The Jim Rutt Show

Recent Episodes

EP 331 Worldviews: Michael Shermer

Posted January 29, 2026 • 01:11:04

Jim talks with Michael Shermer about his worldview and his new book, Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters. They discuss Michael's...

EP 330 Worldviews: Ben Goertzel

Posted January 22, 2026 • 01:01:38

Jim talks with Ben Goertzel about his worldview. They discuss Ben's morning experience of consciousness crystallizing from ambient awareness, his identification...

EP 329 Worldviews: David Krakauer

Posted January 15, 2026 • 01:35:32

In the inaugural episode of a new series, Jim talks with David Krakauer about his intellectual formation and worldview. They discuss what woke up as...

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

Posted November 4, 2025 • 00:55:58

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

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

Posted October 15, 2025 • 01:37:07

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...