“Monthly Roundup #20: July 2024” by Zvi

It is monthly roundup time.

I invite readers who want to hang out and get lunch in NYC later this week to come on Thursday at Bhatti Indian Grill (27th and Lexington) at noon.

I plan to cover the UBI study in its own post soon.

I cover Nate Silver's evisceration of the 538 presidential election model, because we cover probabilistic modeling and prediction markets here, but excluding any AI discussions I will continue to do my best to stay out of the actual politics.

Bad News

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin files comment suggesting SpaceX Starship launches be capped due to ‘impact on local environment.’ This is a rather shameful thing for them to be doing, and not for the first time.

Alexey Guzey reverses course, realizes at 26 that he was a naive idiot at 20 and finds everything he [...]

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Outline:

(00:37) Bad News

(02:37) Silver Bullet

(06:35) Shame on Kathy Hochul

(06:58) This is (One Reason) Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

(09:02) (Don’t) Hack the Planet

(10:16) The Laptop Trap

(12:24) Courage

(14:25) Friendship

(15:26) The Gravest Mistake

(21:01) You Need Functional Decision Theory

(23:40) Antisocial Media

(25:52) For Science!

(30:58) Truth Seeking

(34:37) Liar Liar

(36:51) Government Working

(47:55) For Your Entertainment

(52:18) Variously Effective Altruism

(55:09) News You Can Use

(55:31) Good News, Everyone

(58:03) Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game

(01:01:22) Sports Go Sports

(01:05:10) I Was Promised Flying Self-Driving Cars

(01:05:50) While I Cannot Condone This

(01:12:55) The Lighter Side

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First published:
July 23rd, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qfQspPDHMSEpwsuAQ/monthly-roundup-20-july-2024

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