Aaron Bergman's tweets, June 2022
Every public tweet, reply, quote tweet and retweet that Aaron Bergman (@AaronBergman18 on X, formerly Twitter) posted in June 2022 and has not deleted: 108 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, which updates automatically every few hours. Previous month: May 2022. Next month: July 2022.
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
Tweet, 01:31 UTC · 6 likes
Yet another “Stuff I buy and use” post live https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/fwtoEN5pZpDfQQLKz/stuff-i-buy-and-use-a-listicle-to-boost-your-consumer
Reply to @AndyMasley, 03:26 UTC · 3 likes
Andy Masley (@AndyMasley): I ride or die for corn bulbs
Next mega-earning to give project: forming a company called “Illuminate” or something, renaming “corn bulb” to “ProductivityLight” or whatever, and watching the billions roll in
Tweet, 21:53 UTC · 1 like
Why haven’t cars gotten easier to purchase over time as TVs have?
If I was a risk-neutral, entrepreneurial engineer with a surplus of hubris and unlimited access to capital (bonus for speaking Spanish or Mandarin) I might try to figure out how to make a good car sell for <$10k
Thread, continued, 21:53 UTC
A few hypotheses:
1) labor is necessarily a big input to production, and I’d know this if I knew anything about cars
2) regulatory capture by industry players
3) other, non-capture regulation
4) hidden quality improvements not captured in the data
Thread, continued, 21:53 UTC · 1 like
5) all the engineering talent and energy is going into electric cars/being hired by Tesla
Not sure whether this is relevant, but FWIW Mexican cars appear to sell for around the same price as in the US, despite way lower median income there
Thread, continued, 21:53 UTC · 2 likes
Cc @ATabarrok @calebwatney @AlecStapp @PradyuPrasad @ anyone else who knows about heavy machinery manufacturing or relevant econ
Friday, June 3, 2022
Tweet, 03:59 UTC
Thanks to the iPhone notes app, this no longer has to be a universal human experience. It might feel a little cringe but you gotta fight through that and put all the decent ideas in the Ideas Note
(from @nathanwpyle on IG)
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Thread, continued, 03:59 UTC · 2 likes
Here’s a template to get you started
Sunday, June 5, 2022
Reply to @daniel_271828, 18:23 UTC · 3 likes
zzDANIEL_ETH (@daniel_271828): @depthsofwiki They really gotta get the fruit in there
someone with dalle access get on this
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Reply to @eslewhere, 19:44 UTC · 11 likes
eslewhere (@eslewhere): One of the best Effective Altruism movement building strategies is for individual EAs be super cool, kind, and interesting so that people will want to be part of the movement
*gets excommunicated for not being cool*
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Reply to @TylerAlterman, 15:27 UTC · 5 likes
Tyler is finishing a book, slow to reply (@TylerAlterman): Rationality is to Effective Altruism as Postrationality is to ________?
The heterodox Qualia Research Institute/“abolish suffering with DMT” view of EA
Reply to @cafreiman, 21:03 UTC · 2 likes
Chris Freiman (@cafreiman):
Add another row with Tomasik
Reply to @MatthewJBar, 22:21 UTC · 2 likes
Matthew Barnett (@MatthewJBar): From @robbensinger: "This idea seems absurd, so I endorse it only grudgingly: it’s absurd, but less absurd than the two alternatives."
https://nothingismere.com/2017/02/23/phenomenal-consciousness-is-a-quasiperceptual-illusion-objections-and-replies/
I only skimmed the articles you posted, but just registering that I’ve thought about and engaged a lot with illusionism and think it’s coherent and plausible but less likely than some alternatives, particularly Russelian monism https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russellian-monism/
Reply to @MatthewJBar, 22:29 UTC · 2 likes
Matthew Barnett (@MatthewJBar): @AaronBergman18 @robbensinger I consider Russellian monism deeply flawed, for reasons discussed here: https://reducing-suffering.org/not-type-f-monist/
Damn he really got an article for everything lol
Saturday, June 11, 2022
Quote tweet, 01:13 UTC · 5 likes
Dusting off the ol' R skills (zoomed in version below👀)
Quoting Jacques (@JacquesThibs): I just scraped the EA Forum in case anyone wants to do anything interesting with that data. Contains metadata too: authors, score, votes, date_published, text (post contents), comments.
