In-Sight Publishing June 22, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Some more stuff on IBM – yada-yada. You wanted to talk about it some more. Go ahead. Rick Rosner: I don’t remember where we exactly left off because I took a nap. We should look at old hand-wavey models of consciousness. There is …
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In-Sight Publishing June 22, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Okay, so, you wanted to talk about IBM's Watson and Google Translate and their level of consciousness. Rick Rosner: My question is if they are conscious and to what degree. For this era, they are sophisticated and closest to conscious. Jacobsen: What is …
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In-Sight Publishing June 22, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, you wanted to talk about IBM’s Watson and Google Translate. What about them? Rick Rosner: Both of them are machine learning – which is another term for A.I. – associational engines. Watson get a Jeopardy question entered into him/typed into him. Based …
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In-Sight Publishing June 19, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, what is going on in America with Fox News? You had some thoughts. Rick Rosner: I am just dib-sing the term “non-sense engine.” Right now, roughly a third of American adults support Trump to some extent, which means you support nonsense and …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 551 – Luck, Nature, Coronavirus May 12, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Why is there such innumeracy? What are the social and political implications of this? Rick Rosner: 15 years ago, people talked about the perfect storm based on the movie The Perfect Storm, which is about …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 550 – Death and Aftermath May 12, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I'm just thinking about this a little more with ongoing crisis pandemic, because we have a lot of people dying in a short amount of time. So there's also almost 8 billion people alive in …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 549 - Libertarianism May 8, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen. What do you think? Just for sake of asking. What do you think of libertarians in the United States? Rick Rosner: Right now, it is as corrupt as Republicans, as being a Republican. It is just another …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 548 – Wealth Inequality in a State (and in the Nature of States) May 7, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How much wealth inequality is required for wealth inequality in a state to become bad? Rick Rosner: All right, so right now, what we have, I've called …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 546 – Wealth, Good or Bad?...: In Other News, a Book! May 7, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen. So, is wealth in and of itself a bad thing? Rick Rosner: Well, OK, here's the deal. I'm working on a book. A novel starts about now and goes …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 545 – Addendum to “Ashkenazim: Smarts Escaping the Nazis, and Genetic Diversity even in Homogeneity” April 30, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: And they had become business people. My grandpa on my dad's side worked in retail his whole life as a salesman and he may have owned …
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