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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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 34 - Informational Cosmology 10 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 13, 2016 Scott: What about concept clusters? Rick: The concept clusters, or the chunks of information in your brain, are in the order of 100,00 things in your brain. The concept of running. The concept of farting. It …
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In-Sight Publishing Dear Rick 10 - The Future of Business Cycles 2 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 12, 2016 Scott: With regard to business cycles, this will imply a spreading out of human behaviour. What do you mean? What does that imply? Rick: There are companies and commodities that will continue to have …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 33 - Informational Cosmology 9 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 11, 2016 Scott: How would you estimate the information in the universe? Rick: There are various estimates. You could look at the average density in the universe. Some people have estimate that the number of particles, basically hydrogen …
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In-Sight Publishing Dear Rick 9 – The Future of Business Cycles 1 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 10, 2016 Scott: Business runs in cycles, plural. What about the future of business cycles? Rick: There are a bunch of different cycles in economics. There are the major stock market cycles, bull markets and corrections. …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 32 - Informational Cosmology 8 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 10, 2016 Scott: Are most photons not captured by other things in the universe? They traverse, lose energy. Rick: The craziest statistics that nobody knows. There’s many of them, but one of them is that only one trillionth …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 31 - Informational Cosmology 7 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 9, 2016 Scott: In informational cosmology, what is the bias towards complexity, towards information, towards order – negentropy? Rick: I think one of the biggest discoveries in physics was the discovery of entropy, which is the measure of …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 30 - Informational Cosmology 6 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 8, 2016 Scott: What about information rather than nothing? Rick: The idea of information being in charge rather than nothing is more hopeful. If everything is part of information contained in some consciousness, if consciousness is the containing …
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In-Sight Publishing Dear Rick 8 – Laughter, Election, Mechanization Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 8, 2016 Scott: Long before the election, we were talking about joke writing. Rick: I and another person think laughter is a reaction to getting information at a discount. The setup of a joke takes a certain amount of …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 29 - Informational Cosmology 5 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 7, 2016 Scott: What about the unification of the operations of the universe under a scientific framework? Rick: Starting around the time of Newton. Galileo did some stuff under the scientific umbrella, but Newton was the first creator …
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