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Ask A Genius 867: Long-Term Collaboration on 2024-03-31

Ask A Genius 866: Edward Witten’s Productivity on 2024-01-14

Ask A Genius 865: The Bullshit of Metaphysics, Sorta on 2024-01-14

Ask A Genius 864: Big Dongs on 2024-01-14

Ask A Genius 863: Updates on Rick’s Novel on 2024-01-14

Ask A Genius 862: Reverse Centaur on 2024-01-14

Ask A Genius 861: Effective Altruism and AI, Computism on 2024-01-14

Ask A Genius 860: Workspace Theory on 2024-01-14

Ask A Genius 859: Gaza and Ukraine on 2024-01-14

Ask A Genius 858: LA and Pricing on 2024-01-14

Ask A Genius 857: Transcribing and Stenographers on 2024-01-14

Ask A Genius 856: Existence is Highly Probable on 2024-01-14

Ask A Genius 855: Social Media and Twitter Going to Shit on 2024-01-14

Ask A Genius 869: Hey, guess what? More on IQ Tests! on 2024-01-07

Ask A Genius 854: ChatGPT’s Ethics on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 853: Large-Scale Human Institutions on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 852: Big bang Right-ish/Wrong-ish on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 851: Inflation on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 850: Michael Taylor on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 849: Harrison Duffy on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 848: “Clammy” on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 847: Vaccines and Pharma Companies on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 846: Charles Young on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 845: Ross Whatley on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 844: Gavin Joyner on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 843: Trump Needs Legal Assassins on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 842: Did you know? Women can take their bras off without taking their shirts off. on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 841: Porn, and Shame and Guilty Culture on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 840: Dinesh D’Souza on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 839: Machines Will Come to Know on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 838: AI and Consciousness on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 837: Brakes From Family on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 836: Evolving Jewish Views on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 835: Plato and Socrates on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 834: Long Covid on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 833: Boiling Down AI Talk on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 832: ChatGPT and Substrate Independence on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 831: Did Rick Memorize the World Almanac? on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 830: Addendum to 829 on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 829: Writer’s Strike and Boner Town on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 828: Alan Turing’s Extremism on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 827: Equestrianism Into Television on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 826: Does the Big Bang have Issues? on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 825: Rick on a Another Podcast! on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 824: Computation and Artificial Intelligence and Principles of Existence on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 823: Addendum to 822 on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 822: Christopher Michael Langan, Marilyn Mach Vos Savant, John Sununu, and Richard Rosner, Christopher Harding, and Kevin Langdon on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 821: Nine Years on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 820: Addendum to 819 on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 819: Legitimacy of Tests on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 818: Proof in Daily Living on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 817: Following Davidson – More Icelandic Dick on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 816: The Reserve Currency of 2110 on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 815: Pete Davidson’s Dick on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 814: A Small Library of Religious Beliefs of the World on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 813: Addendum to 812 on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 812: ‘Jizz Monster’ Men on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 811: Belief Systems and Dating on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 810: Is Aspartame Healthy? on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 809: Scott’s Friend in Chinese State Media on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 808: Addendum to 807 on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 807: Follow Through on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 806: AI Generated and Machine Learning Art on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 805: Artificially Intelligently Produced Art on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 804: Coffee Makers and More on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 803: Addendum on 802 on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 802: Late Stage IQ on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 801: Racial Stereotypes and More on 2023-12-26

Ask A Genius 800: The American Dollar as the World’s Reserve Currency on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 796: Time Travel is Impossible on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 799: Addendum to 798 on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 798: Iceland’s Penises on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 797: Crazy Stuff and LA City Council on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 795: FDR and Canon on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 794: LSD, SAT, Substance Use and Misuse on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 793: Rick Hates Workouts on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 792: Cat and Cheese on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 791: Combinatorial Coding on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 790: Scott, a Fraternal Douche on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 789: A Frozen Head on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 788: Equine Communication on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 787: Longtermism and IC on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 786: Heritability of IQ on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 785: Putin and the Noosphere, and IQ on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 784: Investigating High-IQ Societies on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 783: You have to work. on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 782: Nature’s Productions by Humans on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 781: Catmatism, so Singularitarians, Transhumanism, Unitarians on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 780: Slow Apocalypse, Nature on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 779: Nonsense Jobs on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 778: “…one more fucking know-nothing Evangelical asshole.” on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 777: Rick’s Late Brother, Dave Rosner on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 776: Metaphorical Physics on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 775: Life and Beyond on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 774: Film Project About Rick on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 773: A Test or a Book on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 772: 99 Days from the Mid-Term Elections on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 771: More on the Turing Test on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 770: Consciousness and the Rules of Existence on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 769: Hopelessly Divided Consciousness on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 768: Another Richard Feynman Quote on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 767: Richard Feynman Quote on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 766: Melania Trump Quote on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 765: Michelle Obama Quote on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 764: Boris Sidis Quote on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 763: Raymond Chandler Quotes on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 762: Giga Society on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 761: Mom’s Death on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 760: Examples From History on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 757: “Evolution does not give a fuck.” on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 759: Irretrievably Broken on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 758: Evolution and the End of Human Dominance on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 756: Too Soon Comedy on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 755: Why this last one percent of human history? on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 754: Richard May Credit for John Brennan on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 753: Cancel Culture on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 752: Richard May Credit for Alexis de Tocqueville on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 751: Googling Five Boroughs on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 750: Einstein Quote on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 749: Status of Admissions to Mega Society Now on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 748: Vonnegut Quote on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 747: Mencken Quote on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 746: Voltaire Quote on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 745:Addendum to 744 on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 744: Mitch and Mencken on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 743: Socrates Quote on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 742: William Congreve on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 741: Electrons as a Theory We Use on 2023-12-25

