[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: In our previous session, we were talking about how to present the everyday future, and there's a very effective way to address issues like that in TV writers' rooms, which is called breaking a story, or you get your writing team, ideally, a bunch of people who have a bunch of life …
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Ask A Genius 920: Sleep and Longevity
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What did you learn about sleep that helps you live longer? Is there such a thing as too much sleep when you're healthy? Rick Rosner: Well, the chapter in this guy's book, and I've forgotten the guy's name, he said eight hours is what you want to shoot for, which seems like a …
Ask A Genius 919: ChatGPT and Stories
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, we're talking about ChatGPT and AIs in general and how they, when they get more intelligent, will be able to break stories, which is both good and bad. So, as an experiment, I asked a cheap GPT called Claude a question, and this is simple: Claude, I'm sure there's a version …
Ask A Genius 918: Pornography’s Bountiful Cornucopia Existence
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: The last time we spoke, I spoke about the increasingly bountiful cornucopia of porno since the rise of AI, which can generate just endless images and that it has to be watched out for because people aren't necessarily riding herd on this stuff and it can be corrosive and if nobody's watching …
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Ask A Genius 917: Regrets for Mr. IQ
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: I was thinking about some of the regrets in my life and an IQ related regret came up that I thought I'd tell you about. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is the regret? Rosner: So, one of the most powerful people in Hollywood is a guy named Brian Grazer who along with …
Ask A Genius 916: Fallout
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: I have various bins for things I want to write about that still need to be fully developed. This is the bin of one of the bins of stuff I may or may not expand into as I write this thing. I've got a thing called choosies, which are explorable movies. Do …
Ask A Genius 912: Carole has a Book, Too!
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, I'm going through my book and talking, which is set like ten years in the future, about what life might be like then. You said to plug Carole's book, too. I've been working on this thing for years and years; you could argue for decades because I'm taking much stuff from …
Ask A Genius 911: The Square Root Law of Mesh Networks
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: I was talking about the square root law of mesh networks, which states that the efficiency of people whose brains are linked is proportional to the square root of the number of people in the network. Black box-ness. So, we see this with AI and Google Translate, where AI can be effective, …
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Ask A Genius 910: Rick’s Book is About a Celebrity
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, you should know that the main character is a celebrity and, to some extent, an industrialist who has used his celebrity to be the figurehead of a sizeable semi-insidious tech corporation, mainly in the 2030s; that is the period I am writing about. One of the things that he has access to …
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Ask A Genius 909: The Forever-Book In-Progress
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, we're still talking about notes from my novel in progress. The entertainment industry facilitates sociopaths; I think that's long been apparent, especially sociopaths who either are talented or claim to be gifted. There's the saying nobody knows anything in the entertainment industry, which refers to nobody knows what's going to be …
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