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Jim Rutt is past chairman and a former researcher at the Santa Fe Institute. He is the host of the Jim Rutt Show podcast, on which many of his Santa Fe colleagues have appeared. Rutt is credited with coining the term "snail mail" to describe conventional (as opposed to electronic) mail services.

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Jim Rutt & Adam B. Levine 14 Aug 2025 • EN

EP 318 Adam B. Levine on Thinking on Demand

Jim talks with Adam B. Levine about humanity's rapidly changing relationship with AI and "thinking on demand." They discuss the GPT-5 release & pricing, open-source AI models, the three-dimensional framework of AI advancement (models & hardware & agent frameworks), the evolution of vibe coding, development tools, agent

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Jim Rutt & David Shapiro 12 Aug 2025 • EN

EP 317 David Shapiro on Post-Labor Economics

Jim talks with David Shapiro about his six-part series on "post-labor economics." They discuss historical economic transitions, the logic of labor substitution, automation & AI's  impacts on employment, the four basic human economic offerings (strength, dexterity, cognition & empathy), labor as a societal pillar, the p

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Jim Rutt & Zak Stein 01 Aug 2025 • EN

EP 314 Zak Stein and Marc Gafni on the Nature of Everything

Jim talks with Zak Stein and Marc Gafni about consciousness, attention, and value as fundamental aspects of reality. They explore continuity & discontinuity in evolution, phenomenology & naturalism, emergence, value theory, selection theory, mathematics as both discovered & created, pre-life organic chemistry, sexual s

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Jim talks with Samo Burja about his report on the defense startup Anduril's plan to modernize the U.S. military. They discuss "live players vs. dead players," AI adoption & cognitive tools, Anduril's background & naming origin, military technology modernization, software-defined conflicts, autonomous & software-enabled

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Jim Rutt & J. Doyne Farmer 19 Jun 2025 • EN

EP 305 J. Doyne Farmer on Complexity Economics

Jim talks with J. Doyne Farmer about his book Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World. They discuss deterministic chaos & strange attractors, how chaos makes time possible, bounded rationality, economic equilibrium & Nash equilibrium, traditional economics' failures, standard economic theory basics

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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 decent

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