In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 325 – The Feynman Thing (2) October 19, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Now it's possible we could reach a limit to three hundred years from now where the earth is wrapped up in a big ball of information processing entities that are coming together and bubbling apart like a …
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Ask A Genius 324 – The Feynman Thing (1)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 324 – The Feynman Thing (1) October 18, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: That Feynman thing that he said in a speech about the future of science which there are three possible futures. Science figures out everything within or almost everything within a reasonably short time frame say a …
Ask A Genius 321 – Mating Strategies
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 321 – Mating Strategies (1) October 15, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: I think that what you see in terms of partnership choices in the future may reflect mating strategies. When you have… today and for the past few decades, when you have unusual mating arrangements, like people in …
Ask A Genius 320 – Markets, Mothers, and Climate Change (6)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 320 – Markets, Mothers, and Climate Change (6) October 14, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Also there are pushes to do two things that build on the worst aspects of faith, religious faith. One, an attempt at reversion to literalist interpretation propped up. You can name many in your …
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Ask A Genius 319 – Markets, Mothers, and Climate Change (5)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 319 – Markets, Mothers, and Climate Change (5) October 13, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So... bell curves of smartness and dumbness... Rick Rosner: It's like smoking. Jacobsen: Acceptance of climate change... are moving further and further apart in terms of the level of overlappingness? Rosner: Yeah I mean... nobody is …
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Ask A Genius 318 – Markets, Mothers, and Climate Change (4)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 318 – Markets, Mothers, and Climate Change (4) October 12, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is the main source of the inability to make sustainable changes in that state? Rick Rosner: Well one thing is that L.A is where people go to make their dreams of a …
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Ask A Genius 317 – Markets, Mothers, and Climate Change (3)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 317 – Markets, Mothers, and Climate Change (3) October 11, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Same yesterday. A couple of weeks ago it was up over 110 for a few days. Yeah statistically you might expect to get days like that every few years, but... if it is an …
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Ask A Genius 316 – Markets, Mothers, and Climate Change (2)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 316 – Markets, Mothers, and Climate Change (2) October 10, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Same yesterday. A couple of weeks ago it was up over 110 for a few days. Yeah statistically you might expect to get days like that every few years, but... if it is an …
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Ask A Genius 315 – Markets, Mothers, and Climate Change
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 315 – Markets, Mothers, and Climate Change (1) October 9, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: We were talking off tape about housing markets, your mother in law, and climate change. Rick Rosner: Yeah sorry, my wife is helping her mom sell her house, to pay for her care …
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Ask A Genius 314 – Constructivist and Essentialist Consciousness (8)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 314 – Constructivist and Essentialist Consciousness (8) October 8, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: But it's in terms of how much of that happens per thought it's going to be much less than in an essentialist universe because the constructivist universe can handle more than one thought with its current …
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