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    EP 231 Vance Crowe Interviews Jim Rutt on AI Risk

    Vance Crowe interviews Jim about how he maps the problem-space of current and future AI risk. They discuss the beginnings of AI, the era of broad AI, artificial general intell...

    EP 230 James Lindsay on a National Divorce

    Jim talks with James Lindsay about the ideas in his recent essay "National Divorce Is National Suicide." They discuss the meaning of a national divorce (where the United State...

    EP 229 Jonathan Rowson on the Antidebate

    Jim talks with Jonathan Rowson of Perspectiva about a new social practice they're creating, the antidebate. They discuss the nature of debate, the spectacle of endemic polariz...

    EP 228 Jeremy Sherman on the Emergence and Nature of Selves

    Jim talks with Jeremy Sherman about the ideas in his book Neither Ghost nor Machine: The Emergence and Nature of Selves. They discuss how Jim found Jeremy's work, Jeremy's rel...

    EP 227 Stuart Kauffman on the Emergence of Life

    Jim talks with Stuart Kauffman about the ideas in the recent paper he co-authored with Andrea Roli, "Is the Emergence of Life an Expected Phase Transition in the Evolving Univ...

    EP 226 Hannah Rosenberg on An Answer to Red Pilldom

    Jim talks with Hannah Rosenberg about the ideas in her essay "An Answer to Red Pilldom." They discuss the meaning & origins of red pilldom, how Hannah encountered red pilldom ...

    EP 225 Bruce Damer on a New Path for Psychedelics

    Jim talks with Bruce Damer about the new Center for MINDS and the ideas in his essay "Downloads from the Modern Dawn of Psychedelics." They discuss alternate ways psychedelics...

    EP 224 Samo Burja on Geothermal Energy

    Jim talks with Samo Burja about the ideas in his recent article "Geothermal Energy Turns Planets Into Power Sources." They discuss the heat beneath the earth's surface, contri...

    EP 223 Jordan Hall on Cities, Civiums, and Becoming Christian

    Jim talks with Jordan Hall about the ideas in his essay "From City to Civium" and about his recent conversion to Christianity. They discuss scaling laws, superlinear scaling i...

    EP 222 Trent McConaghy on AI & Brain-Computer Interface Accelerationism (bci/acc)

    Jim talks with Trent McConaghy about the ideas in his recent essay "bci/acc: A Pragmatic Path to Compete with Artificial Superintelligence." They discuss the meaning of BCI (b...

    EP 221 George Hotz on Open-Source Driving Assistance

    Jim talks with George Hotz about running Comma, an open-source driving assistance company. They discuss breaking the carrier lock on the iPhone at seventeen, Google's Project ...

    EP 220 Lene Rachel Andersen on Polymodernity

    Jim talks with Lene Rachel Andersen about the ideas in her book Polymodernity: Meaning and Hope in a Complex World. They discuss the meaning of polymodernism, working with fou...

    EP 219 Katherine Gehl on Breaking Partisan Gridlock

    Jim talks with Katherine Gehl about her and Michael Porter's book, The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy. They dis...

    EP 218 Max Borders on Christopher Rufo’s New Right Manifesto

    Jim talks with Max Borders about the ideas in his two-part essay series responding to Christopher Rufo's recent manifesto "The New Right Activism." They discuss the commentary...

    EP 217 Ben Goertzel on a New Framework for AGI

    Jim talks with Ben Goertzel about a paper he co-wrote, "OpenCog Hyperon: A Framework for AGI at the Human Level and Beyond." They discuss the way Ben defines AGI, problems wit...

    EP 216 Kevin Dickinson on A Short History of the F-Word

    Jim talks with Kevin Dickinson about the ideas in his recent essay "A Short History of the F-Word." They discuss the mystery of the F-word's origins, a damn fucking abbot in t...

    EP 215 Cody Moser on Inequality and Innovation

    Jim talks with Cody Moser about the ideas and findings in his and Paul Smaldino's paper "Innovation-Facilitating Networks Create Inequality." They discuss transient diversity,...

    EP 214 Douglas Rushkoff on Leaving Social Media

    Jim talks with Douglas Rushkoff about the ideas in his podcast monologue/Substack post "Why I’m Finally Leaving X and Probably All Social Media." They discuss Douglas's histor...