Here’s a link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XA71s2K4j89_N2x4EbTdVYANJ7X3P4ow/view?usp=drivesdk
Have fun. :)
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Code: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sD6GJT8AoWVIfkAWrWqV5ms9nmTMxfom/view?usp=sharing
Thread, continued, 01:58 UTC · 2 likes
Forgot to tag the people on the graph!
@AaronGertler @NunoSempere @peterwildeford @Michael90875807(I think?) @RichardMCNgo @davidnash @? @vaidehiagrwalla @? @lukefreeman @willmacaskill @ben_j_todd @LinchZhang @? @? @michelle_hutchi @? @juliadwise @MilanGriffes
Reply to @peterwildeford, 02:26 UTC · 2 likes
Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 (@peterwildeford): @AaronBergman18 @AaronGertler @NunoSempere @Michael90875807 @RichardMCNgo @davidnash @vaidehiagrwalla @lukefreeman @willmacaskill @ben_j_todd @LinchZhang @juliadwise @MilanGriffes cool! what is the karma metric here?
uhh whatever the variable "score" refers to in the original data, summed over a certain user's posts. Generally very similar to "votes", often a bit higher or lower Assuming it includes "strong" votes but not certain. Should've clarified it doesn't count Karma from comments!
Reply to @peterwildeford, 02:27 UTC · 2 likes
Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 (@peterwildeford): @AaronBergman18 @AaronGertler @NunoSempere @Michael90875807 @RichardMCNgo @davidnash @vaidehiagrwalla @lukefreeman @willmacaskill @ben_j_todd @LinchZhang @juliadwise @MilanGriffes cool! what is the karma metric here?
Will try to add/separate comment Karma later; these are important too of course!
Reply to @daniel_271828, 06:43 UTC · 4 likes
zzDANIEL_ETH (@daniel_271828): What are some examples of drugs that work but for which we don't know why they work?
Modafinil, basically all antidepressants
Reply to @daniel_271828, 07:11 UTC · 2 likes
zzDANIEL_ETH (@daniel_271828): @AaronBergman18 Do you have a link by any chance?
Source from Wikipedia on moda: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2654794/
“Interestingly, the therapeutic effects of SSRIs cannot be entirely summed up by simple inhibition of serotonin transporter (SERT), and as such further mechanisms of action must be at work…” from https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/neurolint/neurolint-13-00038/article_deploy/neurolint-13-00038-v2.pdf?version=1628662119
Sunday, June 12, 2022
Tweet, 12:53 UTC · 1,615 likes
Serious question for #YIMBYTwitter: where height restrictions per se are the issue, why haven’t developers started building vertically but *down*, underground?
I mean windowless apartments don’t sound ideal, but probably less bad than unaffordability and homelessness
Thread, continued, 12:53 UTC · 264 likes
Is it just too expensive? Even with median rents $4k+ in some places?
Is it illegal for some other reason?
Are there just random pipes everywhere?
Thread, continued, 12:53 UTC · 182 likes
Idk I can imagine some pretty cool, hypermodern underground apartments
Pic above from this article about rich people building bunkers https://www.businessinsider.com/luxury-doomsday-condos-2014-11?amp
Reply to @sentientlentils, 14:11 UTC · 50 likes
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Agree with #2. Idk on 1 - people have diverse preferences! It doesn't seem "hellish" to me any more than a 200 sq ft one would be.
Tbh assuming decent ventilation/air quality through other means. I would totally take a $1k/mo underground windowless appt in SF that would...
Thread, continued, 14:11 UTC · 4 likes
otherwise go for $2.5k or $3k above ground
Tweet, 14:56 UTC · 13 likes
POV: you've figured out why you're getting a double digit number of notifications
To Mr. Buterin's 3.9M followers, hello!
Reply to his own earlier tweet, 15:01 UTC · 237 likes
Aaron Bergman, June 12, 2022: Idk I can imagine some pretty cool, hypermodern underground apartments Pic above from this article about rich people building bunkers…
Since this is getting some attention, gonna shamelessly plug an excellent giving opportunity if you care about animal suffering🐠
The Fish Welfare Initiative has a $180k funding gap - super high altruistic return IMO! https://www.fishwelfareinitiative.org/donate
Monday, June 13, 2022
Reply to @ConnorTabarrok, 07:12 UTC · 58 likes
Connor J. Tabarrok 🏗🚀🌏 (@ConnorTabarrok): Civil engineer here! There are some problems that emerge when we excavate deep underground, that increase costs significantly. I'll explain a couple of these in the thread below!
Interesting, thanks!
