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Generous Business OwnerKingdom Estate Planning Part 3: What Do I Do With the Rest?What is the wrong you are meant to right in the world? In this episode, Jeff and Cale discuss: Understanding the narrative, not just the numbers.Finding joy while giving before you’re gone and disinheriting the IRS.Putting your talents to work for the Kingdom.Living an abundant life. Key Takeaways: Take a look inside your family and what you’re called to do. For some, it is disenfranchised youth or Christian entertainment. It may be missionary work, Bible translation, or the environment. Various things can be done and continue to need to b...2025-06-1745 min
Generous Business OwnerKingdom Estate Planning Part 2: How Much Do We Leave Behind?How do you turn your resources into a tailwind for your kids, not a headwind?In this episode, Jeff and Cale discuss: Customizing your children’s inheritance to what fits your family. Inheritance transfer that is led with purpose, not tax mitigation, in mind. Establishing a committed form of generosity to the Lord.The importance of communication at appropriate ages and stages. Key Takeaways: Knowing what to give to the next generation should be more than just dividing your estate equally. You can love your kids equally, but treat them uniquely. Giving each child...2025-06-1044 min
Generous Business OwnerKingdom Estate Planning Part 1: How Much is Enough?Have you and your spouse thought about and set your financial finish line? In this episode, Jeff and Cale discuss: When is enough enough?Being a steward and not an owner of God’s resources. Orienting your life for abundance today, but also for treasures in heaven. Taking inventory of what is yours to steward. Key Takeaways: Keeping up with the Joneses is not the finish line that brings about any sense of significance or purpose. You can’t take it with you, but you can send it ahead. Change your view on giving. Ins...2025-06-0347 min
Generous Business OwnerCale Dowell: Connecting Your Money with Your PurposeAre you planning for the Kingdom or the world? In this episode, Jeff and Cale discuss: Thinking about your financial estate plan from a different angle.Planning your giving before you die.Generous giving as a family with a non-traditional framework of giving.The top five questions are frequently asked by generous business owners. Key Takeaways: The three key questions: How much is enough for us? How much is enough for the kids? What do we do with the rest?There is value in community and in having like-minded advisors as you write...2025-05-201h 17
Living Hope Christian FellowshipPrayer - The Access to God's PowerSpeaker: Stanley RuttCategories: Prayer, Spiritual Power
Summary: In this sermon, Brother Stanley emphasizes the critical role of prayer as the access to God's power in overcoming life's battles and challenges. He illustrates this by recounting biblical examples, such as Israel's battles against the Philistines and Moses' reluctance to follow God's call, underscoring that true victory comes from divine intervention, not human effort. Brother Stanley highlights the significance of having a pure heart and the necessity of sincere prayer in order to invite God's presence and action in our lives. He encourages listeners to recognize that while...2025-05-1848 min
The Jim Rutt ShowEP 297 Sara Walker on the Physics of Life's EmergenceJim 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 systems, information as a causal force at life's origin, emergence as a scientific concept, constructor theory of information, Assembly Theory as a framework for detecting life, assembly index & copy number as measurable properties, complexity vs randomness, the physical nature of time in complex systems, how A...2025-05-1300 minLiving Hope Christian Fellowship2 Thessalonians 2Speaker: Stanley RuttCategories: Prophecy, ApostasySummary: In this sermon, Brother Stanley emphasizes the message of Second Thessalonians Chapter 2, addressing concerns about the state of the church and the prophecy regarding the coming of the Antichrist. He highlights the warning against deception and the importance of recognizing the signs of apostasy within the church. By urging listeners to hold fast to the traditions and teachings passed down, he links the characteristics of the last days to current trends in modern Christianity, cautioning against complacency and the justification of sinful behaviors. Brother Stanley ultimately encourages listeners to love...2025-02-0928 minLiving Hope Christian FellowshipRead the Directions (Part 2)Speaker: Stanley RuttCategories: Faith, DirectionSummary: In this message, Brother Stanley emphasizes the importance of sincerity in practicing faith, focusing on the teachings from the latter part of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew. He discusses various forms of spiritual practices, such as giving, praying, and fasting, highlighting that these should be done discreetly and without the desire for public approval. Brother Stanley illustrates the concept of treasures in heaven versus earthly riches, stressing the importance of generosity and forgiveness. He also addresses the notion of judgment, urging listeners to confront their own faults before...2024-12-011h 12
