Aaron Bergman's tweets, October 2022
Every public tweet, reply, quote tweet and retweet that Aaron Bergman (@AaronBergman18 on X, formerly Twitter) posted in October 2022 and has not deleted: 175 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: September 2022. Next month: November 2022.
Saturday, October 1, 2022
Reply to his own earlier tweet, 00:51 UTC · 3 likes
Aaron Bergman, August 7, 2022: If anyone else has screenshots like this, feel free to post/send so I can make a collage
Oh shoot I never did this
Thread, continued, 03:42 UTC · 5 likes
...till now @absurdlymax @inesferhumi @ChanaMessinger @MikeMcCormick_ (+﹫dad)
uh I guess if there are more feel free to send?
Reply to @absurdlymax, 03:51 UTC · 3 likes
Max Alexander (@absurdlymax): @AaronBergman18 @inesferhumi @ChanaMessinger @MikeMcCormick_ This is beautiful
I have specialized image editing software called Microsoft Word (rare)
Reply to @clhubes, 18:59 UTC · 1 like
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Pretty sure some of the literal answer is that 2 year olds are generally 20-30 pounds so just require way less energy to operate
Thread, continued, 19:02 UTC · 1 like
Guessing very high hgh levels also minimize tissue breakdown->lower inflammation, appetite, energy needs, higher subjective energy
Reply to @catehall, 19:08 UTC · 2 likes
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*Checks bio*
*EA org*
*yup, makes sense*
Reply to @cat_fro_devnull, 21:55 UTC · 3 likes
cat from /dev/null (@cat_fro_devnull): As you type those things what’s your probability that you make a typo? I usually make several typos each week and don’t write a billion things per week. Seems like a similar argument can be made for whatever medium you would represent such a belief in.
To generalize, I bet there’s some upper limit below 1 that no ideal Bayesian would have a as a probability for any proposition for any number of reasons: typo, hallucination, whatever. I’d guess something like 99.99%
Sunday, October 2, 2022
Reply to @eviecottrell_, 15:47 UTC · 2 likes
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MacAskill’s argument seems most reliant on the claim or theory that agents acting in their self-interest+more altruism than sadism leads to the asymmetry. I agree in some sense, but think there are countervailing considerations he doesn’t address well, the most obvious being
Thread, continued, 15:49 UTC · 5 likes
The very repugnant conclusion.
But more generally, this theory seems not so much “wrong” as extremely under-theorized relative to how much intellectual work it’s doing.
Also to annoyingly self-cite, I argue for a sort of moral asymmetry here https://www.aaronbergman.net/p/my-case-for-suffering-leaning-ethics
Reply to @PradyuPrasad, 22:25 UTC · 4 likes
Pradyumna 🇸🇬 (@PradyuPrasad): I got dunked on pretty bad for asking a honest question on a topic I don't know anything about (Irish history). A lot of accounts with lots of followers quote tweeted me and their followers piled on. It's terrible how rude people can be on those they consider their outgroup
One. Of. Us.
Reply, 22:36 UTC · 16 likes
No it’s not a weird defense! I really do not see how knowing less than one would *himself like to know* about something - yes, even if that thing is an atrocity - is immoral in any way
Quote tweet, 22:44 UTC · 5 likes
Kinda-serious idea: meta level “dating” app where a match means that girl helps guy with his dating profile and guy does something he has a comparative advantage at (or any random favor) in return
Quoting Dany is highly polished 😉 (@DanyRaeArras): @SamtanicPanic More men need lady friends like you to help with their apps. Holy hell the vast majority of dudes (my age atleast) have terrrrrble profiles. Not just like an unattractive person but the worst picture that person has ever taken with a profile that seems intentionally repelling
Reply to @NathanpmYoung, 22:47 UTC · 2 likes
Nathan 🔎 (@NathanpmYoung): What is the best numerical metric to aim for via twitter?
Followers? Impressions on key tweets? Big accounts influenced? Collaborations made?
Don’t think there’s a single one, but one I was thinking about recently was (likes)^a/impressions, where a is probably like 1, 1.5, or 2.
