[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What's your favorite kind of workout? Rick Rosner: Well I don't like aerobics at all. I just hope to get some aerobic fitness out of just doing whatever. When I had a job there were a lot of stairs if you didn't take the elevator. So I feel like that …
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Ask A Genius 792: Cat and Cheese
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Smart guy, can cats eat cheese safely? Rick Rosner: I would assume most kinds of cheese with given reasonable amounts of it. Cats are really good at vomiting if something isn't good for them. So I'd say, yeah it's mostly okay. Jacobsen: Yes. So in general they can make them …
Ask A Genius 791: Combinatorial Coding
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is the state of IC? Rick Rosner: Well, I think that combinatorial coding is the key to a lot of this stuff but before we get to the specifics of that let's get to the generals of IC which you can start with “What's the universe for?” And that …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Ask A Genius 786: Heritability of IQ
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Okay, so you pitched this idea again in email yesterday, the day before I guess, I'm percolating a bit between the two of those for a while. So, what's behind the term IQ post-mortem? What's the intention there? Rick Rosner: It's kind of the end of the IQ era where …
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 784: Investigating High-IQ Societies
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, we had a small chat. I was reflecting on the fact: I don’t know if I have many more avenues to explore the High IQ societies. I have a couple ideas, maybe a few, but I think those are pretty much already underway and can be done fairly quickly. …
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