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Jim Rutt

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A list of names on a wiki can make a movement look like a network of famous thinkers, even when the ties between them are only loose.
Who they are

Jim Rutt, listed as a contributor to the Game B wiki and connected to the Santa Fe Institute.

What they do

The record shows Rutt as one of many contributors to Game B, alongside Bret Weinstein, Eric Weinstein, Ken Wilber, Jordan B Peterson, and others.

How it works

The Game B wiki lists Rutt among its contributors. He is also linked to the Santa Fe Institute, where he held a chairmanship. The wiki credits him with a hypothesis about group size and coherence. A separate link to Bret Weinstein is only a discussion, not an institutional tie.

Why it matters

It shows how a movement's public list of contributors can suggest deeper connections than the record actually supports.

The engine's record — word for word
The corpus records: "The Game B wiki conveniently includes a list of contributors 6 , and beyond those of high visibility - Bret Weinstein, Eric Weinstein, Ken Wilber, and Jordan B Peterson - we see the inclusion of (from above) Jim Rutt, Cadell Last and Peter Limberg , and further Alexander Bard, Daniel Schmachtenberger, Bruce Alderman, Forrest Landry, John Vervaeke, Jordan Hall, Tyson Yunkaporta, and Zachery Stein ." Cross-sourced to gameb.wiki, santafe.edu — documents cited by the corpus and retrieved independently of it.
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