The Jim Rutt Show

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. In this podcast, David and Jim begin with a discussion of complexity, reductionism and emergence, before taking off to explore the nature of time, the evolution of intelligence, th...

Joe Norman is affiliated with the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI), the Real World Risk Institute (RWRI), and Applied Complexity Science, LLC. In this podcast, Jim and Joe discuss applied complexity, emergence, climate science and GMOs.

Senior Google executives perjured themselves before Congress, says Google whistleblower Zachary "Zach" Vorhies on a special edition of The Jim Rutt Show

"Game A is over," says tech superstar, Jordan Hall, in an interview describing the inevitable collapse of the global economy and the rise of "Game B."

Is civilization doomed? "Yes," says Neurohacker Collective co-founder, evolutionary philosopher Daniel Schmachtenberger, when grilled by host Jim Rutt.

Jim Rutt interviews author and media critic, Douglas Rushkoff, about his new book, "Team Human," and the dangerous effects of technology on human beings.

Jim Rutt interviews physicist Lee Smolin of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics about his new book, Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist, blogger, and co-editor of Boing Boing. He is the author of the books "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 Resea...

Dr. Ben Goertzel is Chief Scientist of robotics firm Hanson Robotics and financial prediction firm Aidyia Holdings; Chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC and bioinformatics company Biomind LLC; Chairman of the Artificial General Intelligence Society and the OpenCog Foundation; Vice Chairman of futurist nonprofit Humanity+; Scientific Advisor of biopharma firm Genescient Corp.; Advisor to t...

Jim Rutt interviews Robin Hanson, an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University. His major fields of interest include health policy, regulation, and formal political theory. Subjects covered during the interview include "The Age of Em" , Rates of Change, The Fermi Paradox, "The Elephant in the Brain," Political Decision Making, and Should We Publish Tax Returns?

Jim Rutt interviews Carnegie-Mellon Assistant professor Simon DeDeo. Simon is also affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute and the Cognitive Science program at Indiana University, where he runs the Laboratory for Social Minds. DeDeo and his colleagues combine data from the contemporary world, archives from the deep past, statistical tools from cosmology, and models of human cognition from Bayesian...