Jim Rutt
@jim_rutt
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Jim Rutt Show https://t.co/pBfdR6BnGy https://t.co/7HDhuLrgtF https://t.co/t06tP4qvAK https://t.co/wLKwY3OKuB, network culture, human systems, #GameB Bio: https://t.co/FMQRm7Fm5B
Virginia, USA
Joined April 2008
"People don't know anything, and they know less about time than anything." I summarize the two most popular theories on time in this interview with @BrendanGrahamD1, and explain why I think they're both probably wrong. Full episode link below đ
@BrendanGrahamD1 interviewed me about the ideas in my recent Substack essays âA Minimum Viable Metaphysicsâ and âWhat I Mean by âMetaphysicsâ.â https://t.co/hp6NvEKjeN We discussed metaphysics as assumptions for learning and reasoning, the difference between deduction,
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We talk endlessly about Christianity and Christian belief, but do we actually know what Christianity claims? Almost all Christian denominations formally adopt the Nicene Creed as their core doctrinal statement. Here it is, explained phrase by phrase. link in comment
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New essay: The Adjacent Possible is a powerful lens for understanding physical, chemical, biological, cultural, and technological evolution. Pulling from the work of Stuart Kauffman, Brian Arthur and others. Link in first comment. CC @sfiscience
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New essay: Why did YouTube succeed in 2005 but would have failed in 1995? Why can't fusion power escape "30 years away"? The adjacent possible explains how biological evolution, technology, and cities actually workâand why you can't plan five moves ahead. Link in first comment.
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New essay: Some of your smart friends are returning to religion. They're right about the meaning crisis. Wrong about the solution. The practices work. The metaphysics is just a subscription fee you don't need to pay. New essay on unbundling the package: https://t.co/1cVOQjylKY
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Some of your smart friends are returning to religion. They're right about the meaning crisis. Wrong about the solution. The practices work. The metaphysics is just a subscription fee you don't need to pay. New essay on unbundling the package: link in first comment
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"The AI figured out that the server wasn't started up, hacked its way out of the test environment, which the programmers did not know was possible, and started the server back up from the outside... That's not a type of behavior AI was trained for directly." - @So8res on why
I talked with @So8res about the ideas in his and @ESYudkowsky's book *If Anybody Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All.* https://t.co/0Wny3yQ1jQ We discussed the bookâs claim that mitigating existential AI risk should be a top global priority, the idea
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I talked with @So8res about the ideas in his and @ESYudkowsky's book *If Anybody Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All.* https://t.co/0Wny3yQ1jQ We discussed the bookâs claim that mitigating existential AI risk should be a top global priority, the idea
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New essay: Psyop, Insanity, or...? Peter Thiel, the Antichrist, and Our Collapsing Epistemic Commons
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I talked with @alexanderebert about the ideas in his Substack essay âNew Age and the Religion of Self: The Anatomy of a Rebellion Against Reality.â https://t.co/dxlXSjF24Y We discussed the meanings of New Age and religion, the New Thought movement, the law of attraction,
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Jim talks with Alex Ebert about the ideas in his Substack essay "New Age and the Religion of Self: The Anatomy of a Rebellion Against Reality."
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How did society historically deal with wannabe dictators? đ ( I asked @jim_rutt on the Win-Win podcast )
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Are we just living in a giant corporate game of mind control? My guest this week believes so. @jim_rutt is an early internet pioneer, former chair of the Santa Fe Institute & co-founder of Game B, and we chat all things markets, memes and dopamine. He's one of the wisest,
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