Ask A Genius 740: Feynman Again, Mr., Seriously on 2023-12-24

Ask A Genius 735: “Ramble Me Silly” on 2023-12-24

Ask A Genius 739: Iphigenie auf Tauris from 1787 on 2023-12-24

Ask A Genius 738: Turing Test in the Interim on 2023-12-24

Ask A Genius 737: Health Food Madness on 2023-12-24

Ask A Genius 736: Democrats Control the Presidency on 2023-12-24

Ask A Genius 734: Russians Dead at War on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 733: Zen and the Art of Shit Shovelling on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 732: Joining the Y Again on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 731: Frauds and Cheating on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 730: Divots on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 729: Cartoon Smokers on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 728: Immutability of One on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 727: Math and Tattoos on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 726: Covid Numbers Dropping Fast on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 725: 9/11 on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 724: Russian and Ukraine Escalation on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 723: Pinky Addendum to Lost Session on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 722: Things as Beautiful on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 721: High-IQ Societies on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 720: New Work, New Place, New Comments on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 719: Jewish Comedy on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 718: Things Suck in an Age of Marvels on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 717: Triumph of Make-Believe on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 716: Neil hamburger, What? No, but Tell Me More. on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 715: Truckers Be Protestin’ on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 714: John Baez’s Theory on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 713: Interactions Among All Particles in the Universe Defining the Particles and the Space on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 712: Addendum to 709, 710, 711 on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 711: Addendum to 709 and 710 on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 710: Defining Coercive Messaging on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 709: Toxic Normative Structures on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 708: Super Duper High-IQ People on 2023-12-21

Ask A Genius 707: May You Live in Interesting Times on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 706: Getting Older and Lost Time, Wasting Time on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 705: Addendum to “The Future Doesn’t Care About Us” on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 704: The Future Doesn’t Care About Us on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 703: Mysticism of Mind on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 702: Evolution, Human Intention, Co-Opted on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 701: Super Platinum Rule on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 700: Gender Reassigned Politics and Ethics on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 699: Golden Gone Platinum on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 698: Awards in and for the High-IQ on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 697: The Nature of Quantum Mechanics in IC on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 696: The Most of the Most and More on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 695: Great Amateur Triumphs of Science on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 694: Claude Shannon and Information Theory on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 693: Proficiency in Math on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 692: Reviewing Ask A Genius on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 691: Conversations with the Dead on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 690: Pornography and Predilections on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 689: Future Entertainment on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 688: Horse-Kick Proof Watch on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 687: Covid and Longevity, and Health on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 686: Physics of Creation and Annihilation on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 685: Messed Up Covid Schedules on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 684: Empathy Fatigue on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 683: Pandemic Literature on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 682: History of Rick’s House on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 681: Michael Lewis on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 680: Being Spry on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 679: “Don’t Look Up” on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 678: Absence of Metanarrative on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 677: Apex Species? on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 676: Omicron and January 11th, One Year on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 675: Just Wars and Personal Grievances on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 674: Cancer and Health Reality on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 673: Concepts of Personal Well-Being on 2023-12-15

Ask A Genius 672: Relational Degrees of Freedom on 2023-12-14

Ask A Genius 671: Hellacious Job, Scotty on 2023-12-14

Ask A Genius 670: Awful Comments on 2023-12-14

Ask A Genius 669: Belligerent Social and Political Commentary on 2023-12-14

Ask A Genius 668: Contradiction Management on 2023-12-14

Ask A Genius 667: IC Since 21 on 2023-12-14

Ask A Genius 666: Injecting Information Into the Future on 2023-12-14

Ask A Genius 665: Cave Brains with Televisions on 2023-12-14

Ask A Genius 664: Thrilling Games and the Cosmos on 2023-12-14

Ask A Genius 663: Nature’s Changes Extended on 2023-12-14

Ask A Genius 662: The Nature of Changes in the Changes in Nature on 2023-12-09

Ask A Genius 661: Trump and His SAT on 2023-12-09

Ask A Genius 660: Omicron Don Juan on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 659: The Other Holidays on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 658: The Shitty Holidays on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 657: Evolution and AI with Human-Like Capabilities on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 656: Rick’s Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 655: Best of All Possible Worlds in Worlds on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 654: IC and Statistical Logic on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 653: The World We’re Leaving Our Children and Grandchildren on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 652: Science Fiction Ruts on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 651: Sirius XM on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 650: The Human Model on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 649: San Junipero Style on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 648: Effective Governance and the Future on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 647: The Emptying World and Florence on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 646: Conscious Beings and Dead Conscious Beings on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 645: Ethical Systems, Grudging Empathy on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 644: To Exist and to Want to Reproduce on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 643: Golden Rule and Theory of Mind on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 642: Extraordinary Intelligence Runs in Families on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 641: The History of IQ and the SAT with a bit of Cumberbatchery on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 640: More Grotesqueries on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 639: A Cat and a Toe on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 638: Potential Human Life on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 637: High-Powered Technologies on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 636: Political Forces and Climate Change on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 635: The Firing Serendipity Do Da Years on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 634: The Future in Tech on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 633: The Future in Media on 2023-12-08

Ask A Genius 632: Addendum on Election on 2023-12-08