[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: In our previous session, we were talking about how to present the everyday future, and there's a very effective way to address issues like that in TV writers' rooms, which is called breaking a story, or you get your writing team, ideally, a bunch of people who have a bunch of life …
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Ask A Genius 920: Sleep and Longevity
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What did you learn about sleep that helps you live longer? Is there such a thing as too much sleep when you're healthy? Rick Rosner: Well, the chapter in this guy's book, and I've forgotten the guy's name, he said eight hours is what you want to shoot for, which seems like a …
Ask A Genius 919: ChatGPT and Stories
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, we're talking about ChatGPT and AIs in general and how they, when they get more intelligent, will be able to break stories, which is both good and bad. So, as an experiment, I asked a cheap GPT called Claude a question, and this is simple: Claude, I'm sure there's a version …
Ask A Genius 918: Pornography’s Bountiful Cornucopia Existence
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: The last time we spoke, I spoke about the increasingly bountiful cornucopia of porno since the rise of AI, which can generate just endless images and that it has to be watched out for because people aren't necessarily riding herd on this stuff and it can be corrosive and if nobody's watching …
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Ask A Genius 917: Regrets for Mr. IQ
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: I was thinking about some of the regrets in my life and an IQ related regret came up that I thought I'd tell you about. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is the regret? Rosner: So, one of the most powerful people in Hollywood is a guy named Brian Grazer who along with …
Ask A Genius 916: Fallout
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: I have various bins for things I want to write about that still need to be fully developed. This is the bin of one of the bins of stuff I may or may not expand into as I write this thing. I've got a thing called choosies, which are explorable movies. Do …
Ask A Genius 915: AI Revenge Porn and Ethical Considerations
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, after this experience, I Googled AI porn is a problem and that returned a bunch of articles and commentary that, yeah, it's a freaking problem. I read an article or an opinion piece from August of last year entitled Why AI porn is terrible, it's worse than you think on a …
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Ask A Genius 914: AI Porn Generator
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, for about the last week, I have an AI porn generator just automatically loading images onto the web page. It was just going, and I was watching it because the stuff that it comes up with, which I'm sure is the result of people asking for that stuff, was interesting, especially …
Ask A Genius 913: Junior High Enemies and Don Draper
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, this is just to clarify that Tom Hanks is not a dick who outbids people for the contents of storage lockers. Actors and other celebs often think it is fun to play themselves as dicks. There was a show you probably have not heard of called Jury Duty, where one guy …
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Ask A Genius 912: Carole has a Book, Too!
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, I'm going through my book and talking, which is set like ten years in the future, about what life might be like then. You said to plug Carole's book, too. I've been working on this thing for years and years; you could argue for decades because I'm taking much stuff from …
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