Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Hindemburg Melão Jr. further asks, “Regarding the answer about dark matter, the evidence suggests different properties than what would result from the collapse of baryonic or leptonic matter objects. For example: gravitational effects (produced by dark matter) are very spread out, rather than concentrated, as would be natural if it was generated …
Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, http://www.rickrosner.org Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, http://www.in-sightpublishing.com Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Chris Cole asks or says, "Follow-up question for Rick: What is the difference between an AI and a bulldozer?" I asked, "Is this Chomsky's referencing Turing's critique of the generic question 'Can machines think?'? Like the question: 'Can submarines swim?' If …
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Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, http://www.rickrosner.org Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, http://www.in-sightpublishing.com Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This would be a good one. This might be the last one. 9/11 conspiracy theories. The idea that, as long as terrified patient Al Qaeda that by someone, Laden did not execute a point with 19 men in Saudi Arabia, …
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Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, http://www.rickrosner.org Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, http://www.in-sightpublishing.com Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What about the field of cryonics and the practical reason you couldn't be dead in liquid nitrogen? Rick Rosner: Well, I got part of me frozen in liquid nitrogen. I hope it saves me from worse shit. But reading about …
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Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, http://www.rickrosner.org Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, http://www.in-sightpublishing.com Scott Douglas Jacobsen: About the teleological argument for the banana, the idea is that the banana is designed specifically for humans to eat. This is famously after Ray Comfort, who described it as the, “atheist nightmare,” of course. Rick Rosner: Yes, so it's …
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Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, http://www.rickrosner.org Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, http://www.in-sightpublishing.com Scott Douglas Jacobsen: The flat earth theory. Go! Rick Rosner: Yes, I have no idea how that could work. I got into a fight over Trumpy politics with a lady on Twitter. And sometimes, when you get in a fight with somebody, they …
Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, http://www.rickrosner.org Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, http://www.in-sightpublishing.com Scott Douglas Jacobsen: A global flood is the catastrophic mythical event recounted in the book of Genesis. Rick Rosner: Yes, I don't buy the geologic events of the Bible. People argue that they look at things written down in the Bible and other …
Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, http://www.rickrosner.org Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, http://www.in-sightpublishing.com Scott Douglas Jacobsen: All right, we tried to do this before. It didn't go very far, but it's some. Rick Rosner: So what are we doing? I will throw things at you, and then you will respond. Jacobsen: What comes to mind when …
Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, http://www.rickrosner.org Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, http://www.in-sightpublishing.com \ Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, I had some deep reflections on happiness, peace, and equanimity. I corresponded with a very famous psychologist, probably over 100 emails. He got me thinking that you have to find it yourself. If troublesome people are in your …
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Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, http://www.rickrosner.org Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, http://www.in-sightpublishing.com Rick Rosner: So, you start with Chris's simplified question. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Chris Cole asked one question in a session. We answered it, in a sense, but it was not quite the right question in terms of our interpretation of it. He asks, …
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