In-Sight Publishing November 16, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Along the world line, what is a set of reasonable next possible moments in that universe? Scott Douglas Jacobsen: And so, that would be more building into the assumption of a second layer, that argument, which is you can have single moments, certainly. Which …
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In-Sight Publishing November 16, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, I think one of the basic premises, that I see, would be the idea that the set of null universes is not bigger than the set of things that can exist. I think the set of universes that cannot exist is smaller …
In-Sight Publishing November 15, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Ok, so, some new research. Rick Rosner: This evening, an article on information in black holes. Jacobsen: Here, this has been a confirmation of the finding or the calculation of Hawking. That information is not destroyed by black holes. It's preserved. But obviously, …
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In-Sight Publishing Born to do Math 193 – A Man’s Own(ed) Pursuits: Self-Formulated Teleology November 15, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Jacobsen: Rick, what is the future of IQ? Rosner: Like we've talked about this before. Jacobsen: Or what is the future relevance of IQ and its diminishment? Rosner: Well, IQ has only been around …
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In-Sight Publishing Born to do Math 192 – Legendary IQ Test-Taker in a Niche Community November 8, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How many IQ tests have you taken? Rick Rosner: Probably 40 if you include the SAT and GRE, they can be converted to IQ scores. I have easily taken 40 …
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In-Sight Publishing November 7, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You mentioned the personality of Trump with two more fundamental questions of personality. Why the inconstancy from day to day, moment to moment? Rick Rosner: I don't know. Like, he's a compulsive liar and a compulsive bull shitter. He's gotten whatever he wants …
In-Sight Publishing November 2, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Who's going to win? Rick Rosner: I think Biden will pull it out. I'm very confident that he’ll do better than Hillary, even in the Electoral College. He'll do better than Hillary. That still leaves the zone where he does better than Hillary …
In-Sight Publishing November 2, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What are the chances that Trump and Biden or Biden winning now, and what are the chances of Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump winning in the 2016 election, how it is comparable or not? Rick Rosner: So, I think at the last moment, …
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In-Sight Publishing Born to do Math 191 – The Future of IQ: Its Relevance and Diminishment November 1, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is the future of the relevance of IQ, its diminishment? Rick Rosner: IQ has only been around for a century. Binet came up with a 5-point scale for …
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In-Sight Publishing October 31, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, what's going off the election? Rosner: All right. So, the whole country, we've got 80 hours to go until the polls close in California. Then we probably have a couple of days to go until we get it clear. It is not …
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