In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 551 – Luck, Nature, Coronavirus May 12, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Why is there such innumeracy? What are the social and political implications of this? Rick Rosner: 15 years ago, people talked about the perfect storm based on the movie The Perfect Storm, which is about …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 550 – Death and Aftermath May 12, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I'm just thinking about this a little more with ongoing crisis pandemic, because we have a lot of people dying in a short amount of time. So there's also almost 8 billion people alive in …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 549 - Libertarianism May 8, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen. What do you think? Just for sake of asking. What do you think of libertarians in the United States? Rick Rosner: Right now, it is as corrupt as Republicans, as being a Republican. It is just another …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 548 – Wealth Inequality in a State (and in the Nature of States) May 7, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How much wealth inequality is required for wealth inequality in a state to become bad? Rick Rosner: All right, so right now, what we have, I've called …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 547 – Addendum to “Wealth, Good or Bad?...: In Other News, a Book!” May 7, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Here, so, two points. Rick Rosner: Let me say one point, then you say two points. My one point is the future is inherently sinister. Because we …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 546 – Wealth, Good or Bad?...: In Other News, a Book! May 7, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen. So, is wealth in and of itself a bad thing? Rick Rosner: Well, OK, here's the deal. I'm working on a book. A novel starts about now and goes …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 545 – Addendum to “Ashkenazim: Smarts Escaping the Nazis, and Genetic Diversity even in Homogeneity” April 30, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: And they had become business people. My grandpa on my dad's side worked in retail his whole life as a salesman and he may have owned …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 544 – Ashkenazim: Smarts, Escaping the Nazis, and Genetic Diversity even in Homogeneity April 30, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: My various people, my stepdad's family came from Germany, they got out long before the Nazis came into power. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: And at one part, if I …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 543 – Going the Way of One’s Gods: Invincibility’s Dawn-to-Dusk April 30, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Yes, this is like a phase change in American society and one-way; the first note of vulnerability or that the sense of invincibility being destroyed or corroded in American society …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 542 – Addendum to the AAG 541, The Air-ow of Mimes: In-Action in Action April 30, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: The Spanish Flu pandemic, where Republicans are also going crazy, saying that it is wrecking, saying that the shutdown, the lockdown, or stay at home is wrecking …
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