

The Jim Rutt Show
The Jim Rutt Show
Crisp conversations with critical thinkers at the leading edge of science, technology, politics, and social systems.
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Sep 12, 2019 • 1h 20min
EP12 Brian Nosek – Open Science and Reproducibility
Brian Nosek is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Open Science (COS) that operates the Open Science Framework. COS is enabling open and reproducible research practices worldwide. Brian is also a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2002.
Brian co-founded Project Implicit, an multi-university collaboration for research and education investigating implicit cognition — thoughts and feelings that occur outside of awareness or control. Brian investigates the gap between values and practices, such as when behavior is influenced by factors other than one's intentions and goals. Research applications of this interest include implicit bias, decision-making, attitudes, ideology, morality, innovation, and barriers to change. Nosek applies this interest to improve the alignment between personal and organizational values and practices.
Introduction to Brian Nosek and the Center for Open Science 9 minutes
Registered Reports = Publication + Funding 23 minutes
Open Science, Open Source, Open Data, Open Code 14 minutes
Peer Review, Open Access, OSF Preprints 8 minutes
The Reproducibility Project and Experimental Design 11 minutes
The Implicit Association Test and Project Implicit 6 minutes
Transcripts for The Jim Rutt Show featuring Brian Nosek
Keynames for EP12:
Jim Rutt, Brian Nosek, Santa Fe Institute, Center for Open Science, University of Virginia, "Nature", "Human Behavior", "eLIFE", GitHub, Open Science Framework, OSF, Thomson-Reuters, Westlaw, Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines, TOP Guidelines, National Institutes of Health, NIH, National Science Foundation, NSF, Rebecca Sachs, MIT Brain and Cognitive Science, Eli Broad, Broad Institute, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Wiley, OSF Preprints, arXiv, bioRxiv, PeerJ, CogPrints, Reproducibility Project, Charles R. Ebersole, Daniel J. Simons, Philip Zimbardo, Stanford prison experiment, Stanley Milgram, Milgram experiment, Project Implicit, Mahzarin Banaji, Anthony Greenwald, Blindspot
Keywords for EP12:
Jim Rutt, Brian Nosek, audio, podcast, interview, reproducibility, irreproducibility, confirmation, replication, verifiability, failure to replicate, selective reporting, science governance, scientific papers, scientific publications, scientific journals, open source, open science, open source science, open access publication, open data, open code, registered reports, psychological experiments, incentives, motivation, process transparency, information integrity, reward badges, peer review, publication bias, confirmation bias, research articles, research reports, TOP guidelines, medical research, scientific research, biomedical research, open source software, software code, citations, core operating facilities, FAIR data, ontology, data integration, paywalls, preprints, preprint server, experimental design, implicit bias, blindspot, implicit association test

