In-Sight Publishing May 22, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: So, Carole and I have been looking at where we might move at some point in our lives, obviously towards our older years because we're already fucking older. I'm 61 and Carole turns 57 in two months. That urge to find someplace else to …
Ask A Genius 590: A Compare and Contrast Between Trump and Biden
In-Sight Publishing May 22, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This is more off the cuff, so it's not fair. Because it's requiring long term knowledge, but what are the pluses, minuses, differences between former President Trump when he was in his first four months and current president Biden in his first term? …
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Ask A Genius 589: Pandemic American Sports
In-Sight Publishing January 18, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Why are the sports in a pandemic in America? Rick Rosner: I want to agree that it's fucking ridiculous to have sports in a pandemic. America's behavior has been… we're not alone in dumb behavior among the nations of the world during the …
Born To Do Math 208: Informational Cosmology Ultimate Frisbee
In-Sight Publishing January 1, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, this is the ultimate frisbee of virtual realities. You go first, please. Rick Rosner: Ok, so, from time to time, we've casually kind of discussed how it's interesting/possibly important that the issue of whether the universe is real or a simulation. In …
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Ask A Genius 588: Genius Drain and Wishes for 2021
In-Sight Publishing December 31, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Ok, what are your plans or wishes for 2021? Rick Rosner: Well, there is a fade somewhat, that trump and his people are prosecuted. In that, we've tried the partnering route before. Letting bygones be bygones in the name of healing, that seems …
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Ask A Genius 587: Personality Meh, General Intelligence Yeah
In-Sight Publishing December 18, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: A lot of things we thought were pretty secure in the findings, probably not unfounded, but less founded than we thought things were on personality and things like this. But other things we have found are consistent through the decades have been things …
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Born To Do Math 207: Cuckolds, Congress, and Atom Bombs
In-Sight Publishing December 9, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Any commentary from the individuals who would be husbands or the boyfriends or the partners of the women who would go out and sleep with Feynman or Feynman like people at that time? Rick Rosner: I've read a couple of Feynman autobiographies. Of …
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Born To Do Math 206: Cosmology from a Party Monster
In-Sight Publishing December 9, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: I grew up in Boulder, Colorado, home of the University of Colorado, where I eventually ended up attending after I had a nervous breakdown and failed to complete my application to any college. I only wanted to go to Harvard and then I felt …
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Born To Do Math 205: ‘Smart’ Guy Rosner… Smartest Guy Rosner?
In-Sight Publishing December 9, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Okay, so, you, by alternative intelligence test standards, have one of the highest IQs in the world, repeatedly. So, it's established, in a loose alternative sense. Rick Rosner: What you're saying is, I've taken a lot of these tests and done well. Jacobsen: …
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Ask A Genius 587: “Assholes: A Theory,” Decency, and the Cosmos’ Information
In-Sight Publishing December 9, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, I've seen your American deceased artist, Bob Ross. He seems like a generous, warm, and kind person. Other people in your country are shitheads. So, what's the benefit of a life lived as a generous, kind, and warm person compared to being …
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