[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Okay, so preface, I'm being kind of a douche bag right now because we had a long, long preamble off tape, and I'm making you do it. Rick Rosner: All right, so Scott right now is interested in joining fraternal organizations like the Elks and I'm twice as old as …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 790: Scott, a Fraternal Douche
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: It's day eight of the LA heat wave where we've had temperatures in the San Fernando Valley of more than 43 degrees probably for the past eight days, we got two more days to go until it temperatures drop below, high temperatures drop below I guess 40 maybe. So it's been …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Okay, so these are along horses, talking about horses and working with them and the ways we try to communicate, talking about communicating? Rick Rosner: We’ve talked about communicating with horses that if a horse wants to understand what you want, they have a pretty good idea, if they have …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is longtermism? How does it relate to IC in real? Rick Rosner: I just learned about it longtermism and probably have a very basic understanding because I've only read one article on it but apparently it's kind of a modernistic philosophy embraced by certain billionaire tech bros that you …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Okay, so you pitched this idea again in email yesterday, the day before I guess, I'm percolating a bit between the two of those for a while. So, what's behind the term IQ post-mortem? What's the intention there? Rick Rosner: It's kind of the end of the IQ era where …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: We were talking off tape and you brought up longtermism. I am familiar with similar concepts but not to the extent that you're talking about which I would see more as deep longtermism. What do you mean by long-term-ism? What problems do you see with it? Rick Rosner: So I …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 785: Putin and the Noosphere, and IQ
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, we had a small chat. I was reflecting on the fact: I don’t know if I have many more avenues to explore the High IQ societies. I have a couple ideas, maybe a few, but I think those are pretty much already underway and can be done fairly quickly. …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 784: Investigating High-IQ Societies
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: The deal is that we've been talking for eight, eight and a half, almost nine years maybe. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Yes. Rosner: We started with IC for the most part. We had gone off on all sorts of tangents. But the deal is that looking for a version of an information …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I think that whatever nature can produce then it's possible for us to produce it too. It's just a matter of figuring out the appropriate sort of processes and structure to make that happen potentially in different substrates. Regardless, it's the same natural universe; if nature can do it we …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 782: Nature’s Productions by Humans
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You proposed a topic last night. I could make the same thing tonight which is ‘the possible epidemic of stupidity.’ I want to pivot really hard or lean in hard on two points. What do you mean by possible here and what do you mean by epidemic here? Rick Rosner: …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 781: Catmatism, so Singularitarians, Transhumanism, Unitarians
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