[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So you may know, since Elon Musk bought Twitter, it's been a mess. One of the ways it's a mess is that maybe it was porn-y before and I just didn't know it but now there's a lot of porn-y stuff on Twitter. I came across it because I am who …
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Ask A Genius 841: Porn, and Shame and Guilty Culture
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: Porn is increasingly weird in two ways. One way is that there's so much porn that guys have wrecked their pouring centers, have just fried them looking at too much porn. So porn has to get more and more perverse and extreme for guys who've seen too much porn to use …
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Ask A Genius 840: Dinesh D’Souza
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: Are you familiar with Dinesh D'Souza? Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Yes. Rosner: So you know he’s a right-wing propagandist and kind of often not too concerned with exact truths, right? Jacobsen: Yes. Rosner: So, he saw a tweet I think where somebody was talking about how statistically Trumpy Republicans are dumber than …
Ask A Genius 839: Machines Will Come to Know
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: A quick thing that just came up. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Okay, quick thing you just came out. So, sincere disagreement. Go. Rosner: All right, so we were having a disagreement about whether it matters whether an AI appreciates its own jokes or not. Basically we're arguing about a very short window …
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Ask A Genius 838: AI and Consciousness
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: We have talked about consciousness, physics, and everything for nine years. Moreover, when we have been talking about AI and what is to come early on and medium on four years ago, five years ago, we were talking about how big data processing would change everything that humans have taken the low-hanging …
Ask A Genius 837: Brakes From Family
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I know Carole and Isabella put the brakes on for you a bit because you tend to go full throttle and things, at least earlier in your life you did. Rick Rosner: Yeah. Lazier, but yeah. Jacobsen: You've had that phrase, lazy has replaced crazy and by crazy I translate …
Ask A Genius 836: Evolving Jewish Views
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Addendum. So you're reform Jewish. Rick Rosner: Yes. Jacobsen: You grew up reform Jewish? Rosner: Yes. Jacobsen: Mom and dad were reform Jewish? Rosner: Yes, further back there was Orthodox. My great-grandfather was a rabbi. My mom grew up in a more towards the conservative household. They kept kosher. I …
Ask A Genius 835: Plato and Socrates
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: Alright, so you just asked me what I think Socrates or Voltaire would think if they suddenly found themselves in a very religious era, for example, in the year 800 AD in Europe, when the Catholic Church ran civilization to a certain extent. The cultural life, the passing on of non …
Ask A Genius 834: Long Covid
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Is Covid over? Please tell me. Rick Rosner: No, people are thinking and pretending it's over because we are now three years and two or three months in. People are sick of it and nobody's reporting results anymore. Testing is way down. Carol, my wife, works at a school and …
Ask A Genius 833: Boiling Down AI Talk
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: Last time we were talking about AI and I just wanted to boil what we were saying down to its essentials which is that AI seems to be able to do a rough approximation of in task information processing at a level that is either comparable to human or enough in …
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