The Jim Rutt ShowEP 271 Lorraine Besser on the Art of the InterestingJim talks with Lorraine Besser about the ideas in her book The Art of the Interesting: What We Miss in the Pursuit of the Good Life and How to Cultivate It. They discuss the turning point in Lorraine's life that inspired the book, the meaning of the good life, pleasure vs eudaimonia, Stoicism & Epicureanism, unstructured cognitive engagement, the interesting, Seinfeld's relationship to happiness, problems with the pursuit of pleasure & meaning, the arrival fallacy, saints vs human beings, psychological richness, pursuit mode, Neal Cassady of the Beats, high dimensionality, the show Somebody Somewhere, tips for developing an interesting mindset, how much t...2024-11-051h 26Living Hope Christian FellowshipRead the Directions (Part 1)Speaker: Stanley RuttCategories: Guidance, FaithSummary: In this message, Brother Stanley emphasizes the importance of following God's directions for living a fulfilling life, drawing parallels between practical life situations and spiritual lessons derived from the teachings of Jesus. He highlights the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount, encouraging listeners to embrace humility, seek righteousness, and show mercy to others. Brother Stanley illustrates how God's grace supports us in our weaknesses and stresses the need for believers to be salt and light in the world by living out their faith authentically. He concludes by reinforcing the...2024-09-2254 min
Generous Business OwnerDavid Lewis: Papering Your Contract with GodWould you contract God as a partner in your business? In this episode, Jeff and David discuss: How David found appreciation for energy security in Baghdad. Using the OODA Loop in business and life.Increasing influence in foreign lands. Partnering with God in the ventures of your life. Key Takeaways: Understanding history and embracing other cultures can allow you to see where God may be leading you to do the work in His kingdom. Set God in the foundation of your biggest visions and dreams. Pray along the way, honor Him, and don’t tak...2024-06-1844 minLiving Hope Christian FellowshipBrokennessSpeaker: Stanley RuttCategories: Brokenness, Surrender Summary: Brother Stanley shared a message emphasizing the theme of brokenness through the biblical examples of Pharaoh, Balaam, and Saul (Paul). He noted that God does not delight in bringing judgment, as seen in Pharaoh's stubborn resistance despite repeated opportunities to surrender. Balaam's desire for rewards led him to compromise his faith, illustrating the danger of being caught between two opinions. In contrast, Saul’s dramatic conversion demonstrates that true brokenness comes from recognizing one's failures and fully surrendering to God's will. The key message urges listeners to be open to su...2024-05-121h 04Living Hope Christian FellowshipFaithSpeaker: Stanley RuttCategories: Faith, Action Summary: In this sermon, Brother Stanley emphasizes the distinction between living faith and dead faith, urging listeners to reflect on whether their faith translates into action. Drawing from examples in Hebrews 11, he highlights biblical figures such as Abel, Enoch, Noah, and Abraham, each demonstrating how true faith results in obedience and a deep relationship with God. Brother Stanley challenges listeners to consider whether their faith influences their daily lives and decisions or if it remains a mere ritual. He underscores the importance of an authentic connection with God, encouraging listeners to...2024-01-1450 min
The Jim Rutt ShowEP 207 Paul Watson on Adventures in Eco-ActivismJim talks with Paul Watson about his recent book Hit Man for the Kindness Club: High Seas Escapades and Heroic Adventures of an Eco-Activist. They discuss an early friendship with a family of beavers, cruelty to animals, the Kindness Club, moral commitments, rescuing cattle from a slaughterhouse, less cow farts & more whale poop, the 3 laws of ecology, the issue of eating animals, the growth of the vegetarian/vegan movement, an occupation at Stanley Park, co-founding Greenpeace, the strategy of aggressive non-violence, killing baby Hitler, painting baby seals, creating Whale Wars, history of the whaling moratorium, the absence of enforcement, Canada's S...2023-11-011h 04Living Hope Christian FellowshipThe Blessing Of The Holy SpiritSpeaker: Stanley RuttCategories: Spiritual Growth, Relationship with GodSummary: In his message, Brother Stanley emphasizes the importance of a deep relationship with God characterized by belief, love, and obedience, qualities that were intended for humanity since creation. He discusses the transition from the Old Testament law, which highlighted human failure, to the New Testament where the Holy Spirit empowers believers to live righteously. He points out that true faith must produce action and that it's essential to cleanse oneself from sin to effectively receive and operate in the Holy Spirit's