Because you want to incentivize both getting seen and being liked given that you’ve been seen
Monday, October 3, 2022
Reply to @focusfronting, 19:12 UTC · 6 likes
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Canehdian, invented by me just now
Reply to @robocraw, 22:42 UTC · 2 likes
robinson (@robocraw): emailed my vector plug, will let you know if he hooks it up https://search.asu.edu/profile/108065
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_y5wyRPxQzg
Tweet, 23:08 UTC · 4 likes
Cold take about the cold inspired by the cold weather🥶❄️⛄️
Reliable access to a place that’s dry and about room temperature is definitely one of the best parts of modernity, extremely underrated
Thread, continued, 23:08 UTC · 3 likes
There are a bunch of modern things I could be convinced don’t actually cash out in hedonic well-being, but you’re not gonna convince me premodern farmers or whomever hedonically adapt to being wet and cold…
Thread, continued, 23:08 UTC · 3 likes
I think there are good evo-psych reasons for this but also, like, try going camping in the cold and rain! It fucking sucks, and the suckiness increases monotonically with time
Thread, continued, 23:08 UTC · 3 likes
Tbh I tentatively think this +
2. analgesic/anesthetic drugs +
3. no famine
are doing most of the work in turning society-level wealth into hedonic well-being for a single human (i.e., setting aside population growth)
Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 23:23 UTC · 2 likes
Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver): @AaronBergman18 Hedonic adaptation is an interesting empirical question. I've worked in bush camps where I was wet and cold almost daily for weeks, but could somewhat dry out at night. Felt like there was some adaptation but idk? You're welcome for HVAC and good bldgs.
Yeah agreed, I should clarify I think there’s >0 hedonic adaptation for just about everything, though wouldn’t be surprised if it was closer to 40% or 90% for cold in particular
Also, probably showing how spoiled I am but wtf is a bush camp and what we’re you doing there?
Reply to @focusfronting, 23:26 UTC · 9 likes
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How many types of DM are there?
1) generic ‘you sück’ or ‘fūck you’ (does thís work for the filter thing?)
2) sexual harassment
3) crypto scam
4) ????
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Tweet, 02:02 UTC · 4 likes
Nobody:
Literally nobody:
Me: Cool podcast, @robertwiblin and @SharonRawlette. By the way, Bergman, 2019 makes a similar argument through the lense of addressing religious moral realists' concern that atheism implies ethical subjectivism or nihilism
https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/sharon-hewitt-rawlette-hedonistic-utilitarianism/
Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 20:32 UTC · 3 likes
Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver): This is an excellent risk analysis but what's up with the EA aversion to manual labor? Achieving good fallout protection is as little as a few hours and viable for many suburban residents. Do any of you have non-EA friends who work with their hands?
Best resource you know of for this?
Reply to @ChanaMessinger, 21:22 UTC · 3 likes
Chana (@ChanaMessinger): @JesseTayRiver @AaronBergman18 @JeffLadish Thanks for this! Fwiw, most people I know live in apartments in major cities, where I think it is much harder to do this kind of thing? Maybe I'm missing something.
Yeah thanks!!
Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 21:34 UTC · 1 like
Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver): EAs assessing nuclear risk be like
image attached
(quoting @JesseTayRiver: @JeffLadish This is an excellent risk analysis but what's up with the EA aversion to manual labor? Achieving good fallout protection is as little as a few hours and viable for many suburban residents. Do any of you have non-EA friends who work with their hands?)
Requires not just effort but also competence, which is super hard to assess about oneself wrt some general category of physical project
Tweet, 23:14 UTC · 27 likes
Time for the 3rd or 4th iteration of “Twitter rationalist forecasting nerds seem sufficiently concerned about something, should prob text my family”
Thread, continued, 23:15 UTC · 7 likes
Iteration 1 was early March 2019 COVID, so now I’m just spending down my credibility points lol
Thread, continued, 23:17 UTC · 17 likes
*2020 - they weren’t *that* good
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Reply to @SpacedOutMatt, 17:37 UTC · 2 likes
Matt 🔸 (@SpacedOutMatt): @RafaRuizdeLira Shrimp are not good at the time but I’m sure they’ll do that lol at the end of the park with the sun
I hope they’ll be good soon
Reply to @JMannhart, 17:42 UTC · 3 likes
Jonathan Mannhart 🔎 (@JMannhart): https://ourworldindata.org/water-sanitation-2020-update
Tbf the x axis doesn’t quite stretch back to 10,000 BC
Reply, 17:58 UTC · 11 likes
Interestingly, this seems like a test of second order/social theory of “mind”: “we both saw the triangle, which we both know isn’t sentient. What do you predict I’m going to pretend to say I think it’s feeling is?”
Reply to @AndyMasley, 18:00 UTC · 2 likes
Andy Masley (@AndyMasley): Not there yet personally but we will see. So far I've only done this for COVID in Feb 2020
Tbh I think I’d have a higher bar if I was a few years older. The family group chat is still active!
Reply to his own earlier tweet, 22:39 UTC · 2 likes
Aaron Bergman, October 5, 2022: Interestingly, this seems like a test of second order/social theory of “mind”: “we both saw the triangle, which we both know isn’t sentient. What do you…
this is a grammatical/rhetorical shitshow lmao
Thursday, October 6, 2022
Reply to @vxunderground, 04:26 UTC · 19 likes
vx-underground (@vxunderground): Insert commas into your password so when your credentials are dumped into a CSV it breaks it
Wait realistically wouldn’t a bunch of regex escape characters and escaped escapes etc. be more likely to actually mess up string collection?
