Ask A Genius 326 – Divinity and Human Exaltation

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 326 – Divinity and Human Exaltation October 20, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What were we talking about? Ah yes, the future and comprehending the short, mid, and long-term. Rick Rosner: Yes, it was about the near, what is in the middle, and what is here to come. …

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Ask A Genius 325 – The Feynman Thing (2)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 325 – The Feynman Thing (2) October 19, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Now it's possible we could reach a limit to three hundred years from now where the earth is wrapped up in a big ball of information processing entities that are coming together and bubbling apart like a …

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Ask A Genius 324 – The Feynman Thing (1)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 324 – The Feynman Thing (1) October 18, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: That Feynman thing that he said in a speech about the future of science which there are three possible futures. Science figures out everything within or almost everything within a reasonably short time frame say a …

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Ask A Genius 323 – Mating Strategies (3)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 323 – Mating Strategies (3) October 17, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: But there will always be a novelty. It won't signify much. You know, fashion exists to perpetuate itself via novelty. Sometimes it reflects a something maybe important about the culture, the way that fashion has shifted to …

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Ask A Genius 322 – Mating Strategies (2)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 322 – Mating Strategies (2) October 16, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What niches in the future will be exaggerated, as some niches are more exaggerated now? Rick Rosner: You mean what niches will be—what niches—what roles will offer certain people chances of sexual success the way the …

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Ask A Genius 321 – Mating Strategies

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 321 – Mating Strategies (1) October 15, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: I think that what you see in terms of partnership choices in the future may reflect mating strategies. When you have… today and for the past few decades, when you have unusual mating arrangements, like people in …

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Ask A Genius 320 – Markets, Mothers, and Climate Change (6)

  In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 320 – Markets, Mothers, and Climate Change (6) October 14, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Also there are pushes to do two things that build on the worst aspects of faith, religious faith. One, an attempt at reversion to literalist interpretation propped up. You can name many in your …

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Ask A Genius 319 – Markets, Mothers, and Climate Change (5)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 319 – Markets, Mothers, and Climate Change (5) October 13, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So... bell curves of smartness and dumbness... Rick Rosner: It's like smoking. Jacobsen: Acceptance of climate change... are moving further and further apart in terms of the level of overlappingness? Rosner: Yeah I mean... nobody is …

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Ask A Genius 318 – Markets, Mothers, and Climate Change (4)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 318 – Markets, Mothers, and Climate Change (4) October 12, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is the main source of the inability to make sustainable changes in that state? Rick Rosner: Well one thing is that L.A is where people go to make their dreams of a …

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Ask A Genius 317 – Markets, Mothers, and Climate Change (3)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 317 – Markets, Mothers, and Climate Change (3) October 11, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Same yesterday. A couple of weeks ago it was up over 110 for a few days. Yeah statistically you might expect to get days like that every few years, but... if it is an …

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