[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, this is the original tweet, Jimmy's reaction to Aaron Rodgers saying that he will be thrilled when Jimmy's name shows up on the Epstein list, which it won't. So, Jimmy tweets, "Dear Asshole: for the record, I've not met, flown with, visited, or had any contact whatsoever with Epstein, nor …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 873: Where do we even start with this one?
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, Seth MacFarlane has a new series with Ted, the Talking Teddy Bear. They made two movies with Mark Wahlberg and Ted, the talking teddy bear. Now it's a TV series, and they had a scene that takes place on Fridays, which is an East Coast ice cream parlour/ restaurant, and it …
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: When we talk about persistence, we're talking about interesting persistence instead of a rocky planet with no life. I mean, yeah, it can exist and will exist for maybe tens of billions of years, but not so interestingly. So, interesting persistence is life and things that can respond and survive via thought …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 871: Persistence is Consistency and a Tangle of Information, Embedded
[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 …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 870: Large-Scale Information Exchange in a Relational Cosmology
[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 …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 869: Hey, guess what? More on IQ Tests!
[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 …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 866: Edward Witten’s Productivity
[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 …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 865: The Bullshit of Metaphysics, Sorta
[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 …
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