Jim Rutt
@jimrutt.bsky.social
Jim Rutt Show podcast, Santa Fe Institute, Game B, GameBfilm.org, Network Wars mobile game, NetworkWars.com bio: https://tinyurl.com/y4kuaxen
"People don't know anything, and they know less about time than anything."
I summarize the two most popular theories on time in this interview with @brendangdempsey.bsky.social, and explain why I think they're both probably wrong. Full episode link below 👇
I summarize the two most popular theories on time in this interview with @brendangdempsey.bsky.social, and explain why I think they're both probably wrong. Full episode link below 👇
November 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
"People don't know anything, and they know less about time than anything."
I summarize the two most popular theories on time in this interview with @brendangdempsey.bsky.social, and explain why I think they're both probably wrong. Full episode link below 👇
I summarize the two most popular theories on time in this interview with @brendangdempsey.bsky.social, and explain why I think they're both probably wrong. Full episode link below 👇
"The AI figured out that the server wasn't started up, hacked its way out of the test environment... and started the server back up from the outside...
That's not a type of behavior AI was trained for directly."
- @intelligence.org's Nate Soares on why LLMs can do more than they were trained to do
That's not a type of behavior AI was trained for directly."
- @intelligence.org's Nate Soares on why LLMs can do more than they were trained to do
October 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"The AI figured out that the server wasn't started up, hacked its way out of the test environment... and started the server back up from the outside...
That's not a type of behavior AI was trained for directly."
- @intelligence.org's Nate Soares on why LLMs can do more than they were trained to do
That's not a type of behavior AI was trained for directly."
- @intelligence.org's Nate Soares on why LLMs can do more than they were trained to do
"You have more options to wire and to let go of patterns that aren't working for you and to create new patterns that are going to work for you over time."
- Jordan Gruber on known benefits of microdosing psychedelics
- Jordan Gruber on known benefits of microdosing psychedelics
September 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"You have more options to wire and to let go of patterns that aren't working for you and to create new patterns that are going to work for you over time."
- Jordan Gruber on known benefits of microdosing psychedelics
- Jordan Gruber on known benefits of microdosing psychedelics
"Like any highly flexible general-purpose tool, you have to build your own mental model of what it can and cannot do and how to use it."
- David Shapiro on rapidly changing AI capabilities and the development of intuition
- David Shapiro on rapidly changing AI capabilities and the development of intuition
August 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
"Like any highly flexible general-purpose tool, you have to build your own mental model of what it can and cannot do and how to use it."
- David Shapiro on rapidly changing AI capabilities and the development of intuition
- David Shapiro on rapidly changing AI capabilities and the development of intuition
"The Columbia naturalists... accepted that all qualities and features of human life ... are as natural as anything else in nature. ... Then they added this objective relativism, which said, we don't know what it's like or what it means to say that an object exists in isolation."
- Lawrence Cahoone
- Lawrence Cahoone
August 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"The Columbia naturalists... accepted that all qualities and features of human life ... are as natural as anything else in nature. ... Then they added this objective relativism, which said, we don't know what it's like or what it means to say that an object exists in isolation."
- Lawrence Cahoone
- Lawrence Cahoone
"Literally what we've done is we've taken all of chemistry and built a programming language and a series of systems that allow us to dial a molecule... You come to us with a chemical problem or specification, we will design molecules to it."
@leecronin.bsky.social on Chemify
@leecronin.bsky.social on Chemify
July 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Literally what we've done is we've taken all of chemistry and built a programming language and a series of systems that allow us to dial a molecule... You come to us with a chemical problem or specification, we will design molecules to it."
@leecronin.bsky.social on Chemify
@leecronin.bsky.social on Chemify
"It's muddying the waters. Nonetheless, of course, because it's so romantic and in some sense just because it's so crazy, people latch onto it and love to talk about it."
- Nicholas Humphrey approving of California Institute of Machine Consciousness's rejection of panpsychism
- Nicholas Humphrey approving of California Institute of Machine Consciousness's rejection of panpsychism
July 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"It's muddying the waters. Nonetheless, of course, because it's so romantic and in some sense just because it's so crazy, people latch onto it and love to talk about it."
- Nicholas Humphrey approving of California Institute of Machine Consciousness's rejection of panpsychism
- Nicholas Humphrey approving of California Institute of Machine Consciousness's rejection of panpsychism
"One of the most basic observations we can make about the world is that the vast majority of people act on scripts—essentially roles that have been defined in advance."
- Samo Burja on his distinction between live and dead players
- Samo Burja on his distinction between live and dead players
July 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"One of the most basic observations we can make about the world is that the vast majority of people act on scripts—essentially roles that have been defined in advance."
