In-Sight Publishing December 18, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: A lot of things we thought were pretty secure in the findings, probably not unfounded, but less founded than we thought things were on personality and things like this. But other things we have found are consistent through the decades have been things …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 587: Personality Meh, General Intelligence Yeah
In-Sight Publishing December 9, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, I've seen your American deceased artist, Bob Ross. He seems like a generous, warm, and kind person. Other people in your country are shitheads. So, what's the benefit of a life lived as a generous, kind, and warm person compared to being …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 587: “Assholes: A Theory,” Decency, and the Cosmos’ Information
In-Sight Publishing December 8, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck both started in Good Will Hunting. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Time out. So, I want to talk about his celebrity wife. He had a quote about her. It's one paragraph. So he goes, “We ended up at a bar where …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 586: Celebrity Husbands and Comedy Writing Sports Comparisons
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. …
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 …
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 …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 583: “History doesn’t care about us”
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 …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 582 – Adult Ridiculous Behaviour from Ridiculous Thoughts
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 …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 581 – 50,000 Acts of Shittyness
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 …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 579 – Reasonable, Confident President
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 …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 580 – Rational and Irrational, and Evaluation and Garbage
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