55Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, http://www.rickrosner.org Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, http://www.in-sightpublishing.com Rick Rosner: I think Coursera and AI Trends mentioned modalities, and they were using a term we've been using for longer, multimodality. They were referencing text, image, YouTube, and other coherent forms of media, but I do not mean that. I am referring …
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Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, http://www.rickrosner.org Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, http://www.in-sightpublishing.com Scott Douglas Jacobsen: As we did previously, I have a question from someone, Dr. Claus Volko. His question is framed as a statement. Dr. Claus Volko says, "I would like to learn about Rick's 'theory of everything' if possible." He has no specific …
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Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, http://www.rickrosner.org Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, http://www.in-sightpublishing.com Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, JD Vance was picked. Elon Musk and Peter Thiel have announced they're going to support Trump all the way, pledging at least $10,000,000. So what's going on? Rick Rosner: Freaking Elon Musk is a weirdo and kind of a …
Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, http://www.rickrosner.org Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, http://www.in-sightpublishing.com Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Steven Stutts asks, "What do you think of the relationship between intelligence and awareness?" Rick Rosner: In fiction, I'm thinking of Sherlock Holmes, the genius who notices patterns in the world and details that people of regular intelligence don't. When …
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Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, http://www.rickrosner.org Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, http://www.in-sightpublishing.com Rick Rosner: So, he's been the United States Senator from Ohio since 2023. That makes sense because Ohio is adjacent to Kentucky, directly north of it. My mom's from Ohio. Ohio has a bunch of distinct political and geographic regions, which is a …
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Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, http://www.rickrosner.org Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, http://www.in-sightpublishing.com Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Look at the landscape of technological development now: software, hardware, and expertise in analyzing these systems. What area of consciousness will be the first to be mastered? Because, as stated repeatedly, it's an emergent property. So, before we have emergent …
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Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, http://www.rickrosner.org Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, http://www.in-sightpublishing.com Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Have you ever seen a slider of an image enhancer? You can slide a vertical line left to right. It allows a before and after back-and-forth of the image, like a before and after acne treatment commercial or something. If …
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Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, http://www.rickrosner.org Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, http://www.in-sightpublishing.com Rick Rosner: We recently returned from a two-night stay at a dude ranch. I tend not to inform people in advance when we travel out of town due to concerns about online privacy, so I apologize for any inconvenience. The ranch we visited …
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Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, http://www.rickrosner.org Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, http://www.in-sightpublishing.com Rick Rosner: So one theme that runs through the book is that lonely comedy nerds, the ones in the book who became famous and successful were dedicated enough and or lucky enough to hook up with other comedy nerds. Like Sandler and Apatow …
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Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, http://www.rickrosner.org Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, http://www.in-sightpublishing.com Rick Rosner: Taboo. MAD was designed for kids. They weren't going to show naked boobs or a dick. They weren't going to do masturbation humor because they didn't want to weird out 12-year-olds or get busted by the parents of 12-year-olds. National Lampoon, …
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