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EP 346 Cory Doctorow on Why the Internet Got Worse and What to Do About It
Jun 2, 2026
56m 59s
EP 345 Worldviews: Tyson Yunkaporta on Ceremony, Skepticism, and Seeing in 3D
May 28, 2026
56m 56s
EP 344 Lisa Buckingham on Hiring for the AI Era
May 26, 2026
54m 56s
EP 343 Worldviews: Peter Wang on the Metaphysics of Quality, Sucker’s Bets, and Ofness
May 19, 2026
1h 26m 13s
EP 342 Worldviews: Jordan Hall on Reality as Relationship and Why the Dead Are Still With Us
May 5, 2026
1h 06m 24s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/2/26 | ![]() EP 346 Cory Doctorow on Why the Internet Got Worse and What to Do About It✨ | internet degradationenshittification+5 | Cory Doctorow | EFFAmazon+3 | — | internetenshittification+7 | — | 56m 59s | |
| 5/28/26 | ![]() EP 345 Worldviews: Tyson Yunkaporta on Ceremony, Skepticism, and Seeing in 3D✨ | worldviewindigenous knowledge+5 | Tyson Yunkaporta | Sand Talk | Apalech | indigenousknowledge systems+5 | — | 56m 56s | |
| 5/26/26 | ![]() EP 344 Lisa Buckingham on Hiring for the AI Era✨ | AI in hiringjob architecture+4 | Lisa Buckingham | Vialto PartnersUS Soccer+2 | — | AIhiring+6 | — | 54m 56s | |
| 5/19/26 | ![]() EP 343 Worldviews: Peter Wang on the Metaphysics of Quality, Sucker’s Bets, and Ofness✨ | metaphysics of qualitymodernity and defection+4 | Peter Wang | AnacondaCenter for Humane Technology+4 | — | metaphysicsquality+6 | — | 1h 26m 13s | |
| 5/5/26 | ![]() EP 342 Worldviews: Jordan Hall on Reality as Relationship and Why the Dead Are Still With Us✨ | worldviewconsciousness+5 | Jordan Hall | Minimum Viable Metaphysicssmorthodox Christianity+2 | — | consciousnessreality+5 | — | 1h 06m 24s | |
| 4/23/26 | ![]() EP 341 Worldviews: Bonnitta Roy on Post-Formal Actors, Stage Theory, and the Character Void in Leadership✨ | worldviewleadership+4 | Bonnitta Roy | Pop-Up SchoolDivinity School | — | post-formal actorsstage theory+6 | — | 1h 18m 57s | |
| 4/21/26 | ![]() EP 340 Worldviews: Liv Boeree on Poker, Moloch, and the Art of Finding Win-Wins✨ | consciousnesspoker+5 | Liv Boeree | Win-Win PodcastTelepathy Tapes podcast+1 | — | consciousnesspoker+8 | — | 1h 25m 44s | |
| 4/14/26 | ![]() EP 339 John Krakauer on Why Neuroscience Needs Behavior✨ | neurosciencebehavior+4 | John Krakauer | Johns HopkinsSFI+1 | — | neurosciencebehavior+7 | — | 1h 04m 36s | |
| 4/2/26 | ![]() EP 338 Jeff Giesea on Dionysian Futurism, Reading Great Books in the AI Era, and Rebalancing Generational Power✨ | Dionysian FuturismAI and humanity+4 | Jeff Giesea | Boyd InstituteThe Birth of Tragedy+2 | — | Dionysian Futurismgenerational decline+6 | — | 59m 03s | |
| 3/27/26 | ![]() EP 337 Worldviews: Philip Rosedale on Emergent Worlds, Localism, and What Building Second Life Taught Him About Humanity✨ | virtual worldsself and society+4 | Philip Rosedale | Linden LabSecond Life | — | Second Lifevirtual worlds+7 | — | 1h 07m 20s | |
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| 3/17/26 | ![]() EP 336 Rufus Pollock on the Wisdom Gap and the Second Renaissance✨ | wisdom gapSecond Renaissance+4 | Rufus Pollock | Open Knowledge FoundationOpen Revolution | — | wisdomdemocracy+5 | — | 1h 23m 07s | |
| 3/6/26 | ![]() EP 335 Worldviews: Samantha Sweetwater✨ | human identityGaian perspective+5 | Samantha Sweetwater | True Human: Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World | — | human identityGaian+6 | — | 1h 02m 01s | |
| 2/26/26 | ![]() EP 334 Worldviews: Joscha Bach✨ | consciousnessAI+4 | Joscha Bach | Waymo | — | consciousnessmind+6 | — | 1h 03m 16s | |
| 2/19/26 | ![]() EP 333 Worldviews: Iain McGilchrist✨ | consciousnessnature of reality+5 | Iain McGilchrist | The Jim Rutt Show | — | consciousnessmatter+6 | — | 1h 12m 13s | |
| 2/17/26 | ![]() EP 332 Worldviews: Jim Rutt✨ | worldviewcomplexity science+5 | Jim Rutt | Institute of Applied Metatheory | — | worldviewscomplexity+8 | — | 1h 07m 19s | |
| 1/29/26 | ![]() EP 331 Worldviews: Michael Shermer | Jim talks with Michael Shermer about his worldview and his new book, Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters. They discuss Michael's self-identification as a monist and realist who believes in a physical objective world, the concept of fallibilism, intersubjective verification of the interobjective, reliance on authorities and institutions, the battle between the book of authority versus the book of nature, balancing rationality with empiricism, the dependence of mathematical truths on axioms, January 6 as an example of people acting rationally on false beliefs, Shermer's journey from born-again Christian to atheist and Jim's opposite journey from Catholicism to atheism, treating religious literature