Arbesman on The Magic of Code
Episode • Jun 17
EP 303 Mark Stahlman on Pope Leo XIV and the Catholic Church’s Missionary Turn
Episode • Jun 4
EP 302 Daniel Mezick on Games and Governance
Episode • May 30
EP 301 Zak Stein on K-12 Education in the AI Era
Episode • May 27
EP 300 Daniel Rodriguez on AI-Assisted Software Development
Episode • May 22
EP 299 Ryan Blosser on Permaculture for Food and Friendship
Episode • May 21
EP 298 Adam Lake on Rebooting American Democracy
Episode • May 15
EP 297 Sara Walker on the Physics of Life’s Emergence
Episode • May 13
EP 296 Ashley Hodgson on Economic Mythology and System Change
Episode • Apr 15
EP 295 John Robb on How a Networked Organization Blitzed D.C.
Episode • Mar 31
EP 294 Timothy Clancy on an AI Cold War
Episode • Mar 28
EP 293 Brendan Graham Dempsey on Cosmic Teleology and Emergence Vectors
Episode • Mar 25
EP 292 Emil Ejner Friis on Building a Listening Society
Episode • Mar 18
EP 291 Jeff Sebo on Who Matters, What Matters, and Why
Episode • Mar 13
EP 290 Mark Stahlman on Trump as the Avatar of the Digital Paradigm Shift
Episode • Mar 11
EP 289 Adam B. Levine on AI-Powered Programming for Non-Developers
Episode • Mar 6
EP 288 BJ Campbell on Cops, Belief, and Chainsaw-Faced Robot Dogs
Episode • Mar 4
EP 287 Jonathan Rauch on the Epistemic Crisis
Episode • Feb 27
EP 286 Bob Levy on the Use and Abuse of Presidential Power
Episode • Feb 24
EP 285 Josh Bernoff on AI, Writing, and Thinking
Episode • Feb 18
EP 284 Jordan Hall on AI, the Commons, and the Church
Episode • Feb 13
EP 283 Brian Chau on the Trump Administration and AI
Episode • Feb 11
EP 282 Tyson Yunkaporta on Indigenous Law, Lore, and Learning
Episode • Feb 6
EP 281 Jeff Hawkins and Viviane Clay on the Thousand Brains Theory
Episode • Feb 4
EP 280 Rob Henderson on Luxury Beliefs
Episode • Jan 30
EP 279 Samuel Scarpino on H5N1 (Bird Flu) and Pandemic Risk
Episode • Jan 9
EP 278 Peter Wang on AI, Copyright, and the Future of Intelligence
Episode • Jan 2
EP 277 Kristian Rönn on Darwinian Traps and How to Escape Them
Episode • Dec 20, 2024
EP 276 Carolyn Dicey Jennings on Attention and Mental Control
Episode • Dec 19, 2024
EP 275 Rachel Winkler on Mass Deportation
Episode • Dec 17, 2024
EP 274 Richard Overy on Why War?
Episode • Dec 13, 2024
EP 273 Gregg Henriques on the Unified Theory of Knowledge
Episode • Dec 3, 2024
EP 272 Loribeth Ford Jarrell on Bespoke Education
Episode • Nov 19, 2024
EP 271 Lorraine Besser on the Art of the Interesting
Episode • Nov 5, 2024
EP 270 Nancy Jacobson on No Labels and the 2024 Election
Episode • Oct 30, 2024
EP 269 Alex Ebert on the War on Genius
Episode • Oct 29, 2024
EP 268 Brendan Graham Dempsey on the Evolution of Meaning
Episode • Oct 25, 2024
EP 267 Richard Hanania on the Presidential Election and More
Episode • Oct 23, 2024
EP 266 Marcia Gralha on the Common Core of Psychotherapy and Wokeism in Academia
Episode • Oct 22, 2024
EP 265 Aravind Srinivas on Perplexity AI
Episode • Oct 17, 2024
EP 264 Bret Weinstein and Jim Argue Politics
Episode • Oct 13, 2024
EP 263 Evan McMullen on Self-Driving Cars
Episode • Oct 9, 2024
EP 262 Cliff Maloney on a Libertarian’s Case for Trump
Episode • Oct 6, 2024
EP 261 Nikos Salingaros on What Went Wrong with Architecture
Episode • Oct 3, 2024
EP 260 Ben Goertzel and Trent McConaghy on a Crypto Merger for AGI/ASI
Episode • Oct 1, 2024
EP 259 Toufi Saliba on a Peer-to-Peer Network for AI Agents
Episode • Sep 10, 2024
EP 258 Stephen Webb on Where Are the Aliens?
