In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 412 - Explicit and Implicit Characters and Plots October 14, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is the wave of new shows? Rick Rosner: There explicitly state that their characters are terrible. They are the worst. There are shows, like sitcoms generally, are explicitly presented as huge assholes. We …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 411 - Gods, Old and New October 13, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What are the old ways people believed in gods, and, to some extent, still believe in gods? Rick Rosner: In the old days, which is Greece and Rome and before that, you had people without a …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 410 - Homo Opinionem October 12, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What was the book that you were reading? Did you finish it? Rick Rosner: I may have mentioned this in another session. I finished reading Homo Deus. It basically meshes with something else that we were talking about, which is …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 409 - Number-Curious or Hidden Figures in Numbers: Numbers of Here-and-Now and There-and-Then as We Understand Them October 11, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Is God a mathematician? Rick Rosner: As an analogy about the weird things that may arise in our future understanding of existence, think of the …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 408 - All for the Price of Time: New Logic, New Science, and New Gods October 10, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is this God proof you've been thinking about for the last little bit? Rick Rosner: It is a super sloppy and unrigorous proof that some time …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 407 - Holographic and Distributive Information Networks October 9, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is the split between forms of information processing at a large-scale, potentially? Rick Rosner: I haven't done that much thinking about it. Hawking suggests that the surfaces of the event horizons of black holes …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 406 - Science Faction Halting October 8, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What happens if the science fiction future does not become future science? Rick Rosner: What you're talking about harkens back to Feynman's three scientific futures, one where science grinds to a halt because the things in the …
In-Sight Publishing The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 20 - Kavanaugh Past Graduation October 8, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You were a fake high school student for several years. Rick Rosner: And a real high school student! Jacobsen: This lasted until age 27 with graduation. You have lots of experience with …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 405 - The Democrats and Republicans October 7, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What do the major political parties in the United States of America represent? Rick Rosner: The major political parties, Republicans and Democrats, take huge demographic slices out of the population. When you look at the expressed …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 404 - No Credit Where Non-Credit Isn't Due October 6, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Rick Rosner: I think we've talked about this before. But that may be giving books too much credit. I am sure there are books that get it way wrong too. There are thousands, tens …
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