Ask A Genius 291 – Universal Basic Income (1)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 291 - Universal Basic Income (1) September 15, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What're your thoughts on a universal basic income, a basic income or a negative interest tax or something? Rick Rosner: You’re talking about the idea that Finland is experimenting with which is just giving everybody …

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Ask A Genius 290 – Innovations in the Future

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 290 - Innovations in the Future September 14, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What about innovations in the future? Rick Rosner: I have not been doing a lot of thinking about this, I’ve kind of blindly accepted that future innovation will be done by the automated people are …

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Ask A Genius 289 – Apocalypse Now, For You (4)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 289 - Apocalypse Now, For You (4) September 13, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: But most people won't be ready and are not and will not be willing to be ready for rapid change. Rick Rosner: What people can do, faced with the future people can do what they've …

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Ask A Genius 288 – Apocalypse Now, For You (3)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 288 - Apocalypse Now, For You (3) September 12, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: And you know we in America didn't expect our political system to get through to have the to be undergoing the insults it’s currently undergoing. And similarly, we don't expect for the future to kick our …

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Ask A Genius 287 – Apocalypse Now, For You (2)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 287 - Apocalypse Now, For You (2) September 11, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: And six million of them just slaughtered and the rest just scattered just kind of forced out of their countries. Got right, you know any place you have genocide you to go cross, you know …

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Ask A Genius 286 – Apocalypse Now, For You (1)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 286 - Apocalypse Now, For You (1) September 10, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: There could be a disruption index which is a framework for looking at the lives of generations of people. And kind of gauging how much disruption they have in their actual physical lives, their physical …

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Ask A Genius 284 – A-Atheist (6)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 284 - A-Atheist (6) September 8, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What if the universe is its own container somehow? Rick Rosner: Well, I don't know. I mean that’s a possibility. I don't know how that would work or it's a possibility that you don't need infinities and …

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Ask A Genius 283 – A-Atheist (5)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 283 - A-Atheist (5) September 7, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: There’s information within consciousness, we experience it as the feeling of consciousness but that information should be character risible physically and mathematically; you should be able to model that information as interacting with itself in some kind of information …

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Ask A Genius 282 – A-Atheist (4)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 282 - A-Atheist (4) September 6, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: The brain when we’re awake at least is… and even when we’re not awake, being asleep is also a best bet type of deal where our brains have biological limitations. We can’t be awake all the time, or maybe …

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Ask A Genius 280 – A-Atheist (2)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 280 - A-Atheist (2) September 4, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: I have beliefs that don’t entirely coincide with that view; it still comes from the same place from both, in math and science, and the rules of existence from which we get the laws of physics and the rules …

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