# Aaron Bergman's tweets, October 2021 Every public tweet, reply, quote tweet and retweet that Aaron Bergman (@AaronBergman18 on X, formerly Twitter) posted in October 2021 and has not deleted: 8 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. This page is one month of [the complete archive of Aaron Bergman's tweets](https://abergman.com/tweets), which updates automatically every few hours. Previous month: [September 2021](https://abergman.com/tweets/2021-09). Next month: [November 2021](https://abergman.com/tweets/2021-11). ## Friday, October 8, 2021 ### [Tweet, 00:17 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1446268429036621829) · 5 likes This is a completely unoriginal observation, but there really is nothing like closing 16 tabs and 4 word documents after an exam ## Saturday, October 9, 2021 ### [Reply to @SpencrGreenberg, 04:47 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1446698706095443973) · 7 likes > **Spencer Greenberg 🔍 (@SpencrGreenberg):** I’m trying to follow all of the greatest English speaking intellectuals on Twitter (whether or not I agree with their views) with the plan of doing an analysis of their tweets. > > Who is a great Twitter intellectual that I may not yet be following? > > Thanks! Bet you’re not following @SpencrGreenberg! ## Saturday, October 23, 2021 ### [Reply to @RogerGrosse, 01:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1451720802265706499) · 2 likes > **Roger Grosse (@RogerGrosse):** Google has a significant fraction of the world's top AI talent, and yet Gmail has recently been marking as spam nearly every email from the undergraduates in my ML course. > > It sometimes even spam filters emails from my grad students or replies to messages I sent. Marked as spam an offer to interview for a job. Luckily, the sender followed up. Google almost cost me a job! ## Sunday, October 24, 2021 ### [Tweet, 00:07 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1452064228555296773) · 2 likes Might start tweeting (to all my approximately zero followers), so here is my first extremely cold take. It will be a miracle if even one person sees this… ### [Thread, continued, 00:07 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1452064229410971648) · 1 like How are there so many books? Like, college libraries are fuckin’ huge. No way someone actually wrote all those. ## Thursday, October 28, 2021 ### [Reply to @gmiller, 00:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1453521606039441421) · 6 likes > **Geoffrey Miller (@gmiller):** What are some beliefs that > (1) you think are factually, empirically wrong, > but that also > (2) lead you to feel more positive (warm, respectful, and/or trusting) towards the people who express that belief? Many of the comments here aren’t about factual, empirical claims ### [Reply to @ESYudkowsky, 02:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1453545863469490182) · 20 likes > **Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ (@ESYudkowsky):** I'd say that I "don't understand" why the people who worry that chickens are sentient and suffering, don't also worry that GPT-3 is sentient and maybe suffering; but in fact I do understand, it's just not a charitable understanding. Anyway, they're both unsentient so no worries. How confident are you that chickens aren’t sentient? I think it’s plausible that both are, but think it’s more likely for chickens ### [Reply to @eigenrobot, 15:29 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1453745795048480778) · 1 like > **eigenrobot (@eigenrobot):** ruminating on diversity training from earlier > > im actually kinda shocked they put this figure in > > slightly modified, had "power" instead of "domination". otherwise unchanged > > like. this couldnt have possibly cleared legal right > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCvlEGRVcAETeau.jpg) Uh, I think this picture is basically correct and not at all a good example of “absurd wokism” or something --- End of October 2021. Previous month: [September 2021](https://abergman.com/tweets/2021-09). Next month: [November 2021](https://abergman.com/tweets/2021-11). [Back to the archive index](https://abergman.com/tweets).