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Ask A Genius 1343: Why Cleaning Horse Poo Is Easier Than Dealing with Horse Farts on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1342: Boxer Briefs, Fertility, and the Battle Between Jeans and Sweatpants on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1341: Should Voting Age Be Raised? Democracy, Disinformation, and the Future of Political Participation on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1340: Informational Structure, Universal Cohesion, and Ethical Implications of Cognitive Decline on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1339: Rick Rosner Dismantles Panpsychism: Consciousness Requires Complexity, Not Crystals on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1338: Can an Informational Universe Cycle Between Dormancy and Activity to Maintain Structural Integrity? on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1337: Rodrigo Duterte Arrested by ICC: A Turning Point for Global Justice? on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1336: Global Leadership Crisis: Netanyahu, Guterres, and the Erosion of Democratic Norms on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1335: U.S. Decline, Canadian Strategy: Tariffs, Talent, and Global Shifts on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1334: Pet Ethics, Abstract Universes, and the Golden Rule on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1333: When Smart People Get It Wrong: Tech Elites, Cognitive Traps, and the Politics of Delusion on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1332: ChatGPT, AGI, and the Future of Multimodal AI on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1331: Val Kilmer’s Dead on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1330: Quantum Information, Life’s Computations, and the Usability of Information in the Universe on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1329: OnlyFans, Digital Porn, and AI Entertainment Are Replacing Real-Life Intimacy on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1328: Aging Leaders, Declining Democracies, and AI’s Rise on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1327: Strangling a Moment for a Moment of Coherence on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1326: Informational Cosmology, Entropy, and the Future of the Universe on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1325: Interim Canadian Prime Minister on U.S. Relations and Trump’s Legacy on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1324: Entropy, Information, and Cosmological Models on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1323: Quantum Entanglement, Informational Cosmology, and the Limits of Computation on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1322: U.S.–China Conflict, Cyber War, and the Rise of AI Power on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1321: The Impact of AI on Human Intelligence and Modern Entertainment on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1320: Writing Murder In Media Res, Stephen King, and Storytelling on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1319: The Pope, Fascism, and Church-Adjacent Collectibles on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1318: Dog Cancer, Senolytics, and Anomalies in Big Bang Cosmology on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1317: Writing Murder, Musical Intrusions, and Stephen King-Level Detail on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1316: Rick Had a Dream Tonight! on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1315: Trump’s Rhetoric, U.S. Emigration to Canada, and Shifting Male Voting Blocs on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1314: Political Extremism, Gun Culture, and the Aging Divide in America on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1313: Guns, Government Breakdown, and the Risk of Political Violence in America on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1312: Trump’s Return, Musk’s Influence, and America’s Alarming Political Surrender on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1311: Emergent and Convergent Physics: Information, Redundancy, and the Universe on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1310: Information, Physics, and Metaphysics, or Information and Physics with ‘Metaphysics’ on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1309: Peyton McNabb Volleyball Injury: Fact vs. Political Narrative on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1308: Consciousness in an IC Universe: Modeling and Information Processing on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1307: Do Fundamental Particles and Forces Arise from Underlying Informational Processes? on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1306: Exploring Quantum Mechanics and Informational Cosmology on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1305: Experimental Cancer Treatment for His Dog: A DIY Approach on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1304: Why Rick Rosner and Scott Douglas Jacobsen Have Talked for 10 Years – A Legacy of Ideas on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1303: Cellular Automata, Discrete vs. Continuous Models, and Algorithmic Information Theory on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1302: Informational Cosmology, Quantum Time, and Simulation Hypothesis on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1301: Why Humans Love Pets More Than People on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1300: Democratic Failures in 2024 and the Path to 2028 Victory on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1299: AI, Nuclear Deterrence, and the Future of Human Labor on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1298: The Centrality of Conspiracy Theory Psychology in Antisemitism on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1297: Comedy, Self-Disclosure, and the Evolution of Porn Culture on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1296: Existential Risks, AI Alignment, and Global Stability on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1295: Musk’s False Claims, High-IQ Communities, and Mental Decline on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1294: AI, Scaling Laws, and Political Chaos on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1293: AI Cognition, Politics, and the Future of Science on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1292: AI Ads, Turing Tests, and String Theory on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1291: Handwashing, NYC Hygiene, and Public Spaces on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1290: Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life? Exploring Physics, Quantum Events on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1289: Does the Universe Exist Without Observers? Quantum Mechanics, Symmetry Breaking, and Information Theory on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1288: Calculating the Information Content of the Universe: Physics, Cosmology, and Information Theory on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1287: Near-Future Fiction, AI Evolution, and the Changing Nature of Work on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1286: 2026 U.S. Elections, Trump’s Influence, and Global Power Shifts on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1285: The Rise of Artificial General Intelligence: Are Humans Being Replaced? on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1284: The Conservation of Information in Quantum Mechanics and Cosmology on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1283: Landauer Limit on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1282: Educators, Anonymous, Ratings on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1281: Methylene Blue, don’t! on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1280: Donut Shop on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1279: What about James Bond working out and training? on 2025-06-13

