In-Sight Publishing The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 23 - Modern American Men and Women (2) November 1, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Along with the flexibility to rejigger our drives, we will have the flexibility to repackage ourselves, to be whatever gender we want, or to not have a human package at …
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Ask A Genius 430 – Asshole
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 430 - Asshole November 1, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is an asshole? Rick Rosner: An asshole is someone who continues to take more than their fair share in a socially understood context. Someone who continues to speak on their cell phone. Even though, we understand that, at some …
Ask A Genius 429 – Flavours of Revolution
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 429 - Flavours of Revolution October 31, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: We were talking about revolution and its different manifestations. Rick Rosner: We were talking about revolutions in the context of rising expectations. It is often cited within the French Revolution. People do not revolt when really, really …
Ask A Genius 428 – Scientific Nihilism: Nihil (5)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 428 - Scientific Nihilism: Nihil (5) October 30, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: If you look at humanism, they have the view of the cold universe but the meaning you get is the meaning you make, the Golden Rule matters, compassion matters, and science matters. Rick Rosner: It is …
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Ask A Genius 427 – Scientific Nihilism: Nihil (4)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 427 - Scientific Nihilism: Nihil (4) October 29, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Yes. There is another layering on top of that new fuzzy, dynamic set theory. It is based on the information. I think, by the way, as a side note; I think information is important because …
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Ask A Genius 426 – Scientific Nihilism: Nihil (3)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 426 - Scientific Nihilism: Nihil (3) October 28, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Here's the argument against magic, whether in a simulated world or a natural world, a good simulation, one that you can't tell is a simulation, will not break its own rules on a regular basis; so, …
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Ask A Genius 425 – Scientific Nihilism: Nihil (2)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 425 - Scientific Nihilism: Nihil (2) October 27, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Apart from individual believers, does this impact the intrinsic claims of validity or veracity to divine inspiration to holy books? Rick Rosner: You can't overestimate the power of casually held and inconsistent beliefs. Right now in …
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Ask A Genius 424 – Scientific Nihilism: Nihil (1)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 424 - Scientific Nihilism: Nihil (1) October 26, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What are scientific nihilism and its future? Rick Rosner: Scientific nihilism will not survive the era of big information. People get this idea that the universe is a big clockwork, even though it cannot be with …
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Ask A Genius 423 – Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 423 - Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani? October 25, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This is about god or gods. Rick Rosner: Or ways to believe in God. Jacobsen: Then the ways of belief within this. Rosner: You mentioned off-tape the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Jacobsen: Some of them aren't meant necessarily …
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Ask A Genius 422 – Aging, Bad Brains, and Conservatism Swings in Time and Attitudes (2)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 422 - Aging, Bad Brains, and Conservatism Swings in Time and Attitudes (2) October 24, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: As change accelerates, you have more of a push on the fear end and disorientation end. Then you have more old people surviving into their 70s, 80s, and 90s …
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