In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 409 - Number-Curious or Hidden Figures in Numbers: Numbers of Here-and-Now and There-and-Then as We Understand Them October 11, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Is God a mathematician? Rick Rosner: As an analogy about the weird things that may arise in our future understanding of existence, think of the …
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Ask A Genius 408 – All for the Price of Time: New Logic, New Science, and New Gods
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 408 - All for the Price of Time: New Logic, New Science, and New Gods October 10, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is this God proof you've been thinking about for the last little bit? Rick Rosner: It is a super sloppy and unrigorous proof that some time …
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Ask A Genius 407 – Holographic and Distributive Information Networks
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 407 - Holographic and Distributive Information Networks October 9, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is the split between forms of information processing at a large-scale, potentially? Rick Rosner: I haven't done that much thinking about it. Hawking suggests that the surfaces of the event horizons of black holes …
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Ask A Genius 406 – Science Faction Halting
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 406 - Science Faction Halting October 8, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What happens if the science fiction future does not become future science? Rick Rosner: What you're talking about harkens back to Feynman's three scientific futures, one where science grinds to a halt because the things in the …
The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 20 – Kavanaugh Past Graduation
In-Sight Publishing The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 20 - Kavanaugh Past Graduation October 8, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You were a fake high school student for several years. Rick Rosner: And a real high school student! Jacobsen: This lasted until age 27 with graduation. You have lots of experience with …
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Ask A Genius 405 – The Democrats and Republicans
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 405 - The Democrats and Republicans October 7, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What do the major political parties in the United States of America represent? Rick Rosner: The major political parties, Republicans and Democrats, take huge demographic slices out of the population. When you look at the expressed …
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Ask A Genius 404 – No Credit Where Non-Credit Isn’t Due
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 404 - No Credit Where Non-Credit Isn't Due October 6, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Rick Rosner: I think we've talked about this before. But that may be giving books too much credit. I am sure there are books that get it way wrong too. There are thousands, tens …
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Ask A Genius 403 – The Overturning of Normal Human Life
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 403 - The Overturning of Normal Human Life October 5, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What bases are there for what you call the end of normal human life or a steady erosion of normal human life? Rick Rosner: We were talking earlier: Is it surprising or weird that …
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Ask A Genius 402 – Moore’s Law As Moore’s Laws (3)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 402 - Moore's Law As Moore's Laws (3) October 4, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How might this trend in Moore's Law relate to evolution? Rick Rosner: I think evolution is imperfectly opportunistic. That all the organisms in the world are facing the conditions that they face; life is …
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Ask A Genius 401 – Moore’s Law As Moore’s Laws (2)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 401 - Moore's Law As Moore's Laws (2) October 3, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How did the conversation with the AI guy go? Rick Rosner: I talked to a guy who works in AI. He told me that I was way off about human-level AI in the near …
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