like great literature with deeper truths, the study of consciousness and the hard problem versus the easy problem, separating intelligence from consciousness, consciousness as a biological process like digestion, the question of machine sentience, a critique of Donald Hoffman's interface theory, evidence for veridical perception through mimicry in nature and animals climbing trees, skepticism about brain-in-a-vat and simulation scenarios, minimum viable metaphysics, Thomas Nagel's concept of one thought too many, Jonathan Rauch's constitution of knowledge, the replication crisis in psychology, the breakdown of trust in institutions due to COVID and the noble lie, the problem of scaling laws with followership, moral realism and the survival and flourishing of sentient beings, the principle of interchangeable perspectives, discovering moral values through problem-solving, the evolution of ethics and the expanding moral sphere, and much more. Episode Transcript Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters, by Michael Shermer The Michael Shermer Show Why People Believe Weird Things, by Michael Shermer The Believing Brain, by Michael Shermer Why Darwin Matters, by Michael Shermer The Science of Good and Evil, by Michael Shermer Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational, by Michael Shermer "A Minimum Viable Metaphysics," by Jim Rutt JRS EP 287 - Jonathan Rauch on the Epistemic Crisis Dr. Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine and the host of the podcast The Michael Shermer Show. For 30 years he taught college and university courses in critical thinking, and for 18 years he was a monthly columnist for Scientific American. He is the author of New York Times bestsellers Why People Believe Weird Things and The Believing Brain, Why Darwin Matters, The Science of Good and Evil, The Moral Arc, Heavens on Earth, Giving the Devil His Due, and Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational. His new book is Truth: What it is, How to Find it, Why it Still Matters. Follow him on X @michaelshermer. | — | ||||||
| 1/22/26 | ![]() EP 330 Worldviews: Ben Goertzel | Jim talks with Ben Goertzel about his worldview. They discuss Ben's morning experience of consciousness crystallizing from ambient awareness, his identification as a panpsychic, the concept of pattern being more fundamental than stuff, Charles Peirce's ontology of first/second/third, the idea of uryphysics as a broader notion of physics beyond metaphysics, parapsychology and psi phenomena including remote viewing and Project Stargate, reincarnation-like phenomena and cases from India, experimental design in parapsychology research, the legitimation of both AGI and psi research, the consciousness explosion occurring alongside AI/ASI development, Jeffrey Martin's work on fundamental well-being and persistent nonsymbolic experience, the immense design space of possible minds, human cognitive limitations like seven plus or minus two short-term memory, the single-threaded nature of human consciousness versus potential multi-threaded ASI, scenarios for beneficial superintelligence and options for humans to remain in human form or upload, the question of how long human existence would remain interesting post-singularity, psychedelics as tools for accessing different states of consciousness and insights into mind construction, the absence of shamanic institutions in modern culture, experiences with DMT and heroic doses, holding multiple contradictory perspectives simultaneously, Walt Whitman's notion of containing multitudes, Ben's intuitive sense that consciousness and the basic ground of being are fundamentally joyful and compassionate, arguments for why superintelligence will likely be good based on efficiency of mutually trusting agents, and much more. Episode Transcript The Consciousness Explosion, by Ben Goertzel JRS EP 217 Ben Goertzel on a New Framework for AGI JRS EP 211 Ben Goertzel on Generative AI vs. AGI JRS Currents 072: Ben Goertzel on Viable Paths to True AGI Evidence for Psi: Thirteen Empirical Research Reports, ed. Damien Broderick & Ben Goertzel Dr. Ben Goertzel is a cross-disciplinary scientist, entrepreneur and author. Born in Brazil to American parents, in 2020 after a long stretch living in Hong Kong he relocated his primary base of operations to a rural island near Seattle. He leads the SingularityNET Foundation, the OpenCog Foundation, and the AGI Society which runs the annual Artificial General Intelligence conference. Dr. Goertzel’s research work encompasses multiple areas including artificial general intelligence, natural language processing, cognitive science, machine learning, computational finance, bioinformatics, virtual worlds, gaming, parapsychology, theoretical physics and more. | — | ||||||
