EP 332 Worldviews: Jim Rutt

About this episode

Jim Rutt discusses his life and worldview in a faith development interview, covering topics from complexity science to human values.

In a special edition of the new Worldviews series, Brendan Graham Dempsey asks Jim about his life and worldview using a faith development interview. They discuss Jim's life chapters from growing up through becoming a complexity guy and GameB advocate, his age 11 epiphany that religion is bullshit after researching world religions at the library, the formative influence of his wife and parents who built lives from poverty, his realization that exponential growth on a finite planet driven by advertising and economic systems is destructive, understanding the limits of knowledge through complexity science and rejecting naive Newtonianism, his three core values of human well-being, ecological richness, and preserving humanity's path to bring the universe to life, the belief that humans may be the only general intelligence in the universe, the sacred as high-dimensional experiences that can't be explained scientifically, the importance of humility given how often we're wrong, the decision-making method of studying enough for a bullshitter's understanding then walking until reaching a conclusion, utilitarian deontology, human life as a leaf node on the tree of emergence, language and…

People in this episode

Host: Brendan Graham Dempsey

Guest: Jim Rutt

Topics covered

• worldview
• complexity science
• human well-being
• ecological richness
• decision-making
• emergence
• AI

Keywords

• worldviews
• complexity
• GameB
• human values
• decision-making
• emergence
• AI
• psychopathy
• supernatural
• religion

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Institute of Applied Metatheory

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