Aaron Bergman's tweets, July 2021

Every public tweet, reply, quote tweet and retweet that Aaron Bergman (@AaronBergman18 on X, formerly Twitter) posted in July 2021 and has not deleted: 4 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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Friday, July 16, 2021

Reply to @calebwatney, 01:20 UTC

Caleb Watney (@calebwatney): Billionaire philanthropy ranked:
1) EA/longtermist giving
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2) Conventional international charities
3) ~Space~ exploration
4) Local charities
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5) Yachts
6) Drugs
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7) Giving more money to Harvard/Yale
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n) Non-profits that disagree w/ my policy preferences

0) animal welfare

Thursday, July 22, 2021

Reply, 00:16 UTC

Relevant recent blog post I wrote: https://aaronbergman.substack.com/p/deficits-dont-matter-spending-does

Friday, July 23, 2021

Reply to @jazzplane, 05:34 UTC · 4 likes

(The tweet being replied to by @jazzplane is no longer available.)

This but unironically

Thursday, July 29, 2021

Reply to @SpencrGreenberg, 19:50 UTC · 3 likes

Spencer Greenberg 🔍 (@SpencrGreenberg): Other than cost and a potentially very high probability of never being revived, what do you think the strongest arguments are AGAINST cryonics (i.e., having yourself frozen at very low temps upon death, with hopes future tech will be able to revive you and you can keep living)

Money better used for altruistic purposes like preventing extinction and animal welfare

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