[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Please go ahead. What are you talking about in terms of conceptual? Rick Rosner: So, you're using the money you make working hard around horses to pay for massages. Jacobsen: Oh yeah. Rosner: My experience in my 20s was in Boulder in the 80s. People worked incredibly long hours at …

Continue reading Ask A Genius 671: Hellacious Job, Scotty

[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How do you deal with comments that are awful aimed at you in all domains? Rick Rosner: I've faced terrible behavior in various settings. One experience was working as a bouncer in bars, where checking IDs and ejecting people often led to verbal abuse. It was part of the job, …

Continue reading Ask A Genius 670: Awful Comments

[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: In your time as a comedy writer, how do you learn to deal with belligerent social and political commentary; things so abhorrent happening in the social scene or legal scene or cultural scene in America that only a joke can make some sense of it? Rick Rosner: The political climate …

Continue reading Ask A Genius 669: Belligerent Social and Political Commentary

[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How can the universe manage contradictions, or what must it do with them to remain mostly non-contradictory and continue to exist? Rick Rosner: The parts of the universe that contradict its active center must be largely shut down, rendered unable to interact with the active center. We have mechanisms for …

Continue reading Ask A Genius 668: Contradiction Management

[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: For the past eight years, we've been discussing the concept of Informational Cosmology (IC), and personally, I've been contemplating it since I was 21. That's when I first had more than just a hint of its significance. So, essentially, I've devoted 40 years to pondering these ideas. However, my latest thoughts …

Continue reading Ask A Genius 667: IC Since 21

[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: Who's likely in his eighties now. Hold on, the heater just came on, so you'll need to start that second point again, and a bit louder, please. Yeah, I'm not entirely sure, but from your explanation, I'd probably need to read the paper or something. It sounds like he's suggesting that …

Continue reading Ask A Genius 666: Injecting Information Into the Future

[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: Well, my focus is on how our brains are filled up. You see, we have the same brains, genetically speaking, as people did 100,000 or even 10,000 years ago. But today, three key factors contribute to our brains being more saturated with information than they were 2,000 or even 500 years …

Continue reading Ask A Genius 665: Cave Brains with Televisions

[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: Okay, what this makes me think of is how the most thrilling games in sports happen during pivotal moments, like a World Series or a Game Seven that's still tied in the ninth, tenth, or eleventh inning. Or consider a Super Bowl going into overtime. The closer the match between two …

Continue reading Ask A Genius 664: Thrilling Games and the Cosmos

[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: Okay, let's delve into our discussion about IC, focusing on the idea that it essentially underpins the principles of existence. This begins with a somewhat circular notion that entities capable of existence do indeed exist, stemming from the possibility of non-self-contradictory systems. It's possible to construct entire systems, even universes, based …

Continue reading Ask A Genius 663: Nature’s Changes Extended

[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: Okay, let's start with the concept of 'It from Bit' and digital cosmology, which posits that every physical occurrence in the universe carries computational significance. In computing, each circuit transition from zero to one, or vice versa, represents an informational event. However, reflecting on our discussions over the years and the …

Continue reading Ask A Genius 662: The Nature of Changes in the Changes in Nature