In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 416 - Unable, Cannot, Don't Want To October 18, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Obviously, you know about Incels. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Right, I didn't know about them until the attacks in Canada. Rosner: I didn't either. It means a creepy guy who can't get laid. Jacobsen: Or a resentful guy …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 415 - 2100 to Infinity October 17, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, it is an extrapolation to 2100. China will lose about 33% of the current 1.5 billion population. India will continue to grow but taper off as development happens, life gets better, and life gets more …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 414 - 'American Food' in China: China is Eating Our Lunch October 16, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Why is China eating our - Americans' - lunch? What is the anecdote? Rick Rosner: I bought on eBay Minoxidil, which is this stuff that I use to try and keep …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 413 - I Must Scream October 15, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is this thought about the limited visions of the future? Rick Rosner: Given the limited capacity to imagine the future, a more idealized version would not include the 1960s ones with the world inhabited by dystopian …
In-Sight Publishing The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 21 - Kavaraw October 15, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: There's also the fact of the statistical probability. There is a precedence set. When people say, "Believe women," that is the media and communications part of it, the advertising of it, which has …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 412 - Explicit and Implicit Characters and Plots October 14, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is the wave of new shows? Rick Rosner: There explicitly state that their characters are terrible. They are the worst. There are shows, like sitcoms generally, are explicitly presented as huge assholes. We …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 411 - Gods, Old and New October 13, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What are the old ways people believed in gods, and, to some extent, still believe in gods? Rick Rosner: In the old days, which is Greece and Rome and before that, you had people without a …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 410 - Homo Opinionem October 12, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What was the book that you were reading? Did you finish it? Rick Rosner: I may have mentioned this in another session. I finished reading Homo Deus. It basically meshes with something else that we were talking about, which is …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 409 - Number-Curious or Hidden Figures in Numbers: Numbers of Here-and-Now and There-and-Then as We Understand Them October 11, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Is God a mathematician? Rick Rosner: As an analogy about the weird things that may arise in our future understanding of existence, think of the …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 408 - All for the Price of Time: New Logic, New Science, and New Gods October 10, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is this God proof you've been thinking about for the last little bit? Rick Rosner: It is a super sloppy and unrigorous proof that some time …
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