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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

“Monthly Roundup #24: November 2024” by Zvi

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“Monthly Roundup #24: November 2024” by Zvi