*Updated July 30, 2024, based on minor new information.* [Recording Start] Rick Rosner: We’ve been talking on tape and off tape about my wanting to be famous, other high IQ people wanting to be famous, and what the deal is with that. My little rant on that is we should be famous. People get famous for all …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 877: Is it for truth or for fame? Most choose fame.
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, this is an addendum to the last session. I wanted to continue; you urged me in saying that I had seemed like I had more to say about it. That's true, and in talking about it just openly by myself. Basically, it's a little way. It came out. So, …
[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 …
[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. …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 874: Health and Farmwork, and a Big Lump of Poop Courtesy of Magnesium
[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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[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 …
[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 …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 871: Persistence is Consistency and a Tangle of Information, Embedded
[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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[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 …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 869: Hey, guess what? More on IQ Tests!
[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 …
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