Episode • Aug 29, 2024
EP 257 Malcolm and Simone Collins on Fertility Rates and Pronatalism
Episode • Aug 27, 2024
EP 256 Glenn Loury on Confessions of a Black Conservative
Episode • Aug 22, 2024
EP 255 Is God Real? (with Jordan Hall)
Episode • Aug 20, 2024
EP 254 John Robb on What Went Wrong with America
Episode • Aug 19, 2024
EP 253 Alexander Bard Part 3: Process and Event
Episode • Aug 15, 2024
EP 252 Alexander Bard Part 2: Process and Event
Episode • Aug 13, 2024
EP 251 Pamela Denise Long on Kamala Harris and Blackness in America
Episode • Aug 9, 2024
EP 250 Alexander Bard Part 1: Process and Event
Episode • Aug 8, 2024
EP 249 Seth Lloyd on Measuring Complexity
Episode • Aug 6, 2024
EP 248 Timothy Clancy on the Israel-Hamas War
Episode • Jul 16, 2024
EP 247 Sergey Kuprienko on Drone Warfare in Ukraine
Episode • Jul 11, 2024
EP 246 A.M. Hickman on Hitchhiking in America
Episode • Jul 5, 2024
EP 245 Bob Levy on the Second Amendment and the Supreme Court
Episode • Jul 2, 2024
EP 244 Samo Burja on Lessons from the Russo-Ukrainian War
Episode • Jun 27, 2024
EP 243 Yaroslav Trofimov on Ukraine’s War of Independence
Episode • Jun 25, 2024
EP 242 Magatte Wade on a Vision for African Economic Development
Episode • Jun 6, 2024
EP 241 Tor Nørretranders on the User Illusion of Consciousness
Episode • Jun 4, 2024
EP 240 Stuart Kauffman on a New Approach to Cosmology
Episode • May 24, 2024
EP 239 Alex Fink on Improving Information Quality
Episode • May 21, 2024
EP 238 Sam Sammane on Humanity’s Role in an AI-Dominated Future
Episode • May 14, 2024
EP 237 Simon DeDeo on the Odds of Major Civil Violence
Episode • May 2, 2024
EP 236 Gregg Henriques on Free Will vs Determinism
Episode • Apr 23, 2024
EP 235 Robin Hanson on Beware Cultural Drift
Episode • Apr 17, 2024
EP 234 Richard Bartlett on an Experiment in Co-Living
Episode • Apr 9, 2024
EP 233 Robert Conan Ryan on Seven Ethical Perspectives
Episode • Apr 4, 2024
EP 232 Matthew David Segall on Process Philosophy and the Origin of Life
Episode • Apr 3, 2024
EP 231 Vance Crowe Interviews Jim Rutt on AI Risk
Episode • Mar 27, 2024
EP 230 James Lindsay on a National Divorce
Episode • Mar 12, 2024
EP 229 Jonathan Rowson on the Antidebate
Episode • Mar 7, 2024
EP 228 Jeremy Sherman on the Emergence and Nature of Selves
Episode • Mar 5, 2024
EP 227 Stuart Kauffman on the Emergence of Life
Episode • Feb 29, 2024
EP 226 Hannah Rosenberg on An Answer to Red Pilldom
Episode • Feb 22, 2024
EP 225 Bruce Damer on a New Path for Psychedelics
Episode • Feb 20, 2024
EP 224 Samo Burja on Geothermal Energy
Episode • Feb 13, 2024
EP 223 Jordan Hall on Cities, Civiums, and Becoming Christian
Episode • Feb 8, 2024
EP 222 Trent McConaghy on AI & Brain-Computer Interface Accelerationism (bci/acc)
Episode • Feb 7, 2024
EP 221 George Hotz on Open-Source Driving Assistance
Episode • Feb 6, 2024
EP 220 Lene Rachel Andersen on Polymodernity
Episode • Jan 30, 2024
EP 219 Katherine Gehl on Breaking Partisan Gridlock
Episode • Jan 25, 2024
EP 218 Max Borders on Christopher Rufo’s New Right Manifesto
Episode • Jan 24, 2024
EP 217 Ben Goertzel on a New Framework for AGI
Episode • Jan 23, 2024
EP 216 Kevin Dickinson on A Short History of the F-Word
Episode • Jan 11, 2024
EP 215 Cody Moser on Inequality and Innovation
Episode • Dec 19, 2023
EP 214 Douglas Rushkoff on Leaving Social Media
Episode • Dec 7, 2023
EP 213 Robin Hanson on Declining Fertility Rates
Episode • Dec 5, 2023
EP 212 Joy Hirsch on How the Brain Responds to Zoom
Episode • Nov 30, 2023
EP 211 Ben Goertzel on Generative AI vs. AGI
Episode • Nov 28, 2023
EP 210 Frank Lantz on the Beauty of Games
Episode • Nov 20, 2023
EP 209 C. Owen Paepke on the Purple Presidency
Episode • Nov 7, 2023
EP 208 Jack Visnjic on Anacyclosis
Episode • Nov 2, 2023
EP 207 Paul Watson on Adventures in Eco-Activism
Episode • Oct 31, 2023
EP 206 Ryan Clancy on No Labels
