[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I think that whatever nature can produce then it's possible for us to produce it too. It's just a matter of figuring out the appropriate sort of processes and structure to make that happen potentially in different substrates. Regardless, it's the same natural universe; if nature can do it we …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You proposed a topic last night. I could make the same thing tonight which is ‘the possible epidemic of stupidity.’ I want to pivot really hard or lean in hard on two points. What do you mean by possible here and what do you mean by epidemic here? Rick Rosner: …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You post a statement. The slow apocalypse that is nature. What is this slow apocalypse? Rick Rosner: Not the slow apocalypse, the moment-to-moment apocalypse that's nature. I Googled how many mammals there are on earth and I'd say that the vast majority of mammals are sentient. I can't easily think …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What's the nonsense with jobs you've had? How were the odds with that? Rick Rosner: Some nonsense jobs? Jacobsen: Or nonsense with management in jobs. There you go. Rosner: There was a bar, The Ore house in Santa Monica on the border with Venice which put it in a semi-tough …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Okay so you're completely unprompted for this one but I think it's really funny. Also, I think it underlies a large minority in the United States who vote with passion. They have money, they have large numbers, and they are politically active more than a lot of other voices in …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, you had a brother in the military involved in intelligence. What was he like? Rick Rosner: My late brother David was pretty remarkable in his fearlessness and intrepidness. He became a highly observant Jew, what you'd kind of call Orthodox or maybe Hasidic. At the same time, he was …
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[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: As I've said before I'm kind of a broken record with regard to informational cosmology which to some extent could also be called metaphorical physics where you look for parallels between the functioning of the brain/mind in the universe itself. But the thing that's not a broken record, it's fairly recent …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How should we handle frustration? Rick Rosner: I perceive that you sometimes feel irritated by the repetitive nature of my remarks. Although it's a convenient justification, I empathize with your irritation and occasionally feel the same about myself. When I reflect on my early life or teenage years, the narrative …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So what's going on with the film project about you or partly about you? Rick Rosner: Okay, so this project is about people who've scored high on the Mega test and who are also to some extent lunatics is still alive at a network. They haven't said yay or nay …
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: We are 99 days away from the 2022 midterm elections in America, which hold comparable importance to the 2020 election that was pivotal in removing Trump from office. The current political climate remains tense, with Trumpian forces still active. If Republicans gain control of both the House and the Senate, they …
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