Aaron Bergman's tweets, December 2021
Every public tweet, reply, quote tweet and retweet that Aaron Bergman (@AaronBergman18 on X, formerly Twitter) posted in December 2021 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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Thursday, December 2, 2021
Reply to @TheFrisc, 20:47 UTC · 1 like
The Frisc (@TheFrisc): brings up the organized retail thefts that have gotten so much attention. As early as next week he says he'll introduce a proposal to "formalize a permitting process" to disrupt street sales of potentially stolen items.
Beyond parody
Friday, December 3, 2021
Reply, 01:15 UTC · 7 likes
Lina Khan wrote one (very long) article, now she heads the FTC https://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/e.710.Khan.805_zuvfyyeh.pdf
Sunday, December 5, 2021
Tweet, 08:58 UTC · 6 likes
Pretty funny (to me anyway lol) that the authors of one of the most influential development papers of all time, @DrDaronAcemoglu @baselinescene & James Robinson, have no idea which of 111 observations mysteriously vanished in their paper.
Thread, continued, 08:58 UTC
Context: microeconometrics course final project is replication of existing paper + extension, and I may try to somehow combine this one with Nunn + Wantchekon's "The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa"
(https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.101.7.3221)
Thread, continued, 08:58 UTC
How influential is "The colonial origins of comparative development"?
It has over 15,000 citations, it's own Wikipedia page, and enough response papers to fill a course syllabus.
Paper: https://economics.mit.edu/faculty/acemoglu/data/ajr2001
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Origins_of_Comparative_Development
Thread, continued, 08:58 UTC · 2 likes
More important than leaving out a lone data point, though, is the fact that full data and code to re-create results are public online! Social science would be in a much better place if this was a norm in every field! Not that it's universal in economics.
cc: @StuartJRitchie
Reply to @Aella_Girl, 16:36 UTC · 3 likes
Aella (@Aella_Girl): I wish plastic surgery for men was more normalized! Most men never think at all about cosmetic procedures as an option, but you can just go *make your jawline stronger* if you want to. I feel like there's relatively low hanging fruit for strong quality of life increases.
Basically zero sum, though
Monday, December 6, 2021
Reply to @Noahpinion, 10:55 UTC · 1 like
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@Noahpinion): The Environmental Kuznets Curve strikes again!
Growth, not degrowth, is the key to rewilding our world.
(quoting @MaxCRoser: The 'Living Planet Index' measures how the populations of the world's wild animals change over time. Globally the Index shows a large decline in the last 50 years. Broken down by income of the country, the Index shows an increase of wildlife in the high-income countries.)
Wild animals probably suffer a ton and this is bad
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Reply, 22:11 UTC
The harm👏from tobacco 👏is not👏nicotine
Thursday, December 9, 2021
Reply, 14:40 UTC · 2 likes
(Partially tongue in cheek) myself, as demonstrated by this norm-violating comment
Monday, December 13, 2021
Reply to @Austen, 02:36 UTC · 3 likes
Austen Allred (@Austen): What is your favorite podcast?
Not podcast episode, but one that you listen to every time it comes out?
@80000Hours no question
Friday, December 17, 2021
Reply, 03:41 UTC · 14 likes
Brian Tomasik
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
Reply to @markhoro, 00:43 UTC · 2 likes
Mark Horowitz @markhoro.bsky.social (@markhoro): A classic RCT gem from Janssen for their 7th negative trial of esketamine on the trot : "implementing measures to minimize placebo response are warranted." Great captains generally say "the goalposts were too narrow - hand me a saw".
Esketamine is just shitty ketamine. For gods sake, they could have at least chosen the better of *TWO* isomers to pretend is a special new drug.
Thursday, December 23, 2021
Reply, 20:54 UTC · 5 likes
IMO big difference between “eat things with traces of milk powder” and “guzzle caged eggs every meal”
Saturday, December 25, 2021
Reply, 00:54 UTC · 3 likes
Yeah but it’s an *accurate* virtue signal. Mask wearing (indoors, with others, etc.) is indeed virtuous!
Monday, December 27, 2021
Reply to @mellowfever, 04:53 UTC · 4 likes
john mellow • wealth tax now (@mellowfever): I’m real!!!
Nice try, Turing Test competitor
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