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Joe Norman is an applied complexity scientist with a focus on transforming insights gleaned from complex systems science into practical and implementable strategies and tactics for grappling with an increasingly uncertain and dynamic world. Joe is an Affilate at the New England Complex Systems Institute in Cambridge, MA, an instructor at the Real World Risk Institute, and founder of Applied Complexity Science, LLC. He lives in New Hampshire with his wife where they are focusing their energy on homesteading and local agriculture on an old mill property that has been an actively running homestead for over 130 years.

1. Introduction to Joe Norman and Complex Systems 5 minutes
   
2. Complexity Science 4 minutes
   
3. Wholes and Their Components 11 minutes
   
4. Irreducibility 3 minutes
   
5. Emergence 5 minutes
   
6. JJ Gibson, Conscious Cognition and Perception Learning 9 minutes
   
7. Complex Systems and Ensembles 7 minutes
   
8. Climate Science, Freeman Dyson and Methane Ice 7 minutes
   
9. GMOs and the Precautionary Principle 15 minutes
   

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Zachary Vorhies recently resigned as a senior software engineer at YouTube. Employed by Google since 2008, Vorhies collected a large cache of documents that he claims demonstrates that Google intentionally skews search results to drive a political agenda. Vorhies shared these documents with James O’Keefe of Project Veritas, which released a video about the documents on August 14, 2019. Vorhies’ candid interview with Jim Rutt was conducted five days later on August 19, 2019.

1. Meet Zack Vorhies, “The Snowden of Google” 12 minutes
2. Machine Learning Fairness and the Fairness Bias 8 minutes
3. Did Google Commit Perjury Before U.S. Congress? 7 minutes
4. Why Doesn’t Google AutoComplete match Search Patterns? 11 minutes
5. Has Google Interfered in U.S. and Foreign Elections? 5 minutes
6. “My Breaking Point” – Google and Covfefe 7 minutes

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Jordan is the Co-founder and Executive Chairman of the Neurohacker Collective. He is now in his 17th year of building disruptive technology companies. Jordan’s interests in comics, science fiction, computers, and way too much TV led to a deep dive into contemporary philosophy (particularly the works of Gilles Deleuze and Manuel DeLanda), artificial intelligence and complex systems science, and then, as the Internet was exploding into the world, a few years at Harvard Law School where he spent time with Larry Lessig, Jonathan Zittrain and Cornel West examining the coevolution of human civilization and technology.

1. Introduction: Thinking vs. Simulated Thinking 7 minutes
2. Game A is Over 25 minutes
3. Game Theory and Fragility 11 minutes
4. Complexity and Collapse 6 minutes
5. Superempowerment 11 minutes
6. Why The Tech Isn’t Going to Save Us 8 minutes
7. Game B and the Vulcan Spartans of Highland County 20 minutes
8. The Beauty of Game B 6 minutes

Transcript of The Jim Rutt Show featuring Jordan Hall

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Daniel Schmachtenberger is a founding member of The Consilience Project, aimed at improving public sensemaking and dialogue. The throughline of his interests has to do with ways of improving the health and development of individuals and society, with a virtuous relationship between the two as a goal. Towards these ends, he’s had particular interest in the topics of catastrophic and existential risk, civilization and institutional decay and collapse as well as progress, collective action problems, social organization theories, and the relevant domains in philosophy and science. Motivated by the belief that advancing collective intelligence and capacity is foundational to the integrity of any civilization, and necessary to address the unique risks we currently face given the intersection of globalization and exponential technology, he has spoken publicly on many of these topics, hoping to popularize and deepen important conversations and engage more people in working towards their solutions. Many of these can be found here.

1. Introduction and the Evolution of Technology
   11 minutes
2. We’ve Exceeded the Limits of Growth
   8 minutes
3. Tinkering with Liberal Democracy is Not a Solution
   10 minutes
4. Self Interest, Free Riders, Defectors and Tony Soprano
   13 minutes
5. Building a Non-Terminating Civilization + The Charismatic Sociopath
   18 minutes
6. Anti-Rivalrous Behavior, Maslow’s Hierarchy and “Game B” 7 minutes
7. The Open Source Society 15 minutes

Transcript of The Jim Rutt Show featuring Daniel Schmachtenberger

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Douglas Rushkoff is the host of the Team Human podcast and author of Team Human as well as a dozen other bestselling books on media, technology, and culture, including, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed, Media Virus, and the novel Ecstasy Club. He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens.

