[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: I have a question for you. I read some tweets from you, especially the one from Aaron Elizabeth. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Is this your new friend? [Ed. Sarcasm.] Rosner: She's my new friend. Generally, what happens in a situation where we have something that was initially angry becomes somewhat civil, especially …
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Ask A Genius 874: Health and Farmwork, and a Big Lump of Poop Courtesy of Magnesium
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, I wanted to talk about health products. You take a lot of pills; you take fewer now after the cancer scare. That's all covered. I, in my farmwork, need a higher protein load for my day to feel good and strong for the next day and throughout the day. …
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Ask A Genius 873: Where do we even start with this one?
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, this is the original tweet, Jimmy's reaction to Aaron Rodgers saying that he will be thrilled when Jimmy's name shows up on the Epstein list, which it won't. So, Jimmy tweets, "Dear Asshole: for the record, I've not met, flown with, visited, or had any contact whatsoever with Epstein, nor …
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Ask A Genius 872: Seth Macfarlane and Mark Wahlberg to Perfectly Defined Deterministic Physics
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, Seth MacFarlane has a new series with Ted, the Talking Teddy Bear. They made two movies with Mark Wahlberg and Ted, the talking teddy bear. Now it's a TV series, and they had a scene that takes place on Fridays, which is an East Coast ice cream parlour/ restaurant, and it …
Ask A Genius 871: Persistence is Consistency and a Tangle of Information, Embedded
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: When we talk about persistence, we're talking about interesting persistence instead of a rocky planet with no life. I mean, yeah, it can exist and will exist for maybe tens of billions of years, but not so interestingly. So, interesting persistence is life and things that can respond and survive via thought …
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Ask A Genius 870: Large-Scale Information Exchange in a Relational Cosmology
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, we've had some disagreements on IC over the last few years. One of those is the idea that consciousness is required for large-scale information exchange; it's a simplified way of saying it. I don't think it's necessarily derivative if you think like large-scale physics, that you get a mind out of …
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Ask A Genius 869: Hey, guess what? More on IQ Tests!
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: All right, so, talking about high IQ tests, IQ tested 120 years ago, or when they were first conceived of by Binet, they were supposed to be on a scale of one to five given to kids to see what kind of educational resources they might need. So, score a one, you're …
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Ask A Genius 868: Some Reflection on Norms and Statistical Analysis: or, Getting Jiggy with It
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Does proper statistical analysis… Ron Hoeflin tips the hat to him. Now, I have gotten responses from some members of the high IQ community on this particular one. When I point out these new norms and Ron Hoeflin's statement that I am not a statistician, they will say I still stick to …
Ask A Genius 772: 99 Days from the Mid-Term Elections
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: We are 99 days away from the 2022 midterm elections in America, which hold comparable importance to the 2020 election that was pivotal in removing Trump from office. The current political climate remains tense, with Trumpian forces still active. If Republicans gain control of both the House and the Senate, they …
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Ask A Genius 771: More on the Turing Test
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This is on the Turing test. Go ahead. Rick Rosner: So I mentioned I wanted to talk about the Turing test and we did get around to it but you did tell me you read Hawkins’s paper on it. You told me to read it and I didn't get around …
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