Rick Rosner: So, it's fall, which was a time that everyone looked forward to—at least in America—when the new shows would debut on network TV. Now, with a gazillion channels, network TV is less appealing than the higher quality, more challenging shows available elsewhere. But there are still shows on network TV premiering now, including …
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, I interviewed with Steven Pinker. I had some correspondence with someone who is a dissenter from him. They cited people that Pinker has either been associated with or has referenced in his work and, therefore, concluded that Pinker is both a bad researcher and a bad person—or at least suspiciously so, something …
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What's going on with newer AI platforms for the Bay Area? Rick Rosner: AI is like the Wild West in some ways, but in other ways, it's not. Companies like Alphabet and Microsoft are pouring billions of dollars into developing powerful AI like ChatGPT, so that's not the Wild West—that's heavy industry. But these …
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Rick Rosner: Informational cosmology has been a theme throughout our talks for ten years. Bit by bit, it's becoming a complete theory. When we last discussed it, I want to mentioned information pressure—the idea that increasing information in a semi-closed, self-consistent system, like a universe, drives time. It embodies time. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Right; the …
Rick Rosner: So, while you were away, I do not remember my dreams very often, and I have forgotten this one now. Still, I remembered that a whole lot of ridiculous bullshit happened in this dream that did not comport with my reality at all. I was working at Kimmel in some capacity, but there …
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Rick Rosner: So, Harris has been the Dems' candidate for about a month now. There are about 70-80 days to go until the election, which means people, depending on the state, can start early voting as soon as a few weeks from now. In many states, early voting might begin about seven weeks from now. …
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How do you feel about having more white hair? Rick Rosner: I feel bad about having a ton of white hair. I feel bad about having an old-looking face. I've done so many pilots about myself as the guy with among ‘the highest IQs in America’ or as part of a team …
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is the comparison and contrast between "based" happening in conservatives and "woke" that occurs to progressives? Rick Rosner: The way I understand "based" is that it's being aware of and upset about things that matter to conservatives or conservative pundits. It's buying into what they talk about on Glenn Beck, Alex …
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What do you make of "woke," wokeism, wokeness, wokeology? Claims about it; facts about it. Rick Rosner: Most of the talk about it is garbage. There's a thing on the right that I guess is the right-wing version of "woke," which is "based." It's an interesting question. A congressman calls himself "Based …
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Rick Rosner: I showed my wife clips from The Daily Show for the first time. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: And what did she think? Rosner: She's not much of a fan of late-night monologue jokes, which sucks for me because my job was writing those. But she liked The Daily Show because it doesn't just tell …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 1098: “The Daily Show” and Carole Rosner
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