| 1/15/26 | ![]() EP 329 Worldviews: David Krakauer | In the inaugural episode of a new series, Jim talks with David Krakauer about his intellectual formation and worldview. They discuss what woke up as David this morning, his commitments to chance and pattern seeking, his epiphany about the idea of the idea at age 12 or 13, his perverse attraction to the arcane and difficult, evolution as integral to intelligence, the risk-averse character of scholars and the sociology of science, the Santa Fe Institute's attempt to maintain revolutionary science, the Ouroboros concept challenging foundationalism in epistemology, the standard model of physics as foundational versus the view that you can establish foundations anywhere, string theory as a slowly dying pseudoscience, whether beauty is a useful guide in science, emergence and broken symmetries, Phil Anderson's "More is Different" paper, the Wigner reversal and the shift from law to initial conditions, rejecting both weak and strong emergence, effective theories and causally justified concepts, downward causality, micrograining versus coarse graining, the distinction between abiotic and biotic systems, games and puzzles as model systems for complexity, combinatorial solution spaces, heuristics as dimensional reducers and potentially the golden road to AGI, Isaiah Berlin's influence on David's worldview, negative versus positive liberties, value pluralism and historicity, the Fermi paradox and the possibility of alien life, the rational versus the irrational in human life, and much more. Episode Transcript JRS EP 192 - David Krakauer on Science, Complexity and AI JRS EP10 - David Krakauer: Complexity Science The Complex World: An Introduction to the Foundations of Complexity Science, by David Krakauer Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019, by David Krakauer History, Big History, & Metahistory, by David Krakauer "A Minimum Viable Metaphysics," by Jim Rutt "More Is Different," by P.W. Anderson The Emergence of Everything, by Harold Morowitz David Krakauer’s research explores the evolution of intelligence and stupidity on Earth. This includes studying the evolution of genetic, neural, linguistic, social, and cultural mechanisms supporting memory and information processing, and exploring their shared properties. President of the Santa Fe Institute since 2015, he served previously as the founding director of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, the co-director of the Center for Complexity and Collective Computation, and professor of mathematical genetics, all at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. | — | ||||||
| 11/4/25 | ![]() EP 328 Brendan Graham Dempsey Interviews Jim Rutt on Minimum Viable Metaphysics | In this flipped episode, Brendan Graham Dempsey interviews Jim about the ideas in his recent Substack essays "A Minimum Viable Metaphysics" and "What I Mean by 'Metaphysics'." They discuss metaphysics as assumptions for learning and reasoning, the difference between deduction, induction, & abduction, Jim's belief that there are no paradoxes in the real world, the reality principle, the asymmetry principle, the lawfulness principle, the potential stochastic nature of reality, why determinism and lawfulness aren't the same, consciousness in the tree of emergence, why emergence is important, causal time, downward causality as the main claim of emergence, temporal reciprocal emergence, Jim's reputation for drawing a firearm when the word metaphysics is used, the weak & strong anthropic principles, and much more. | — | ||||||
| 10/15/25 | ![]() EP 327 Nate Soares on Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All | Jim talks with Nate Soares about the ideas in his and Eliezer Yudkowsky's book If Anybody Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All. They discuss the book's claim that mitigating existential AI risk should be a top global priority, the idea that LLMs are grown, the opacity of deep learning networks, the Golden Gate activation vector, whether our understanding of deep learning networks might improve enough to prevent catastrophe, goodness as a narrow target, the alignment problem, the problem of pointing minds, whether LLMs are just stochastic parrots, why predicting a corpus often requires more mental machinery than creating a corpus, depth & generalization of skills, wanting as an effective strategy, goal orientation, limitations of training goal pursuit, transient limitations of current AI, protein folding and AlphaFold, the riskiness of automating alignment research, the correlation between capability and more coherent drives, why the authors anchored their argument on transformers & LLMs, the inversion of Moravec's paradox, the geopolitical multipolar trap, making world leaders aware of the issues, a treaty to ban the race to superintelligence, the specific terms of the proposed treaty, a comparison with banning uranium enrichment, why Jim tentatively thinks this proposal is a mistake, a priesthood of the power supply, whether attention is a zero-sum game, and much more. | — | ||||||