Episode • Oct 26, 2023
EP 205 Matthew Pirkowski on Time Preference and Cooperation
Episode • Oct 24, 2023
EP 204 Matt Bennett on the Case Against No Labels
Episode • Oct 19, 2023
EP 203 Robert Sapolsky on Life Without Free Will
Episode • Oct 17, 2023
EP 202 Neil Howe on the Fourth Turning
Episode • Oct 12, 2023
EP 201 Tobias Dengel on the Age of Voice Technology
Episode • Oct 10, 2023
EP 200 Brian Chau on AI Pluralism
Episode • Sep 28, 2023
EP 199 Yascha Mounk on the Identity Trap
Episode • Sep 26, 2023
EP 198 Cory Doctorow on Seizing the Means of Computation
Episode • Sep 19, 2023
EP 197 Susan Neiman on Why Left Is Not Woke
Episode • Sep 7, 2023
EP 196 Pamela Denise Long on Affirmative Action for Freedmen
Episode • Aug 24, 2023
EP 195 Michael R.J. Bonner on Civilization, Collapse, and Renewal
Episode • Aug 22, 2023
EP 194 Bob Reid on User-Owned Identity
Episode • Aug 17, 2023
EP 193 Aydan Connor on Rethinking Food Systems
Episode • Jul 20, 2023
EP 192 David Krakauer on Science, Complexity and AI
Episode • Jul 18, 2023
EP 191 Alicia Juarrero on Context, Constraints, and Coherence
Episode • Jul 13, 2023
EP 190 Peter Turchin on Cliodynamics and End Times
Episode • Jul 6, 2023
Currents 100: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin on Time as an Object
Episode • Jul 5, 2023
Currents 099: Samuel Scarpino on Preparing for the Next Pandemic
Episode • Jun 27, 2023
Currents 098: Damien Walter on Science Fiction and the Rhetoric of Story
Episode • Jun 23, 2023
EP 189 Forrest Landry on Civilization Design
Episode • Jun 22, 2023
Currents 097: Frank Lantz on Network Wars and Games
Episode • Jun 20, 2023
EP 188 Robert Tercek on Intellectual Property in the Time of AI
Episode • Jun 13, 2023
Currents 096: Jim & Michael Garfield Talk About Everything
Episode • Jun 6, 2023
EP 187 Carlos Perez on A Pattern Language for Generative AI
Episode • Jun 1, 2023
EP 186 Charles Eisenstein on Climate: A New Story
Episode • May 24, 2023
Currents 095: Matt Welsh on the End of Programming
Episode • May 9, 2023
Currents 094: Matthew Pirkowski on Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms
Episode • May 4, 2023
Currents 093: Rafe Kelley on Natural Movement
Episode • May 2, 2023
Currents 092: Peter Wang on The Meaning Crisis and Consequentiality
Episode • Apr 27, 2023
Currents 091: Bruce Damer on Psychedelics as Tools for Discovery
Episode • Apr 25, 2023
EP 185 Daniel Suarez on the Near Future of Space Exploration
Episode • Apr 20, 2023
EP 184 Dave Snowden on Managing Complexity in Times of Crisis
Episode • Apr 18, 2023
Currents 090: BJ Campbell and Patrick Ryan on Egregores
Episode • Apr 11, 2023
Currents 089: Erik Torenberg on Status Games
Episode • Apr 6, 2023
EP 183 Forrest Landry Part 2: AI Risk
Episode • Apr 4, 2023
Currents 088: Melanie Mitchell on AI Measurement and Understanding
Episode • Mar 30, 2023
EP 182 Brad DeLong on An Economic History of the 20th Century
Episode • Mar 29, 2023
Currents 087: Shivanshu Purohit on Open-Source Generative AI
Episode • Mar 24, 2023
EP 181 Forrest Landry Part 1: AI Risk
Episode • Mar 23, 2023
Currents 086: Monica Anderson on Bubble City
Episode • Mar 16, 2023
Currents 085: Jonny Miller on Self-Unfoldment
Episode • Mar 14, 2023
Currents 084: Mirta Galesic on Global Collective Behavior
Episode • Mar 7, 2023
EP 180 Lynne Kiesling on the Electrical Grid
Episode • Mar 3, 2023
Currents 083: Joscha Bach on Synthetic Intelligence
Episode • Feb 28, 2023
Currents 083: Joscha Bach on Synthetic Intelligence
Episode • Feb 28, 2023
EP 179 Gregg Henriques Part 3: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap
Episode • Feb 24, 2023
Currents 082: Dan Shipper on Practical Applications of GPT-3
Episode • Feb 22, 2023
EP 178 Anil Seth on A New Science of Consciousness
Episode • Feb 21, 2023
EP 177 Gregg Henriques Part 2: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap
Episode • Feb 16, 2023
