In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 263 - Endless Forms Most Beautiful (3) Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner August 18, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Do you have like a metric for that? Rick Rosner: Oh, I don't know. Just where I feel like there’s—yeah we could have a metric, where I feel …

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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 262 - Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2) Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner August 17, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: There will be just being able to go on indefinitely in one’s current form or in a number of, in a variety of alternate forms, or, you can allow …

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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 261 - Necessity of Long-Term Thinking (4) Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner August 16, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Because our evolutionary tactic, the thing that helps us occupy our niche in the world is having a big brain. But brains can only be so big before they …

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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 260 - Necessity of Long-Term Thinking (3) Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner August 15, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Unless there are great strides made in medicine, I’ve got, another 20, if I’m lucky, 25 years of competent life left. That’s just nothing. But anyway, we are, we …

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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 259 - Necessity of Long-Term Thinking (2) Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner August 14, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: John Maynard Keynes said that during the great depression, when somebody must’ve asked him what’s the best long term solution. And he was saying, f- long term solutions. We …

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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 258 - Necessity of Long-Term Thinking Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner August 13, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen:  Long term thinking. Long term thinking is needed. Most of us only do short term thinking. Why, and why is it a problem now? Rick Rosner: Well you just …

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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 257 - Communists and Hollywood Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner August 12, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Communists had some success in infiltrating Hollywood, getting some projects made that were very pro soviet. At the same time, there were a lot of people who got up in Hollywood …

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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 256 - The Breakdown of Self Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner August 11, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: People may—will certainly give themselves over to these entities. Not everyone and not all the time but people will belong to them and the people will participate into various degrees …

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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 255 - Blobs of Information Processing Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner August 10, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: So you can imagine two centuries from now, it’s impossible to predict, but you can imagine large blobs, large agglomerations of information processing machinery. Whatever comes after, you’ve got mega, …

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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 254 - Hacking Wars and the 2016 Election Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner August 9, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: 2016 election, you can argue that it was the first cyber war election. It was the first of a lot of things, but it was the first election …

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