Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How has the landscape of bullshitting evolved in the early 21st century? It’s been about a quarter century. How has it changed? Rick Rosner: In general, in American culture, the main change in bullshitting is that about a quarter of American adults have been broken. It’s no secret. For political reasons and …
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Rick Rosner: I like making political bets because I feel like I can find odds that are askew in politics, where I can't find them in sports. I'm not good enough to find that stuff in sports. Most people aren't. I found online odds on who's going to win the presidential debate. Biden and Trump …
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: The mind of God, informational cosmology, and what if the universe is processing information, but it's not actually creating anything associated with a mind? It's not really consciousness-associated, it's just information processing on a large scale, like information shuttling without any explicit purpose. Rick Rosner: I doubt that's the case, though it's …
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You have been arguing that an informational universe can be taken as, in the final analysis, deriving the universe reflected as the process of some mind. That mind or its processes reflect some armature, which is its framework. Regardless, the fundamental idea is that the universe has a mind. You are more inclined …
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Rick Rosner: When interviewing you about your work, I wanted to apologize for a couple of things. One is that I went off on a tangent about quantum mechanics because I thought you had started this Canadian quantum mechanics institute. You don’t have a graduate degree in quantum mechanics. So, I had many questions about how …
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I was recalling something from a Louis C.K. special. He is not in vogue right now because of his controversies. Louis C.K. was a prominent comedian. He remains relatively prominent and has regained some of his prominence. He was known for his honest yet gritty comedy. He often dealt with life in …
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Rick Rosner: Round four. All right, you sent a list of some other topics to discuss. Let’s start with diet. You eat pretty healthfully. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Yes, for the most part, I fast for at least 16 hours a day. The eating window varies, ranging from a maximum of eight hours to sometimes as …
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Rick Rosner: Is this a new one? Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Yes, it is a new one. Alright, so you sent me an article about the average number of children per woman in South Korea dropping to 0.72, whereas the replacement rate is approximately 2.1. That means one replacement child for every couple, plus a bit …
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This is session three of “Ask Scott Anything.” Rick Rosner: You listed eight topics that we could discuss, including the various jobs you’ve had. I think both of us have had a diverse range of jobs. We know you’ve worked with horses, done extensive writing for different sites and publishers, and worked …
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Rick Rosner: So when did you start doing and posting journalism? Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I put In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal together on August 2nd, 2012, and then the publishing house informally, which it still is to the present, in 2014. Rosner: So, almost 12 years, approximately. Jacobsen: When doing interviews, I remember I was in the psychology department at Kwantlen, where …
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