Ask A Genius 790: Scott, a Fraternal Douche

[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Okay, so preface, I'm being kind of a douche bag right now because we had a long, long preamble off tape, and I'm making you do it.  Rick Rosner: All right, so Scott right now is interested in joining fraternal organizations like the Elks and I'm twice as old as …

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Ask A Genius 789: A Frozen Head

[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: It's day eight of the LA heat wave where we've had temperatures in the San Fernando Valley of more than 43 degrees probably for the past eight days, we got two more days to go until it  temperatures drop below, high temperatures drop below I guess 40 maybe. So it's been …

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Ask A Genius 788: Equine Communication

[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Okay, so these are along horses, talking about horses and working with them and the ways we try to communicate, talking about communicating? Rick Rosner: We’ve talked about communicating with horses that if a horse wants to understand what you want, they have a pretty good idea, if they have …

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Ask A Genius 787: Longermism and IC

[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is longtermism? How does it relate to IC in real?  Rick Rosner: I just learned about it longtermism and probably have a very basic understanding because I've only read one article on it but apparently it's kind of a modernistic philosophy embraced by certain billionaire tech bros that you …

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Ask A Genius 785: Putin and the Noosphere, and IQ

[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: We were talking off tape and you brought up longtermism. I am familiar with similar concepts but not to the extent that you're talking about which I would see more as deep longtermism. What do you mean by long-term-ism? What problems do you see with it? Rick Rosner:  So I …

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Ask A Genius 595: A Book Cometh By Way of Thought

July 4, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Okay, so, what are you thinking along the lines of, on the one hand just giving up on humanity versus trying to uplift or bring people into kind of this science fiction in near future that is likely on the… Rick Rosner: So, I'm writing …

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