- Samo Burja on his distinction between live and dead players
- Samo Burja on his distinction between live and dead players
"Politics and democracy actually don't mix. I really don't think the way politics is practiced, the two can coexist. They're opposed."
- @richardhames.bsky.social on what inspired his recent polemical post on the decline of Western civilization
- @richardhames.bsky.social on what inspired his recent polemical post on the decline of Western civilization
July 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
"Politics and democracy actually don't mix. I really don't think the way politics is practiced, the two can coexist. They're opposed."
- @richardhames.bsky.social on what inspired his recent polemical post on the decline of Western civilization
- @richardhames.bsky.social on what inspired his recent polemical post on the decline of Western civilization
"Simultaneously, there's been a lack of positive innovation on the whole over the past half-century, and at the same time, there's a sense that our institutions are failing... And my argument is that the lack of a coherent, current understanding of nobility is a big part of that."
- David Chapman
- David Chapman
July 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
"Simultaneously, there's been a lack of positive innovation on the whole over the past half-century, and at the same time, there's a sense that our institutions are failing... And my argument is that the lack of a coherent, current understanding of nobility is a big part of that."
- David Chapman
- David Chapman
"All of a sudden Magnus Carlsen plays this move. And this move shows Stockfish going into madness and saying, oh my God. What a big mistake! And all the commentators are pondering... How can he make such a blunder?"
@andersindset.bsky.social on the World Chess Championship and multipolar traps
@andersindset.bsky.social on the World Chess Championship and multipolar traps
June 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"All of a sudden Magnus Carlsen plays this move. And this move shows Stockfish going into madness and saying, oh my God. What a big mistake! And all the commentators are pondering... How can he make such a blunder?"
@andersindset.bsky.social on the World Chess Championship and multipolar traps
@andersindset.bsky.social on the World Chess Championship and multipolar traps
"If you make analogy to a living system, the economy is the part of society that... combines natural resources with human labor to make goods & services that we need... or at least want. Whereas if you look at, what is a metabolism?"
- @doynefarmer.bsky.social on economies as metabolisms
- @doynefarmer.bsky.social on economies as metabolisms
June 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"If you make analogy to a living system, the economy is the part of society that... combines natural resources with human labor to make goods & services that we need... or at least want. Whereas if you look at, what is a metabolism?"
- @doynefarmer.bsky.social on economies as metabolisms
- @doynefarmer.bsky.social on economies as metabolisms
"When I think about my own experience with computers growing up, it wasn't just worry and concern. It was full of wonder and delight... I didn't feel that computation was just this branch of engineering. It was this weird, humanistic liberal art."
- Samuel Arbesman on *The Magic of Code*
- Samuel Arbesman on *The Magic of Code*
June 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
"When I think about my own experience with computers growing up, it wasn't just worry and concern. It was full of wonder and delight... I didn't feel that computation was just this branch of engineering. It was this weird, humanistic liberal art."
- Samuel Arbesman on *The Magic of Code*
- Samuel Arbesman on *The Magic of Code*
"The Catholic Church has gone missionary, and they got themselves a missionary in this new Pope."
- Mark Stahlman on the role of the new Pope and his connection with former Pope Francis
- Mark Stahlman on the role of the new Pope and his connection with former Pope Francis
June 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"The Catholic Church has gone missionary, and they got themselves a missionary in this new Pope."
- Mark Stahlman on the role of the new Pope and his connection with former Pope Francis
- Mark Stahlman on the role of the new Pope and his connection with former Pope Francis
"Meetings that don't have progress tracking mechanisms are straight up boring. And it's the same thing here in our civilization."
- Daniel Mezick on government as a game and the importance of a sense of progress
- Daniel Mezick on government as a game and the importance of a sense of progress
May 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"Meetings that don't have progress tracking mechanisms are straight up boring. And it's the same thing here in our civilization."
- Daniel Mezick on government as a game and the importance of a sense of progress
- Daniel Mezick on government as a game and the importance of a sense of progress
"Conversation isn't semantic transfer. Conversation is pragmatic clarification of social relationship of responsibility. Pragmatic clarification of social relationship of responsibility is not something you can do with a machine."
- Zak Stein on the ecological importance of attention scarcity
- Zak Stein on the ecological importance of attention scarcity
May 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"Conversation isn't semantic transfer. Conversation is pragmatic clarification of social relationship of responsibility. Pragmatic clarification of social relationship of responsibility is not something you can do with a machine."
