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EP 303 Mark Stahlman on Pope Leo XIV and the Catholic Church’s Missionary Turn

Jim talks with Mark Stahlman about the new Pope Leo XIV and the Catholic Church’s evolving role in a digital age. They discuss Trump as an avatar of the digital paradigm shift, the significance of Leo XIV’s name choice, Francis as a thug, Francis’s background as chemical engineer and bouncer, Synodality & Church decentralization, the exterior […]

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EP 302 Daniel Mezick on Games and Governance

Jim talks with Daniel Mezick on the theme of games and their relationship to governance. They discuss Jane McGonigal’s four properties of games, the nature of authority, position-based vs role-based authority, formal vs. informal authority structures, finite & infinite games, mutable games, the paradox of self-amendment, the U.S. Constitution as a game, progress tracking in

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EP 301 Zak Stein on K-12 Education in the AI Era

Jim talks with Zak Stein about the psychological and developmental risks of AI in K-12 education. They discuss education vs schooling, technology’s role in human-to-human interaction, GPS & skill atrophy, prosthetic vs enhancement technologies, multipolar traps in AI, cognitive diminishment & skill development, teacherly authority, attention as a constrained resource, attention as a service, parasocial

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EP 300 Daniel Rodriguez on AI-Assisted Software Development

Jim talks with Daniel Rodriguez about the state of AI software development and its implementation in industry. They discuss Daniel’s background at Microsoft & Anaconda, transformer-based technologies, software engineering as hard vs soft science, vibe coding, barriers to entry in software engineering, cognitive styles needed for programming, Daniel’s history with LLMs, unit testing & test-driven

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EP 299 Ryan Blosser on Permaculture for Food and Friendship

Jim talks with Ryan Blosser about the ideas in his book Mulberries in the Rain: Growing Permaculture Plants for Food and Friendship, co-authored with Trevor Pearsall. They discuss the motivation behind writing a permaculture book, the human sector in permaculture design, financial challenges of permaculture farming, 8 forms of capital, food forest design principles, plant guild

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EP 298 Adam Lake on Rebooting American Democracy

Jim talks with Adam Lake about Reboot America, a project aimed at reforming American democracy. They discuss existential threats facing humanity, the two-party corporate duopoly, a Princeton study on policy preferences, first-past-the-post voting problems, campaign finance issues, social media’s role in polarization, wealth & income inequality, Bernie Sanders’s Fight Oligarchy tour, the Democratic Party’s cultural

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EP 297 Sara Walker on the Physics of Life’s Emergence

Jim talks with Sara Walker about the ideas in her new book Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence. They discuss Sara’s path from theoretical physics to astrobiology, the biggest scientific questions, philosophy of science & theory development, historical approaches to origin of life research, Schrödinger’s negative entropy concept, Prigogine’s dissipative

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Trump Train Heading For A Stall?

Culmination in the Second Trump Administration: A Clausewitzian Reading Carl von Clausewitz observed that every offensive reaches a culminating point, the moment when accumulated resistance, logistical strain, and sheer chance sap momentum faster than fresh power can be applied. Beyond that threshold, pressing ahead only multiplies risk. Modern doctrine shortens the term to culmination and

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Theories of Consciousness smack down: IIT vs GNWT

Theories of Consciousness Smackdown: IIT vs GNWT Related Jim Rutt Show podcasts: — Team IIT: EP105 Christof Koch on Consciousness — Father of GWT: EP108 Bernard Baars on Consciousness Consciousness science has long been rich in hypotheses but poor in experimental results, apart from accumulating numerous “correlates of consciousness” data, which have done little to distinguish among competing theories. A

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EP 296 Ashley Hodgson on Economic Mythology and System Change

Jim talks with Ashley Hodgson about her YouTube series “The New Enlightenment” and its heterodox perspectives on economics and social systems. They discuss Iain McGilchrist’s influence & his book “The Matter with Things,” economic mythology & its role in upholding the current system, the Bernays era of programmed consumerism, GDP growth myths, destructive growth value,

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