The Jim Rutt Show

EP 286 Bob Levy on the Use and Abuse of Presidential Power

EP 285 Josh Bernoff on AI, Writing, and Thinking

EP 284 Jordan Hall on AI, the Commons, and the Church

EP 283 Brian Chau on the Trump Administration and AI

This podcast interviews Brian Chow about the implications of the new US administration's actions on AI development. The discussion covers the repeal of a Biden executive order, a new Trump executive order aiming to reduce red tape, and a large infrastructure project. Chow highlights concerns about regulatory overreac...

EP 282 Tyson Yunkaporta on Indigenous Law, Lore, and Learning

EP 281 Jeff Hawkins and Viviane Clay on the Thousand Brains Theory

This podcast interviews Jeff Hawkins and Viviane Clay about Hawkins' "Thousand Brains Theory of neocortex," a neuroscience theory informing a new AI technology. The discussion covers the theory's foundations in Vernon Mountcastle's work on cortical columns, the role of reference frames in representing knowledge, and t...

EP 280 Rob Henderson on Luxury Beliefs

EP 279 Samuel Scarpino on H5N1 and Pandemic Risk

EP 278 Peter Wang on AI, Copyright, and the Future of Intelligence

EP 277 Kristian Rönn on Darwinian Traps and How to Escape Them

This podcast interviews Christian Ron, author of "The Darwinian Trap," about the book's central concept: how seemingly benign individual actions can lead to disastrous collective outcomes due to evolutionary pressures. The conversation explores examples like the toxic legacy of a lead mine in Pitcher, Oklahoma, and th...

EP 276 Carolyn Dicey Jennings on Attention and Mental Control

EP 275 Rachel Winkler on Mass Deportation

EP 274 Richard Overy on Why War?

This podcast interviews historian Richard Overy about his book "Why War?". The conversation explores various perspectives on the causes of war, ranging from biological and psychological factors to ecological pressures, resource competition, belief systems, and the pursuit of power. Overy challenges the "pacified past"...

EP 273 Gregg Henriques on the Unified Theory of Knowledge

This podcast episode features Jim Rutt interviewing Gregg Henriques about his Unified Theory of Knowledge (UTOK). The discussion covers UTOK's core components: three vectors of knowing (subjective, intersubjective, objective), the Tree of Knowledge, the I-Quad coin, and the UTOK garden frame. Henriques explains how UT...

EP 272 Loribeth Ford Jarrell on Bespoke Education

EP 271 Lorraine Besser on the Art of the Interesting

EP 270 Nancy Jacobson on No Labels and the 2024 Election

EP 269 Alex Ebert on the War on Genius

EP 268 Brendan Graham Dempsey on the Evolution of Meaning

In this podcast episode, Brendan Graham Dempsey explores "A Universal Learning Process," the first part of his series "The Evolution of Meaning." He aims to define how meaning evolves within different cultural contexts. Using a scientific perspective, Brendan breaks down the concept of meaning from the ground up, conne...

EP 267 Richard Hanania on the Presidential Election and More