The Jim Rutt Show

The Jim Rutt Show


Latest Episodes

EP 327 Nate Soares on Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
October 15, 2025

Jim talks with Nate Soares about the ideas in his and Eliezer Yudkowsky's bookIf Anybody Builds It, Everybody Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All.

EP 326 Alex Ebert on New Age, Manifestation, and Collective Hallucination
October 14, 2025

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."

EP 325 Joe Edelman on Full-Stack AI Alignment
October 07, 2025

Jim talks with Joe Edelman about the Meaning Alignment Institute's paper "Full Stack Alignment: Co-Aligning AI and Institutions with Thick Models of Value."

EP 324 John Preston on 40 Flushes to Grow Your Business
September 11, 2025

Jim talks with John Preston about his book40 Flushes to Grow Your Business: The World's #2 Business Series, which is designed to be read during bathroom breaks.

EP 323 Pablos Holman on Deep Tech
September 09, 2025

Jim talks with Pablos Holman about the ideas in his new bookDeep Future: Creating Technology That Matters.

EP 322 Brendan Graham Dempsey on Psyche and Symbolic Learning
September 04, 2025

Jim talks with Brendan Graham Dempsey about the ideas in his bookPsyche and Symbolic Learning, volume 2 in his Evolution of Meaning series.

EP 321 James Fadiman and Jordan Gruber on Microdosing Psychedelics
September 02, 2025

Jim talks with James Fadiman and Jordan Gruber about the findings in their recent bookMicrodosing for Health, Healing, and Enhanced Performance.

EP 319 Lawrence Cahoone on Emergence and Natural Order
August 21, 2025

Jim talks with Lawrence Cahoone about the ideas in his bookThe Orders of Nature.

EP 318 Adam B. Levine on Thinking on Demand
August 14, 2025

Jim talks with Adam B. Levine about humanity's rapidly changing relationship with AI and "thinking on demand."