power. This guidance from the Spirit...2023-10-0144 minLiving Hope Christian FellowshipKeeping the Faith from Generation to GenerationSpeaker: Stanley RuttCategories: Faith, Generational teachingSummary: In this sermon, Brother Stanley addresses the critical importance of passing on faith from one generation to the next. He references the biblical account of Israel, highlighting the dangers of complacency and the tendency to forget God's works as generations change. Emphasizing that mere knowledge of stories is insufficient, he argues that faith must be internalized and made personal. The challenge of living in abundance and idleness, distractions of modern life, and the impact of marriage choices on spiritual legacy are also discussed. With a call to cultivate genuine...2023-07-0937 min
The Jim Rutt ShowCurrents 096: Jim & Michael Garfield Talk About EverythingJim has an extremely wide-ranging discussion with Michael Garfield. They discuss the upcoming book Michael is drafting in public, the exponential scaling of information production, Jurassic Park, mass distributed computation, a new topology for social connectivity, info agents, stereotyping & police violence, a dehumanizing pace of human interaction, Charles Stross's prophetic visions, heuristic induction, strong vs weak social links, restoration of the mesoscale, from the geographic polity to the noetic, the importance of the ground layer, semi-permeable membranes with commons inside them, Pokemon Go & behavioral control, generative AI & intellectual property, creating a commons to benefit culture, circular economies, dividend money & usury, hi...2023-06-071h 25
Generous Business OwnerDavid Lumpkins: Creating Opportunities to Solve ProblemsIn this episode, Jeff, Cale, and David discuss: How investment banking has changed over the last few decades. Utilizing private equity to build businesses.Creatively solving problems to serve others. Using your business acumen to support your philanthropic endeavors. Key Takeaways: You never know who you can build relationships with as you go about your business. Those relationships will often prove valuable as you get further into your career. In the midst of the struggles, everything feels like the world is going to end. But things often turn around. In the struggle, you must convey r...2023-06-061h 04
Generous Business OwnerDavid Sutherland: Using Business Principles to Bring People From PovertyIn this episode, Jeff, Jeff, Alan, and David discuss: Devoting time to God even in the midst of our busy lives. David’s journey to living and serving in Asia. Serving with a business mindset. Ministering both secularly and spiritually. Key Takeaways: If you put God first in your life, He will take care of you. You can’t ignore humanity in favor of only the spiritual to those who don’t have the basics of living. On your own, you can only help so many people. But if you build scale and help people to help t...2023-05-0245 minLiving Hope Christian FellowshipWhat is True Love for the Lord?Speaker: Stanley RuttCategories: Spiritual Guidance, ObedienceSummary: In his message, Brother Stanley emphasizes the importance of true love for the Lord as demonstrated through obedience and faithfulness. He references the story of the Israelites who sought guidance from the prophet Jeremiah and initially expressed a willingness to follow God's instructions, yet ultimately disobeyed. He highlights five key points, including recognizing one's need for direction, seeking advice from spiritually trustworthy individuals, waiting on God's timing, and the essence of faith leading to obedience. Throughout the sermon, listeners are challenged to examine their commitment to following God's will...2023-04-2340 min
The Jim Rutt ShowEP 181 Forrest Landry Part 1: AI RiskJim talks with recurring guest Forrest Landry about his arguments that continued AI development poses certain catastrophic risk to humanity. They discuss AI versus advanced planning systems (APS), the release of GPT-4, emergent intelligence from modest components, whether deep learning alone will produce AGI, Rice's theorem & the impossibility of predicting alignment, the likelihood that humans try to generalize AI, why the upside of AGI is an illusion, agency vs intelligence, instrumental convergence, implicit agency, deterministic chaos, theories of physics as theories of measurement, the relationship between human desire and AI tools, an analogy with human-animal relations, recognizing & avoiding multipolar traps...2023-03-231h 36
