[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: I'm just going through my chapter outlines here. Yesterday I think, we were talking about how we are used to crappy service and glitches and hacking of our devices. So, even though we've got these cutting-edge devices and tech that stream more information into our homes than ever before, we're also used to …
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[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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[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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[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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[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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[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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[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: In our previous session, we were talking about how to present the everyday future, and there's a very effective way to address issues like that in TV writers' rooms, which is called breaking a story, or you get your writing team, ideally, a bunch of people who have a bunch of life …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What did you learn about sleep that helps you live longer? Is there such a thing as too much sleep when you're healthy? Rick Rosner: Well, the chapter in this guy's book, and I've forgotten the guy's name, he said eight hours is what you want to shoot for, which seems like a …
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, I'm going through my book and talking, which is set like ten years in the future, about what life might be like then. You said to plug Carole's book, too. I've been working on this thing for years and years; you could argue for decades because I'm taking much stuff from …
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: I was talking about the square root law of mesh networks, which states that the efficiency of people whose brains are linked is proportional to the square root of the number of people in the network. Black box-ness. So, we see this with AI and Google Translate, where AI can be effective, …
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