[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: American morale; that'd be good. Rick Rosner: Two of me yammering ago, I talked about how Trump's rhetoric has gotten uglier and Republican party rhetoric, generally, has just gotten more divorced from reality and aggressive. We're talking about American morale, and I told my wife that the people interested in non-normal government …
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[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: Some people say, or at least one person I read, that AI is a misnomer; it's just high technology. Calling it intelligence, artificial, or whatever you want to call it, it's just increasingly powerful technology. We have the same genetics as humans did 100,000 years ago. We're not getting any smarter biologically, …
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[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, you've been away for a couple months and plus you're up in Canada, so you don't get the daily barrage of awfulness that is US News. My wife Carole just had to turn off the news and leave the room yesterday, I think. Experts on cyber-attack and propaganda say that …
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[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: We haven't talked about anything in a couple months because you've been away but among the things we haven't talked about is AI which is all anybody thinks about anymore. I think in the future, people will have to define themselves in some way relative to AI the same way almost …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I took a long ride from New Orleans to Chicago and Chicago to Los Angeles. Rick Rosner: We were saying making distinctions in quantum mechanics is a big deal. You would have virtual landscapes of possible things happening and, occasionally, things changing in the quantum mechanical characterization of a system reflecting that …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 467 - Spirituality as a Political Tool (4) December 8, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: It is a rare person who continues to believe that the Earth is flat. But just because no one thinks the Earth is flat anymore, except lunatics, and the flat Earth is a naive belief …
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