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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
3/ deliberate practice, time management, and more. This is a very accessible and lighthearted episode despite covering a lot of ground.
1/ with @mjmauboussin of BlueMountain Capital Management, and @sfiscience. investing & its challenges, variance & complexity in game theory, defining luck & skill and their relative importance in various domains, ...
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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…
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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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…
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/
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, ++
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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/
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…
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…
With @pamela80572614 re: her book: This Could Be Important: My Life and Times with the Artificial Intelligentsia.
C.P. Snow, tales of AI pioneers, symbolic AI v deep learning, centrality of language, AI risks & rewards, feminism in academia & culture ++ jimruttshow.com/pamela-mccor…
