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Joined July 2019
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With @HFreinacht What is metamodernism & relationship to postmodernism? Effective value memes, hierarchical complexity, and societal code. Interaction of code & cognitive complexity. Metamodernism & GameB, promise & dangers of metamodern code, jimruttshow.com/hanzi-freina…
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Episode 33: @MelMitchel on AI. Deep learning, symbolic techniques & hybrids, AI springs/winters & hype cycles, self-driving cars, strong vs weak AI, black-boxes, evolutionary AI, embodied & social cognition, common sense & understanding in AI & much more jimruttshow.com/melanie-mitc…
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We discuss her new book in depth, which is to my mind the best current guide to AI for the lay reader: amazon.com/Artificial-Intell…
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remember, friends, a RETWEET is worth 20 LIKES!
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With Forrest Landry: his motivation, ethics, metaphysics & its connection to realism, free will & choice, the nature of time, meaning, value & purpose, complicated & complex systems, sustainability, core dynamics of collective intelligence, much more. jimruttshow.com/forrest-land…
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With @NoraBateson Gregory Bateson, complex systems, mental monocropping, transcontextually, cross-cultural collaboration & awareness, Swedish culture & the role of the state, conviviality in modern culture, the generational component of #GameB, much more jimruttshow.com/nora-bateson…
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3/ deliberate practice, time management, and more. This is a very accessible and lighthearted episode despite covering a lot of ground.
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2/ outcome bias, the importance of understanding sample size, intelligence quotient (IQ) vs. rationality quotient (RQ), bad and good forecasting by experts, increasing the variance when you are behind, looking for weak games, how age impacts skill in people & organizations, ...
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With @markburgess_osl going from physics to computer science, CFEngine, computer immunology, Promise Theory & its connection to physics & network science, dynamic subordination, spacetime, logic vs emotion, limits of Turing machines, Fermi Paradox. More jimruttshow.com/mark-burgess…

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With Jamie Wheal. The 'flow' state. Working with the SEALs, intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation, Eleusinian Mysteries; Plato, Aristotle & Pythagoras; soft-leadership & dynamic hierarchies, dangers & promises of ecstatic state technology, group flow, jimruttshow.com/jamie-wheal/
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JimRuttShow retweeted
One of the more riveting and simultaneously invigorating conversations I’ve encountered in quite some time. Thank you ⁦@BretWeinstein⁩ and ⁦@JimRuttShow⁩. Cannot wait for y’all to sit down again and expand on #GameB and other topics. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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JimRuttShow retweeted
19 Nov 2019
Solid tangible discussion of #GameB with Jordan Hall. For those curious about "what is this GameB thingie?" a solid intro. For GameB players, some meat on the bones. jimruttshow.com/jordan-hall/
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With @GaryMarcus on his new book: Rebooting AI. Debunking the over-hype around AI today with thoughts on how AI can live up to its potential in the longer term. Both realistic and hopeful. jimruttshow.com/gary-marcus/
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2/ potential of graph neural nets, why Gary thinks hybrid models are the future of AI, challenges of evolutionary AI approaches, data mining & AI echo-chambers, AGI, and much more.
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Some of the topics we cover: 1/the gullibility gap, the illusory progress gap, the robustness gap, driverless car progress & safety, how narrow AI is today, model building, the free-lunch theorem, nativism in animals & humans, Cyc & ConceptNet, symbolic algorithms,
With @BretWeinstein on evolutionary & game-theoretic dynamics -> unsustainability, algorithms & evolution, bad corporate values, #GameB and complex systems, design vs. navigation, how the left has changed, "is–ought" problem, New Atheism & Darwinism, jimruttshow.com/bret-weinste…
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Guest @Jeff_Gomez world-builder & trans-media storyteller: Pirates of the Caribbean -> not-for-profit in Colombia: narrative vs story, fandom & fan fiction, Star Wars vs Star Trek, 'the collective journey', Gen Z & tribalism, social coherence, much more jimruttshow.com/jeff-gomez/
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New episode: working together 'back in the day', multi-generational workforce, Millenials & Boomers, great HR teams, leadership, hierarchical vs flat orgs, employee engagement & intellectual honesty, the #MeToo Movement, women & men in the workforce jimruttshow.com/sara-kindsfa…
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Range of possible (non-human) minds, Boltzmann brains, simulation theory & glitches in the matrix, symbolic AI v deep learning, language understanding in AI, Turing test, limitations of human intelligence, AI safety, Singularity fast or slow, much more! jimruttshow.com/roman-yampol…
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