EP 176 Gregg Henriques Part 1: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap
Episode • Feb 15, 2023
EP 175 Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater on The Language Game
Episode • Feb 10, 2023
EP 174 Fred Beuttler and Mark Stahlman on Trivium University
Episode • Feb 3, 2023
Currents 081: Layman Pascal Interviews Jim Rutt on Twitter as Collective Intelligence
Episode • Feb 3, 2023
Currents 080: Joe Edelman and Ellie Hain on Rebuilding Meaning
Episode • Jan 30, 2023
EP 173 Hanzi Freinacht on Metamodern Self-Help
Episode • Jan 17, 2023
EP 172 Brendan Graham Dempsey on Emergentism
Episode • Jan 9, 2023
Currents 079: Douglas Rushkoff on Tech Escapism and Critiques of GameB
Episode • Jan 5, 2023
Currents 078: John Ash on AI Art Tools
Episode • Jan 3, 2023
Currents 077: Serge Faguet on Consciousness and Post-AGI Ethics
Episode • Dec 29, 2022
EP 171 Bruce Damer Part 2: The Origins of Life – Implications
Episode • Dec 20, 2022
Currents 076: Jamie Joyce on The Society Library
Episode • Dec 12, 2022
Currents 075: Michael Nielsen on Metascience
Episode • Dec 5, 2022
EP 170 John Vervaeke and Jordan Hall on The Religion That Is Not a Religion
Episode • Dec 2, 2022
Currents 074: Serge Faguet on Building Metacommunity
Episode • Nov 28, 2022
Currents 073: Owen Cox and Daniel Fraga on Game C
Episode • Nov 25, 2022
EP 169 Roar Bjonnes on Growing a New Economy
Episode • Nov 14, 2022
EP 168 Nate Hagens on Collective Futures
Episode • Oct 31, 2022
Currents 072: Ben Goertzel on Viable Paths to True AGI
Episode • Oct 18, 2022
EP 167 Bruce Damer on the Origins of Life
Episode • Oct 13, 2022
Currents 071: Liam Madden on Rebirthing Democracy
Episode • Oct 10, 2022
Currents 070: Brian Chau on Propaganda & Populism
Episode • Oct 6, 2022
Currents 069: Bonnitta Roy and Euvie Ivanova on Collective Intimacy
Episode • Oct 3, 2022
EP 166 Lene Rachel Andersen Part 2: Libertism
Episode • Sep 30, 2022
EP 165 Lene Rachel Andersen Part 1: Libertism
Episode • Sep 22, 2022
Currents 068: Jonathan Rowson on the Chess Drama
Episode • Sep 22, 2022
EP 164 John Markoff on the Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Episode • Sep 19, 2022
EP 163 Benedict Beckeld on Western Self-Contempt
Episode • Aug 25, 2022
EP 162 Max Borders on Decentralism
Episode • Aug 15, 2022
Currents 067: Zak Stein on Ending Nihilistic Design
Episode • Jul 25, 2022
Currents 066: Matthew Pirkowski on Emergence in Possibility Space
Episode • Jul 22, 2022
EP 161 Greg Thomas on Untangling the Gordian Knot of Race
Episode • Jul 18, 2022
EP 160 Curtis Yarvin on Monarchy in the U.S.A.
Episode • Jul 7, 2022
EP 159 Bobby Azarian on the Romance of Reality
Episode • Jul 6, 2022
Currents 065: Alexander Bard on Protopian Narratology
Episode • Jun 30, 2022
Who Are You EP 01: Seth Jordan on Social Threefolding
Episode • Jun 16, 2022
Currents 064: Michael Garfield and J.F. Martel on Art x AI
Episode • Jun 13, 2022
EP 158 Remzi Bajrami on Flow Currency
Episode • Jun 9, 2022
Currents 063: Jessica Flack on nth-Order Effects of the Russia-Ukraine War
Episode • Jun 6, 2022
EP 157 Terrence Deacon on Mind’s Emergence From Matter
Episode • May 16, 2022
EP 156 James Poulos on Remaining Human
Episode • May 5, 2022
Currents 062: Stephanie Lepp Interviews Jim Rutt on Musk and Moderation
Episode • May 2, 2022
EP 155 Iain McGilchrist Part 2: The Matter With Things
Episode • Apr 18, 2022
Currents 061: Nora Bateson on a Return to Earnestness
Episode • Apr 11, 2022
EP 154 Iain McGilchrist on The Matter With Things
Episode • Apr 4, 2022
Currents 060: Panos Siozos on Online Education
Episode • Mar 28, 2022
Currents 059: Samo Burja on RU->UKR 23-MAR-2022
Episode • Mar 24, 2022
EP 153 Forrest Landry on Small Group Method
Episode • Mar 22, 2022
Currents 058: John Robb on Russia-Ukraine Outcomes
Episode • Mar 21, 2022
Currents 057: Timothy Clancy on Russia’s Mid-Game
Episode • Mar 16, 2022
