*Interview conducted in September, 2024.* Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, let’s say we do two paths. If Trump wins, what happens immediately? If Harris wins, what happens immediately? Rick Rosner: The election's November 5th, which means you’ve got two and a half months before Trump takes office if he wins. He’s been found guilty on 34 …
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*Interview conducted October/November, 2024.* Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Is there any damage to your hair from dyeing your hair? Rick Rosner: It depends on how much you dye it. If you dye your hair repeatedly blonde, that’s super harsh if you’re starting from black or dark brown. So yes, you’ll—why are we talking about dyeing your …
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*Interview conducted October/November, 2024.* Rick Rosner: So Project 2025 has been around longer than a year or two, but it had different names in the past. I'm not sure how old the Heritage Foundation is, but it’s probably 40 or 50 years old. It's their agenda, but it’s not necessarily Trump’s agenda. Even if Trump …
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*Interview conducted October/November, 2024.* Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What’s up, buddy boy?! Rick Rosner: So, it looks... Iran looks like they tested a nuke a day or two ago. It’s not confirmed, but they had what reads on the Richter scale as an earthquake, except it’s not in a place that has earthquakes, and the timing …
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What about the year 2045? Rick Rosner: So, I thought we would talk, maybe in chunks, about the future moving forward. This is the same scheme as Charles Stross’s novel Accelerando, which is a novel about AI fucking transforming everything. He probably wrote it 20 years ago now. But with 2045, your …
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Dark chocolate or vanilla chocolate? Rick Rosner: Dark. Vanilla chocolate isn't even fucking chocolate. Jacobsen: Yes. Yes. Try telling that to a horse girl. Sweet stuff. Rosner: The darker, the better, up to some ridiculous point, like 85%. Jacobsen: Yes. I'm good to comfortably, regularly, 70%. Rosner: Yes. 70 is there. 70 …
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, I am house-sitting. I'm taking care of two dogs. I should specify—I love animals after taking care of these dogs, but I think I prefer being without them, except maybe a cat or two. So, my thought about this is that I like animals. I enjoy living with dogs, but their …
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Rick Rosner: In the Spike Jonze movie Her, Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with his phone’s operating system, voiced by Scarlett Johansson. Spoiler alert, but the movie is already nine years old? I believe it was released in 2015. One of the factors leading to their separation is that the operating system becomes increasingly frustrated with …
Rick Rosner: So I watched all the episodes of America’s Sweethearts, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is it about? Rosner: It’s part of that team. It messes you up physically. They looked at one young woman who had to get a hip replacement after three or four years of being on the …
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: All right, so today I saw the term integrated cognition pop up. I looked it up, and I don't know how common a term it is, but it refers to AI, and it's what we call multimodal. It's kind of the way we think, which is we have inputs from a number …
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