Reply to his own earlier tweet, 18:33 UTC · 219 likes
Aaron Bergman, June 12, 2022: Since this is getting some attention, gonna shamelessly plug an excellent giving opportunity if you care about animal suffering🐠 The Fish Welfare Initiative…
Guys the comments are closing in on the likes - dont let me get ratiooood😭😭😭
Quote tweet, 23:21 UTC · 24 likes
Do I get a prize for getting ~.01% of people on Earth to read my quarter-baked random earnest question?
Also, I concede that the homelessness bit was unwise bc some might think I'm proposing we force/coerce homeless people to live underground
FWIW, I am not proposing this!
Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18): Serious question for #YIMBYTwitter: where height restrictions per se are the issue, why haven’t developers started building vertically but *down*, underground?
I mean windowless apartments don’t sound ideal, but probably less bad than unaffordability and homelessness
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Reply to @noah_austin, 01:13 UTC · 1 like
Noah Austin (@noah_austin): This belongs in the Smart Replies to Dumb Tweets Hall of Fame
❤️
Reply to @AaronBergman18, 01:51 UTC
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https://x.com/judeasspriest/status/1536464520146714626?s=20&t=CY3fYHbB70qI0y-c6LxjQA
Thread, continued, 01:51 UTC · 25 likes
(Warning: earnest commentary)
Suppose for a second that the underground building idea is bad-despicable, even.
Isn't asking a question that invites people to explain *why* it's bad *the right thing to do*?
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L
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oh shit they're on to me
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thank you for actually answering my non-rhetorical question! There at least might be ways to make this work (like the big atrium thing down the middle lol), but at least it's a plausible factor for why building underground isn't and shouldn't happen https://x.com/ToriGlass/status/1536438050632241153?s=20&t=CY3fYHbB70qI0y-c6LxjQA
Thread, continued, 01:51 UTC · 11 likes
damn right - legalize normal building and y'all won't have to put up with my shitty takes! Win-win!
https://x.com/UrbanistOrg/status/1536501069689532417?s=20&t=CY3fYHbB70qI0y-c6LxjQA
Thread, continued, 01:51 UTC · 2 likes
https://x.com/nekoronogatari/status/1536429040986365953?s=20&t=CY3fYHbB70qI0y-c6LxjQA
Thread, continued, 01:51 UTC · 5 likes
My brother, I ask with all due respect: do you prefer New Taylor or Old? https://x.com/freedompimp2012/status/1536478072563564544?s=20&t=CY3fYHbB70qI0y-c6LxjQA
Thread, continued, 01:51 UTC · 6 likes
Fake! News! I have dug many, MANY holes at the beach
Thread, continued, 01:51 UTC · 2 likes
These are all reasonable points
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😂
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Ngl the "Georgetown guy dumb" ones are definitely my favorite genre
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alright, enough Twitter for one day lol
Reply to his own earlier tweet, 02:28 UTC · 190 likes
Aaron Bergman, June 13, 2022: Guys the comments are closing in on the likes - dont let me get ratiooood😭😭😭
To clarify:
1) I don't think we should make poor/homeless people live underground
2) A project like this would be so expensive that it would only be profitable if the units could then be sold for a fortune! The economic incentives point completely in the opposite direction!
Thread, continued, 02:28 UTC · 94 likes
A more extreme, comical version of the same thing would be, like, having residential 747s circle around Manhattan. IRL this isn't profitable, ofc.
But if it *was*, that would have to be because some people were willing to pay a lot of money for space onboard!
Reply to @itsjairusjames, 02:43 UTC · 7 likes
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Yeah, which was a bad call but not literally wrong, because I *do* stand by the claim that building luxury housing indirectly decreases homelessness by alleviating supply constraints
Reply, 04:47 UTC · 1 like
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Nah I’m gonna convince everyone on Twitter I’m both right and one of the good guys, just watch
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Reply to @RichardMCNgo, 05:05 UTC · 6 likes
Richard Ngo (@RichardMCNgo): For what tasks does practice improve performance the least?
(Excluding tasks where there's very little variance between people, like tic-tac-toe.)
Sorta depends what you mean by “practice,” but I think relative performance at sports like bike racing is determined mostly by physiological factors with a smaller role for “practice” per se. I’d bet 95th percentile runners who rarely bike are almost all >90th percentile bikers
Thread, continued, 05:08 UTC · 12 likes
I used to rock climb competitively, and there was a near obsession with intentional practice/technique. But I think I remember a couple studies showed that 90%+ of variation in performance (or something like that) was explained by finger strength, and I’d bet that’s mostly causal
Reply, 05:12 UTC · 158 likes
I *do* identify as a random normal kid
But really, thanks! It could have been phrased better, but the question was entirely earnest, not rhetorical.