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Sep 9, 2019 • 1h 15min
EP11 Dave Snowden and Systems Thinking
Dave Snowden is Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Cognitive Edge. His work is international in nature and covers government and industry looking at complex issues relating to strategy and organizational decision-making. He has pioneered a science-based approach to organizations drawing on anthropology, neuroscience, and complex adaptive systems theory. He is a popular and passionate keynote speaker on a range of subjects, and is well-known for his pragmatic cynicism and iconoclastic style.
Dave holds visiting Chairs at the Universities of Pretoria and Hong Kong Polytechnic University as well as a visiting fellowship at the University of Warwick. He is a senior fellow at the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies at Nanyang University and the Civil Service College in Singapore.
Introduction to Dave Snowden and Cynefin 13 minutes
Complicated vs. Complex + Apex Predator Theory 14 minutes
Agent-Based Modeling + "Anticipatory Triggers" 9 minutes
Artificial Intelligence + Chomsky Bashing 9 minutes
Practical Applications for Managers 9 minutes
Downward Causality + Red Team 6 minutes
SenseMaker Software 6 minutes
Mapping the Present 8 minutes
Transcripts for The Jim Rutt Show featuring Dave Snowden
Keynames this Episode:
Jim Rutt, Dave Snowden, Santa Fe Institute, SFI, Cognitive Edge, Cynefin, SenseMaker, University of Pretoria, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, University of Warwick, IBM, DARPA, Harvard Business Review, HBR, Stuart Koffman, Walter Freeman, Ralph Stacey, Luis Lobo-Guerrero, David Chandler, René Thom, Clayton Christensen, Extinction Rebellion, Thomson-Reuters, Murray Gell-Man, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Vilfredo Pareto, Nassim Taleb, David Wolpert, Gary Marcus, Ben Goertzel, Josh Tenenbaum, Ogletree Deakins, Noam Chomsky, Jacques Lacan, Ayn Rand, "Nudge", "Thinking, Fast and Slow", Daniel Kahneman, Baxter, VECO, Rikolto, Myers-Briggs, Andy Clark
Keywords this Episode:
Jim Rutt, Dave Snowden, audio, podcast, interview, decision-making, strategy, design, knowledge management, business management, process engineering, management science, complexity, cognitive neuroscience, order, chaos, disorder, constrained, enabling constraints, competence induced failure, symbiosis, populism, Ebola, contagion, Apex Predator, global warming, Hong Kong protests, China strategy, coevolutionary fitness landscapes, agent-based model, simulation, correlation, causation, downward causality, Gaussian distribution, Pareto distribution, artificial intelligence, AI, general artificial intelligence, AGI, symbolic AI, deep learning, anticipatory triggers, counterterrorism, 9/11, No Free Lunch Theorem, Alpha Go, abstraction, epigenetics, intelligence, autism, evolutionary biology, philosophy of mind, behavioral economics, diversity, dissent, red team, narrative, business scan, employee survey, employee evaluation, employee review, assessments, 360-degree assessments, cultural evolution, agile development, Six Sigma, astrology

Sep 3, 2019 • 1h 10min
EP10 David Krakauer: Complexity Science
David Krakauer is President and William H. Miller Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute. David’s research focuses on the evolutionary history of information processing mechanisms in biology and culture. This includes genetic, neural, linguistic and cultural mechanisms. The research spans multiple levels of organization, seeking analogous patterns and principles in genetics, cell biology, microbiology and in organismal behavior and society.
Introduction to David Krakauer and the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) 5 minutes
Complexity, Reductionism, Emergence + Causality 15 minutes
Time, Entropy + Selection 7 minutes
Cutting Edge Complexity + Theory of Circuits 7 minutes
The Evolution of Intelligence and Stupidity 9 minutes
Order, Discipline, Policing + Trust 9 minutes
Effusive Memetics + Constitutions as Code 10 minutes
How Complexity Science has Changed the World 8 minutes
Transcripts for The Jim Rutt Show featuring David Krakauer
Keynames this Episode:
Jim Rutt, David Krakauer, Santa Fe Institute, SFI, Henri Poincaré, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Hendrik Lorentz, Dave Snowden, Stephen Wolfram, Sherlock Holmes, D.H. Peregrine, Arthur Eddington, Charles Darwin, Geoffrey West, Murray Gell-Mann, Charles Bennett, David Deutsch, Alan Turing, Trent McConaghy, Joshua Grochow, Werner Heisenberg, Seth Lloyd, Jessica Flack, Bryan Daniels, Eddie Lee, Facebook, Dan Rockmore, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, John Holland, Simm City, Minecraft, Frances Arnold, James Webb Space Telescope
Keywords this Episode:
Jim Rutt, David Krakauer, audio, podcast, interview, complexity, complex systems, evolution, evolution of intelligence, adaptive phenomenon, scaling theory, network theory, genetic algorithms, nonlinear dynamics, celestial mathematics, chaos studies, reductionism, emergence, Rule 120, causality, top-down causality, billiard ball causality, complex causality, machine learning, energy flux, single-cause systems, time, nature of time, arrow of time, entropy, selection, Red Queen dynamic, symmetries, encoded contingencies, energetics, information science, information transfer, computation, evolutionary computing, algorithm, Kolmogorov Complexity, Turing Machines, halting problem, theory of circuits, prediction, knowledge, artificial intelligence, AI, artificial general intelligence, AGI, Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, rule systems, God algorithm, quantum systems, policing, enforcement, robustness, consensus-generating mechanisms, trust, corruption, blockchain, crypto-currency, biomimickry, constitution, meme, memetic, effusive memetics, adaptation, network theory, evolutionary algorithms, quantum computation, prediction markets, climate science, climate models, Fermi Paradox

