Jim Rutt
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Jim Rutt Show podcast, Santa Fe Institute, network culture, future of human systems, #GameB Bio:
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I wonder what the reaction would have been if Trump had used dictatorial powers to freeze all financial transactions for all BLM protestors?
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My essay
@Quillette
as to what
@elonmusk
should do about moderation on Twitter. I argue for free free speech around "point-of-view" but also for strong "decorum" rules against harassments, personal attacks etc. I make other suggestions for Musk as well.
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Yeah, after a few seconds. If you can read it aloud, please retweet.
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Ii was just bounced by Facebook. Haven't a clue why. Nothing particularly provocative of late other than campaigning for free speech on the nets in a clear dispassionate way. What is WRONG with those people!
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#BoomerPride
pls retweet. Like race and ethnicity, we're born Boomers, it's not chosen. And like other identities, there is more within-group diversity than between-group. Both
@CornelWest
and
@StephenBannon
were born my year. So say "ok boomer" but remember you are a bigot.
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Powerful mental judo move: when you see the word "justice" used in a propagandistic or ideological way, substitute in your mind "justification".
US Department of Justification, Social Justification, etc
Badda Bing! thx Joe Horton.
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Perhaps the key reason science has so thoroughly changed the world:
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I chat with
@BretWeinstein
on Darkhorse about Elon Musk, online moderation, complexity vs complicated,
#GameB
, against utopianism, and more. Really excellent convo
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Crazy thought: Bill Clinton was elected President 32 years ago. He’s younger than both Biden and Trump.
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Which conspiracy theory do you think is MOST LIKELY to be true:
CIA killed JFK
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9/11 USA gov job
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Moon landings were fake
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US gov covered up UFOs
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Myself and other 2 Facebook GameB Group Admins are back on Facebook. Thanks to all who shook the trees inside Facebook and in the public realm.
Whether this was malice or incompetence or both, Facebook is a morally bankrupt and incompetent thing.
Time to plan the migration.
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My Network Wars iPhone game is a good exercise in heuristic induction. Extremely simple rules but large strategy space. You need to find some heuristics to win regularly. Can you win the network wars?
No ads, no in game purchases, no time limits.
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So why is Lex Fridman's podcast more popular than mine? We have a considerable overlap of guests. I recently listened (actually read the transcripts) of a few episodes and they are meandering, unfocused and surprisingly superficial despite the interminable length. hmmm?
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@rossiadam
banning non-competes doesn't erase trade secret rights and protections. Compare Boston 128 and Silicone valley. Non-competes hurt innovation. And they are being grossly abused by places like fast food joints to turn employees into serfs. I think outlawing non-competes for…
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with
@HeatherEHeying
on “A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century" written with
@BretWeinstein
.
A deep look into where Homo Sapiens is as a species in 2021 and how we should proceed in the face of the various crises that confront us.
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The idea the
@BretWeinstein
is some kind of crypto-fascist is one of the most idiotic ideas around. And that’s saying something in this idiotic times.
The need to guard against evolved xenophobic/genocidal impulses has been a consistent theme in my work, teaching and public talks. Which makes these accusations incredibly bizarre.
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🎙️w/
@stephlepp
on
@Quillette
essay "Musk and Moderation."
Concrete proposals for
@elonmusk
: Strengthen Twitter’s decorum rules. Loosen POV moderation. Tolerate fringe ideas. Reform enforcement & appeals. Be a bridge from GameA to GameB. And much more.
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My alma mater,
@MIT
, "cancelled' a scientific talk by
@DorianAbbot
because a Twitter mob found his mainstream views on affirmative action "problematic".
Sign this petition demanding that MIT admits its error and makes changes to prevent its recurrence.
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Holochain COULD be the future architecture for info, transactions, and even local->global fractal currencies. Very impressive design. I explore the Holo suite of technologies with
@artbrock
one of the co-creators.
@holochain
@H_O_L_O_
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This afternoon I visited the MIT pro Palestinian encampment. I spent 45 minutes in the middle of the camp having very earnest conversations with both leaders and general members. After clearing the idea with several Jewish friends, I did so wearing a kippah.