And some of the dunks are pretty funny tbh
Reply to @briannajegan, 15:42 UTC · 18 likes
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Me at the bottom of the pile
Jk I’m all good
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Tweet, 05:04 UTC · 458 likes
Alignment chart, Twitter DMs edition
Thread, continued, 05:04 UTC · 57 likes
If you see your message in the top six cells, I appreciate the thoughts and wish you a wonderful, enriching experience on Twitter dot com.
If you see your message on the bottom, thanks for providing me material for this chart!
Thread, continued, 05:04 UTC · 19 likes
In case you don't know what all those messages were referencing...
Reply to @SpencrGreenberg, 16:57 UTC · 4 likes
Spencer Greenberg 🔍 (@SpencrGreenberg): Longtermism says we should aim much altruistic effort toward the long-term future (eg since there could be >100s of billions of future people affected & civilization could last millions of years or go extinct based on choices now). What's your strongest critique of Longtermism?
There might be enough money committed to longtermist projects that, at the current margin, funding the best animal welfare initiatives is superior on simple expected value grounds.
Very unsure of this tho
Reply to his own earlier tweet, 19:36 UTC · 12 likes
Aaron Bergman, June 15, 2022: In case you don't know what all those messages were referencing...
First bluecheck retweet. Quick, gotta shill the fish fund before anyone notices it wasn't originally in this thread https://www.fishwelfareinitiative.org/donate
Thread, continued, 19:36 UTC · 6 likes
^ If you QT'd, replied, or DMed something ~less than-admirable~, you might be interested in donating to the fish fund to cleanse your soul
Thread, continued, 19:36 UTC · 4 likes
If you haven't, there's still time! Attach proof of donation to the Tweet/message, and I'll consider you fully inoculated against all ethical standards and norms of decency (only against me and only for like a week, it's not a lifetime supply)
Thread, continued, 19:36 UTC · 4 likes
^As long as we're talking normal roasts and not like actual death threats, y'all can really do this lol
Reply to @NathanpmYoung, 19:44 UTC · 5 likes
Nathan 🔎 (@NathanpmYoung): knowing how viral it went would you have tweeted it again?
Selfishly, yeah haha.
Probably but not sure overall. Plausibly the sloppy phrasing was bad for YIMBYism? But also maybe that would be good because YIMBYism causes AI progress or more chicken/fish consumption? And plausibly a million other nth order effects? lol
Reply to @trevposts, 19:46 UTC · 2 likes
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I know 😂😂, almost as good as "some guy who deals with fish and wildlife" lmao
Reply to @besttrousers, 19:49 UTC · 2 likes
Matt Darling 🌐🏗️ (@besttrousers): What a weird takeaway from "Parasite".
Too bad that Boong Joon-ho isn't on Twitter to give his take :(
Thursday, June 16, 2022
Reply to @realBurhanAzeem, 01:57 UTC · 2 likes
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thanks again :)
Reply to @thatMikeBishop, 05:03 UTC · 3 likes
Mike Bishop 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@thatMikeBishop): @AaronBergman18 How many followers did you get out of this though?
Not sure I think 150ish. But before the Diet Coke one I think I was <200 lol
Tweet, 05:49 UTC · 29 likes
Idk, the fact that ~all of my Twitter influence has come from a single (unintentionally) outrage-inducing Tweet seems like decent evidence that the old, very unoriginal "Twitter amplifies outrage" take is correct
Thread, continued, 05:49 UTC · 6 likes
If you took all the times my 1,388 Tweets have been viewed and picked one at random, there's a ~90% chance you'd find someone reading the one people (mis!)interpreted as a call to make homeless people live underground.
Thread, continued, 05:49 UTC · 6 likes
Showing my work: 1400 Tweets * 200 impressions each (dragged down by a lot of very low-impression replies) +400k from the Coke thing=680k. The outrage one has 8M, and 8M/(8M+680k)=92%. Rounding down because there are probably a few replies with a couple thousand impressions.
