[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: We're talking about what you're signing on for. If you support Trump or vote for Trump or vote for anybody but Biden, really, because a vote for anybody but Biden works in Trump's favour. Back to the Future came out in about '83, maybe, plus two sequels throughout the rest of the …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 883: Voting and Loathsome Characters
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: There's a phrase we'll often throw at the end of a sentence or sort of a conclusion to it. They will describe something and then say, "If that makes sense…" It's a sort of annoying add-on to a sentence that's unnecessary. Typically, it comes from a boss or a more senior …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 882: God Looking the Other Way
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, we've been talking for nearly ten years. I was fresh off of being fired off of Kimmel. I think Kimmel is a genius, and I think his show is pretty genius; the innovations he brought to Late Night, I don't think, get acknowledged. He changed the shape to a certain extent …
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, year five of Covid. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Five years already? Rosner: No, four years ago, and it started hitting, maybe, December 2019. So, we are at the beginning of year five. So, it is a brand-new disease, and they are still finding out a ton about it; there is much …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I'm thinking less about the actual structure of consciousness, the actual process of human thinking, the actual process of thought itself; I'm thinking more about the ultimate tool or tools used to discover that process in that structure. What do you think will ultimately lead us not only in the right …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 879: The Active Workshop of Mind
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: Twitter is a piece of shit right now because Elon Musk has turned it into just fucking swampy shit, but sometimes there's still good stuff, and today somebody asked on Twitter, "What do you think will become that's socially acceptable in the next 20 years?" And I posted a couple of …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 878: Lifestyles of the Rich and Tameless
*Updated July 30, 2024, based on minor new information.* [Recording Start] Rick Rosner: We’ve been talking on tape and off tape about my wanting to be famous, other high IQ people wanting to be famous, and what the deal is with that. My little rant on that is we should be famous. People get famous for all …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 877: Is it for truth or for fame? Most choose fame.
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: We are 99 days away from the 2022 midterm elections in America, which hold comparable importance to the 2020 election that was pivotal in removing Trump from office. The current political climate remains tense, with Trumpian forces still active. If Republicans gain control of both the House and the Senate, they …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 772: 99 Days from the Mid-Term Elections
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This is on the Turing test. Go ahead. Rick Rosner: So I mentioned I wanted to talk about the Turing test and we did get around to it but you did tell me you read Hawkins’s paper on it. You told me to read it and I didn't get around …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This is the other topic of consciousness. Go ahead. Rick Rosner: All right. We know that existence is inevitable because the rules of existence, the rules that prohibit certain kinds of existence, particularly contradictory existence aren't all encompassing enough to stop existence. We've postulated that anything that can exist does …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 770: Consciousness and the Rules of Existence
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