I can honestly…
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Why isn't banning TikTok just a matter of reciprocity? China bans Facebook and Twitter. USA should ban any Chinese owned social media platform. Easy!
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Time for some
#BoomerPride
! There's been a growing wave of late of the meme "ok-Boomer" as a sarcastic negative-ish anti-Boomer thingie. Time to reply with
#BoomerPride
. Fellow Boomers, when you see "ok-Boomer", reply
#BoomerPride
!!!
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So who has caused more waste of humanity's time: the shoe bomber or the idjit that decided we ought to be answering "cookie questions" all day?
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@HamasakiLaw
Tolerating predatory crime is a sin against civilization. I lived in Big Cities twice: Chicago and Boston for a total of about 3 years. The nihilistic acceptance of predatory crime there still creeps me out 40+ years later.
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My first mind blowing result from GPT-4. Thx
@IntuitMachine
for the inspiration. note, there was zero previous discussion of any of the three on the ChatGPT thread:
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A friend at lunch today made a very good point: AIs that we don't understand are driving our major dating apps, which are now the main way people meet who get married and have kids. Black box AIs are now driving human evolution.
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I've long been annoyed by mobile games that are full of ads and/or are always trying to sell you something. So I wrote my own! Try out Network Wars - learn it in seconds, a game runs about 5 minutes. Enjoy it for hours. Easy to learn, hard to master!
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I chat with
@jonkay
on
@Quillette
podcast about
@elonmusk
, Twitter, moderation and more.
Big opportunity for Elon, and free speech, but big risk if he doesn’t take moderation seriously.
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🎙️ w/ Curtis Yarvin on monarchy in the US.
A regime-change thought experiment, liquid democracy, the legislature's broken steering linkage, America's political deactivation, binding & power, monarchy as a unifying force, the problem of selection, & more.
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🎙️ w/
@gregthomas22
on the problems created by racial essentialism.
Transcending race & including culture, Albert Murray’s “omni-American identity,” why Ibram X. Kendi & Robin DiAngelo’s books reify race, contextualizing cultural appropriation, and more.
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Tomorrow is my last day on Twitter for the next 6 months. I've been been doing an annual 6 month break from Facebook for years. Adding in Twitter this time. Will post podcast episodes & essays that I write, but otherwise gonna be gone until January 2, 2021. Happy days!
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My new iPhones game "Network Wars" is featured on Product Hunt today. Check it out!
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The Jim Rutt Show has passed a 1,000,000 listens and still growing! Thx, folks for your support.
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🎙️w/
@rushkoff
on the net's history + potential & how to move from dystopian despair to productive engagement.
The DIY pre-internet, language as VR, 60s dreams of a thriving uni-mind, denaturalizing design choices, & much more.
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If you haven't yet, try out my Network Wars mobile game. It's fun and it's a good mental workout. Maintaining a nice balance between mental tightness and looseness is the key to doing well. Only 99 cents USD!
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Huge ancient city found in the Amazon
We keep finding new and older civilizations of more social complexity than was previously imagined.
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So when did 'programs' on computers come to be called 'apps'? Seems likely a slippery bit of bad terminology which is now almost linguistically fixed.
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@ChrisBettles1
It definitely just makes shit up. For example when I asked ChatGPT to list the 10 most popular episodes of my podcast, all 10 episode descriptions sounded plausible, and the guests were even the type of guests I have on but 6 out of 10 of episodes never happened!
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I have a funny Ted Kaczynski story.
The day after he was arrested, my very earnest (and excellent) Korean-American CFO came into my office sheepishly. Unusual, since sheepish wasn't his usual demeanor at all. Wondering what was up I waited, a sheepish CFO not usually being…
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I'm breaking my Twitter sabbatical to share this important essay from
@ConsilienceNews
The unfolding of the techno-sphere among THE most important issue confronting us. Read this, important.
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🎙️ w/
@gbengier
on his novel Unfettered Journey, a hard-science view of a possible world 140 yrs from now.
Grounding sci-fi in real problems, a future of lots of stuff & few jobs, the devil’s offer of surveillance, reimagining Genesis w/o God, & more.