| 10/14/25 | ![]() EP 326 Alex Ebert on New Age, Manifestation, and Collective Hallucination | 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." They discuss the meanings of New Age and religion, the New Thought movement, the law of attraction, manifesting, Trump's artifacts of manifestation, the unmooring from concrete artifacts, individual and collective hallucinations, intersubjective verification of the interobjective, the subjective-first perspective, epistemic asymmetry as the cool, New Ageism's constant reference to quantum physics, manifesting as a way to negate social responsibility, the odd coincidence of leaving the gold standard and New Ageism, spiritual bypassing, a global derealization, new retribalized collective delusions, the Faustian bargain of AI, rationality as a virus, the noble lie, indeterminacy as a sign of emergence, nostalgia as a sales pitch, regaining the sense of hypocrisy, localized retribalizations, GameB as a series of membranes, and much more. | — | ||||||
| 10/7/25 | ![]() EP 325 Joe Edelman on Full-Stack AI Alignment | Jim talks with Joe Edelman about the ideas in the Meaning Alignment Institute's recent paper "Full Stack Alignment: Co-Aligning AI and Institutions with Thick Models of Value." They discuss pluralism as a core principle in designing social systems, the informational basis for alignment, how preferential models fail to capture what people truly care about, the limitations of markets and voting as preference-based systems, critiques of text-based approaches in LLMs, thick models of value, values as attentional policies, AI assistants as potential vectors for manipulation, the need for reputation systems and factual grounding, the "super negotiator" project for better contract negotiation, multipolar traps, moral graph elicitation, starting with membranes, Moloch-free zones, unintended consequences and lessons from early Internet optimism, concentration of power as a key danger, co-optation risks, and much more. | — | ||||||
| 9/11/25 | ![]() EP 324 John Preston on 40 Flushes to Grow Your Business | Jim talks with John Preston about his book 40 Flushes to Grow Your Business: The World's #2 Business Series, which is designed to be read during bathroom breaks. They discuss breaking free from being a one-person show, hiring self-guided employees, the importance of business owner support networks, clarity on business goals & personal objectives, the five-gear growth machine business metrics model, marketing fundamentals & investment levels, understanding the customer journey, social media pitfalls, customer inquiry response strategies, complaint management, CEO time management & delegation, working capital needs, lifestyle creep, measuring business metrics, gross profit vs net profit, building high-trust company cultures, transparency with employees, marketing strategies & customer acquisition, hiring & retention strategies, and much more. | — | ||||||
| 9/9/25 | ![]() EP 323 Pablos Holman on Deep Tech | Jim talks with Pablos Holman about the ideas in his new book Deep Future: Creating Technology That Matters. They discuss deep tech versus shallow tech, computational modeling and simulation for real-world problems, the hacker mindset, the role of inventors, nuclear power and renewable energy solutions, population growth, development challenges, space-based solar power, the likelihood of fusion power, mistakes in German energy policy, energy storage limitations, the transformation of the apparel industry through automation, and much more. | — | ||||||
| 9/4/25 | ![]() EP 322 Brendan Graham Dempsey on Psyche and Symbolic Learning | Jim talks with Brendan Graham Dempsey about the ideas in his book Psyche and Symbolic Learning, volume 2 in his Evolution of Meaning series. We discussed hierarchical complexity, stage theories of development, constructivism & realism, dynamic skill theory, the Lectical Scale, ego development & consciousness, meaning systems & worldviews, cross-cultural developmental patterns, statistical distributions of developmental stages, the relationship between semantic richness & structural complexity, justification systems theory & cultural evolution, & much more. | — | ||||||
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