    EP 213 Robin Hanson on Declining Fertility Rates

    Jim talks with Robin Hanson about the ideas in his recent Substack writings on human fertility rates. They discuss why the fertility rate is important, fertility decline as a ...

    EP 212 Joy Hirsch on How the Brain Responds to Zoom

    Jim talks with Joy Hirsch about the findings in her paper "Separable Processes for Live 'In-Person' and Live 'Zoom-like' Faces," which explores how humans respond at the neura...

    EP 211 Ben Goertzel on Generative AI vs. AGI

    Jim talks with recurring guest Ben Goertzel about the ideas in his paper "Generative AI vs. AGI: The Cognitive Strengths and Weaknesses of Modern LLMs." They discuss the expon...

    EP 210 Frank Lantz on the Beauty of Games

    Jim talks with Frank Lantz about the ideas in his new book, The Beauty of Games. They discuss Frank's analysis of Benjamin Soule's arcade game Serpentes, reflecting on the enj...

    EP 209 C. Owen Paepke on the Purple Presidency

    Jim talks with C. Owen Paepke in part three of a mini-series on the No Labels potential third-party presidential campaign. They discuss Owen's early chemistry career, being wi...

    EP 208 Jack Visnjic on Anacyclosis

    Jim talks with Jack Visnjic, aka Lantern Jack, about Polybius's theory of anacyclosis and cyclical history. They discuss the origins of the name Lantern Jack, cyclical pattern...

    EP 207 Paul Watson on Adventures in Eco-Activism

    Jim talks with Paul Watson about his recent book Hit Man for the Kindness Club: High Seas Escapades and Heroic Adventures of an Eco-Activist. They discuss an early friendship ...

    EP 206 Ryan Clancy on No Labels

    Jim talks with Ryan Clancy, the chief strategist for No Labels, in the second of a 3-part series exploring different aspects of the No Labels possible third-party presidential...

    EP 205 Matthew Pirkowski on Time Preference and Cooperation

    Jim talks with Matthew Pirkowski about the ideas in a recent tweet thread on time preference and its relationship with cooperation. They discuss the definition of time prefere...

    EP 204 Matt Bennett on the Case Against No Labels

    Jim talks with Matt Bennett about his arguments against the third-party political campaign No Labels. They discuss Matt's steelman of the campaign, being politically homeless,...

    EP 203 Robert Sapolsky on Life Without Free Will

    Jim talks with Robert Sapolsky about the ideas in his book Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will. They discuss what motivates his writing about the topic, turtles al...

    EP 202 Neil Howe on the Fourth Turning

    Jim talks with Neil Howe about the ideas in his new book, The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us About How and When This Crisis Will End. They discuss...

    EP 201 Tobias Dengel on the Age of Voice Technology

    Jim talks with Tobias Dengel about the ideas in his book The Sound of the Future: The Coming Age of Voice Technology. They discuss the idea that voice tech will be the biggest...

    EP 200 Brian Chau on AI Pluralism

    Jim talks with Brian Chau about recent advancements in AI and viewing AI's relationship to society and politics through a pluralistic lens. They discuss fixed frames on AI, th...

    EP 199 Yascha Mounk on the Identity Trap

    Jim talks with Yascha Mounk about the ideas in his new book The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power. They discuss tribalism among progressives, universalism, the story o...

    EP 198 Cory Doctorow on Seizing the Means of Computation

    Jim talks with Cory Doctorow about the ideas in his new book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation. They discuss Cory's long affiliation with the Electronic ...

    EP 197 Susan Neiman on Why Left Is Not Woke

    Jim talks with Susan Neiman about the ideas in her latest book, Left Is Not Woke. They discuss the history & meaning of wokeness, the underlying reactionary assumptions of wok...

    EP 196 Pamela Denise Long on Affirmative Action for Freedmen

    Jim talks with Pamela Denise Long about the ideas in an open letter from the Coalition of Concerned Freedmen to college presidents, responding to the U.S. Supreme Court's deci...

    EP 195 Michael R.J. Bonner on Civilization, Collapse, and Renewal

    Jim talks with Michael R.J. Bonner about the ideas in his book In Defense of Civilization: How Our Past Can Renew Our Present. They discuss the meaning of civilization, Gobekl...