Aug 27, 2019 • 1h 8min
EP9 Joe Norman: Applied Complexity
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.
Introduction to Joe Norman and Complex Systems 5 minutes
Complexity Science 4 minutes
Wholes and Their Components 11 minutes
Irreducibility 3 minutes
Emergence 5 minutes
JJ Gibson, Conscious Cognition and Perception Learning 9 minutes
Complex Systems and Ensembles 7 minutes
Climate Science, Freeman Dyson and Methane Ice 7 minutes
GMOs and the Precautionary Principle 15 minutes
Transcripts for The Jim Rutt Show featuring Joe Norman

Aug 21, 2019 • 51min
Special Episode: Zachary Vorhies
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.
Meet Zack Vorhies, "The Snowden of Google" 12 minutes
Machine Learning Fairness and the Fairness Bias 8 minutes
Did Google Commit Perjury Before U.S. Congress? 7 minutes
Why Doesn't Google AutoComplete match Search Patterns? 11 minutes
Has Google Interfered in U.S. and Foreign Elections? 5 minutes
"My Breaking Point" - Google and Covfefe 7 minutes

Aug 19, 2019 • 1h 34min
EP8 Jordan “Greenhall” Hall and Game B
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.
Introduction: Thinking vs. Simulated Thinking 7 minutes
Game A is Over 25 minutes
Game Theory and Fragility 11 minutes
Complexity and Collapse 6 minutes
Superempowerment 11 minutes
Why The Tech Isn't Going to Save Us 8 minutes
Game B and the Vulcan Spartans of Highland County 20 minutes
The Beauty of Game B 6 minutes
Transcript of The Jim Rutt Show featuring Jordan Hall

Aug 12, 2019 • 1h 23min
EP7 Daniel Schmachtenberger and the Evolution of Technology
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.
Introduction and the Evolution of Technology
11 minutes
We've Exceeded the Limits of Growth
8 minutes
Tinkering with Liberal Democracy is Not a Solution
10 minutes
Self Interest, Free Riders, Defectors and Tony Soprano
13 minutes
Building a Non-Terminating Civilization + The Charismatic Sociopath
18 minutes
Anti-Rivalrous Behavior, Maslow's Hierarchy and "Game B" 7 minutes
The Open Source Society 15 minutes
Transcript of The Jim Rutt Show featuring Daniel Schmachtenberger

Aug 5, 2019 • 1h 12min
EP 6 Douglas Rushkoff – Memetics, Money + TeamHuman
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.
Introduction to Douglas Rushkoff 8 minutes
"Team Human," Timothy Leary and the Long Boom 11 minutes
The Rise of the Attention Economy 16 minutes
Memes and Memetics 9 minutes
Figure and Ground; Money as an Operating System 8 minutes
Alternative Monetary Systems 7 minutes
"Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus" 12 minutes
Transcript of The Jim Rutt Show featuring Douglas Rushkoff

Jul 26, 2019 • 1h 19min
EP5 Lee Smolin – Quantum Foundations and Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution
Lee Smolin, a renowned theoretical physicist and senior faculty member at the Perimeter Institute, dives into the core of quantum gravity and cosmology. He explores Einstein's unfinished revolution, emphasizing the need for a unified theory of quantum mechanics and gravity. Smolin discusses the pilot wave theory and its implications for our understanding of reality. He also presents his thought-provoking cosmological natural selection theory, pondering the Fermi Paradox. With insights on quantum entanglement, Smolin challenges our perspectives on the universe and existence.

Jul 19, 2019 • 1h 31min
EP4 Cory Doctorow – “Radicalized,” Race and Resilience
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.
Introduction to Cory Doctorow and "Radicalized" 8 minutes
"Unauthorized Bread," Techo-Utopians vs. Techno-Cassandras 20 minutes
Adversarial Interoperability + Walled Gardens 15 minutes
"Model Minority," Racial Violence + Responsibility 7 minutes
"Radicalized," Healthcare, Guns, InCel + AntiVax 17 minutes
"Masque of the Red Death," Survivalism + Resilience 23 minutes
Transcript of The Jim Rutt Show featuring Cory Doctorow
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