Currents 056: Julyan Davey on Weaving a Non-Dual Civilization
Episode • Mar 9, 2022
Currents 055: Paul Goble on Putin’s Strategic Mistakes
Episode • Mar 4, 2022
Currents 054: Samo Burja on the Russia-Ukraine War
Episode • Mar 1, 2022
Currents 053: Matthew Pirkowski on Grammars of Emergence
Episode • Feb 28, 2022
Currents 052: John Robb on War in Ukraine
Episode • Feb 25, 2022
Currents 051: Douglas Rushkoff on the Once and Future Internet
Episode • Feb 24, 2022
Currents 050: Greg Lukianoff on Free Speech
Episode • Feb 21, 2022
EP 152 Gary Bengier on Hard-Science Futures
Episode • Feb 7, 2022
Currents 049: Ashley Colby & Jason Snyder on Doomer Optimism
Episode • Feb 4, 2022
EP 151 Daniel Mezick on Ritual and Hierarchy
Episode • Jan 31, 2022
Currents 048: Welf von Hören on Potential
Episode • Dec 27, 2021
EP 150 Jeremy Lent on the Web of Meaning
Episode • Dec 20, 2021
Currents 047: Samuel Scarpino on the Epidemiology of Covid-19
Episode • Dec 15, 2021
EP 149 Joshua Vial on Enspiral
Episode • Dec 13, 2021
Currents 046: Henry Elkus & Sam Feinburg on Solving Societal Problems
Episode • Nov 29, 2021
EP148 Antonio Damasio on Feeling and Knowing
Episode • Nov 22, 2021
EP147 John Vervaeke Part 5: Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
Episode • Nov 15, 2021
Currents 045: Dorian Abbot on Protecting Academic Freedom
Episode • Nov 4, 2021
EP146 John Vervaeke Part 4: Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
Episode • Nov 1, 2021
EP145 John Vervaeke Part 3: Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
Episode • Oct 25, 2021
EP144 John Vervaeke Part 2: Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
Episode • Oct 18, 2021
EP143 John Vervaeke Part 1: Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
Episode • Oct 11, 2021
Currents 044: Zak Stein on Propaganda and the Information War
Episode • Oct 7, 2021
Currents 043: Lene Rachel Andersen on Bildung
Episode • Sep 30, 2021
EP142 Robert Tercek on the Metaverse
Episode • Sep 27, 2021
EP141 Heather Heying on Confronting Hyper-Novelty
Episode • Sep 14, 2021
EP140 Robin Dunbar on Friendship
Episode • Aug 30, 2021
Currents 042: John Robb on Afghanistan Withdrawal
Episode • Aug 19, 2021
EP139 Robert Tercek on Education Today
Episode • Aug 16, 2021
Currents 041: Jonathan Rowson on Our Metacrisis Pickle
Episode • Aug 9, 2021
Currents 040: Jim Rutt Show Changes & Reflections
Episode • Aug 2, 2021
EP138 W. Brian Arthur on the Nature of Technology
Episode • Jul 26, 2021
Currents 039: Alexander Beiner on Psychedelic Turf Wars
Episode • Jul 18, 2021
Currents 038: Connor Leahy on Artificial Intelligence
Episode • Jul 15, 2021
EP137 Ken Stanley on Neuroevolution
Episode • Jul 13, 2021
Currents 037: Sam Harris on Surviving Our Smartphones
Episode • Jul 10, 2021
EP136 Harvey Reid on Troubadour Music
Episode • Jul 6, 2021
EP135 Dennis Waters on Behavior & Culture in One Dimension
Episode • Jul 1, 2021
EP134 Forrest Landry on Non-Relative Ethics
Episode • Jun 28, 2021
Currents 036: Melanie Mitchell on Why AI is Hard
Episode • Jun 26, 2021
Currents 035: Steve Barbour on Mining Bitcoin with Methane
Episode • Jun 24, 2021
EP133 Robert Tercek on Digital Strategies
Episode • Jun 21, 2021
EP132 Britt Adkins on Celestial Civilization
Episode • Jun 17, 2021
Currents 034: Samo Burja on the Consilience Project
Episode • Jun 15, 2021
EP131 Jason Mauck on #FarmWeird
Episode • Jun 14, 2021
EP130 Ken Stanley on Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
Episode • Jun 7, 2021
Currents 033: Connor Leahy on Deep Learning
Episode • Jun 4, 2021
EP129 Stephanie Lepp on Deep Reckonings
Episode • May 31, 2021
EP128 Forrest Landry on Immanent Metaphysics: Part 3
Episode • May 27, 2021
EP127 Jonathan Rowson on The Moves That Matter
Episode • May 24, 2021
EP126 Jordan Gruber & James Fadiman on Our Symphony of Selves
Episode • May 17, 2021
EP125 Samo Burja on Societal Decline: Part 2