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with
@bengoertzel
my recent banning from Facebook & maybe how it happened, need for decentralized tech, choke points, need to build AI’s that explain their decisions, moving
#GameB
off Facebook, role of AI in future platforms, Signal & Telegram +++
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@normonics
Santa Claus makes 5 year old good a few months a year. Doesn’t make Santa Claus real. Much better to live in a reality based world and deal with the implications.
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with
@normonics
on appropriately-sized community collaboration, family & local organization, government & market dysfunctions, cooperation-based sacrifice, bad actors & sociopaths, localism as a multi-scale complex system, wicked societal risks +++
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@ESYudkowsky
This one of mine quite amazed me:
My first mind blowing result from GPT-4. Thx
@IntuitMachine
for the inspiration. note, there was zero previous discussion of any of the three on the ChatGPT thread:
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No matter what your views are on the issues, we must all stand behind
@BretWeinstein
and
@HeatherEHeying
in their right to present their good faith arguments and those of their guests. Peculiar oligarchs should not be defining our discourse.
#FollowTheSilence
The DarkHorse Clips Channel now has 2 YouTube strikes. 3 and the channel is gone--along with much of our family income. The cost is acceptable if it brings attn to medical mismanagement of COVID, & the deadly danger of censorship.
Want us to fight? Make
#FollowTheSilence
trend.
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🎙️ w/
@vervaeke_john
exploring **Awakening from the Meaning Crisis** (4/5).
Nietzsche, the politicization of the quest for meaning, Newell & Simon’s error, combinatorial explosions, relevance realization, secular wonder, sacredness, meta-meaning, & more.
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🎙
@johnrobb
& I on Afghanistan: Taliban evac control, backroom negotiations, intel & command failures, moving from guerilla to maneuver warfare, diplomacy, overland retreat possibility, nation-building, foreign-policy distractions, assumption rot & more.
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🎙️ w/
@RemziBaj
on *Common Planet: A New Game of Life.*
From circulation to flow currency, GameA generator functions, rules without rulers, why UBI isn’t enough, solving the calculation problem, participation by choice rather than force, and much more.
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Just finished recording a really good episode with
@SamoBurja
On Ukraine etc. Out tomorrow late afternoon.
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Hey hey! the Android version of my new mobile game Network Wars is now out. Super simple mechanics, great strategic depth. Only 99cents no ads, no in-game purchases, just lots of fun!
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It's that time again. Tomorrow begins my 5th annual 6 month sabbatical from social media. While a wonderful nexus for meeting folks and encountering new and interesting ideas, social media also comes with attention hijacking, time wasting, and rabbit holing so that I've found a…
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🎙️ w/
@DanielMezick
on ritual & hierarchy via Chwe’s *Rational Ritual* & Boehm’s *Hierarchy in the Forest.*
Ritual as coordination tool, its link w/ common knowledge, meetings as games, hunter-forager social values, scaling role-based leadership, & more.
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I talk with Art Brock &
@fer_ananda
about the characteristics of currencies, competence, reputation, non-monetary currencies, social currency, pros & cons of scarcity & measuring, fiat currency, speculative vs resource-backed markets, currency design...
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with Robin Dunbar, legendary evolutionary psychologist, discoverer of the Dunbar Number - friends networks contain 150 people +-
Dunbar Number and lots more from Robin's book: Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships.
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"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it."
–…
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🎙️ w/
@jamespoulos
on **Human Forever: The Spiritual Politics of Digital War.**
Returning worth to the human, an intro to McLuhan, raising the first fully digital generation, resisting apocalypse narratives, the rise of a new post-human religion, & more.
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@markoff
on the catalyzing life of Stewart Brand.
His Hemingwayesque boyhood, commitment to conservation, relentless networking, psychedelic experiments, lifelong resistance to tribalism, creation of the era-defining Whole Earth Catalog, and much more.
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"... been a long time coming — years of almost-but-not-quite-ready, of helping the bravest devs succeed with immature tech, of telling more risk-averse projects to wait just a little longer. And now it’s here — Holochain is finally in beta..."
