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“Monthly Roundup #24: November 2024” by Zvi


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This is your monthly roundup. Let's get right to it.

Young People are Young and Stupid

 
As a reminder that yes college students are often young and stupid and wrong about everything, remember the time they were behind a ban on paid public toilets? This is a central case of the kind of logic that often gets applied by college students.

No One Voted for This

 
HR and Title IX training seems like it's going a lot of compelled speech in the form of ‘agree with us or you can’t complete your training and the training is required for your job,’ and also a lot of that compelled speech is outright lying because it's confirmation of statements that are universally recognized to be insane?
Robin Hanson: Scenario: 2 women talking. X, married to woman, announces is pregnant. Y asks how they got pregnant, was it friend [...]

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Outline:

(00:11) Young People are Young and Stupid

(00:29) No One Voted for This

(02:32) Discrimination

(09:02) Morality

(11:56) Only Connect

(15:22) It's Not Me, It's Your Fetish

(16:23) It Takes a Village You Don’t Have

(17:46) The Joy of Cooking

(20:18) The Joy of Eating

(20:59) Decision Theory

(26:22) FTC on the Loose

(31:27) Good News, Everyone

(36:19) Antisocial Media

(40:02) Technology Advances

(40:46) For Science!

(41:19) Cognition

(44:28) Discourse

(48:54) Communication

(49:32) Honesty

(51:09) Get Involved

(52:19) Government Working

(01:00:58) Quickly On the Student Loan Claim

(01:03:50) Variously Effective Altruism

(01:08:23) Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game

(01:15:57) For Your Entertainment

(01:17:20) Sports Go Sports

(01:18:42) I Was Promised Flying Self-Driving Cars

(01:23:50) Get to Work

(01:25:23) While I Cannot Condone This

(01:30:48) The Lighter Side

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First published:

November 18th, 2024

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/puJeNs9nLJByjatqq/monthly-roundup-24-november-2024

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