Ask A Genius 39 – Informational Cosmology 15

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 39 - Informational Cosmology 15 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 23, 2016 Scott: Why isn't arbitrarily large prohibited? Rick: Multiple Worlds Theory is annoying because it implies all of these worlds have to exist, but IC is similarly annoying in that it has a large set of permitted …

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Dear Rick 15 – The Next 4 Years, Conservatives and Bernie Bros

In-Sight Publishing Dear Rick 15 - The Next 4 Years, Conservatives and Bernie Bros Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 22, 2016 Scott: What else? Rick: Be prepared to be mobilized, at first in wimpy ways, such as social media, signing surveys, writing your congressperson or senator, and if things become direr then in …

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Ask A Genius 38 – Informational Cosmology 14

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 38 - Informational Cosmology 14 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 21, 2016 Scott: When I think about structures like the Sun or the shell, the very hot shell, of things being sucked in or rotated around the black hole, or even the radiation that it has, in a …

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Dear Rick 14 – The Next 4 Years, Staying Informed

In-Sight Publishing Dear Rick 14 - The Next 4 Years, Staying Informed Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 20, 2016 Scott: With fake news, with the Comey thing, with Trump, with Trumpism, and ethnic nationalism on the rise in America and elsewhere, how can we get through the next 4 years? Rick: I live …

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Ask A Genius 37 – Informational Cosmology 13

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 37 - Informational Cosmology 13 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 19, 2016 Scott: If the universe is net negentropic, what happens a quintillion or quadrillion years into the future? What if the universe is net entropic? Rick: The universe is defined, I believe and quantum mechanics suggests, by …

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Dear Rick 13 – The Future of Brain or Body Augmentation

In-Sight Publishing Dear Rick 13 - The Future of Brain or Body Augmentation Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 18, 2016 Scott: What about the future of brain or body augmentation? Rick: We're right on the cusp of it being cool to not want to die. There's only one celebrity who says he's going …

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Ask A Genius 36 – Informational Cosmology 12

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 36 - Informational Cosmology 12 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 17, 2016 Scott: Persistent structures at all scales in the universe have evolved to be resistant to decay, informational decay. They’re like buffers – like the shielding of solar systems from the interstellar medium because of the heliosphere. …

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Dear Rick 12 -The Future of Business Cycles 4

In-Sight Publishing Dear Rick 12 -The Future of Business Cycles 4 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 16, 2016 Scott: What about a middle ground? Rick: You'll have the sitcom future people. They will do normal stuff by giving their loved ones and those close to them the best life possible by making middle …

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Ask A Genius 35 – Informational Cosmology 11

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 35 - Informational Cosmology 11 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 15, 2016 Scott: Matter in the universe represents structures. Information-based structures representative of external structure, a material framework. Rick: You and I have been poking at what are the matter equivalents of informational structures. Looking at our universe, …

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Dear Rick 11 -The Future of Business Cycles 3

In-Sight Publishing Dear Rick 11 -The Future of Business Cycles 3 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 14, 2016 Scott: Any relationships with other areas? Rick: It makes me think of height. You won't see someone below 5 feet often or over 6'6", tight range. All of the sudden we're going to enter a …

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