Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This is the reasoning system test brief. Rick Rosner: All right, here's my question. Let me know when you're ready. Hey, ChatGPT, humans haven't been acquitting themselves so well lately. How likely is it that future AI will assess itself as better able to make decisions about humans than humans? Jacobsen: …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 398 – Proximal & Distal, Relevance & Irrelevance September 30, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is this armature, this background structure? Rick Rosner: The connective structure and the hardware, which you can't see, is probably reflected in the locations and relationships among celestial objects, which you can see. …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 392 - Our Narratives and The Future September 24, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, we were talking off-tape about our stories and the future, and the way the future will be talked about regarding our stories. That needs unpacking. Rick Rosner: I think there are certain eras that …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 387 - Eye for Eye, Graham for Graham, Evangelical for Evangelical September 19, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, you were talking with me, off-tape, about young people. You were talking about how, for the most part, Evangelicals in the United States - in particular, the Dominionist/Reconstructionist form …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 385 – The Natural Philosophy of Information Theory September 17, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is the science of information in cosmology? Rick Rosner: The philosophical reason for not having entirely black holes. If the universe is made entirely of information, there is no way for the …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 380 - System of a Diagnostic September 12, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What else on Quora commenters? Rick Rosner: One of the claims of the theory is the universe possibly has consciousness because we tend to think that any sufficiently large and broadband sharing of information in …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 376 - A (Apparent Non-Socialist) Socialist Civilization September 8, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is our future civilization? Rick Rosner: We have a future where things will be cheap. By the way, we live in a socialist civilization right now. Nobody acknowledges this. But dead people give …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 375 - An Era of Wonders, An Epoch of Suckiness September 7, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What can we say about social media? You have been having some troubles with Twitter. Also, you had some thoughts on superhero movies. Please elaborate. Rick Rosner: I can only surmise …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 374 - Out With the Old, In With The New September 6, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: When you're dealing with the way we think, and when you're dealing with the structure of information as it is represented in the world, how much is old information? How …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 331 - Science and Religion (1) October 25, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: One of the main conflicts over time has been religion and theology, which comes from religion, and changes in the scientific framework of looking at the world, which is a refinement of the way you’re …
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