The Jim Rutt Show
Hosted by Jim Rutt · The Jim Rutt Show
4.8from 428 ratings
- 461
- Episodes
- 126
- Transcribed
- 428
- Ratings
- 2019
- First episode
- 275K
- YouTube views
About The Jim Rutt Show
Crisp conversations with critical thinkers at the leading edge of science, technology, politics, and social systems.
- Publisher
- The Jim Rutt Show
- Category
- science · society & culture · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 7 Jul 2019
- Latest episode
- 2 Jun 2026
Latest episodes
126 of 461 episodes have a transcript.
2 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
EP 346 Cory Doctorow on Why the Internet Got Worse and What to Do About It
28 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
EP 345 Worldviews: Tyson Yunkaporta on Ceremony, Skepticism, and Seeing in 3D
26 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
EP 344 Lisa Buckingham on Hiring for the AI Era
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EP 346 Cory Doctorow on Why the Internet Got Worse and What to Do About It
Published 2 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] They become dependent on the users who are locked to each other. And that's stage three of incentivification, which is making things worse for businesses and in order to make things better for the shareholders and the executives. And this is, I think, a place where my theory breaks with a lot of other criticisms of tech. There's a lot of people who say, oh, if you're not paying for the product, you're the product. They kind of posit that decent treatment from a firm is a kind of customer loyalty perk and not that it's something that arises out of market incentives. That firms that are afraid of facing consequences for maltreating you, whether that's competitors or regulators or losing key personnel or having new firms enter the market to undo the mischief that they're doing, those firms will abuse you if they can. […]
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- Cory Doctorow
- Tyson Yunkaporta
- Lisa Buckingham
- Peter Wang
- Jordan Hall
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 274,764
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 265 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 163 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 95 / 100
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- Quality
- 98
- Social presence
- 90
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 99
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