Episode • May 10, 2021
Currents 032: Tyson Yunkaporta on Spirits, GameB & Protopias
Episode • May 7, 2021
EP124 Jim Hackett on Ford, Electric Cars & More
Episode • May 3, 2021
Currents 031: Trent Loos on Family Ranching
Episode • Apr 29, 2021
EP123 Jamie Wheal on Recapturing the Rapture
Episode • Apr 26, 2021
Currents 030: Daniel Schmachtenberger on The Consilience Project
Episode • Apr 22, 2021
EP122 Ashley Colby on Subsistence Agriculture
Episode • Apr 19, 2021
EP121 Broke in America with Joanne Goldblum & Colleen Shaddox
Episode • Apr 12, 2021
EP120 James Ehrlich on ReGen Villages Part 2
Episode • Apr 8, 2021
EP119 Max Borders on Post-Collapse
Episode • Apr 5, 2021
EP118 Matt Ridley on How Innovation Works
Episode • Mar 30, 2021
EP117 Samo Burja on Societal Decline
Episode • Mar 23, 2021
EP116 Doug Erwin on the Cambrian Explosion
Episode • Mar 15, 2021
Currents 029: Vance Crowe on the “Well-Actually” Graph
Episode • Mar 12, 2021
EP115 Max Borders on America’s Collapse
Episode • Mar 8, 2021
EP114 John Bunzl on his Simpol Solution
Episode • Mar 1, 2021
Currents 028: Simon DeDeo on Explaining Explanation
Episode • Feb 25, 2021
EP113 Zak Stein on Hierarchical Complexity
Episode • Feb 22, 2021
Currents 027: Charles Hoskinson on Cardano Blockchain Project
Episode • Feb 17, 2021
EP112 Annie Duke on Bets & Better Decisions
Episode • Feb 15, 2021
EP111 Anatol Lieven on Climate & Nationalism
Episode • Feb 11, 2021
EP110 Brad Kershner on Education & Complexity
Episode • Feb 8, 2021
Currents 026: Bill Ottman on Minds.com
Episode • Feb 6, 2021
EP109 Forrest Landry on Immanent Metaphysics: Part 2
Episode • Feb 4, 2021
EP108 Bernard Baars on Consciousness
Episode • Feb 1, 2021
Currents 025: Ben Goertzel on Decentralizing Social Media
Episode • Jan 29, 2021
EP107 Tristan Harris on Our Social Dilemma
Episode • Jan 28, 2021
Currents 024: BJ Campbell on the Woke Religion
Episode • Jan 27, 2021
EP106 Michael Strevens on the Irrational History of Science
Episode • Jan 25, 2021
EP105 Christof Koch on Consciousness
Episode • Jan 21, 2021
EP104 Joe Henrich on WEIRD People
Episode • Jan 19, 2021
Currents 023: Terry Gainer on the January 6th Riot
Episode • Jan 18, 2021
Currents 022: Curtis Yarvin on Institutional Failure
Episode • Jan 14, 2021
Currents 021: John Robb on Jan 6th, 2021
Episode • Jan 12, 2021
EP103 James Ehrlich on ReGen Villages
Episode • Jan 11, 2021
EP102 Debora Spar on Technological Impacts on Culture
Episode • Jan 7, 2021
EP101 Clayton Banks on the Digital Divide
Episode • Jan 4, 2021
EP100 Sam Bowles on Our Cooperative Nature
Episode • Dec 21, 2020
Currents 020: Barbara Oakley on Teaching Fluency
Episode • Dec 17, 2020
EP99 Jason Wiener on Alternative Business Structures
Episode • Dec 14, 2020
EP98 Morag Gamble on Permaculture
Episode • Dec 10, 2020
EP97 Emery Brown on Consciousness & Anesthesia
Episode • Dec 8, 2020
EP96 Forrest Landry on Immanent Metaphysics: Part 1
Episode • Nov 30, 2020
EP95 Alexander Bard on God in the Internet Age
Episode • Nov 23, 2020
EP94 Shahin Farshchi on Self-Driving Tech
Episode • Nov 19, 2020
Currents 019: Alexander Beiner on Indigenous Narcissism
Episode • Nov 17, 2020
EP93 Brent Cooper on Critique, Consensus & Politics
Episode • Nov 16, 2020
EP92 Alexa Clay on Intentional Communities
Episode • Nov 14, 2020
EP91 Joe Brewer on Applied Cultural Evolution
Episode • Nov 9, 2020
EP90 Joshua Epstein on Agent-Based Modeling
Episode • Nov 5, 2020
EP89 Lene Rachel Andersen on Metamodernity
Episode • Nov 2, 2020
EP88 Nancy Hillis & Bruce Sawhill on Art & Complexity
Episode • Oct 30, 2020
Currents 018: The Future Thinkers Smart Village
Episode • Oct 29, 2020
Currents 017: Bret Weinstein on Unity 2020
Episode • Oct 27, 2020
EP87 Joscha Bach on Theories of Consciousness
Episode • Oct 26, 2020
EP86 Nadav Zeimer on Educational Reform
Episode • Oct 22, 2020
Currents 016: Robin Hanson on Are We Living In A Simulation?