    EP 194 Bob Reid on User-Owned Identity

    Jim talks with Bob Reid about identity verification and the financial stack behind his global financial platform Everest. They discuss decentralized user-owned identity, ident...

    EP 193 Aydan Connor on Rethinking Food Systems

    Jim talks with Aydan Connor about improving American food systems and reducing waste. They discuss Aydan's experience in the craft brewing industry, extremification of beer st...

    EP 192 David Krakauer on Science, Complexity and AI

    Jim has a wide-ranging talk with David Krakauer about the ideas in his forthcoming paper "The Structure of Complexity in Machine Learning Science" and how AI may alter the cou...

    EP 191 Alicia Juarrero on Context, Constraints, and Coherence

    Jim talks with Alicia Juarrero about her new book Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence. They discuss Aristotle's four causes, applying them to complex ...

    EP 190 Peter Turchin on Cliodynamics and End Times

    Jim talks with Peter Turchin about the field he founded, cliodynamics, which applies the scientific method to history. They discuss the meaning & origins of cliodynamics, dist...

    Currents 100: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin on Time as an Object

    Jim talks with Sara Walker and Lee Cronin about the ideas in their Aeon essay "Time Is an Object." They discuss the history of the idea of time, Newton's clockwork universe, t...

    Currents 099: Samuel Scarpino on Preparing for the Next Pandemic

    Jim talks with Samuel Scarpino about what we've learned from Covid-19 and how to apply those lessons to preparing for the next pandemic. They discuss takeaways from cross-nati...

    Currents 098: Damien Walter on Science Fiction and the Rhetoric of Story

    Jim talks with Damien Walter about science fiction and the mechanics of myth. They discuss the roles of pathos & ethos in science fiction, Damien's lifelong fascination with s...

    EP 189 Forrest Landry on Civilization Design

    Jim talks with recurring guest Forrest Landry about civilization design. They discuss the meaning of the concept, toolkits for problem-solving, why this work matters now, loca...

    Currents 097: Frank Lantz on Network Wars and Games

    Jim talks with Frank Lantz, game designer and director of the Game Center at New York University, about Network Wars and the art of game-making. They discuss Frank's first rea...

    EP 188 Robert Tercek on Intellectual Property in the Time of AI

    Jim talks with Robert Tercek about the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike and intellectual property rights in the era of generative AI. They discuss Los Angeles as a unio...

    Currents 096: Jim & Michael Garfield Talk About Everything

    Jim has an extremely wide-ranging discussion with Michael Garfield. They discuss the upcoming book Michael is drafting in public, the exponential scaling of information produc...

    EP 187 Carlos Perez on A Pattern Language for Generative AI

    Jim talks with Carlos Perez about the ideas in his new book A Pattern Language for Generative AI: A Self-Generating GPT-4 Blueprint. They discuss GPT-4's ability to introspect...

    EP 186 Charles Eisenstein on Climate: A New Story

    Jim talks with Charles Eisenstein about the environment and the ideas in his book Climate: A New Story. They discuss Charles's involvement with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s presid...

    Currents 095: Matt Welsh on the End of Programming

    Jim talks with Matt Welsh about the ideas in his essay "The End of Programming," arguing that coding as we know it will soon be obsolete. They discuss ChatGPT's ability to per...

    Currents 094: Matthew Pirkowski on Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms

    Jim talks with Matthew Pirkowski about the kinds of consensus mechanisms that can be used to secure blockchains. They discuss active inference, proof of work vs proof of stake...

    Currents 093: Rafe Kelley on Natural Movement

    Jim talks with Rafe Kelley about the parkour-based movement system he created and teaches, Evolve Move Play. They discuss electromagnetic pulses, combining parkour & martial a...

    Currents 092: Peter Wang on The Meaning Crisis and Consequentiality

    Jim talks with Peter Wang about his idea that meaning comes from making consequential choices. They discuss the immediacy of consequences, the modeling of causal loops, the su...

    Currents 091: Bruce Damer on Psychedelics as Tools for Discovery

    Jim talks with Bruce Damer about genius and the use of psychedelics for creative thinking. They discuss the roots of genius, the discovery of fire, Einstein's four great disco...

    EP 185 Daniel Suarez on the Near Future of Space Exploration

    Jim talks with Daniel Suarez about his science-fiction imaginings in the near future of space exploration, Delta-V and Critical Mass. They discuss the inspiration for the nove...

