[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, we've had some disagreements on IC over the last few years. One of those is the idea that consciousness is required for large-scale information exchange; it's a simplified way of saying it. I don't think it's necessarily derivative if you think like large-scale physics, that you get a mind out of …
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[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: All right, so, talking about high IQ tests, IQ tested 120 years ago, or when they were first conceived of by Binet, they were supposed to be on a scale of one to five given to kids to see what kind of educational resources they might need. So, score a one, you're …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Does proper statistical analysis… Ron Hoeflin tips the hat to him. Now, I have gotten responses from some members of the high IQ community on this particular one. When I point out these new norms and Ron Hoeflin's statement that I am not a statistician, they will say I still stick to …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, I wanted to do a little session or even a medium or long session, depending on how it goes about interacting and working and writing about you for nine years or almost a decade. It's been a long trip. When we first started collaborating, I reached out to you just …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I had another topic for today about Edwin. As you know, he’s a colleague of mine and is a professor in cosmology at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. Mir Faisal, he's a devout Muslim; really smart guy and much more liberal than even me and has very interesting takes …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I wanted to talk about the bullshit of metaphysics. I think that metaphysics, in so far as we currently understand it and have historically taken it in its existence, is outmoded in many ways. In that sense, I would argue for it being bullshit. I take that as a shorthand …
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[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, in the 70’s which seemed like a very white era in terms of sex symbols, you had Charlie's Angels and Farrah Fawcett and it was a very skinny era in America. People jogged and also did a lot of cocaine and so some of our biggest sex symbols were assless …
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: I'm working on this novel about a very smart individual. At some point you're going to have to read it. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Okay. Rosner: And this individual is, to some extent a version of me, and has a lot of exciting things going on in his life and has neglected …
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: There was a dot com bubble around the year 2000 when a lot of people including my writing partner and myself were doing the man show.com We were doing the content for that and everybody thought that web portals have the potential to make you a millionaire if you got enough …
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: I've noticed and I think we talked about it briefly a few months ago but accelerationism and there's this symbol or term e/acc, which I think is short for Effective Accelerationism which is a play on Sam Bankman-Fried’s effective altruism. Anyways, now you’ve got effective accelerationism and accelerationism is the feeling …
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