[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I think that whatever nature can produce then it's possible for us to produce it too. It's just a matter of figuring out the appropriate sort of processes and structure to make that happen potentially in different substrates. Regardless, it's the same natural universe; if nature can do it we …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You proposed a topic last night. I could make the same thing tonight which is ‘the possible epidemic of stupidity.’ I want to pivot really hard or lean in hard on two points. What do you mean by possible here and what do you mean by epidemic here? Rick Rosner: …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You post a statement. The slow apocalypse that is nature. What is this slow apocalypse? Rick Rosner: Not the slow apocalypse, the moment-to-moment apocalypse that's nature. I Googled how many mammals there are on earth and I'd say that the vast majority of mammals are sentient. I can't easily think …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What's the nonsense with jobs you've had? How were the odds with that? Rick Rosner: Some nonsense jobs? Jacobsen: Or nonsense with management in jobs. There you go. Rosner: There was a bar, The Ore house in Santa Monica on the border with Venice which put it in a semi-tough …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Okay so you're completely unprompted for this one but I think it's really funny. Also, I think it underlies a large minority in the United States who vote with passion. They have money, they have large numbers, and they are politically active more than a lot of other voices in …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, you had a brother in the military involved in intelligence. What was he like? Rick Rosner: My late brother David was pretty remarkable in his fearlessness and intrepidness. He became a highly observant Jew, what you'd kind of call Orthodox or maybe Hasidic. At the same time, he was …
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[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: As I've said before I'm kind of a broken record with regard to informational cosmology which to some extent could also be called metaphorical physics where you look for parallels between the functioning of the brain/mind in the universe itself. But the thing that's not a broken record, it's fairly recent …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How should we handle frustration? Rick Rosner: I perceive that you sometimes feel irritated by the repetitive nature of my remarks. Although it's a convenient justification, I empathize with your irritation and occasionally feel the same about myself. When I reflect on my early life or teenage years, the narrative …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So what's going on with the film project about you or partly about you? Rick Rosner: Okay, so this project is about people who've scored high on the Mega test and who are also to some extent lunatics is still alive at a network. They haven't said yay or nay …
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So your question is if I am done taking Ultra high-end IQ tests and certainly for the time being. Issue number one is I'm trying to complete a book. I've got many tens of thousands of words but towards this book that just need to be pushed into the shape of …
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