In-Sight Publishing The Future of... 4 - Time Travel Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 22, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: We were taking off-tape about the future of time travel and how it will not be a thing. Rick Rosner: We talked about what will and won’t happen. Those aren’t …
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Advice to Gifted and Talented Youth 2 – Age and Ethnic, and Class, Differences
In-Sight Publishing Advice to Gifted and Talented Youth 2 - Age and Ethnic, and Class, Differences Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 22, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What age? Rick Rosner: Super early for back then, 3 3/4, I was ready and able to read anything, just any adult stuff. …
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Ask A Genius 175 – Political Movements (Part 1)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 175 – Political Movements (Part 1) Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 22, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Active political movements have shifted the conversation. Where it is of utility to look at things in terms of groups, but, at the same time, it is percentages …
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Cognitive Thrift 12 – Rich and Poor
In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 12 - Rich and Poor Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 22, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I see some room for additional extension of that argument into more practical realms: statistical geographical, global perspectives. If you look at the most prosperous nations, the least religious nations, the …
Tragedy + Time = Comedy 51 – Things Guys Like (Part 1)
In-Sight Publishing Tragedy + Time = Comedy 51 - Things Guys Like (Part 1) Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 22, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: So in college, trying to become a better person, or at least a person worthy of being in a relationship, I took four women’s studies classes, …
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Ask A Genius 174 – The ‘Real World’ (Part 4)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 174 – The 'Real World' (Part 4) Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 21, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: There's also the mapping onto the universe. Standard set theory, which underlies various fundamental fields, is static. it describes single states. So if you describe the universe …
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Cognitive Thrift 11 – Neuroeconomics
In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 11 - Neuroeconomics Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 21, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: It is differentiated from neuroeconomics, which looks at decision-making in general with regards to economics in addition to the brain basis of that behaviour. For instance, one researcher, Paul Zak, isolated oxytocin as the bonding hormone …
Ask A Genius 173 – The ‘Real World’ (Part 3)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 173 – The 'Real World' (Part 3) Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 20, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: These are flavors of the Empty Set. That's one big thing. Also, the indefinitenes of elements in a set. Rick Rosner: What it leads to is if …
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Cognitive Thrift 10 – OCD
In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 10 - OCD Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 20, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How does this apply to you outside of diagnoses of OCD? Rick Rosner: Through our talks I've developed of what I believe, I believe that simple forms of order are more likely to be …
Ask A Genius 172 – The ‘Real World’ (Part 2)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 172 – The 'Real World' (Part 2) Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 19, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Also, in an IC universe, zero has flavors: 0.0, 0.00, 0.000, 0.0000, and so on. Rick Rosner: Okay, there's - what you mean is that if you're …
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