Tweet, 08:25 UTC · 47 likes
I hope all my new followers understand regression to the mean, because it’s downhill from here folks
Reply to @TaterTotient, 17:27 UTC · 2 likes
mathematical potato (@TaterTotient):
(quoting @TaterTotient: if you enjoy someone's tweet and then follow them, you don't understand regression to the mean)
But for fat tailed distributions like Tweet influence, seeing someone’s viral Tweet is good evidence that their mean Tweet vitality (if not quality) is high!
Maybe in some situations, “regression to the median” is the real phenomenon?
Friday, June 17, 2022
Reply to @MichaelTrazzi, 00:37 UTC · 5 likes
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Lmao at altman upside down
Reply to @thatMikeBishop, 19:19 UTC
Mike Bishop 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@thatMikeBishop): @AaronBergman18 On an unrelated note... write up what you learned about building underground, or link me to the thread if you did already.
Oof, the sad part is I didnt actually learn that much bc so much noise drowned out all the signal. Learned plenty about going viral on Twitter tho…
Also am I the one being subtweeted? Lol
Reply to @trevposts, 19:22 UTC · 6 likes
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That’s why QALY needs to be opt-out rather than opt-in. Make people who don’t want to see him check a box on their application
Reply to @frances__lorenz, 21:04 UTC · 2 likes
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Gonna go ask FTX for $1B to make this happen :)
Saturday, June 18, 2022
Reply to @frances__lorenz, 02:18 UTC · 2 likes
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Sunday, June 19, 2022
Quote tweet, 05:41 UTC · 15 likes
Did you know that if you say “yeah but I think it was the right call ex ante” any time you lose money, you transform from a stupid retail investor to a wise, econo-rationalist sage
Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18): Yeah ik arguably I’m an idiot for investing at all and have indeed lost a bit of money, but don’t think it was the wrong call ex ante and don’t regret it
Reply to @Noahpinion, 19:14 UTC · 3 likes
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@Noahpinion): "A real human being"
I, Rex, who is not a robot nor an alien…
Monday, June 20, 2022
Tweet, 04:38 UTC · 7 likes
Wrote a response to @dynomight7's awesome red team of my Diet Coke theory (see below), updating my theory to something more plausible.
Long story short, I now think the main story is phenylalanine→phenethylamine rather than phenylalanine→dopamine
https://aaronbergman.substack.com/p/contra-dynomight-contra-me-but-also
Reply, 19:52 UTC · 11 likes
Hypothesis: to guys, “want kids” means in some hypothetical future world, but to females it means something closer to “now or in the foreseeable future”
Reply to @reconfigurthing, 21:53 UTC · 2 likes
Elias Schmied (@reconfigurthing): contrarianism isn't just a general personality trait. often it's also when someone sees that a narrative/framework is correct, but they themselves would be low status in it. so they can't fully agree with it, and hem and haw about pedantic details to see themselves as special
Me trying to defend contrarianism in a non-contrarian way in response to this tweet
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Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Reply to @frances__lorenz, 09:42 UTC · 3 likes
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New cause area get @reconfigurthing to delete this Tweet
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
Reply to @CRSegerie, 00:10 UTC · 9 likes
Charbel-Raphael (@CRSegerie): My intellectual journey in AI safety.
Have a good day
Oh shit Clippy is above water, guess Ive got a long ways to go
Reply to @ModeledBehavior, 20:38 UTC · 7 likes
Adam Ozimek (@ModeledBehavior): Question for YIMBY twitter, how do you feel about regulating the types of trees that are planted? I feel like developers go for trees that look good while young and grow fast, but then they end up being small because they are short-sighted. Big tall trees are better long run
Be careful asking questions of YIMBY twitter 😅
Reply to @ilex_ulmus, 22:00 UTC · 2 likes
Holly ⏸️ Elmore (@ilex_ulmus): Introvert using the "what gives you energy vs taking energy" definition
Ambivert by the "I can get really bubbly and social in the right circumstances but don't need much social interaction and *do* need to have alone time every day" definition
Exactly the same for me
Friday, June 24, 2022
Tweet, 05:17 UTC · 6 likes
After trying ~every permutation of 8 cables across 15 ports on 5 devices, my plan to make a widescreen curved monitor out of a normal one and two cheap portable ones from Alibaba can safely be deemed a failure
Either side one will work. Both will not 😢
Tweet, 20:04 UTC · 6 likes
Bro it is absolute anarchy out here on Craigslist/FB Marketplace
Saturday, June 25, 2022
Tweet, 21:26 UTC · 7 likes
I might give my blog (currently http://aaronbergman.substack.com) a new name! If you'd like to help me choose, here's a ranked choice voting ballot - thanks!
https://www.rcv123.org/ballot/5apMAiw2WjyS7CfVPvwfWC
Thread, continued, 21:26 UTC · 1 like
Whichever domain I end up choosing, I'll pay Substack's $50 (one time) fee to make that the actual url
In the mean time, http://halfbakedtakes.com redirects to it!
