Aaron Bergman's tweets, February 2020
Every public tweet, reply, quote tweet and retweet that Aaron Bergman (@AaronBergman18 on X, formerly Twitter) posted in February 2020 and has not deleted: 16 posts, oldest first, times in UTC. Each heading links to the original post on X. When Aaron replies to or quotes someone, their tweet appears as a blockquote with their name; those words are theirs, and everything outside the blockquotes is Aaron's.
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Sunday, February 2, 2020
Reply, 01:13 UTC · 1 like
This could be the picture that secured enough funding for AGI research such that we avoid a dystopian universe of infinite simulated suffering
Monday, February 3, 2020
Reply to @JButtafoucault, 15:57 UTC · 11 likes
Joey ButtaFoucault ☭ (@JButtafoucault): @ezraklein Three cheers for woke capitalism!
Except this time the wokism is actually reducing a huge amount of suffering.
Reply to @Food4JS, 18:56 UTC · 2 likes
JSmith (@Food4JS): @AaronBergman18 @IanJSchwartz @ezraklein Whose suffering?
Yup, chickens’
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Reply, 17:29 UTC · 1 like
Surprised about naltrexone
Thursday, February 6, 2020
Reply to @alexeyguzey, 17:29 UTC · 3 likes
Alexey Guzey (@alexeyguzey): given that depression is defined by the absence of motivation, anhedonia, loss of meaning, etc. why do so many people with depression seek psychological help, take antidepressants, etc?
There’s a big gap between “losing enough motivation that your life becomes much worse” and “losing so much motivation that you literally can’t drag yourself to a doctor’s appointment.”
Sunday, February 9, 2020
Reply to @clairlemon, 04:42 UTC · 3 likes
Claire Lehmann (@clairlemon): Benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome is so serious I'm perplexed as to why anyone is ever prescribed this medication in the first place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzodiazepine_withdrawal_syndrome
Throw SSRIs in there too https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidepressant_discontinuation_syndrome.
Friday, February 14, 2020
Reply, 04:55 UTC
Why? She is almost certainly more savvy at using and willing to use the regulatory state/executive branch to go around congress. Even if you think her platform is worse than sanders’, this is really important.
Sunday, February 16, 2020
Reply to @robinhanson, 17:21 UTC · 5 likes
Robin Hanson (@robinhanson): .@RobynElyse: "Robin Hanson … suggested that a woman who 'cuckolds' a man should be punished more severely than a rapist who drugs & then rapes a woman while she is unconscious" NO, if cuckold makes kid, I ASKED why we don't punish those cases similarly https://www.wonkette.com/economist-suggests-infecting-a-ton-of-people-with-coronavirus-to-help-people-with-coronavirus
Meta point: it’s crazy that so few tenured professors say things that are even 10% as controversial as any of these tweets. So few people have such a privilege - make use of it!
Reply to @mattyglesias, 19:43 UTC · 8 likes
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Data would be 2 numbers on an infographic. This has 4 so I think it qualifies as Big Data.
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Reply to @ESYudkowsky, 20:04 UTC · 3 likes
Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ (@ESYudkowsky): My first reaction to this snarky statement is that it's also just true. But I comprehend some things poorly. Does anyone know, say, a professional mathematician, who is a low decoupler?
(quoting @gmiller: For 'high decoupler', also read 'capable of abstract thought'.)
“Low decoupler” could mean either “propensity not to decouple but capable of decoupling” or “incapable of decoupling.” Seems that a mathematician could be of the first type but not the second.
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Reply, 01:50 UTC · 1 like
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This honestly fits best damn
Reply to @KaraRBrown, 06:07 UTC · 1 like
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I’m ashamed for not having thought of this.
Friday, February 21, 2020
Reply to @Noahpinion, 04:37 UTC · 2 likes
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@Noahpinion): 1/Today's @bopinion post is about how poverty imposes impossible demands on poor people, making it harder for them to escape poverty.
Fantastic thread.
Reply to @MichaelRStrain, 05:59 UTC · 3 likes
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I think Elizabeth Warren wrote a book about this or something idk
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Reply to @mattyglesias, 02:43 UTC · 1 like
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2 weeks later: “mainstream media downplaying Coronavirus to prevent immigration restrictions”
Reply to @ryharrin, 19:17 UTC · 1 like
Ryan Harrington (@ryharrin): @AaronBergman18 @ezraklein Well, there's the possibility that Biden could be there nominee. That would drive Trump's percentage up.
True, forgot to mention that Biden polls well against him too. Point is that prediction markets don’t match probability-weighted avg polls of democratic contenders vs Trump.
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