Ask A Genius 927: Women’s Increasing Domination in Key Industries

[Recording Start]  Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, we are continuing to see women take over key Industries: medicine, law, and some areas of science, which has been a trend happening more rapidly progressively in the last three decades, maybe four, where women are more educated, and they are picking more relevant industries for sort of long-term employment in …

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Ask A Genius 926: Machines Fighting Machines?

[Recording Start]  Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I want to talk very briefly about reductio ad absurdum of the concept of war, technically in the state of modern warfare because we're moving into a world more and more where drones are becoming part of things and I don't mean just drones that fly around and suicide themselves into …

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Ask A Genius 925: Five Grand and Show Pitches

[Recording Start]  Rick Rosner: So, it's 1999. My writing partner and I are pitching shows around town, and we sell a show just for pilots or something called a pre-pilot presentation, which is like a high school play version of your show. They tape it, but it's not entirely the set or anything. They give you …

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Ask A Genius 924: Microfiche is not that much pain, Rick!

[Recording Start]  Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I wanted to talk about books. Say, four or five thousand years ago, the idea of a book wasn't a thing; you had scrolls. You had 1% of the population who were literate in advanced society at the time, like the Egyptians with the scribes. Print and press came around; you had …

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Ask A Genius 923: Most of Life is, Basically, a Bore

[Recording Start]  Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I was thinking about building off something you were kind of semi-formulating; the idea that after 20, most days are pretty dull, and so you sort of have to jazz up your day or, like a lot of it, it's just space-filling and some kind of trying to refocus your attention. …

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Ask A Genius 922: Claude, the Large Language Model

[Recording Start]  Rick Rosner: All right, so at the beginning of the last little session, I mentioned that I have been using a free version of the LLM, Large Language Model AI, called Claude. Claude comes in various flavours, including a fancy one you can pay for. Do you know the difference between the fancy ones …

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Ask A Genius 918: Pornography’s Bountiful Cornucopia Existence

[Recording Start]  Rick Rosner: The last time we spoke, I spoke about the increasingly bountiful cornucopia of porno since the rise of AI, which can generate just endless images and that it has to be watched out for because people aren't necessarily riding herd on this stuff and it can be corrosive and if nobody's watching …

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