Thread, continued, 21:26 UTC · 2 likes
A lot of good domains are surprisingly affordable, even with .com at the end. http://domains.google.com makes it easy to search. http://halfbakedtakes.com, for instance, is only $12/year.
Might be worth considering if you have a substack or something like it!
Thread, continued, 22:33 UTC · 1 like
http://duckemoji.com is not having a good day 😢 🦆
Thread, continued, 22:34 UTC · 1 like
live results
https://www.rcv123.org/results/5apMAiw2WjyS7CfVPvwfWC/gvccwUGDy1ERdpGjn8j2q2
Reply to @MatthewJBar, 23:02 UTC · 1 like
Matthew Barnett (@MatthewJBar): Does anyone have any good book recommendations for learning about the history of modern China, especially after Mao?
https://www.amazon.com/Party-Secret-China8217-Communist-Rulers/dp/0061708763
Quote tweet, 23:52 UTC · 8 likes
Remember to get feedback from people outside your intellectual bubble
(from my sister, posted with permission)
Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18): live results
https://www.rcv123.org/results/5apMAiw2WjyS7CfVPvwfWC/gvccwUGDy1ERdpGjn8j2q2
Sunday, June 26, 2022
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On the bright side, if I choose this, the site will appeal to weed enthusiasts, cookie dough-infused ice cream fans, and rationalists alike
Reply to his own earlier tweet, 01:36 UTC · 1 like
Aaron Bergman, June 25, 2022: live results https://www.rcv123.org/results/5apMAiw2WjyS7CfVPvwfWC/gvccwUGDy1ERdpGjn8j2q2
The people have spoken and, assuming no Jan 6-level disruption to the election, Aaron's Blog will soon be named Half Baked Takes and hosted at http://halfbakedtakes.com!
Thread, continued, 01:38 UTC · 1 like
Glad I did this, because I was initially gonna go with http://bitethebullet.xyz lol
Reply to @AndyMasley, 01:54 UTC · 2 likes
Andy Masley (@AndyMasley): @AaronBergman18 @trevorjtweets Was also rooting for a bitethebullet variant
should I storm the capitol and install an unelected url?
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Reply to @MatthewJBar, 21:33 UTC · 10 likes
Matthew Barnett (@MatthewJBar): This post is from @natalia__coelho
If @natalia__coelho ever comes for one of my theories, God help me and it had been nice knowing you all
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Reply to @NathanpmYoung, 13:44 UTC · 3 likes
Nathan 🔎 (@NathanpmYoung): In what is one of the hottest takes I've ever seen, @bryan_caplan argues that human smugglers are morally good.
Why is he wrong?
https://betonit.substack.com/p/immigration-charities-should-blame?r=18mntl&utm_medium=ios
This…doesn’t seem like that hot of a take to me, simply because illegal immigration isn’t immoral and should not in fact be illegal
Thursday, June 30, 2022
Reply to @dwarkesh_sp, 20:59 UTC · 2 likes
Dwarkesh Patel (@dwarkesh_sp): 1/5 There will be many more effective altruist billionaires
Sure hope you’re right
Reply to @StefanFSchubert, 21:05 UTC · 3 likes
Stefan Schubert (@StefanFSchubert): I'd like peer review on the EA forum
I don’t even want peer review in academia. Seems to mostly be a mechanism for preserving status ordering (of both ideas and people)
Reply to @pli_cachete, 23:42 UTC · 27 likes
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Snap a homie “chick no. 681” while she’s looking at ur phone
Reply to @NathanB60857242, 23:44 UTC · 2 likes
Nathan Barnard (@NathanB60857242): But apparently by brain was effectively reset because I've just come much closer to solving the problem I've been working on for the past week
(quoting @NathanB60857242: played civ 5 for nearly four hours straight and now my eyes hurt)
New cause area
Reply to @robbensinger, 23:44 UTC · 3 likes
Rob Bensinger ⏹️ (@robbensinger): Be nicer and also ruder.
That’s the 🔍 motto
Reply, 23:48 UTC · 19 likes
I call bs. That’s a freshwater cow
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