In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 434 - Tolerance for Risk (1) November 5, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You had a pitch to Bill Simmons. There was a list of stuff. It was when we started writing together, which was several years ago. One pitch was on risk. Rick Rosner: The idea was that …
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Ask A Genius 433 – Sucking (3)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 433 - Sucking (3) November 4, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: But you could make an argument. I mean this as a general argument that could be secondarily made: the opioid crisis, suicide in middle age, poor diet, inactivity, and obesity in men can be indications in a …
Ask A Genius 432 – Sucking (2)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 432 - Sucking (2) November 3, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Can we create the Google Suck-O-Meter? The level of suckocity for this company or celebrity. Rick Rosner: My Google celebrity is artificially inflated because I have the common first name and not uncommon last name. The guy who …
Ask A Genius 431 – Sucking (1)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 431 - Sucking (1) November 2, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is sucking? Rick Rosner: Sucking is the corporate or non-human entity aspect of an asshole. I was supposed to go into a genetic test today, because I am an Ashkenazi Jew. We have certain genetic characteristic aspects that …
The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 23 – Modern American Men and Women (2)
In-Sight Publishing The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 23 - Modern American Men and Women (2) November 1, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Along with the flexibility to rejigger our drives, we will have the flexibility to repackage ourselves, to be whatever gender we want, or to not have a human package at …
Ask A Genius 430 – Asshole
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 430 - Asshole November 1, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is an asshole? Rick Rosner: An asshole is someone who continues to take more than their fair share in a socially understood context. Someone who continues to speak on their cell phone. Even though, we understand that, at some …
Ask A Genius 429 – Flavours of Revolution
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 429 - Flavours of Revolution October 31, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: We were talking about revolution and its different manifestations. Rick Rosner: We were talking about revolutions in the context of rising expectations. It is often cited within the French Revolution. People do not revolt when really, really …
Ask A Genius 428 – Scientific Nihilism: Nihil (5)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 428 - Scientific Nihilism: Nihil (5) October 30, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: If you look at humanism, they have the view of the cold universe but the meaning you get is the meaning you make, the Golden Rule matters, compassion matters, and science matters. Rick Rosner: It is …
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Ask A Genius 427 – Scientific Nihilism: Nihil (4)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 427 - Scientific Nihilism: Nihil (4) October 29, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Yes. There is another layering on top of that new fuzzy, dynamic set theory. It is based on the information. I think, by the way, as a side note; I think information is important because …
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Ask A Genius 426 – Scientific Nihilism: Nihil (3)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 426 - Scientific Nihilism: Nihil (3) October 28, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Here's the argument against magic, whether in a simulated world or a natural world, a good simulation, one that you can't tell is a simulation, will not break its own rules on a regular basis; so, …
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