[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You said you hate flying because you're about to go to Europe with your wife. I responded that I hate flying too, and that's a good topic because I wouldn't say I like flying. I don't like any travel; I'm a homebody. I want to be at home. I like it …
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Ask A Genius 896: Hypochondria
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: This topic could be more interesting. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I might disagree. Rosner: Okay. If I stack up enough physical complaints and irritations simultaneously happening in me, then I get flu-like symptoms that subside if I take a pain pill. So, I assume it's like fibromyalgia light or something like that where my feet …
Ask A Genius 895: “I am the chosen one.”
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Trump's quote is, "I am the chosen one." This is crazy talk coming from surveys of about a third of Americans who believe Trump was not ordained by God but guided or even selected by God to lead. Rosner: Anything he does that seems terrible, like fucking porn or inciting an insurrection …
Ask A Genius 894: Hype on Self-Driving Cars
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: All right, this is an article from today's LA Times, January 5th, 2024: Calling out the hype around AI, self-driving cars by Michael Hiltzik, and it's an article about this guy named Rodney Brooks, who started Roomba and claims to have built more robots than anybody else and it's Rodney Brooks's sixth …
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Ask A Genius 893: Michael
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This is more on the feedback section of www.rickrosner.org. This one is from Michael. mcim116@gmail.com "Hi Rick, my name is Michael. I want to ask you about your daily intake of baby aspirin for positive cognitive changes. What exactly about baby aspirin has a positive effect on our brains, and could that …
Ask A Genius 892: Epoxy and Glue
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What do you think about epoxy and glue? Rick Rosner: I've become a glue fan over the past few years. We probably have five or six different kinds of glues for other purposes in the house. Epoxy is lovely. I used it 15 or 20 years ago; I had a coloured epoxy kit that was great for …
Ask A Genius 891: Turing Test Shorthand
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: We just talked about the Turing test, a shorthand. I want to take a different angle based on the intuitions around ChatGPT. I've used it and learned how to work with it to do all sorts of things that can be a helpful tool. So, we were talking about the Turing test and …
Ask A Genius 890: The Twitter Cesspool
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, regarding Twitter's turning into a cesspool, you and I have been talking, and it's more than just talking. It's not just chatting; it's trying to develop stuff and discuss stuff, and we've been doing this for nine years. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: That's a significant amount of time. Rosner: Yeah, and we've generated hundreds of …
Ask A Genius 889: Elon Musk
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, as you may know, Elon Musk bought Twitter more than a year ago now and has presided over making it a haven for right-wing lunatics and assholes relaxing a lot of the quality control that got people in trouble for saying heinous bullshit. So, many good people have left, and that's …
Ask A Genius 888: Devin Summers
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This is feedback for www.rickrosner.org Devin.devinsummers123@gmail.com "The Creator Holy Spirit and the Creator Holy Spirit, free will, Garden of Eden, Ten Commandments, infinitely large and the small oblivion is within all creation beyond the elemental particles, and then as per the two Creator's Word, the Bible present Testament all things living word …
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