1. Introduction to Douglas Rushkoff 8 minutes
2. “Team Human,” Timothy Leary and the Long Boom 11 minutes
3. The Rise of the Attention Economy 16 minutes
4. Memes and Memetics 9 minutes
5. Figure and Ground; Money as an Operating System 8 minutes
6. Alternative Monetary Systems 7 minutes
7. “Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus” 12 minutes

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Lee Smolin is a theoretical physicist who has been since 2001 a founding and senior faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. His main contributions have been so far to the quantum theory of gravity, to which he has been a co-inventor and major contributor to two major directions, loop quantum gravity and deformed special relativity.

Lee also contributes to cosmology, through his proposal of cosmological natural selection — a falsifiable mechanism to explain the choice of the laws of physics. He has also contributed to quantum field theory, the foundations of quantum mechanics, theoretical biology, and the philosophy of science and economics. He is the author of more than 150 scientific papers and numerous essays and writings on science.

Lee also has written four books which explore philosophical issues raised by contemporary physics and cosmology. These are: Life of the Cosmos (1997), Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (2001), The Trouble with Physics (2006), and Time Reborn (2013). Most recently, he coauthored The Singular Universe and The Reality of Time with Roberto Mangabeira Unger.

1. Introduction to Lee Smolin and The Perimeter Institute 4 minutes
   
2. Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution 20 minutes
   
3. The Pilot Wave Theory 8 minutes
   
4. Quantum Physics after Bohm 10 minutes
   
5. The Multiverse and the Many-Worlds of Murray Gell-Mann 12 minutes
   
6. Quantum Foundations 6 minutes
   
7. The Life of the Cosmos and the Fermi Paradox 10 minutes
   
8. Entanglements, Noise and The Completion 10 minutes
   

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Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist, blogger, and co-editor of Boing Boing. He is the author of Radicalized and Walkaway, science fiction for adults; a young adult graphic novel called In Real Life; the nonfiction business book Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, and more.

Cory works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University, a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of South Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science, and the co-founder of the U.K. Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Los Angeles.

1. Introduction to Cory Doctorow and “Radicalized”  8 minutes
2. “Unauthorized Bread,” Techo-Utopians vs. Techno-Cassandras  20 minutes
3. Adversarial Interoperability + Walled Gardens  15 minutes
4. “Model Minority,” Racial Violence + Responsibility  7 minutes
5. “Radicalized,” Healthcare, Guns, InCel + AntiVax  17 minutes
6. “Masque of the Red Death,” Survivalism + Resilience  23 minutes

Transcript of The Jim Rutt Show featuring Cory Doctorow

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Robin Hanson is an Associate Professor of Economics, and received his Ph.D in 1997 in social sciences from Caltech. He joined George Mason’s economics faculty in 1999 after completing a two-year post-doc at U.C Berkely. His major fields of interest include health policy, regulation, and formal political theory.

Index to The Jim Rutt Show featuring Robin Hanson

1. Introduction and “The Age of Em” (00:00:00 – 00:36:00) = 36 minutes
2. Rates of Change (00:36:00 – 00:39:00) = 3 minutes
3. The Fermi Paradox (00:39:00 – 00:59:00) = 20 minutes
4. “The Elephant in the Brain” (00:59:00 – 01:14:00) = 15 minutes
5. Political Decision Making Section (01:14:00 – 01:26:00) = 12 minutes
6. Should We Publish Tax Returns? (01:26:00 – 01:37:00) = 11 minutes

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Simon DeDeo is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences, and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is also affiliated with the Cognitive Science program at Indiana University, where he runs the Laboratory for Social Minds. For three years, from 2010 to 2013, he was an Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute.

He and his collaborators study how people use words and signals, and the ideas they represent, to create a world. They have studied a diverse set of systems that includes the French Revolution, the courtrooms of Victorian London, the research strategies of Charles Darwin, the insurgency of modern-day Afghanistan, the emergent bureaucracy of Wikipedia, the creation of power hierarchies among the social animals, and the collusions and conspiracies of petrol stations in the American Midwest. They combine data from the contemporary world, archives from the deep past, statistical tools from cosmology, and models of human cognition from Bayesian reasoning and information theory to understand how cultures grow, flourish, innovate, and evolve.

Index to The Jim Rutt Show featuring Simon DeDeo

1. Introduction to Simon DeDeo (00:00:00 to 00:11:00) = 11 minutes
2. Noise vs. Signal: The Fermi Paradox (00:11:00 to 00:23:00) = 12 minutes
3. Social Media and Blocklists (00:23:00 to 00:48:00) = 25 minutes
4. Remembrances of Murray Gell-Mann (00:48:00 to 00:56:00) = 18 minutes
5. Cultural Evolution (00:56:00 to 01:13:00) = 17 minutes
6. Consciousness (01:13:00 to 01:30:00) = 17 minutes
7. Science Fiction (01:30:00 to 01:38:00) = 8 minutes

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