In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 210 - Time Perspective Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner June 26, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Do you think there is an aspect of time perspective in this culture or cultures? Where if you look at the perspective of time that someone emphasizes – past, present, …
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Ask A Genius 209 – Hope for the Unpopular
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 209 - Hope for the Unpopular Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner June 25, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: That sounds fantastically optimistic. Rick Rosner: It is among the things you tell the unpopular kid who plays the tuba in the band. You say, “They are jealous and …
Ask A Genius 208 – Dominance Behaviour
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 208 - Dominance Behaviour Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner June 24, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: In earlier sessions, we were talking about dominance behaviour in species. It started when I saw a finch or a sparrow in a park in New York. I decided that that animals’ …
Ask A Genius 207 – Science Fiction and S Curve
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 207 - Science Fiction and S Curve Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner June 23, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: People gradually adapt to these changes. Maybe, a better model of the future will be things look like now, and then an S curve pops in and then …
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Advice to Gifted and Talented Youth 6 – Mom Doesn’t Know
In-Sight Publishing Advice to Gifted and Talented Youth 6 - Mom Doesn't Know Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner June 22, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: My mom didn't know what to do with me. She was afraid of not properly dealing with a kid with, a gifted kid, a kid with gifts. She thought …
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The Future of… 8 – Future, Present, Past
In-Sight Publishing The Future of… 8 – Future, Present, Past Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner June 22, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Because the implied past and set of possible futures is a set or a larger set of possible nexts, it is probabilistic. Rick Rosner: I see the present as …
Ask A Genius 206 – Not for My Kid
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 206 - Not for My Kid Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner June 22, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: You’ve got more and better technology at 1472. Before that, the written word was a pain in the ass to circulate, and then across the next 550 years. It …
Tragedy + Time = Comedy 55 – Comedy World
In-Sight Publishing Tragedy + Time = Comedy 55 - Comedy World Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner June 22, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: All of that has been stripped away by rapacious economic policies and changes to what America does, industrially, but the Writers’ Guild still has a pension. Every year, in …
Ask A Genius 205 – Gould, S.J.
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 205 - Gould, S.J. Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner June 21, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: As we’ve said a gazillion times, we have tried to pin down when it gets weird like a thousand times. We can try to pin down when the phase changes will …
Ask A Genius 204 – The Future, Inconsiderate Considerations
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 204 – The Future, Inconsiderate Considerations Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner June 20, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: It is easier for people to call bullshit on the future on Twitter. People go along and hear predictions with these weird things and things being overturned, then you …
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