In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 417 - Monitoring Deviancy October 19, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: The right and the left have valid arguments here. They tend to argue two points here. Conservatives argue fatherlessness. Liberals argue patriarchal structures in society. Both make sense. If you look at the prison population, the ISIS …
Ask A Genius 416 – Unable, Cannot, Don’t Want To
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 416 - Unable, Cannot, Don't Want To October 18, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Obviously, you know about Incels. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Right, I didn't know about them until the attacks in Canada. Rosner: I didn't either. It means a creepy guy who can't get laid. Jacobsen: Or a resentful guy …
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Ask A Genius 415 – 2100 to Infinity
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 415 - 2100 to Infinity October 17, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, it is an extrapolation to 2100. China will lose about 33% of the current 1.5 billion population. India will continue to grow but taper off as development happens, life gets better, and life gets more …
Ask A Genius 414 – ‘American Food’ in China: China is Eating Our Lunch
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 414 - 'American Food' in China: China is Eating Our Lunch October 16, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Why is China eating our - Americans' - lunch? What is the anecdote? Rick Rosner: I bought on eBay Minoxidil, which is this stuff that I use to try and keep …
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Ask A Genius 413 – I Must Scream
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 413 - I Must Scream October 15, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is this thought about the limited visions of the future? Rick Rosner: Given the limited capacity to imagine the future, a more idealized version would not include the 1960s ones with the world inhabited by dystopian …
The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 21 – Kavaraw
In-Sight Publishing The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 21 - Kavaraw October 15, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: There's also the fact of the statistical probability. There is a precedence set. When people say, "Believe women," that is the media and communications part of it, the advertising of it, which has …
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Ask A Genius 412 – Explicit and Implicit Characters and Plots
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 412 - Explicit and Implicit Characters and Plots October 14, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is the wave of new shows? Rick Rosner: There explicitly state that their characters are terrible. They are the worst. There are shows, like sitcoms generally, are explicitly presented as huge assholes. We …
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Ask A Genius 411 – Gods, Old and New
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 411 - Gods, Old and New October 13, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What are the old ways people believed in gods, and, to some extent, still believe in gods? Rick Rosner: In the old days, which is Greece and Rome and before that, you had people without a …
Ask A Genius 410 – Homo Opinionem
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 410 - Homo Opinionem October 12, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What was the book that you were reading? Did you finish it? Rick Rosner: I may have mentioned this in another session. I finished reading Homo Deus. It basically meshes with something else that we were talking about, which is …
Ask A Genius 409 – Number-Curious or Hidden Figures in Numbers: Numbers of Here-and-Now and There-and-Then as We Understand Them
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 409 - Number-Curious or Hidden Figures in Numbers: Numbers of Here-and-Now and There-and-Then as We Understand Them October 11, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Is God a mathematician? Rick Rosner: As an analogy about the weird things that may arise in our future understanding of existence, think of the …
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