Ask A Genius 847: Vaccines and Pharma Companies

[Recording Start]  Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This is number four in feedback for Rick Rosner.  “Sure, vaccine proven effective and those sneaky Pharma companies have some pretty big lawsuits in the past” Rick Rosner: Yeah, there's a book by the guy who wrote The Blind Side, Michael Lewis. Anyway, about the CDC; U.S Centers for Disease …

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Ask A Genius 846: Charles Young

[Recording Start]  Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This is a third one for the new series on answering inquiries from website http://www.rickbrosner.org . You can ask comments at http://www.rick rosner.org/contact.  Rick Rosner: Also, if you have like Dear Abby type questions, I'll try to answer those too. I read advice columns a lot and I usually end …

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Ask A Genius 845: Ross Whatley

[Recording Start]  Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Ross Whatley, ross.whatley@gmail.com. “Dear Mr. Rosner, please remake your 70s to 80s action-packed cop show chips with for modern audiences and a major Network like NBC. Get the CHP and the original cast in behind the scenes roles to really deliver a series that are better than the original in …

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Ask A Genius 844: Gavin Joyner

[Recording Start]  Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Gavin Joyner. gavinjoyner@gmail.com. “What supplements or nootropics do you take now?  I'm taking four 4-chloro Modafinil and Phosphatidylserine at the moment. A few here and there but I want your take on what should or shouldn't I be taking. The reason why I ask is because you yourself take 38 …

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Ask A Genius 843: Trump Needs Legal Assassins

[Recording Start]  Rick Rosner: Trump has been federally indicted now. He was indicted a month or two ago on state charges in New York for a campaign finance violations and maybe money laundering involving the 130,000 dollar hush money payment to porn stars Stormy Daniels who he had sex with. So that's 34 charges on …

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Ask A Genius 842: Did you know? Women can take their bras off without taking their shirts off.

[Recording Start]  Rick Rosner: So you may know, since Elon Musk bought Twitter, it's been a mess. One of the ways it's a mess is that maybe it was porn-y before and I just didn't know it but now there's a lot of porn-y stuff on Twitter. I came across it because I am who …

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Ask A Genius 841: Porn, and Shame and Guilty Culture

[Recording Start]  Rick Rosner: Porn is increasingly weird in two ways. One way is that there's so much porn that guys have wrecked their pouring centers, have just fried them looking at too much porn. So porn has to get more and more perverse and extreme for guys who've seen too much porn to use …

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Ask A Genius 840: Dinesh D’Souza

[Recording Start]  Rick Rosner: Are you familiar with Dinesh D'Souza?  Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Yes. Rosner: So you know he’s a right-wing propagandist and kind of often not too concerned with exact truths, right? Jacobsen: Yes. Rosner: So, he saw a tweet I think where somebody was talking about how statistically Trumpy Republicans are dumber than …

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Ask A Genius 839: Machines Will Come to Know

[Recording Start]  Rick Rosner: A quick thing that just came up. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Okay, quick thing you just came out. So, sincere disagreement. Go. Rosner: All right, so we were having a disagreement about whether it matters whether an AI appreciates its own jokes or not. Basically we're arguing about a very short window …

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Ask A Genius 838: AI and Consciousness

[Recording Start]  Rick Rosner: We have talked about consciousness, physics, and everything for nine years. Moreover, when we have been talking about AI and what is to come early on and medium on four years ago, five years ago, we were talking about how big data processing would change everything that humans have taken the low-hanging …

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