# 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. 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: [November 2021](https://abergman.com/tweets/2021-11). Next month: [January 2022](https://abergman.com/tweets/2022-01). ## Thursday, December 2, 2021 ### [Reply to @TheFrisc, 20:47 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1466509262197334016) · 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](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1466576801971380225) · 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](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1467417976106209280) · 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. ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FF1LaQ8UYAQwhk-.jpg) ### [Thread, continued, 08:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1467417978186584065) 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](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1467417982162784265) 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 ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FF1PM-DVQAMLQ3j.jpg) ### [Thread, continued, 08:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1467417984503193605) · 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](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1467533447375720451) · 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](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1467809964450328580) · 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](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1468704933352558595) The harm👏from tobacco 👏is not👏nicotine ## Thursday, December 9, 2021 ### [Reply, 14:40 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1468953639674855425) · 2 likes (Partially tongue in cheek) myself, as demonstrated by this norm-violating comment ## Monday, December 13, 2021 ### [Reply to @Austen, 02:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1470221172143009800) · 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](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1471686952839753734) · 14 likes Brian Tomasik ## Tuesday, December 21, 2021 ### [Reply to @markhoro, 00:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1473091731457392642) · 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](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1474121321273454594) · 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](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1474544111449378817) · 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](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1475328852717019137) · 4 likes > **john mellow • wealth tax now (@mellowfever):** I’m real!!! Nice try, Turing Test competitor --- End of December 2021. 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