[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 …
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[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 …
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[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 …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, I wanted to do a little session or even a medium or long session, depending on how it goes about interacting and working and writing about you for nine years or almost a decade. It's been a long trip. When we first started collaborating, I reached out to you just …
In-Sight Publishing The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 5 - Cutting Your Losses March 1, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is something to bear in mind when you are cutting your losses? Rick Rosner: My writing partner and I used to pitch a lot of shows, 15 and 20 years ago. …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 100 – Life and Death (Part 15)[1] Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner February 25, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Jacobsen: To the beginning of the conversation, the kind of the religious and modern secular taboos around sexual relations, and the way that bodily functions are all haphazard—boogers, eye …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 99 – Life and Death (Part 14)[1] Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner February 24, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Jacobsen: Society has many taboos around sex and sexual conduct, especially for the young and women (Sonny, 2012). These can be religiously based traditionally, but even in larger secular …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 98 – Life and Death (Part 13)[1] Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner 2017/02/23 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: We’ve been talking about death. We’ve been talking about evolution (Moran, 2006).[2] We should tie those things together. One, death is kind of tied into evolution (Kucharski, 2013). Evolution only …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 97 – Life and Death (12)[1] Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner February 22, 2017 Scott: As a systems and institutional analysis, and in my experience in the academic system, and I know it pretty well, if you look at the way that the professorial system is set up and …
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