“On my first day in Kyiv I heard a Shahed drone hovering above us—the closest comparison for a North American mind would be a lawnmower in the sky. They are not quiet; they are very loud.” — Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Category: Ask A Genius
Ask A Genius 1633: Iran Regime Stability, COVID Trends, and Kyiv Under Air Raid
“External military pressure does not reliably produce stable democratic outcomes.”
Ask A Genius 1632: Estimating Lifetime Orgasm Time
“If I estimate approximately 15,000 to 17,000 occurrences… across an entire lifetime, it amounts to about one day in total.”
Ask A Genius 1631: Kyiv Normalcy Under Fire: Risk, Reform, Exercise Micro-Dosing, and Sex Education
“My principles are universalist. I am pro–human rights.”
Ask A Genius 1630: Black Hole Information Paradox, White Holes, and Trump’s Tariff Clock
“A black hole permits entry but not exit. A white hole is the time-reverse solution—matter and radiation can exit but not enter.” — Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Ask A Genius 1629: Are Smartphones, AI, and Longevity Science Triggering the Next Human Transformation?
“From an evolutionary perspective, what appears wasteful at the individual level may be functional at the population level.” — Jacobsen
Ask A Genius 1628: Rick Rosner Restores a Jesus Mosaic with Gold-Glass Halo Rays, Then Dissects HBO’s Industry
“I’m doing what looks aesthetically good. It’s already a bit much.”
Ask A Genius 1627: Quantum Computing on the Moon: Polar Craters, Radiation Shielding, and the Limits of Space-Tech Optimism
Rick Rosner: “Optimism drives innovation. Unrealistic optimism ignores thermodynamics, economics, and biology.”
Ask A Genius 1626: U.S. Employment 2025–2026: Benchmark Revisions, Near-Zero Payroll Growth, and AI’s Labour Shock
Rick Rosner: “The trajectory is empirical, not mystical, and it deserves careful measurement rather than panic or denial.”
Ask A Genius 1625: AI Freak-Out Cycles and Human Limits
Rosner: “Possibly both. It can produce real benefits while also generating unintended consequences and structural disruption.”
Rick Rosner 