In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 306 – Los Angeles Collapse September 30, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I wanted to talk about the collapse of Los Angeles. What's going on? Rick Rosner: Well, I know all the stupid climate change deniers can say you know and talk about there is a difference between …
Ask A Genius 305 – Science Faction and Fiction (2)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 305 – Science Faction and Fiction (2) September 29, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: One of the things going on that are amenable to short stories or the inadequately captured. I mean aren’t adequately capture the grand scale transformation have life in the context of 200 years. The cyberpunk which …
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Ask A Genius 304 – Science Faction and Fiction (1)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 304 – Science Faction and Fiction (1) September 28, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: All right, so what isn’t going to happen in science fiction. So we're not all going to Mars well people may colonize Mars. That's a multi-century project to terraform Mars and not that many people …
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Ask A Genius 303 – Sensory Systems and Consciousness (2)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 303 – Sensory Systems and Consciousness (2) September 27, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: And it’s not the best argument but it's you know just a little dinky argument that eyes are such an efficient funnel of outside information into the brain, they take what's going on the outside and …
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Ask A Genius 302 – Sensory Systems and Consciousness (1)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 302 – Sensory Systems and Consciousness (1) September 26, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Off tape in the past, we've talked about sensory apparatuses, which is indicating you know consciousness. What do you mean by that? Rick Rosner: Well all right before we get to that let's talk …
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Ask A Genius 301 – Edenbargain (3)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 301 - Edenbargain (3) September 25, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: We are about to deconstruct ourselves and completely understand how we are made, how we work, and we are about to have dominion over ourselves and our drives. So, we are acquiring knowledge and we are getting kicked out of …
Ask A Genius 300 – Edenbargain (2)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 300 - Edenbargain (2) September 24, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You mean this as a metaphor, just to clarify? Rick Rosner: Yeah. And to put it in you know less religious terms, you could say instead of God setting a place at his table, you could say that evolution …
Ask A Genius 299 – Edenbargain (1)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 299 - Edenbargain (1) September 23, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: We talked about the Edenbargain, what do you mean by that? Rick Rosner: I don’t know if anybody else has ever used the term. I kind of made it up, because I think our current situation has parallels with …
Ask A Genius 298 – Universal Basic Income (8)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 298 - Universal Basic Income (8) September 22, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What’s the source of this? Rosner: You mean what makes me say that? Well, you go on social media, particularly Twitter and it's a festival of rancor and bullying and ridicule and non-conciliatory speech. Then …
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Ask A Genius 297 – Universal Basic Income (7)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 297 - Universal Basic Income (7) September 21, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Let me sum up, just let me say this. Guaranteed minimum wage is one tool on the Swiss army knife of addressing automation based economic dislocation. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Okay. Rosner: It's something that should always …
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