[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 …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 871: Persistence is Consistency and a Tangle of Information, Embedded
[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 …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 870: Large-Scale Information Exchange in a Relational Cosmology
[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 …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 869: Hey, guess what? More on IQ Tests!
[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 …
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