@Holochain
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🎙️ w/
@InfoMullet
(Timothy Clancy) on Russia's mid-game.
5 likely scenarios, the “belt” strategy, a quicksand strategy for Ukraine, simulation factors for insurgency, violence’s galvanizing effects, the right level of friction to avoid escalation, & more.
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I'm currently reading Ray Dalio's book Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail.
Despite being one of the world's richest guys, he repeatedly makes the point that over the long arc of history overthrows of the elites and their…
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With stories flying today that
@elonmusk
is going to go thru with his $54.20 a share acquisition of Twitter, time for him to read my essay on how to think straight about moderation on Twitter. Say no to censoring ideas AND to dumpster fires of vileness:
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🎙️ w/
@NoraBateson
on a return to earnestness.
The evolution of irony from simple to meta-irony, conditions for morale, the invention of normalcy, seductions & dangers of optimality, the necessity of confusion in a time of transformation, and much more.
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🎙️ w/
@dr_mcgilchrist
on *The Matter With Things,* part 2.
Unpredictability vs randomness, consciousness as ontological primitive, non-reductionist teleology, finite vs infinite games, reasons to dislike infinity, the lesson of paradoxes, and much more.
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Yo
@elonmusk
If you need some help sorting out Twitter, let me know.
I've done a few things in my time:
See my essay on how to do moderation right at Twitter:
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I won't lie, for me, this LLM stuff is the most exciting tech to come along in quite a while. Probably since the PC in the late 1970s. Like then, vast amounts of adjacent possible has suddenly appeared. And like then there is lots of interesting work at the scale of…
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Trust is going to have to be re-stitched bottom up. Sell-by date on top-down trust has expired.
This is the great challenge of our times.
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🎙️ w/
@psiozos
on
@LearnWorlds
& online ed.
Importance of adult lifetime learning, growing overlap between skills & hobbies, creating online schools, working with attention spans, nonlinear & social dimensions, preserving teacherly authority, and more.
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I'm assuming this is some kind of memetic mental illness. Am I wrong?
Almost 40% of students identify as LGBTQ at liberal arts colleges. At some colleges it is as high as 70%.
What could be the cause of this huge spike?
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The gateway insight to GameB is that all of our institutions and norms are human made and subject to revision. And that we ought not be afraid to take on that task to achieve a world of high human well being that successfully and stably co-exists with a healthy natural world.
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🎙️ w/
@LiamAwakening
on his congressional campaign in VT.
Ending war mentality, fixing the machinery of democracy, an alternative to UBI, the insanity of constant growth, risks of exponential technology, why he's on the Republican ticket, and much more.
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with
@Plinz
on minds from brains, environment & emotions, theories of consciousness, neural & symbolic AI, GPT3, "understanding", attention and agents, learning and memory, dreams & reality, parapsychology, psychedelics +++ Mind blower of an episode.
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I had a fun time on
@RafeKelley
‘s podcast. He was well prepared and we had a great conversation, mostly about
#GameB
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So convince me I'm wrong: the current manifestations of "crypto" aren't going anywhere because normies are incapable of managing private keys.
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🎙️ w/
@vervaeke_john
exploring **Awakening from the Meaning Crisis** (5/5).
Sacredness as inexhaustibility, religio & the perennial problems, reverse-engineering Enlightenment, the religion of no religion, “collective dynamic Socrates,” and much more.
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A lot of folks don’t not seem to understand that without biases AI would be useless. Knowledge is bias.
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The past and the future are separated by the consequential decisions we make in the ever scrolling NOW:
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🎙️ w/ Terrence Deacon on mind's emergence.
Integrating absence into our theories, synthesizing Shannon, Boltzmann & Bateson, rethinking the nervous system in non-computational terms, & much more.
+: an invitation to nominate guests for a new subseries.
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GameB inflected folks: I just accepted an invitation to give a talk about GameB and how to fund the transition to 100 or so big money managers, family offices, offspring of zillionaires, etc, who have raised their hand on being interested in alternatives to the current…
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It literally damages our social immune system against tyranny to normalize the suppression of ideas
by "elites".
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