“Monthly Roundup #12: November 2023” by Zvi

Things on the AI front have been rather hectic. That does not mean other things stopped happening. Quite the opposite. So here we are again.

Bad News

PSA: Crumbl Cookies, while delicious, have rather a lot of calories, 720 in the basic cookie. Yes, they display this as 180, by deciding serving size is a quarter of a cookie. This display strategy is pretty outrageous and should not be legal, we need to do something about unrealistic serving sizes – at minimum, require that the serving size be displayed in same size font as the calorie count.

It really is weird that we don’t think about Russia, and especially the USSR, more in terms of the universal alcoholism.

Reminder that there really is an architecture conspiracy to make life worse. Peter Eisnman straight out says: “Anxiety and alienation is the modern condition. The point of architecture [...]

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Outline:

(00:16) Bad News

(03:24) Good News, Everyone

(05:31) While I Cannot Condone This

(09:00) Government Working

(15:02) At the Movies

(18:07) Twitter Twitches

(23:41) Yay Free Speech

(25:41) Money Stuff

(41:29) Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game

(50:47) I Was Promised Flying Self-Driving Cars

(56:50) Potentially Effective Altruism

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First published:
November 14th, 2023

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TfABomJ7s6xLkxTFz/monthly-roundup-12-november-2023

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.