    EP 184 Dave Snowden on Managing Complexity in Times of Crisis

    Jim talks with Dave Snowden about the document he co-authored, "Managing Complexity (And Chaos) In Times of Crisis." They discuss the Cynefin framework, its development into a...

    Currents 090: BJ Campbell and Patrick Ryan on Egregores

    Jim talks with BJ Campbell and Patrick Ryan about understanding the present moment through the concept of egregores. They discuss the meaning of the term, its roots in early o...

    Currents 089: Erik Torenberg on Status Games

    Jim talks with Erik Torenberg about the ideas in his Substack series on navigating the status games of today. They discuss status as reputation allocation, cyclical change in ...

    EP 183 Forrest Landry Part 2: AI Risk

    Jim continues his conversation with recurring guest Forrest Landry on his arguments that continued AI development poses certain catastrophic risk to humanity. They discuss the...

    Currents 088: Melanie Mitchell on AI Measurement and Understanding

    Jim talks with Melanie Mitchell about her critique of applying standardized exams to LLMs and the debate over understanding in AI. They discuss ChatGPT and GPT-4's performance...

    EP 182 Brad DeLong on An Economic History of the 20th Century

    Jim talks with Brad DeLong about his book Slouching Toward Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century. They discuss how everything changed around 1870, the idea of a...

    Currents 087: Shivanshu Purohit on Open-Source Generative AI

    Jim talks with Shivanshu Purohit about the world of open-source AI models and a significant open-source LLM coming soon from Stability AI and EleutherAI. They discuss the reas...

    EP 181 Forrest Landry Part 1: AI Risk

    Jim talks with recurring guest Forrest Landry about his arguments that continued AI development poses certain catastrophic risk to humanity. They discuss AI versus advanced pl...

    Currents 086: Monica Anderson on Bubble City

    Jim talks with Monica Anderson about her paper "Bubble City Design Proposal: A Twitter Alternative Which Is Not a Social Medium." They discuss the origins of the Bubble City i...

    Currents 085: Jonny Miller on Self-Unfoldment

    Jim has a wide-ranging conversation with Jonny Miller about self-development and emotional resilience. They discuss being a natural human, self-help as deconditioning, self-un...

    Currents 084: Mirta Galesic on Global Collective Behavior

    Jim talks with Mirta Galesic about the ideas in her co-authored paper "Stewardship of Global Collective Behavior." They discuss the meaning of collective behavior, a crisis in...

    EP 180 Lynne Kiesling on the Electrical Grid

    Jim talks with Lynne Kiesling about the electrical grid and what could and should change in its architecture in the years to come. They discuss electricity as a product, the m...

    Currents 083: Joscha Bach on Synthetic Intelligence

    Jim talks with Joscha Bach about current and future developments in the generative AI space. They discuss the skepticism of the press, small productive applications, questions...

    EP 179 Gregg Henriques Part 3: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap

    Jim talks with Gregg Henriques in the third and final part of a series on his book A New Synthesis for Solving the Problem of Psychology: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap. The...

    Currents 082: Dan Shipper on Practical Applications of GPT-3

    Jim talks with Dan Shipper about practical uses of GPT-3 and ChatGPT at the personal scale. They discuss how Dan started playing with these tools, the feeling of new generativ...

    EP 178 Anil Seth on A New Science of Consciousness

    Jim talks with Anil Seth about his book Being You: A New Science of Consciousness. They discuss the curious non-experience of general anesthesia, defining consciousness, the d...

    EP 177 Gregg Henriques Part 2: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap

    Jim talks with Gregg Henriques in part two of a series on his book A New Synthesis for Solving the Problem of Psychology: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap. They discuss limita...

    EP 176 Gregg Henriques Part 1: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap

    Jim talks with Gregg Henriques about his book A New Synthesis for Solving the Problem of Psychology: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap. They discuss the book's audacious attemp...

    EP 175 Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater on The Language Game

    Jim talks with Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater about their new book The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World. They discuss the game of c...

    EP 174 Fred Beuttler and Mark Stahlman on Trivium University

    Jim talks with Fred Beuttler and Mark Stahlman about their new online graduate program, Trivium University. They discuss the trivium & the quadrivium, instilling a better sens...