Episode • Oct 21, 2020
EP85 Gar Alperovitz on Reinventing Our Systems
Episode • Oct 19, 2020
Currents 015: Jessica Flack & Melanie Mitchell on Complexity
Episode • Oct 18, 2020
Currents 014: Steve LeVine on COVID-19 Futures
Episode • Oct 15, 2020
EP84 William Perry & Tom Collina on The Nuclear Button
Episode • Oct 12, 2020
EP83 Michel Bauwens on Our Commons Transition
Episode • Oct 8, 2020
Currents 013: Rob Malda on the Slashdot Story
Episode • Oct 8, 2020
EP82 Hanzi Freinacht on Building a Metamodern Future
Episode • Oct 5, 2020
EP81 Renée DiResta on Social Media Warfare
Episode • Oct 1, 2020
EP80 Daniel Schmachtenberger on Better Sensemaking
Episode • Sep 28, 2020
EP79 Seth Lloyd on Our Quantum Universe
Episode • Sep 24, 2020
Currents 012: Andrew Taggart on Narcissism, Culture & Dying
Episode • Sep 23, 2020
EP78 Ran Abramitzky on the Mystery of the Kibbutz
Episode • Sep 21, 2020
EP77 Kamal Sinclair on Science, Storytelling & VR
Episode • Sep 14, 2020
EP76 Max Borders on the Social Singularity
Episode • Sep 7, 2020
EP75 Nick Chater: “The Mind Is Flat”
Episode • Aug 31, 2020
EP74 Daniel Christian Wahl on Regeneration Dynamics
Episode • Aug 27, 2020
EP73 James Lindsay on Cynical Theories
Episode • Aug 24, 2020
EP72 Joscha Bach on Minds, Machines & Magic
Episode • Aug 17, 2020
Currents 011: Robin Hanson on RightTalkism
Episode • Aug 11, 2020
EP71 Philip Howard on Computational Propaganda
Episode • Aug 10, 2020
EP70 Art Brock & Ferananda Ibarra on Currencies
Episode • Aug 3, 2020
EP69 Rachel Haywire on Free Thinking & Expression
Episode • Jul 31, 2020
Currents 010: Tyson Yunkaporta on Humans As Custodial Species
Episode • Jul 28, 2020
EP68 Mara Zepeda on Innovative Collaboration
Episode • Jul 27, 2020
EP67 Tomas Björkman on The Nordic Secret
Episode • Jul 20, 2020
Currents 009: Gregg Henriques on Theory Of Meta-Cultural Transition
Episode • Jul 18, 2020
EP66 Tyson Yunkaporta on Indigenous Knowledge
Episode • Jul 16, 2020
EP65 Tyson Yunkaporta on Indigenous Complexity
Episode • Jul 13, 2020
EP64 Colin Wright on The New Evolution Deniers
Episode • Jul 9, 2020
EP63 Michel Bauwens on P2P & Commons
Episode • Jul 6, 2020
Currents 008: Christopher Conselice: Finding Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Episode • Jul 5, 2020
EP62 Zak Stein on Education, Tech & Religion
Episode • Jun 29, 2020
Currents 007: David Fuller on the IDW
Episode • Jun 24, 2020
EP61 Howard Rheingold on Our Digital Past & Future
Episode • Jun 22, 2020
Currents 006: Jim Coan on Our Social Recession
Episode • Jun 19, 2020
Currents 005: John Robb on Protest Tactics & Reforms
Episode • Jun 17, 2020
EP60 Zak Stein on Educational Systems Collapse
Episode • Jun 15, 2020
EP59 Gregg Henriques on Unifying Psychology
Episode • Jun 11, 2020
Currents 004: Michael Vassar on Passive-Aggressive Revolution
Episode • Jun 9, 2020
EP58 Jake Bornstein on Leadership & Clarity
Episode • Jun 8, 2020
Currents 003: Joe Norman on Localism & Scales of Cooperation
Episode • Jun 2, 2020
EP57 Zak Stein on Education in a Time Between Worlds
Episode • Jun 1, 2020
EP56 Art Brock on Holo Tech
Episode • May 28, 2020
Currents 002: Brian Hanley on Releasing the Vaccines
Episode • May 26, 2020
EP55 Jack Murphy on Leaving the Left
Episode • May 25, 2020
EP54 Robert Conan Ryan on Boom & Bust Cycles
Episode • May 18, 2020
Currents 001: Simon DeDeo on University Censorship
Episode • May 14, 2020
EP53 Hanzi Freinacht on the Nordic Ideology
Episode • May 11, 2020
Extra: Memetic Warfare & Pandemic Responses with John Robb
Episode • May 7, 2020
EP52 Steven Levy on Facebook: The Inside Story
Episode • May 4, 2020
EP51 Richard Bartlett on Self-Organizing Collaboration
Episode • Apr 27, 2020
Extra: Key COVID-19 Decisions with John Robb
Episode • Apr 23, 2020
EP50 Joe Brewer on Earth Regeneration
Episode • Apr 20, 2020
Extra: COVID-19 Transformations with Nora Bateson
Episode • Apr 17, 2020
Extra: COVID-19 Network Epidemiology with Michelle Girvan
Episode • Apr 14, 2020
EP49 Laurence Gonzales on Deep Survival
Episode • Apr 13, 2020
Extra: On COVID-19 Opportunities with Jessica Flack
