The Jim Rutt Show

Latest Episodes
EP 317 David Shapiro on Post-Labor Economics
Jim talks with David Shapiro about the ideas in his recent six-part Substack series on "post-labor economics."
EP 316 Ken Stanley on the AI Representation Problem
Jim talks with Ken Stanley about the Fractured Entanglement Representation hypothesis in deep learning neural networks.
EP 315 Ed Latimore on Hard Lessons from the Hurt Business
Jim talks with Ed Latimore about his new bookHard Lessons from the Hurt Business: Boxing and the Art of Life.
EP 314 Zak Stein and Marc Gafni on the Nature of Everything
Jim talks with Zak Stein and Marc Gafni about consciousness, attention, and value as fundamental aspects of reality.
EP 313 Chris Colin on Why Customer Service Sucks
Jim talks with Chris Colin about his recent Atlantic article "That Dropped Call with Customer Service? It Was on Purpose."
EP 312 Lee Cronin on Automating Chemistry
Jim talks with Lee Cronin about Chemify, his startup that aims to automate chemistry through "chemifarms" that turn code into molecules.
EP 311 Nicholas Humphrey on the Invention of Consciousness
Jim talks with Nicholas Humphrey about the ideas in his 2023 bookSentience: The Invention of Consciousness.
EP 310 Samo Burja on Anduril’s Plan to Modernize the US Military
Jim talks with Samo Burja about his report on the defense startup Anduril's plan to modernize the U.S. military.
EP 309 Richard David Hames on the Final Performance of Western Civilization?
Jim talks with Richard David Hames, picking up from the ideas in his recent Facebook essay about the decline of Western civilization.
EP 308 David Chapman on Rethinking Nobility
Jim talks with David Chapman about rethinking nobility for the modern age through his recent "nobility tetralogy" of essays.