[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Okay, quick question. Do you think Aspartame is unhealthy or healthy? Rick Rosner: It's probably healthier than sugar. Years ago, when I started drinking lots of coffee with lots of fake sugar, I Googled this to see and as far as I could tell the jury's out, it can't be …
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Ask A Genius 809: Scott’s Friend in Chinese State Media
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: In U.S versus elsewhere? Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Yes, so I have a friend who left working for State media in China to come to Canada in their particular situation and describing it to me tonight over a call is that they felt it was very controlled. And I remarked that Chinese …
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Ask A Genius 808: Addendum to 807
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This is an addendum to yesterday, please continue. Rick Rosner: Which was on following through… Jacobsen: [Laughing] continue. Rosner: All right. So I thought of one more huge area where I'm obsessive, which I guess falls under following through and that's working out. I haven't missed working out for a …
Ask A Genius 807: Follow Through
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So I'm going to ask you what's your experience in all your 60 plus years with follow through and not on any and all aspects of life projects whatever? Rick Rosner: All right, so my follow through is spotty. I think that this might be something that is more likely …
Ask A Genius 806: AI Generated and Machine Learning Art
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: An AI generated, machine learning generated art is art where the subject is generated by the user, a human who types in a prompt ‘show me Jared Leto as Jesus on the cross in the style of Frank Frazetta’. So you get a muscle-y Jared Leto in a little fucking loincloth …
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Ask A Genius 805: Artificially Intelligently Produced Art
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I sent you four pieces of art which you have not seen. The subject line to the emails was something like AI or human made? Guess what? It turns out all four are developed by or made by AI, complete originals. Rick Rosner: AI responding to verbal prompts. Jacobsen: Text …
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Ask A Genius 804: Coffee Makers and More
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So we were just talking about coffee makers and then he said they were up Lord of the Rings and then he said I don't like old things. Rick Rosner: I don't like stuff set in the middle ages or in middle age equivalent. I think we just saw the …
Ask A Genius 803: Addendum on 802
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: There’s a novel, it’s more than 20 years old now; it spends a long time, hundreds of pages talking about the two Americas of the near future; Jesus Land and the Tech Land. It’s called ‘The Rapture of the Nerds’ by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross. It’s their version of what …
Ask A Genius 802: Late Stage IQ
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Well, you want to talk about the world getting dumber and I want to kind of start that off with sort of late stage IQ. You've made this point originally I think. The idea that IQ as a cultural item has decreased over time in terms of psychology and stuff …
Ask A Genius 801: Racial Stereotypes and More
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This one is about racial stereotypes based on a little bit older conversation. Rick Rosner: All right. So, yeah one of the previous times we talked recently, we were talking about how racial stereotypes, particularly stereotypes applied to black people. All kind of fit under the same umbrella that white …
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