LessWrong (30+ Karma)

“Monthly Roundup #18: May 2024” by Zvi


Listen Later

As I note in the third section, I will be attending LessOnline at month's end at Lighthaven in Berkeley. If that is your kind of event, then consider going, and buy your ticket today before prices go up.

This month's edition was an opportunity to finish off some things that got left out of previous editions or where events have left many of the issues behind, including the question of TikTok.

Oh No

All of this has happened before. And all of this shall happen again.

Alex Tabarrok: I regret to inform you that the CDC is at it again.

Marc Johnson: We developed an assay for testing for H5N1 from wastewater over a year ago. (I wasn’t expecting it in milk, but I figured it was going to poke up somewhere.)

However, I was just on a call with the CDC and [...]

---

Outline:

(00:29) Oh No

(03:36) Oh No: Betting on Elections

(05:47) Oh Yeah: LessOnline

(07:21) Brief Explanations

(08:33) Patrick McKenzie Monthly

(11:15) Enemies of the People

(12:41) Oh Canada

(15:24) This is NPR

(20:10) Technology Advances

(21:17) TikTok on the Clock

(32:51) Antisocial Media

(34:51) Prosocial Media

(36:01) At the Movies

(37:27) Media Trustworthiness Rankings

(41:40) Government Working

(46:57) Florida Man Bans Lab-Grown Meat

(51:22) Crime and Punishment

(54:00) El Salvador

(58:02) Variously Effective Altruism

(01:02:37) While I Cannot Condone This

(01:06:38) Can Money Buy Happiness?

(01:08:16) Good News, Everyone

(01:09:07) Can’t Sleep Clowns Will Eat Me

(01:10:53) How Great are Great People?

(01:13:20) Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game

(01:21:21) Sports Go Sports

(01:25:20) I Was Promised Flying Self-Driving Cars

(01:26:40) News You Can Use

(01:28:00) The Lighter Side

---

First published:

May 13th, 2024

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9GLj9DqfpsJBRKHRr/monthly-roundup-18-may-2024

---

Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

LessWrong (30+ Karma)By LessWrong


More shows like LessWrong (30+ Karma)

View all
Making Sense with Sam Harris by Sam Harris

Making Sense with Sam Harris

26,446 Listeners

Conversations with Tyler by Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Conversations with Tyler

2,389 Listeners

The Peter Attia Drive by Peter Attia, MD

The Peter Attia Drive

7,910 Listeners

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas by Sean Carroll | Wondery

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

4,136 Listeners

ManifoldOne by Steve Hsu

ManifoldOne

87 Listeners

Your Undivided Attention by Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, The Center for Humane Technology

Your Undivided Attention

1,462 Listeners

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg by All-In Podcast, LLC

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

9,095 Listeners

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) by Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

87 Listeners

Dwarkesh Podcast by Dwarkesh Patel

Dwarkesh Podcast

389 Listeners

Hard Fork by The New York Times

Hard Fork

5,432 Listeners

The Ezra Klein Show by New York Times Opinion

The Ezra Klein Show

15,174 Listeners

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis by PHD Ventures

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

474 Listeners

No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups by Conviction

No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups

121 Listeners

Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast by swyx + Alessio

Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

75 Listeners

BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley by BG2Pod

BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley

459 Listeners