Ask A Genius 1278: L.A. Murder Day on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1277: USAID, DoE, Not DoD on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1276: Bathwater Ode, “I Like it hot” on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1275: Anonymous, Protests, Biff Tannen, and Errol Morris on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1274: ‘Sex Tricks’ and Time for Bed on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1273: How did we get on Kevin Bacon again? on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1272: Naked at Night, Redux on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1271: China’s Decline, Russia’s Future, and Africa’s Growth by 2050 on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1270: Early Trump Administration on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1269: Some Scattered Politics on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1268: IQ’s Black Swan on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1267: Inflection Upon Inflection on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1266: Hustlers in History and Prejudice on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1265: A Stretchy Universe on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1264: AI and Energy Demands, and Pete Hegseth on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1263: More Enshittification on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1262: Encoding Information and AI on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1261: Claude and GPT-4 on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1260: Messaging, Culture, and Sex on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1259: Nicholas Taleb on IQ on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1258: Tender Beings on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1257: Diamonds are Forever on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1256: “Greatest Portrait Artist Competition” and Falls on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1255: Total Crap on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1254: Trump’s First Stint on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1253: The L.A. Fires on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1252: Powerlessness or Empowerment on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1251: Edward Witten, Abdus Salam, Dennis Sciama, and Paolo Budinich on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1250: Nonsense Amplification and Prof. Gibbs on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1249: Cryoablation on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1248: The Scariest Moments, AI Energy Needs, Nuclear Reactor Safety, and Ukraine’s War Efforts on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1247: Skippy the Horse on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1246: Social Credit Scores on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1245: Technological Changes in the Midst of Adversarial Politics on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1244: Tread with the Trends of Caution or Caution to the Wind? on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1243: The Speaker Mike Johnson Rick Roll Ramble on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1242: Fisetin on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1241: I have no idea, also aging on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1240: Constructs with Contructed Feelings on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1239: Radium Watch Girls on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1238: The Odious Gilded Age with Electric Cars and Nike Sneakers on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1237: Tripartite Religion of the H-1B on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1236: Why does Rick hate cardio? on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1235: The Lord of the Rings and PodTV on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1234: When is the end of our worlds? on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1233: What counts as doofus traps for smart people? on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1233: What counts as doofus traps for smart people? on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1232: Trends and Their Interactions on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1231: How do you usually celebrate your birthdays? on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1230: What about investments and windfalls? on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1229: What game show would you have liked to be on? on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1228: What is the near future of libraries? on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1227: How has the world changed since we started working together? on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1226: Merry Christmas, Jesus! on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1225: The Book of Matthew on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1224: Rick Takes Humanism to Task! on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1223: The Reasoning System Test 3 on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1222: The Reasoning System Test 2 on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1221: Rick’s Trump Distraction on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1220: AI on the Future Gone Super Bro, Broski on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1219: Ramaswamy and Musk on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1218: Futuristic Trendy Trend Thoughts on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1217: Ye Olde Hearinge on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1216: Hollywood Press on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1215: The Reasoning System Test 1 on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1214: Apple Carts and AI Coaxing Humanity’s Wills on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1213: The Murder of Brian Thompson on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1212: Patriot of the Year Latitude on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1211: DOGE on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1210: Bryan McFarland on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1209: Ads on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1208: Preferences in Sizes of Dogs on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1207: A.I. Pimping on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1206: Musk, Ramaswamy, Saul, and Summers on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1205: ‘I’m in the Writers Guild’ on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1204: Schmoozers! on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1203: Celebrities Notice on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1202: Propaganda Models in the States and Russia on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1201: Peanut the Squirrel on 2025-06-12

Ask A Genius 1200: The Slaughter of the Dems on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1199: The Day After Blues for the Blues on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1198: Trump’s Likely First Moves on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1197: Mr. Trump Wins! on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1196: Bubble Benefits on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1195: NOTHING, Nothing, nothing, nothingness, and “What else can we talk about?” on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1194: “Sorry for the tangent.” on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1193: AI and Hollywood Script Prompts on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1192: Hollywood Life on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1191: Elections, schmelections! on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1190: Is there more to it, or no? on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1189: What does Carole find amusing about Rick? on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1188: Voter Turnout on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1187: Getting Older, Flossing, and Masks on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1186: Washington Post Cancellations on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1185: Do Roast Jokes Work Outside of Roasts? on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1183: Rick’s Mixed Relationship with Synagogue on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1182: Follow the River Where the AI Lead on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1181: Anthony Cuthbertson’s Article on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1180: Rick’s Note! on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1179: Dry Bar Comedy on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1178: On Pre-Bunking on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1177: A Cher and Madonna Situation on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1176: Election Stuff, I’m 64, Scott! on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1175: Rick’s Universe and the Universe’s Gold on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1174: Rick’s Wife Gold and Rick on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1173: October Surprises on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1172: The Big Arc of Technological Integration on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1171: Mr. Evolution Via Natural Selection on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1170: Heredity on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1169: $1,000,000 a Day for Politics! on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1168: McDonald’s President on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1167: More on 2085 on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1166: Technology Adoption and Sexy Choir Ladies on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1165: Session 16,021,000 on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1164: Propaganda and Polls on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1163: Musk and Trump Financial Support on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1162: Twin Paths of Political Blockading on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1161: Hack Comedy on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1160: On Kamala Harris on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1159: Gaffes of J.D. Vance on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1158: Trump and Walz at the Time on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1157: You Can’t Have Road Rage If You Don’t Drive on 2025-05-03

