Ask A Genius 827: Equestrianism Into Television

[Recording Start]  Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So we had a talk about equestrianism off tape and you had something to talk about, let's talk about that. Rick Rosner: Okay. You and I have been talking for about nine years now and from the beginning we were talking about things like consciousness and at some point we …

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Ask A Genius 826: Does the Big Bang have Issues?

[Recording Start]  Rick Rosner: A few days ago I sent you an article on 10 things that are wrong with the current version of the Big Bang like observations that don't match the theory because the Big Bang, in general terms, was laid out about 60 years ago or a little more maybe. Everything started …

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Ask A Genius 825: Rick on a Another Podcast!

[Recording Start]  Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, you're going to be on a podcast tomorrow and you're going to be talking about economics. Rick Rosner: Yeah, even though I'm not super qualified but I know the topic is that Biden's spending is not cheap; 1.8 trillion I think on infrastructure or I don't know… anyway, a …

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Ask A Genius 824: Computation and Artificial Intelligence and Principles of Existence

[Recording Start]  Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I wanted to talk about artificial intelligence in the context of IC. So there's this whole phrase in IC; the principles of existence those aren't necessarily just the laws of physics but they certainly comprise them. And I don't think anything not permitted by them exists but if things are …

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Ask A Genius 823: Addendum to 822

[Recording Start]  Rick Rosner: So, what are we saying here? Scott Douglas Jacobsen: We are saying even if you take a shift from IQ tests and controlled psychometric psychological testing center case for the proper test into the real world, other confounding factors in the real world could make metrics that can use a naturalistic setting like …

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Ask A Genius 822: Christopher Michael Langan, Marilyn Mach Vos Savant, John Sununu, and Richard Rosner, Christopher Harding, and Kevin Langdon

[Recording Start]  Scott Douglas Jacobsen: There's an article by David Redvaldsen from Norway published in the peer-reviewed journal Psych. It examines the validity of the Mega and Titan tests by Ronald K Hoeflin. After a thorough review, the conclusion is that the Mega test can measure IQ at the one in a million level, while …

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Ask A Genius 818: Proof in Daily Living

[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, I was having this discussion about the concept of proof and evidence, and what constitutes a meaningless statement. I categorize proofs as confined to pure mathematics for mathematical proofs or logic for logical proofs. Everything else is statistical and varies depending on the study's domain. Then there are meaningless …

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