In-Sight Publishing December 8, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, we've talked about portrayals of genius, Matt Damon actually graduated from Harvard and he portrayed someone in Good Will Hunting. Rick Rosner: Genius, who's a janitor at Harvard. All right. First, let's start with a Matt Damon story. I've never told before. …
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Ask A Genius 584: IQs in the Million and Billion Rarities, and High-Range Intelligence Test Reveals
In-Sight Publishing December 8, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: No, I'm starting now. So, what do you think of a high range testing in so far as it measures intelligence? Rick Rosner: Well, you just told me that a guy with a gripe against high range testing revealed the answers to like …
Ask A Genius 583: “History doesn’t care about us”
In-Sight Publishing December 8, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: It's the worst day ever again. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, is it at 9/11 levels, yet? Rosner: Yes, we have a 9/11 every day. Jacobsen: What's the conservative reaction to it? Rosner: They think we're babies for wearing masks and being concerned and opening …
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Ask A Genius 582 – Adult Ridiculous Behaviour from Ridiculous Thoughts
In-Sight Publishing December 4, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is the most ridiculous thing you have done, a single thing, not necessarily repeatedly? Rick Rosner: Going back to high school at age 26 and spending a full year as a high school senior to have a place to think, that that …
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Ask A Genius 581 – 50,000 Acts of Shittyness
In-Sight Publishing December 2, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: When you imagine a good president, one of the greats, a good president, what is decorum for them? What should be their behaviour? Rick Rosner: All right. You've asked… there's an assumption in there that there's ever been a good president. If you …
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Ask A Genius 579 – Reasonable, Confident President
In-Sight Publishing November 25, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I'm looking at this as Canadian overall. Trump, basically, is just losing day after day after day. Rick Rosner: Here's what everybody has concluded: Nobody believes he has any chance of winning. But he's a prick, can't stand losing, and also he's made …
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Ask A Genius 580 – Rational and Irrational, and Evaluation and Garbage
In-Sight Publishing November 26, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Rational and irrational, but all rooted in economic and psychological considerations that all, whether there square or not, they can explain why we do what we do. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: And so, what's the separation? Rosner: Drained by biology and sentimentality and economics. But …
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Ask A Genius 578 – Baths and Boy Scouts
In-Sight Publishing November 25, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: So, I'm in the tub today. Under lockdown, baths in the tub are still something you can take. My wife takes a lot of baths, and then I use the water before it cools down. I was thinking about how in America we tend …
Ask A Genius 577- The Death of Theology
In-Sight Publishing November 25, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Do you think the end point, the eventual end point, is, at some point, going to be the death of theology? Because it seems like we're seeing that in real time. Rick Rosner: The end point of theology, do you think that science …
Ask A Genius 576 – Compulsive Lying
In-Sight Publishing November 7, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You mentioned the personality of Trump with two more fundamental questions of personality. Why the inconstancy from day to day, moment to moment? Rick Rosner: I don't know. Like, he's a compulsive liar and a compulsive bull shitter. He's gotten whatever he wants …
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