- Zak Stein on the ecological importance of attention scarcity
- Zak Stein on the ecological importance of attention scarcity
"'98% of the permaculture projects that fail, fail due to poor design in the human sector.' We knew this, but we haven't experienced up until a few years ago a robust integration of what that human sector concept & how to design it might look like."
- Ryan Blosser on difficulty of the human sector
- Ryan Blosser on difficulty of the human sector
May 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"'98% of the permaculture projects that fail, fail due to poor design in the human sector.' We knew this, but we haven't experienced up until a few years ago a robust integration of what that human sector concept & how to design it might look like."
- Ryan Blosser on difficulty of the human sector
- Ryan Blosser on difficulty of the human sector
"We need a big tent movement that isn't centered around any particular ideology, but centered around the democratic process and delivering for the American people what we actually want."
- @alake.bsky.social on the broader potential of @sanders.senate.gov's Fight Oligarchy tour
- @alake.bsky.social on the broader potential of @sanders.senate.gov's Fight Oligarchy tour
May 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"We need a big tent movement that isn't centered around any particular ideology, but centered around the democratic process and delivering for the American people what we actually want."
- @alake.bsky.social on the broader potential of @sanders.senate.gov's Fight Oligarchy tour
- @alake.bsky.social on the broader potential of @sanders.senate.gov's Fight Oligarchy tour
"Building good theories is not data-fitting. This is something I think gets confused in this era of machine learning and [AI] for science, because people think the best model is the one that fits the data best. And often that's not the case."
- Sara Walker, co-creator of Assembly Theory
- Sara Walker, co-creator of Assembly Theory
May 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"Building good theories is not data-fitting. This is something I think gets confused in this era of machine learning and [AI] for science, because people think the best model is the one that fits the data best. And often that's not the case."
- Sara Walker, co-creator of Assembly Theory
- Sara Walker, co-creator of Assembly Theory
"Forests do grow forever... There's never a moment in the forest where trees aren't growing. But what enables that is actually this balance with death."
- Ashley Hodgson on growth & bounds as non-opposites
- Ashley Hodgson on growth & bounds as non-opposites
April 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"Forests do grow forever... There's never a moment in the forest where trees aren't growing. But what enables that is actually this balance with death."
- Ashley Hodgson on growth & bounds as non-opposites
- Ashley Hodgson on growth & bounds as non-opposites
"The Blue network grounded a lot of their moral-standards-based approach on being against something evil... against racism, sexism, colonialism... Then they started to use that moralism ... as a weapon against everything Trump and the Red network did."
- @johnrobb.bsky.social on mimetic warfare
- @johnrobb.bsky.social on mimetic warfare
April 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"The Blue network grounded a lot of their moral-standards-based approach on being against something evil... against racism, sexism, colonialism... Then they started to use that moralism ... as a weapon against everything Trump and the Red network did."
- @johnrobb.bsky.social on mimetic warfare
- @johnrobb.bsky.social on mimetic warfare
"It's a Red Queen race just like from Alice in Wonderland. You have to run ever faster and faster just to stay in pace."
- Timothy Clancy on U.S.-China AI competition and the possibility of a new Cold War
- Timothy Clancy on U.S.-China AI competition and the possibility of a new Cold War
March 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
"It's a Red Queen race just like from Alice in Wonderland. You have to run ever faster and faster just to stay in pace."
- Timothy Clancy on U.S.-China AI competition and the possibility of a new Cold War
- Timothy Clancy on U.S.-China AI competition and the possibility of a new Cold War
"To situate yourself as being part of an emergence vector heading towards a cosmic singularity—and we are currently ... the apex complexity in that current vector... that's a different way of seeing the human in the cosmic story."
- Brendan Graham Dempsey on cosmological stories & meaning
- Brendan Graham Dempsey on cosmological stories & meaning
March 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"To situate yourself as being part of an emergence vector heading towards a cosmic singularity—and we are currently ... the apex complexity in that current vector... that's a different way of seeing the human in the cosmic story."
- Brendan Graham Dempsey on cosmological stories & meaning
- Brendan Graham Dempsey on cosmological stories & meaning
"When we really take seriously how many non-humans might matter and how much they might matter... it becomes really difficult to sustain a strong stance of human exceptionalism, this ... insistence that we always take priority no matter what."
- @jeffsebo.bsky.social on the circle of moral concern
- @jeffsebo.bsky.social on the circle of moral concern
March 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
"When we really take seriously how many non-humans might matter and how much they might matter... it becomes really difficult to sustain a strong stance of human exceptionalism, this ... insistence that we always take priority no matter what."
- @jeffsebo.bsky.social on the circle of moral concern
- @jeffsebo.bsky.social on the circle of moral concern