The Jim Rutt ShowCurrents 083: Joscha Bach on Synthetic IntelligenceJim talks with Joscha Bach about current and future developments in the generative AI space. They discuss the skepticism of the press, small productive applications, questions about intellectual property rights, confabulation in human thinking, nanny rails, 3 approaches to AI alignment, Aquinas's 7 virtues, issues of consciousness-like agency, love as an answer to the alignment problem, the difficulty with fairness, serving shared sacredness, dealing with entropy, integrated information theory & its incompatibility with the Church-Turing thesis, neural Darwinism, a point where extrapolation & interpolation become the same, building an AI artist, free will, the capacity of human memory, consciousness as a conductor, the scaling...2023-03-011h 16The Jim Rutt ShowCurrents 083: Joscha Bach on Synthetic IntelligenceJim talks with Joscha Bach about current and future developments in the generative AI space. They discuss the skepticism of the press, small productive applications, questions about intellectual property rights, confabulation in human thinking, nanny rails, 3 approaches to AI alignment, Aquinas's 7 virtues, issues of consciousness-like agency, love as an answer to the alignment problem, the difficulty with fairness, serving shared sacredness, dealing with entropy, integrated information theory & its incompatibility with the Church-Turing thesis, neural Darwinism, a point where extrapolation & interpolation become the same, building an AI artist, free will, the capacity of human memory, consciousness as a conductor, the scaling...2023-03-011h 16Living Hope Christian FellowshipA Call to Spiritual HonestySpeaker: Stanley RuttCategories: Spiritual Growth, RepentanceSummary: In his message, Brother Stanley emphasizes the importance of spiritual honesty by contrasting the responses of King David and King Saul to their sins. While David openly acknowledged his wrongdoing and sought God's mercy without making excuses, Saul justified his actions and blamed others, ultimately leading to his rejection by God. Through scripture and personal anecdotes, Brother Stanley discusses the dangers of a victim mentality and prideful self-perception, urging listeners to embrace humility, recognize their own sinfulness, and seek genuine repentance. He highlights that true humility and honesty before...2023-01-2958 min
The Jim Rutt ShowCurrents 074: Serge Faguet on Building MetacommunityJim talks with Serge Faguet about emerging transnational networks of cooperation...Jim talks with Serge Faguet about emerging transnational networks of cooperation. They discuss the mismatch between rates of technological development & cooperation abilities, building a good Singularity, uniting an already-existing movement, "the right way to live" as a root of evil, coherent pluralism as a basis for metacommunity, taking responsibility for the world, a coming fork in humanity's future, bringing the universe to life, examples of decentralized community-building, opportunities for applying large language models, technological tools for communities, psychological issues & the insanity of society, TikTok as pure monetization without virtue...2022-11-2957 minLiving Hope Christian FellowshipGod's Plan of SalvationSpeaker: Stanley RuttCategories: Salvation, New BirthSummary: In his message, Brother Stanley emphasizes the significance of the new birth and God's overarching plan for salvation, beginning with the account of creation and the introduction of sin through Adam and Eve’s disobedience. He illustrates how sin led to humanity's separation from God and the ensuing chaos in the world. Throughout the sermon, he references key biblical figures, including Noah and Abraham, to highlight the importance of faith and obedience. Ultimately, Brother Stanley points to Jesus Christ as the fulfillment of God's promise to redeem humanity, underscoring th...2022-10-2333 minLiving Hope Christian FellowshipSoldiers of the CrossSpeaker: Stanley RuttCategories: Spiritual Warfare, ObedienceSummary: In this sermon, Brother Stanley emphasizes the importance of understanding Christians as soldiers in a spiritual battle against sin, Satan, and the remnants of a sinful world. Drawing lessons from Israel's conquests in the Promised Land, he highlights the significance of obedience to God's commandments and the perils of complacency in spiritual matters. Brother Stanley encourages listeners to recognize their true enemy as sin and to actively engage in the fight using spiritual weapons such as prayer, love, and the Word of God. He underscores the necessity of teaching...2022-07-2446 min
The Jim Rutt ShowEP 161 Greg Thomas on Untangling the Gordian Knot of RaceJim talks with Greg Thomas about American democracy & the problems created by racial essentialism & racialization...
Jim talks with Greg Thomas about American democracy & the problems created by racial essentialism & racialization. They discuss the Jazz Leadership Project, jazz as metaphor, the connection between racism & the concept of race, the slave trade's role in producing racial essentialism, Bacon's Rebellion & subsequent divide-and-conquer legislation, justifications for exploitation, the horrors of chattel slavery, a mutual love of Stanley Crouch & Fifties jazz, transcending race & including culture, Albert Murray's "omni-American identity," 3 foundational American archetypes, the developmental challenge of overcoming tribalism, legacy media's structural bias toward conflict, why...2022-07-191h 21
The Jim Rutt ShowCurrents 064: Michael Garfield and J.F. Martel on Art x AIJim talks with Michael Garfield and J.F. Martel about the intersection of AI and art...