Episode • Apr 13, 2020
Extra: On COVID-19 Strategies with Robin Hanson
Episode • Apr 9, 2020
Extra: On Post-COVID-19 Impact with Simon DeDeo
Episode • Apr 7, 2020
EP48 Jessica Flack on Complex System Dynamics
Episode • Apr 7, 2020
Extra: On COVID-19 Potentials with Bonnitta Roy
Episode • Apr 2, 2020
Extra: On Post COVID-19 Impacts with Ben Goertzel
Episode • Apr 1, 2020
Bonus: Jim on The Stoa, COVID & Game B
Episode • Mar 30, 2020
Extra: On COVID-19 & UBI with Bob Reid
Episode • Mar 27, 2020
Extra: On COVID-19 & Complexity with Jordan Hall
Episode • Mar 25, 2020
Extra: On COVID-19 with John Robb
Episode • Mar 24, 2020
EP47 Mark Burgess on the Physics of Money
Episode • Mar 23, 2020
EP46 Daniel Schrag on Climate Dynamics
Episode • Mar 16, 2020
EP45 Beth Pyles on Faith, Peace & Community
Episode • Mar 9, 2020
EP44 Steve LeVine on EV Battery Tech
Episode • Mar 2, 2020
EP43 Daniel Christian Wahl on a Regenerative Future
Episode • Feb 24, 2020
EP42 Jessika Trancik on Tech & Research vs Climate Change
Episode • Feb 17, 2020
EP41 Daniel Mezick on the Agile Organization
Episode • Feb 13, 2020
EP40 Eric Smith on the Physics of Living Systems
Episode • Feb 10, 2020
EP39 John Koza on Bleeding Edges
Episode • Feb 3, 2020
EP38 Tristan Harris on Humane Tech
Episode • Jan 27, 2020
EP37 Jared Janes on Spirituality
Episode • Jan 23, 2020
EP36 Hanzi Freinacht on Metamodernism
Episode • Jan 20, 2020
EP35 Ken McCarthy on the History of Online Business
Episode • Jan 16, 2020
EP34 Joe Edelman on the Power of Values
Episode • Jan 13, 2020
EP33 Melanie Mitchell on the Elements of AI
Episode • Jan 6, 2020
EP32 Jason Brennan on Irrational Democracy & Academia
Episode • Dec 30, 2019
EP31 Forrest Landry on Building our Future
Episode • Dec 16, 2019
EP30 Nora Bateson on Complexity & the Transcontextual
Episode • Dec 9, 2019
EP29 Michael Mauboussin on The Success Equation
Episode • Dec 2, 2019
EP28 Mark Burgess on Promise Theory, AI & Spacetime
Episode • Nov 25, 2019
EP27 Jamie Wheal on Flow & the Future of Culture
Episode • Nov 21, 2019
EP26 Jordan Hall on the Game B Emergence
Episode • Nov 19, 2019
EP25 Gary Marcus on Rebooting AI
Episode • Nov 14, 2019
EP24 Bret Weinstein on Evolving Culture
Episode • Nov 11, 2019
EP23 Jeff Gomez on Narrative & Cultural Change
Episode • Nov 5, 2019
EP22 Sara Kindsfater-Yerkes on the Evolution of Business
Episode • Oct 31, 2019
EP21 Roman Yampolskiy on the Outer Limits of AI
Episode • Oct 28, 2019
EP20 Pamela McCorduck on Her Life & Times with AI
Episode • Oct 24, 2019
EP19 John Robb on Asymmetric & Networked Conflict & Strategy
Episode • Oct 21, 2019
EP18 Stuart Kauffman on Complexity, Biology & T.A.P.
Episode • Oct 17, 2019
EP17 – Bonnitta Roy on Process Thinking and Complexity
Episode • Oct 14, 2019
EP16 Anaconda CTO Peter Wang on The Distributed Internet
Episode • Oct 7, 2019
EP15 Futurist David Brin on The Case for Optimism
Episode • Sep 30, 2019
EP14 Astrophysicist Jill Tarter on SETI and Technosignatures
Episode • Sep 23, 2019
EP13 Trent McConaghy: Blockchain, AI and DAOs
Episode • Sep 16, 2019
EP12 Brian Nosek – Open Science and Reproducibility
Episode • Sep 12, 2019
EP11 Dave Snowden and Systems Thinking
Episode • Sep 9, 2019
EP10 David Krakauer: Complexity Science
Episode • Sep 3, 2019
EP9 Joe Norman: Applied Complexity
Episode • Aug 27, 2019
Special Episode: Zachary Vorhies
Episode • Aug 21, 2019
EP8 Jordan “Greenhall” Hall and Game B
Episode • Aug 19, 2019
EP7 Daniel Schmachtenberger and the Evolution of Technology
Episode • Aug 12, 2019
EP 6 Douglas Rushkoff – Memetics, Money + TeamHuman
Episode • Aug 5, 2019
EP5 Lee Smolin – Quantum Foundations and Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution
Episode • Jul 26, 2019
EP4 Cory Doctorow – “Radicalized,” Race and Resilience
Episode • Jul 19, 2019
EP3 Dr. Ben Goertzel – OpenCog, AGI and SingularityNET
Episode • Jul 15, 2019
EP2 Robin Hanson – Decision Making and “The Age of Em”
Episode • Jul 8, 2019
EP1 Simon DeDeo – The Evolution of Consciousness
Episode • Jul 7, 2019
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