[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: Right now in America obviously, the Democrats control the presidency and barely the House and by an even thinner margin the Senate and something like more than 80% of the time the party who has the presidency loses seats in the House and often in the Senate. So what you see …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: We’re recording now, ramble me silly. Rick Rosner: All right. So right before you started taping we were talking about how our topics and discussions have gotten ramblier and I told you that I had a good topic and then you just happened to plug into it and the topic …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Is the Russo-Ukrainian War costing the Russians a lot? Rick Rosner: Yeah. Between the Russians lying about everything and just the uncertainty of war, we don't know how many Russians have died in this. Estimates as of last week were at least 10,000 Russian troops out of 150000 to 200000, …
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, your job among other things, one of the biggest aspects of your job is mucking out the stalls of nearly three dozen horses and we just looked it up and that involves among other things clearing away 35 to 50 pounds of shit per horse per day. So, you're talking …
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[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: Carol had us join the Y again. We quit The Y two years ago because it made no sense to pay 69 bucks a month for a family membership. It shut down for almost a year I think and then we waited another year before joining up again because it just …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So we were talking about frauds but not mentioning names. You wanted to say something. Rick Rosner: Well periodically in the high IQ world, there's some fraud-y stuff that goes on, actually in the testing world there's fraud-y stuff that goes on. There's some testing fraud that makes sense, like …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Why do you want to talk about divots? Rick Rosner: Okay. So one way to look at memory is, it's probably not the right way but it's not entirely the wrong way either is you've got a mental landscape and when you send out a query like “Who's that actor …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Why are cartoons smoking like that? Rick Rosner: Okay, so a question I'd want to start with is why are cartoons legible to us because when we look at the world we look at things in all their details as you know a person is a person. When you're looking …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Addendum to yesterday on numbers on the immutability of one. Rick Rosner: So yesterday we were talking about numbers and arithmetic and I thought a little bit more and my thinking is still not particularly clear, but I would just like to add at least all whole number mathematics is …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Throughout your life, you've been deeply engaged with numbers. Rick Rosner: Indeed. In fact, I got a tattoo symbolizing my affinity for math, although it's quite old now. That tattoo dates back to 1988, and as a result, it has become somewhat blurry. Jacobsen: I'm curious, how would you define …
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