[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What about these randomized supplements? Rick Rosner: I take a bunch of vitamins. I’ve put them in various places to remind me that I need to re-order them, or that’s where they end up, and I don’t clean them out: Heartburn pills. Jacobsen: Do you get heartburn? Rosner: Every once in a while, I’ve …
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[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: Somewhere there is a photo if it exists, of Tom Cruise holding my grotesque foot, because it resided at Jimmy Kimmel’s for several years, he was at a party there. Somebody made him hold the foot. I saw the photo, but I didn’t get a copy sent. Then it is resting …
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: I'm just going through my chapter outlines here. Yesterday I think, we were talking about how we are used to crappy service and glitches and hacking of our devices. So, even though we've got these cutting-edge devices and tech that stream more information into our homes than ever before, we're also used to …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, we are continuing to see women take over key Industries: medicine, law, and some areas of science, which has been a trend happening more rapidly progressively in the last three decades, maybe four, where women are more educated, and they are picking more relevant industries for sort of long-term employment in …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I want to talk very briefly about reductio ad absurdum of the concept of war, technically in the state of modern warfare because we're moving into a world more and more where drones are becoming part of things and I don't mean just drones that fly around and suicide themselves into …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 926: Machines Fighting Machines?
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, it's 1999. My writing partner and I are pitching shows around town, and we sell a show just for pilots or something called a pre-pilot presentation, which is like a high school play version of your show. They tape it, but it's not entirely the set or anything. They give you …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I wanted to talk about books. Say, four or five thousand years ago, the idea of a book wasn't a thing; you had scrolls. You had 1% of the population who were literate in advanced society at the time, like the Egyptians with the scribes. Print and press came around; you had …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 924: Microfiche is not that much pain, Rick!
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I was thinking about building off something you were kind of semi-formulating; the idea that after 20, most days are pretty dull, and so you sort of have to jazz up your day or, like a lot of it, it's just space-filling and some kind of trying to refocus your attention. …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 923: Most of Life is, Basically, a Bore
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: All right, so at the beginning of the last little session, I mentioned that I have been using a free version of the LLM, Large Language Model AI, called Claude. Claude comes in various flavours, including a fancy one you can pay for. Do you know the difference between the fancy ones …
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[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: In our previous session, we were talking about how to present the everyday future, and there's a very effective way to address issues like that in TV writers' rooms, which is called breaking a story, or you get your writing team, ideally, a bunch of people who have a bunch of life …
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