    Currents 081: Layman Pascal Interviews Jim Rutt on Twitter as Collective Intelligence

    Layman Pascal interviews Jim about the principles and strategies that could transform Twitter into infrastructure for collective intelligence. They discuss Jim's motivation in...

    Currents 080: Joe Edelman and Ellie Hain on Rebuilding Meaning

    Jim talks with Joe Edelman and Ellie Hain about their new movement, Rebuilding Meaning, and two recent talks introducing ideas towards a better world. They discuss tools for b...

    EP 173 Hanzi Freinacht on Metamodern Self-Help

    Jim talks with Hanzi Freinacht about his book 12 Commandments: For Extraordinary People to Master Ordinary Life. They discuss the book as a response to Jordan Peterson & his "...

    EP 172 Brendan Graham Dempsey on Emergentism

    Jim talks with Brendan Graham Dempsey about his book Emergentism: A Religion of Complexity for the Metamodern World. They discuss the meaning crisis & its symptoms, reciprocal...

    Currents 079: Douglas Rushkoff on Tech Escapism and Critiques of GameB

    Jim talks with Douglas Rushkoff about the ideas in his essay series, "What's a Meta For?" They discuss Facebook's renaming to Meta, the semantic web, ChatGPT, a Turing test re...

    Currents 078: John Ash on AI Art Tools

    Jim talks with John Ash about his use of AI art tools and their implications for society... Jim talks with John Ash about his use of AI art tools and their implications for s...

    Currents 077: Serge Faguet on Consciousness and Post-AGI Ethics

    Jim continues his conversation with Serge Faguet, this time focusing on the nature of consciousness and its implications for the wise and ethical use of AI systems...Jim conti...

    EP 171 Bruce Damer Part 2: The Origins of Life – Implications

    Jim continues his discussion with Bruce Damer on the origins of life... Jim continues his discussion with Bruce Damer on the origins of life. They discuss Darwin's "warm li...

    Currents 076: Jamie Joyce on The Society Library

    Jim talks with Jamie Joyce about the organization she founded and directs, The Society Library... Jim talks with Jamie Joyce about the organization she founded and directs, T...

    Currents 075: Michael Nielsen on Metascience

    Jim talks with Michael Nielsen about the ideas in his and Kanjun Qiu's recent essay, "A Vision of Metascience: An Engine of Improvement for the Social Processes of Science"......

    EP 170 John Vervaeke and Jordan Hall on The Religion That Is Not a Religion

    Jim talks with John Vervaeke and Jordan Hall about Vervaeke's concept of "the religion that is not a religion"... Jim talks with John Vervaeke and Jordan Hall about Verva...

    Currents 074: Serge Faguet on Building Metacommunity

    Jim talks with Serge Faguet about emerging transnational networks of cooperation...Jim talks with Serge Faguet about emerging transnational networks of cooperation. They discu...

    Currents 073: Owen Cox and Daniel Fraga on Game C

    Jim talks with Owen Cox and Daniel Fraga of the Technosocial podcast about their critique that the GameB movement has underestimated the importance of sex and violence... Jim ...

    EP 169 Roar Bjonnes on Growing a New Economy

    Jim talks with Roar Bjonnes about the ideas in his new book co-authored with Caroline Hargreaves, Growing a New Economy: Beyond Crisis Capitalism and Environmental Destruction...

    EP 168 Nate Hagens on Collective Futures

    Jim talks with Nate Hagens about his new book co-authored with DJ White, Reality Blind: Integrating the Systems Science Underpinning Our Collective Futures, volume 1... Jim...

    Currents 072: Ben Goertzel on Viable Paths to True AGI

    Jim talks with Ben Goertzel about the ideas in his recent essay "Three Viable Paths to True AGI"... Jim talks with Ben Goertzel about the ideas in his recent essay "Three V...

    EP 167 Bruce Damer on the Origins of Life

    Jim talks with Bruce Damer about the origins of life... Jim talks with Bruce Damer about the origins of life. They discuss what Earth was like 4 billion years ago, how the ...

    Currents 071: Liam Madden on Rebirthing Democracy

    Jim talks with Liam Madden, a congressional candidate in Vermont who strongly resonates with the GameB ethos... Jim talks with Liam Madden, a congressional candidate in Vermo...

    Currents 070: Brian Chau on Propaganda & Populism

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