Jim talks with Michael Garfield and J.F. Martel about the intersection of AI and art. They discuss DALL-E & Midjourney, whether conscious agency is necessary for art, artifice vs discernment, Jung's synchronicity, AI art as dreaming, discernment & consecration, the modern vs the algorithmic self, the CIA's role in funding abstract expressionism, the imaginal aspect & Walter Benjamin's historicity, Borges's Library of Babel & problems with infinity, biological reproduction as the central technological issue, the tension between prediction and understanding, art's inherent unpredictability, garage bands, noise & play...2022-06-141h 01
Arts & IdeasNew Thinking: Preserving Our HeritageA collection of knitting patterns held in Southampton, an archive of Victorian greeting cards in Manchester, information about music hall and pantomime pulled together in Kent and the National Archives holdings of boat maps come under the microscope in today's conversation. New Generation Thinker Naomi Paxton's guests are Rachel Dickinson, Eleonora Gandolfi, Helen Brooks and Lucia Pereira Pardo.The research projects featured are:
Rachel Dickinson, Manchester Metropolitan University - Celebrations: Victorian and Edwardian greeting cards exploring a collection of over 32,000 cards collected by Laura Seddon https://www.mmu.ac.uk/special-collections-museum/collections/laura-seddon-collection Eleonora Gandolfi...2022-04-1944 minLiving Hope Christian FellowshipLessons From the Life of JosephSpeaker: Stanley RuttCategories: Forgiveness, Integrity Summary: In this message, Brother Stanley shares insightful lessons from the life of Joseph, emphasizing the importance of integrity, wisdom, and forgiveness. He begins by highlighting Joseph's character as a young man who stood up for what was right, even when it meant facing rejection from his brothers. The sermon explores how Joseph's trials and tribulations ultimately contributed to his rise to power in Egypt, illustrating that life's challenges can have a greater purpose. Brother Stanley emphasizes the need for forgiveness, not only for the sake of others but also for...2022-03-2744 minLiving Hope Christian FellowshipMatthew 5Speaker: Stanley RuttCategories: Spiritual Growth, Heart ConditionSummary: Brother Stanley emphasizes the importance of examining the condition of our hearts in relation to our actions and attitudes, as outlined in the teachings of Matthew 5. He encourages listeners to live by grace rather than merely adhering to the law, highlighting that true blessings come from a humble, merciful, and pure heart. Through various blessed attitudes, such as mourning, meekness, and a hunger for righteousness, he illustrates how these virtues can lead to fulfillment and a deeper relationship with God. Brother Stanley further discusses the contrasts between these...2021-12-0550 min
The Jim Rutt ShowCurrents 038: Connor Leahy on Artificial IntelligenceConnor Leahy continues his conversion with Jim in this wide-ranging chat about Artificial Intelligence...
Connor Leahy continues his conversion with Jim in this wide-ranging chat about his new GPT-J model, the background & approach of Aleph Alpha, attention in AI, our food maximizer & AGI risk, narrow algorithm impacts, proto-AGI, risk thresholds & timelines, safeguard complexities, slow vs fast AI take-off, Connor's brilliantly strange Counting Consciousness series, biological blockchain & the hard problem of trust, the AI consciousness diversity question, and more.
JRS: Currents 033: Connor Leahy on Deep Learning
Multimodality: attention is all you need is all we needed
Eliezer Yudkowsky's Tweet on AI risk
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The Jim Rutt ShowEP137 Ken Stanley on NeuroevolutionKen Stanley & Jim have a wide-ranging talk about one of his co-authored papers, "Designing neural networks through neuroevolution"...
Ken Stanley & Jim have a wide-ranging talk about one of his co-authored papers, "Designing neural networks through neuroevolution". They cover neuroevolution dynamics, resistance to evolutionary thinking in AI, the evolutionary timescale, understanding genetic algorithms, neural networks & their role in neuroevolution, Ken's unifying NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) method, scaling NEAT, the importance of diversity in innovation, novelty search, indirect encoding, Hybercube-based NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (HyperNEAT), co-evolutionary dynamics, the evolution of learning, and much more.
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Designing neural networks thr...2021-07-131h 30The Jim Rutt ShowEP130 Ken Stanley on Why Greatness Cannot Be PlannedKen Stanley and Jim talk about his wide-ranging book Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective...
Ken Stanley and Jim talk about his wide-ranging book Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective. They cover the no free lunch theorem, exploitations vs exploration, the myth & issues of objectives, the room of all images & adjacent possible, the problems & dynamics of deception, the power of serendipity, gradients of interestingness, intuition & novelty search, social change & innovation, emergent education & AI insights, incrementalism, risk & reward, Ken's unique journal idea, and much more.
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The Jim Rutt ShowEP12 Brian Nosek – Open Science and ReproducibilityBrian Nosek is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Open Science (COS) that operates the Open Science Framework. COS is enabling open and reproducible research practices worldwide. Brian is also a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2002.
Brian co-founded Project Implicit, an multi-university collaboration for research and education investigating implicit cognition — thoughts and feelings that occur outside of awareness or control. Brian investigates the gap between values and practices, such as when behavior is influenced by factors other than one's intentions and goals. Research ap...2019-09-121h 19