*Interview conducted in November, 2024.* Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, I was doing a training session in journalism and came across a cool concept I hadn’t heard of before: pre-bunking. It’s like inoculating people by giving them bits of misinformation and having them reflect on it. Think of it like when you look at an AI-generated …
*Interview conducted in November, 2024.* Rick Rosner: Ever heard of Albert Beckles? If you Google him, you'll see that he was a successful bodybuilder for a long time. I used to go to Gold's Gym in North Hollywood, where he worked out. He'd still be ripped even in his mid-seventies. He'd be there with his …
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*Interview conducted in October-November, 2024.* Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Has anything else come up for you recently, election stuff? Rick Rosner: Yes, we've got 12 days to go. The good news is that around 5 million people are voting each day. This is positive because early voters typically lean Democratic. In 2020, Trump told his supporters …
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*Interview conducted in October-November, 2024.* Rick Rosner: What about gold in the universe? Let's shift to that. An idea in informational cosmology suggests the universe is far older than its supposed Big Bang age. If that's true, then there should be remnants in the universe that predate it—leftover matter that has remained due to being …
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*Interview conducted in October-November, 2024.* Rick Rosner: So, I will talk about gold—not just its value, but the fact that there's more gold in the universe than expected according to the standard Big Bang theory. The heaviest element that can form during the normal stellar burning process involves hydrogen fusing into helium, releasing heat. Under …
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*Interview conducted in October-November, 2024.* Rick Rosner: McDonald's has agreed to host a Trump event but has stated that it is not endorsing any political candidate. Many of their restaurants, perhaps most, are individually franchised. While I am not entirely certain, I assume some must be owned by the McDonald's Corporation, but the majority are …
*Interview conducted October/November, 2024.* Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What’s up, buddy boy?! Rick Rosner: So, it looks... Iran looks like they tested a nuke a day or two ago. It’s not confirmed, but they had what reads on the Richter scale as an earthquake, except it’s not in a place that has earthquakes, and the timing …
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What about the year 2045? Rick Rosner: So, I thought we would talk, maybe in chunks, about the future moving forward. This is the same scheme as Charles Stross’s novel Accelerando, which is a novel about AI fucking transforming everything. He probably wrote it 20 years ago now. But with 2045, your …
Rick Rosner: In the Spike Jonze movie Her, Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with his phone’s operating system, voiced by Scarlett Johansson. Spoiler alert, but the movie is already nine years old? I believe it was released in 2015. One of the factors leading to their separation is that the operating system becomes increasingly frustrated with …
Rick Rosner: So I watched all the episodes of America’s Sweethearts, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is it about? Rosner: It’s part of that team. It messes you up physically. They looked at one young woman who had to get a hip replacement after three or four years of being on the …
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