Aaron Bergman's tweets, June 2020
Every public tweet, reply, quote tweet and retweet that Aaron Bergman (@AaronBergman18 on X, formerly Twitter) posted in June 2020 and has not deleted: 11 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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Thursday, June 4, 2020
Reply to @JeremyM72014840, 21:57 UTC · 2 likes
Play That Dead Band's Song (@JeremyM72014840): @harryh @wesyang Seriously someone tell me what the hell is going on. Tired of all this cryptic shit lol
Same here lol. Wtf happened?
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Reply to @davidgraeber, 09:44 UTC
David Graeber (@davidgraeber): Notice how when the #OWS camps were evicted in 2011 everyone in the media & across the political spectrum chanted "Occupy failed" because they didn't take an electoral approach. And have been ever since. When Bernie lost twice, do you hear anyone chanting "electoralism failed"?
I don’t think this is correct. Bernie pushes the Democratic Party way left. Remains to be seen whether anything substantive will come of it, but it’s a simple fact that Biden’s platform is the most progressive of any nominee in history.
Monday, June 15, 2020
Reply to @ESYudkowsky, 00:41 UTC · 4 likes
Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ (@ESYudkowsky): So I wrote up this 23-point agenda for a Comprehensive Reboot of Law Enforcement. #RebootThePolice.
1. Completely disentangle punition from revenue, including outlawing forfeiture, by requiring all punitive revenues to be refunded to tax-filers yearly...
https://medium.com/@yudkowsky/a-comprehensive-reboot-of-law-enforcement-b76bfab850a3
Why the hell are these comments all negative? This is a well thought-out list.
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Reply to @oldbayincense, 05:17 UTC · 1 like
(The tweet being replied to by @oldbayincense is no longer available.)
Thanks for explaining. I disagree because the level of citation rigor/expertise just shouldn’t be extraordinarily high to right a blog post and tweet about it, assuming one does everything in good faith. I’d guess that 99+% of people offering opinions on the matter on Twitter
Thread, continued, 05:18 UTC · 2 likes
are less knowledgeable on the subject than Yudkowsky. Doesn’t seem there is any specific claim he makes that you disagree with.
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Reply to @SpencrGreenberg, 20:20 UTC · 1 like
Spencer Greenberg 🔍 (@SpencrGreenberg): @lxrjl Yes, by my definition, could just be a semantic debate :)
I’ve actually come around to giving a very small credence to me myself not being phenomenally conscious after reading about “illusionism.” The arguments in favor are weak IMO but not absurd.
Reply to @Noahpinion, 20:23 UTC · 5 likes
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@Noahpinion): Today in "Robin Hanson is an ass":
Idk why he’d want to spend his offensiveness points on something like this. Much of what he talks about is socially unacceptable but important and/or interesting.
Saturday, June 20, 2020
Reply, 22:00 UTC · 2 likes
And it’s considered low status to defend people with those traits (perhaps unless you’re known to have a lot of the opposite, desirable trait)
Monday, June 22, 2020
Reply to @ericweinstein, 23:50 UTC · 18 likes
Eric Weinstein (@ericweinstein): What an incredible claim! Imagine: all you have to do is find out that someone is any anyway opposed to unrestricted high-skill immigration to know they are not only a villain but a pure one.
Life is so much easier when you are fully coked-up on ideology in service to employers.
(quoting @ZachWeiner: Restricting high-skill immigration is a pure form of villainy. It's not just hurting people. It's being willing to *hurt yourself and everyone around you* in order to hurt other people. It's like villainy with a strong honest signal of villainhood attached.)
@ericweinstein - invite @ZachWeiner and @bryan_caplan on The Portal. I tend to agree with the latter on immigration, but would love to hear you hash it out. Having extremely smart, good faith, podcast-friendly people you strongly disagree with can’t come around all that often.
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Reply to @RichardMCNgo, 09:56 UTC · 24 likes
Richard Ngo (@RichardMCNgo): @_Wzard @patio11 Scott Alexander is a public figure. Victims of crime are not. I agree that NYT shouldn't do this, but it is not a clear-cut case where disagreement implies malice.
(quoting @RichardMCNgo: As usual, Patrick gets it right. NYT planning to doxx Scott is bad by internet norms, not by classic news media norms. The former are the better norms to use here, but NYT using outdated norms isn't necessarily malicious - their norms do have some advantages. 1/3)
Scott Alexander may be a public figure but the man behind Scott is not!
Thursday, June 25, 2020
Reply to @daniel_271828, 01:13 UTC · 1 like
zzDANIEL_ETH (@daniel_271828): Consciousness exists.
Conscious experience can be very complex, binding together aspects along various dimensions in intricate ways.
Positive valence conscious experience is intrinsically valuable.
Negative valence conscious experience is intrinsically negatively valuable.
So much confused language around this point. Smart people like @Plinz and @DouthatNYT on recent podcasts refer to consciousness as an “illusion.” 99% sure they don’t mean it in the literal illusionist sense of “we are p-zombies,” but you won’t know it from their words alone.
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