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“Monthly Roundup #15: February 2024” by Zvi


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Another month. More things. Much roundup.

Bad News

Jesse Smith writes in Asterisk that our HVAC workforce is both deeply incompetent and deeply corrupt. This certainly matches my own experience. Calculations are almost always flubbed when they are done at all, outright fraudulent paperwork is standard, no one has the necessary skills.

It certainly seems like the Biden Administration is doing its best to hurt Elon Musk? Claim here is that they cancelled a Starlink contract without justification, in order to award the contract to someone else for more than three times the price. This was on Twitter, but none of the replies seemed to offer a plausible justification.

Claim that Twitter traffic is increasingly fake, and secondary claim that this is because Musk fired those responsible for preventing it. Even if it is true that Twitter traffic is 75% fake, that does not mean [...]

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Outline:

(00:11) Bad News

(06:48) More on the Apple Vision Pro

(08:19) For Science

(10:45) Climate

(11:11) Variously Effective Altruism

(15:10) The Plan

(17:07) Agency, Cate Hall and Finkel's Law

(21:46) Loop de Loop

(24:46) Government Working

(31:16) California Scrolling

(33:49) Crime and Punishment

(36:45) Good News, Everyone

(47:03) A Difference of Opinion

(51:19) The Lighter Side

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First published:

February 20th, 2024

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zHTRivdJ7ZDSctwqi/monthly-roundup-15-february-2024

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