Aaron Bergman's tweets, September 2021
Every public tweet, reply, quote tweet and retweet that Aaron Bergman (@AaronBergman18 on X, formerly Twitter) posted in September 2021 and has not deleted: 14 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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Saturday, September 4, 2021
Reply to @PeacefulAutism, 02:24 UTC
Carlotta 1.0 (@PeacefulAutism): @AmandaAskell Is this the correct contrapositive? If one is against the killing of animals (ex: vegans), one should be against abortion.
I don’t think so, since IRL the main issue with animal farming is suffering, not killing or death per se.
Reply to @albrgr, 19:17 UTC
(The tweet being replied to by @albrgr is no longer available.)
Hmm, I consider myself an EA and am low on both agreeableness and anxiety. Seems many EAs are disagreeable in a local interpersonal sense (i.e. don’t mind breaking norms, being contrarian) even though we care really care about the well-being of others.
Sunday, September 5, 2021
Tweet, 18:12 UTC · 33 likes
Effective Altruism Georgetown will be interviewing @robertwiblin for our inaugural podcast episode this Friday! What should we ask him?
Reply to @JeremiahDJohns, 18:20 UTC · 2 likes
Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 (@JeremiahDJohns): Hot take? Poetry has completely and utterly been surpassed as an art form, and 'Barren' is an appropriate name for a poetry mag.
Liking poetry is like enjoying wooden figurines - sure, fine... but it's weird, no one cares and other art forms have objectively passed you by.
(quoting @FCardamenis: Danielle Rose lost her job as Poetry Editor over this tweet. Complete BS. Totally outrageous.)
Surpassed by what? Think I disagree with this
Monday, September 6, 2021
Reply, 00:33 UTC · 2 likes
Oh don’t worry, that will be on the list
Thursday, September 9, 2021
Reply, 20:04 UTC · 5 likes
Idea: host fake altruism game show to make money, donate profit to effective charities
Reply, 22:41 UTC · 29 likes
16.5 years of education, and this is the best and most memorable piece of feedback I’ve gotten
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Reply to @mattyglesias, 22:25 UTC · 9 likes
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Uh, I don’t think you commenting is helping to keep this on the DL
Sunday, September 19, 2021
Reply to @diviacaroline, 05:55 UTC · 2 likes
Divia Eden 🔍 (@diviacaroline): 45. If you tune in to it, the constant invalidation of children can be deafening.
“You don’t want that!” (He does.)
“You’re okay!” (She isn’t.)
“That doesn’t matter.” (It does to the kid.)Etc.
https://aaronbergman.substack.com/p/kids-are-people-too
Reply, 07:21 UTC
(The tweet being replied to is no longer available.)
Love the changes in font
Monday, September 20, 2021
Reply to @DRMacIver, 12:39 UTC · 1 like
David R. MacIver (@DRMacIver): I feel like asking "Why?" is usually a category error. Most of the time stuff just happens.
Interesting thought but I don’t think this is correct. What is an example of something that “just happens” without explanation?
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Reply to @Aella_Girl, 16:44 UTC · 3 likes
Aella (@Aella_Girl): is the news covering her cause she's white, or is it cause she was attractive and had a vlog with a huge amount of material that makes it easy to humanize her?
Those things are probably causally related
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Reply to @AmandaAskell, 02:35 UTC · 12 likes
Amanda Askell (@AmandaAskell): Why not try to make the effective altruism movement as large as possible? One concern might be "idea dilution": as you get bigger, you need to appeal to more people so you weaken the claims. Yet it feels like EA ideas have actually become more concentrated as the movement grows.
My experience organizing EA Georgetown: there are a ton of very smart, EA-aligned ppl at good but not Ivy universities who have never heard of EA, and who would be extremely receptive without dumbing down/diluting the ideas
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Reply to @ckmcdona, 04:49 UTC · 1 like
CON-AIR 🛫 (@ckmcdona): @TylerAlterman Nicotine actually makes you process caffeine about twice as fast.
Source?
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