[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: All right. So, we were talking about transcribing because there's a whole process when we're talking and then to get it turned into a print for putting on online. I have a transcription story that infuriated my wife and myself. Carol got a driving ticket from the highway patrol for making …
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[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, a principle of IC is that consciousness fairly easily and reasonably and frequently arises because it's an efficient way and an achievable way for systems to model the world to increase their chances for survival, right? Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Yes. Rosner: Okay. So, evolution evolves; it arises and then that …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You wanted to talk about social media or specifically Twitter going to shit. What's up? Rick Rosner: So, Musk took over Twitter maybe eight months ago. Things already weren't great across social media and on Twitter because a significant percentage of social media users have either been driven a little …
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[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: Okay. I've seen advertised on Twitter, Twitter which is a terrible mess right now because Elon Musk is a terrible mess; the owner but you can set AI loose on all the scientific papers out there and it will find correlations among papers. It'll kind of do some of its own …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I was having a percolating thought. Large-scale human institutions; everyone believes in them, has shared values around them, and these structure everything we do in terms of the course development of our lives, the fine-tuned stuff like little interactions. Things like the United Nations, the World Bank, nation states, democratic …
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[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: You don't want a theory that says your current theory, say the Big Bang, is wrong and there's a bunch of evidence that it's wrong, you just can't see it. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: [Laughing]. Rosner: That's a bad coincidence. We have a theory that the Big Bang is wrong-ish but there …
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[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: You and I just started talking off tape about inflation. In America there's a lot of greenflation which is companies realizing that they can get away with charging more than not have it affect their market share significantly. So, they just charge more even if it's not freaking fair and they …
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: Twitter has taught me that when somebody is front paging Jesus in social media, at least in America, there's a high chance at least on Twitter that they're super Trumpy and not at all Christian. I mean they call themselves Christian but anyway maybe this comment will be from a better …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This is from Harrison Duffy. “My name is Harrison Duffy and I'm a researcher for a company called Large Eyes, a subsidiary of Matador content LLC. Most recently completing and releasing the Billy Eilish documentary. I specialize in the creation and production of high quality unscripted TV for premium networks. …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This one's from “Clammy”. “Doesn't it say in the Jewish scriptures for specific individuals to be isolated during sickness as opposed to everyone?” Rick Rosner: I don't know I mean scriptures say a lot of stuff. They say it's a sin to where two different kinds of fabric. The Old …
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