Podcast Episodes

EP 328 Brendan Graham Dempsey Interviews Jim Rutt on Minimum Viable Metaphysics

Season 1 Episode 328

In this flipped episode, Brendan Graham Dempsey interviews Jim about the ideas in his recent Substack essays "A Minimum Viable Metaphysics" and "What…

4 months, 4 weeks ago

EP 327 Nate Soares on Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All

Season 1 Episode 327

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 A…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

EP 326 Alex Ebert on New Age, Manifestation, and Collective Hallucination

Season 1 Episode 326

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 …

5 months, 2 weeks ago

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 w…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

EP 324 John Preston on 40 Flushes to Grow Your Business

Season 1 Episode 324

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 bath…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

EP 323 Pablos Holman on Deep Tech

Season 1 Episode 323

Jim talks with Pablos Holman about the ideas in his new book Deep Future: Creating Technology That Matters. They discuss deep tech versus shallow tec…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

EP 322 Brendan Graham Dempsey on Psyche and Symbolic Learning

Season 1 Episode 322

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 discu…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

EP 321 James Fadiman and Jordan Gruber on Microdosing Psychedelics

Season 1 Episode 321

Jim talks with James Fadiman and Jordan Gruber about the findings in their recent book Microdosing for Health, Healing, and Enhanced Performance. The…

7 months ago

EP 320 David Shapiro on Mastering AI Tools for Research

Season 1 Episode 320

Jim talks with David Shapiro about how to use AI language models as research and writing tools. They discuss post-labor economics, the evolution of A…

7 months, 1 week ago

EP 319 Lawrence Cahoone on Emergence and Natural Order

Season 1 Episode 319

Jim talks with Lawrence Cahoone about his book The Orders of Nature and his systematic approach to naturalist philosophy. They discuss fallibilist & …

7 months, 1 week ago