In-Sight Publishing June 23, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: If Trump loses the conservative media propping him up, there are always one or two people at Fox News who are ot afraid to praise him, but the primetime news lineup supports him. Although, Laura Ingraham has criticized him for being a wimp about …

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In-Sight Publishing June 22, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is Trump’s situation now? Rick Rosner: It is 19 weeks until the election. There have been 123,000 confirmed U.S. coronavirus deaths are a rally last week; Trump said that he has been trying to slow down coronavirus testing in the U.S. because …

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In-Sight Publishing June 22, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: The best model of consciousness now, if we simplify that to a definition in one sentence, what is it in plain English? Rick Rosner: It is high-information flow, sharing information among a bunch of different analytic nodes, and a bunch of different sensory …

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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 …

Continue reading Ask A Genius 554 – Conscious of Butts and Curves

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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