In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 31 - Informational Cosmology 7 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 9, 2016 Scott: In informational cosmology, what is the bias towards complexity, towards information, towards order – negentropy? Rick: I think one of the biggest discoveries in physics was the discovery of entropy, which is the measure of …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 30 - Informational Cosmology 6 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 8, 2016 Scott: What about information rather than nothing? Rick: The idea of information being in charge rather than nothing is more hopeful. If everything is part of information contained in some consciousness, if consciousness is the containing …
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In-Sight Publishing Dear Rick 8 – Laughter, Election, Mechanization Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 8, 2016 Scott: Long before the election, we were talking about joke writing. Rick: I and another person think laughter is a reaction to getting information at a discount. The setup of a joke takes a certain amount of …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 29 - Informational Cosmology 5 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 7, 2016 Scott: What about the unification of the operations of the universe under a scientific framework? Rick: Starting around the time of Newton. Galileo did some stuff under the scientific umbrella, but Newton was the first creator …
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In-Sight Publishing Dear Rick 7 - Joke Writing Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 6, 2016 Scott: How do you write a joke? Rick: In my opinion, and the opinion of George Saunders, laughter is an expression of joy at information received at a discount. As humans, our model for dealing with reality is to accumulate information. We're generalists or omnivores of …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 28 - Informational Cosmology 4 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 6, 2016 Scott: If “guarantee” and “can” have similarity there, the winking out you’re talking about is imperceptibly small, to us, moments linked together with an implied past and set of possible futures. Rick: The way I look …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 27 - Informational Cosmology 3 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 5, 2016 Scott: One thing comes to mind. The separation in magnitudes between the quantum and the relativistic. Persistent structures such as electrons being locked into orbit around nuclei, protons and neutrons. Those are informationally something. Higher-up, you …
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In-Sight Publishing Dear Rick 6 - Vitamins, Minerals, Supplements Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 4, 2016 Scott: What vitamins, minerals, supplements should people be taking? I have skepticism here. Rick: Some stuff gets debunked, like Vitamin E is currently not popular because some studies have debunked its efficacy. Besides vitamins or supplements at all, I'd say floss your teeth to lower the probability of getting heart disease. …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 25 - Informational Cosmology Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 3, 2016 Scott: As a preface to all of this, we're two guys having fun, think for yourself on this. Regardless, if it's true, then it's true, conceptually with a little math at the moment. Informational Cosmology is an …
In-Sight Publishing Dear Rick 5 - High School Girlfriend 2 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 2, 2016 Scott: What else - on getting a girlfriend? Rick: There's a semi-creepy or fully creepy pickup artist movement. Guys work with each other to try to develop techniques for picking up girls. There's a lot that's creepy about that. It is manipulative. It objectifies …
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