Listen "168 – Unions Are Governments"
Episode Synopsis
We speak with Levi/Ferb, learning about labor law in the USA. Turns out it’s not what we thought.
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What would a general strike look like today?
Biden intervenes in railroad contract to block strike
Truckers strike at Port of Oakland
Taft–Hartley Act
A People’s History of the United States
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
United Mine Workers of America to pay more than $13 million in compensation to an Alabama coal company
African American Workers Historic Struggle Against Segregation
Labor News:
Who Gets the Bird?
PayDay Report
Working People Podcast
“You are GPT-3,” a long-form prompt directly instructing GPT-3 on desired usage of a scratchpad to suppress hallucinatory answers
Craiyon
0:00:01 Main Topic
2:08:40 Feedback
2:14:46 LW posts
2:40:03 Thank the Patron
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
Also merch!
Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast
LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:
To Lead, You Must Stand Up
Cultish Countercultishness
Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:
My Strange Beliefs
Posting on Politics
The Two-Party Swindle
Links:
What would a general strike look like today?
Biden intervenes in railroad contract to block strike
Truckers strike at Port of Oakland
Taft–Hartley Act
A People’s History of the United States
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
United Mine Workers of America to pay more than $13 million in compensation to an Alabama coal company
African American Workers Historic Struggle Against Segregation
Labor News:
Who Gets the Bird?
PayDay Report
Working People Podcast
“You are GPT-3,” a long-form prompt directly instructing GPT-3 on desired usage of a scratchpad to suppress hallucinatory answers
Craiyon
0:00:01 Main Topic
2:08:40 Feedback
2:14:46 LW posts
2:40:03 Thank the Patron
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
Also merch!
Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast
LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:
To Lead, You Must Stand Up
Cultish Countercultishness
Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:
My Strange Beliefs
Posting on Politics
The Two-Party Swindle
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