30: Exploring the Search Space of Game~B with Jim Rutt

Jim Rutt is the former CEO of Network Solutions, and former chairman of the Santa Fe Institute for the study of complex systems sciences, as well as host of the Jim Rutt Show, an interview podcast series examining cutting-edge thinking in science and technology and the future of our economic, political and social systems and institutions. Jim Rutt joins me to talk Game~B, an ambitious, decentralized civilization-level operating system for optimizing human flourishing. We cover: the origins of Game~B, the financial drivers pushing us to extinction, technological hygiene in a world of information overload, the prospects for blockchain, DeFi, and federated trust, revivifying Kibbutz-style Dunbar-level communities, debt, competence-based leadership, liquid democracy, the tradeoffs of design vs. iteration, staving off predators in Game~B, forming strong social bonds irl, and parasitizing Game A. You can find Jim Rutt at: https://www.jimruttshow.com/ The website for Game~B: https://www.game-b.org/ The Game~B wiki: https://www.gameb.wiki/ Pre-Game~B Emancipation Party: http://emancipationparty.org/ – Agora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics. Website: https://agorapolitics.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/agora_politics SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics – I’m Alex Murshak, Political Theorist Subscribe to my channel for interviews & videos on political theory: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSDjdhAe9Z7EatYg3OGLKug You can follow me on Twitter @amurshak: twitter.com/amurshak — Subscribe on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/agora_politics Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSDjdhAe9Z7EatYg3OGLKug Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/agora-politics/id1496531814 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5xfgHAlhswC6PWlTZC5S58?si=fY-OxZqASPWtxFnAqyLCbg Wherever you find your podcasts