In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius (or Two) 64 - Conversation on Genius (1) Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Rick Rosner, and Marco Ripà January 20, 2017 Scott: What is genius, Marco? Marco: First of all, I think Rick is a genius, obviously. The general definition is not so easy to understand. I think we can give two …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 63 – The News Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner January 19, 2017 Scott: News has changed, even in the last few decades, drastically. What are some miserable aspects of the public relations industry? Rick: The news isn’t exactly the public relations industry. The news wrestles with the same issues …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 62 - Space Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner January 18, 2017 Scott: We were talking about a conversation you had a while ago about space. Someone asked you about space. We’ve talked about space. Space as an emergent property of the interactions of matter in the universe. When the …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 61 – Consciousness 2 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner January 17, 2017 Scott: Let’s continue on consciousness. Rick: I think a nice half-definition of consciousness is the feeling of shared information. As conscious beings, we know what it is like to experience consciousness, but it is hard to characterize. …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 60 – Consciousness 1 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner January 16, 2017 Scott: What about the lexical definition, in your terminology, of consciousness or the descriptive unavoidability of consciousness? Rick: Let’s start with what I think or what we think consciousness is, which is the broadband, real-time sharing of …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 59 – Judd Apatow, Comedy Writing, Medicine, and Computers Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner January 15, 2017 Scott: So if this is the methodology without technology, we’re talking about a large number of independent talented people, who specialized in joke writing, coming together to make better comedy. And this …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 58 – AI Advisors, Life Strategies, Neural Plasticity, and Built-Ins Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner January 14, 2017 Scott: The AI assistants are primitive now, but they should, just given technology trends and computer science sophistication, increase their domain generality and utility. How is this likely to going to …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 57 – Nations, the US, Putin, Inequality, and AI Valets Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner January 13, 2017 Scott: What about nationhood at various levels of sophistication? Rick: You’re talking about the idea of nations or the actuality of nations throughout history. Over the past 300 or 400 years, …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 56 – US, China, India, and Talent 2 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner January 12, 2017 Scott: That leads to the third point, where Lee Kuan Yew had good relations with the United States and China. He had to balance between the two with a small city-state. He was …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 55 – US, China, India, and Talent 1 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner January 11, 2017 Scott: ‘Hot button’ issues still in the United States. Acceptance of basic ideas in various fields. In climatology, global warming; in biology, evolution, for examples. Rick: There’s big science, then there’s everyday science. …
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