Ask A Genius 1156: 2085 on 2025-04-30

Ask A Genius 1155: Demoblicans and Republicrats on 2025-04-30

Ask A Genius 1154: Dyed Hair and Instruments on 2025-04-30

Ask A Genius 1153: 2065 on 2025-04-30

Ask A Genius 1152: Favourite Philosophers on 2025-04-30

Ask A Genius 1151: Walz to the Wall at the Time on 2025-04-30

Ask A Genius 1150: Pre-Election Project 2025 on 2025-04-30

Ask A Genius 1149: A.I. Minders on 2025-04-30

Ask A Genius 1148: Twenty Forty-Five on 2025-04-30

Ask A Genius 1147: Vanilla or Dark Chocolate? on 2025-04-30

Ask A Genius 1146: House-Sitting for a Neighbourino on 2025-04-30

Ask A Genius 1145: Earthly Civilizational Survival and the Set of All Possible Moments on 2025-04-30

Ask A Genius 1143: What will happen with all of the guns? on 2025-04-30

Ask A Genius 1142: Enamored With Our Own Awesomeness on 2025-04-30

Ask A Genius 1141: Know Your Limits, Yourself on 2025-04-30

Ask A Genius 1140: “Is he gay?” on 2025-04-30

Ask A Genius 1139: Trump or Not Trump, the Game Show! on 2025-04-30

Ask A Genius 1138: Late Hurricane Commentary From the Moment on 2025-04-30

Ask A Genius 1137: Kamala Gets an F From the NRA on 2025-04-30

Ask A Genius 1136: Micromosaics and Bent Hangers on an Easel on 2025-04-30

Ask A Genius 1135: On the Walz-Vance Debate, bit late! on 2025-04-30

Ask A Genius 1134: On Lenny Bruce on 2025-04-30

Ask A Genius 1133: Cool Stuff From Back in the (To-?)Day on 2025-01-08

Ask A Genius 1132: What do you mean Carole isn’t a big gamer? on 2025-01-08

Ask A Genius 1131: The Lady Flat Earthed on 2025-01-08

Ask A Genius 1130: From Richlin to Information Wars on 2025-01-08

Ask A Genius 1129: Avalanche of Disinformation on 2025-01-08

Ask A Genius 1128: Older and Old Men’s Routines and Aging on 2025-01-01

Ask A Genius 1127: Kris Kristofferson Died on 2025-01-01

Ask A Genius 1126: A Day of Violence? on 2025-01-01

Ask A Genius 1125: Life and Decline on 2025-01-01

Ask A Genius 1124: Current Political Nonsense and Currency on 2025-01-01

Ask A Genius 1123: The Benefits of Marriage in Your 60s on 2024-09-29

Ask A Genius 1122: Germany! on 2024-09-29

Ask A Genius 1121: Indeterminacy and People on 2024-09-29

Ask A Genius 1120: Weird Physics of the World on 2024-09-29

Ask A Genius 1119: Petty Evil on 2024-09-29

Ask A Genius 1118: Farm Equipment and Associative Horizon on 2024-09-29

Ask A Genius 1117: A Colonoscopy for a Mr. Rosner on 2024-09-29

Ask A Genius 1116: Harris and Walz on 2024-09-29

Ask A Genius 1115: Trump and Harris Campaigns on 2024-09-29

Ask A Genius 1114: And Ukraine, what about the cranes and new life? on 2024-09-29

Ask A Genius 1113: On Ohtani, Mr. 53-53 on 2024-09-29

Ask A Genius 1112: Male Abusers Styled American Fantasy Horror on 2024-09-29

Ask A Genius 1111: Invention and Public Relations on 2024-09-27

Ask A Genius 1110: Keeping Everything in Place…ya know, down there on 2024-09-27

Ask A Genius 1109: “What is more important: kindness, empathy, or intelligence?” on 2024-09-27

Ask A Genius 1108: Kind, Empathic, and Not American on 2024-09-27

Ask A Genius 1107: IPoopoo on 2024-09-27

Ask A Genius 1106: The Matter with What We Think Matters on 2024-09-27