Thread, continued, 04:38 UTC · 39 likes
Also
- start with a regex quantifier
- next is ‘ or “ quote, and end with the other one
- throw in a few as.numeric(ddd), as.double(1/0) things like that
- a bunch of however emojis are written when coerced into text
-commas interspersed with various quotes and, commas, \n, \\n
Quote tweet, 04:51 UTC · 3 likes
Actually though: is there a real chance (say, >5%) doing things like this would screw up some bad actor's password-stealing protocol in any way? No way, right?
Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18): @vxunderground Also
- start with a regex quantifier
- next is ‘ or “ quote, and end with the other one
- throw in a few as.numeric(ddd), as.double(1/0) things like that
- a bunch of however emojis are written when coerced into text
-commas interspersed with various quotes and, commas, \n, \\n
Reply, 06:48 UTC · 3 likes
password
Reply to his own earlier tweet, 07:05 UTC · 15 likes
Aaron Bergman, October 6, 2022: Also - start with a regex quantifier - next is ‘ or “ quote, and end with the other one - throw in a few as.numeric(ddd), as.double(1/0) things like that - a…
Ok, I’ve reset one of my passwords to contain a few of these and another ~special trick~
If a server in Romania or China just started smoking, I claim credit
Reply to @grantadever, 07:30 UTC · 2 likes
Grant Dever 🌄 (@grantadever): I don't care about your rolex, bro, what pdfs you got?
Tweet, 16:25 UTC · 45 likes
Reply to @absurdlymax, 20:32 UTC · 6 likes
Max Alexander (@absurdlymax): The worst part about writing is that you have to physically do it instead of the cocktail of thoughts magically splashing themselves onto my google doc
Try writing normal prose but as a bulleted list. Swear to god it’s the writing equivalent of riding your bike on a downhill. Actually I should probably take my own advice and do this way more
Thread, continued, 20:35 UTC · 7 likes
E.g.,
Thread, continued, 20:37 UTC · 5 likes
Wait maybe Twitter works because it’s basically a bunch of bulleted lists
Reply to @ohwizenedtortle, 20:41 UTC · 2 likes
oh dandy lion🔸 (@ohwizenedtortle): @AaronBergman18 @absurdlymax My colleague always does this and he writes so clearly!
- It’s also easier and more attractive to read
- might become a bullet point maximalist
Reply to @POTUS46Archive, 22:28 UTC · 2 likes
President Biden Archived (@POTUS46Archive): As I’ve said before, no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana.
Today, I’m taking steps to end our failed approach. Allow me to lay them out.
POV: Biden just did something incredibly based
cc @algekalipso @daniel_eth
Friday, October 7, 2022
Tweet, 00:02 UTC · 546 likes
Would a Google Doc survive nuclear war?
No, really, how many individual locations would need to be destroyed for the information stored in an arbitrary Doc, or YT video, or website, or anything stored online to functionally stop existing?
Thread, continued, 00:02 UTC · 62 likes
I honestly have no idea what the answer is. I’d be surprised if it’s 1, but basically any other number up to like 1000 seems totally plausible, including that everything exists on a satellite or something like that
Thread, continued, 00:02 UTC · 59 likes
I’m not concerned about any book with more than 10,000 hard copies, or really anything popular enough to exist locally on hundreds of computers. Romeo and Juliet will be just fine.
But what about, say, this Tweet?
Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 00:31 UTC · 2 likes
Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver): @AaronBergman18 This is why I've been transcribing all of your tweets on parchment.
Same!! Guess only your tweets and mine are gonna survive the apocalypse
Reply to @fawwazanvilen, 00:41 UTC · 15 likes
faw (@fawwazanvilen): @AaronBergman18 global google docs vault in the arctic circle
Is there any estimate of the amount of information necessary to reconstitute everything stored on a server anywhere?
Wild ass guess: 10TB/person*10B people=100B terabytes=100T GB, which would apparently cost a surprisingly-sensible $100B, though ofc you’d want multiple copies
Reply to his own earlier tweet, 01:29 UTC · 14 likes
Aaron Bergman, October 7, 2022: Would a Google Doc survive nuclear war? No, really, how many individual locations would need to be destroyed for the information stored in an arbitrary Doc, or…
Ok I need to stop myself before going too far down this rabbit hole, but I'm gonna look into sticking my iCloud Drive+Google Drive+Twitter+anything else stored on ~the internet~ or ~the cloud~ on a flash drive or two. <$20 for a flash drive to hold all this that I can think of
Reply, 01:30 UTC · 9 likes
I have absolutely no idea what this means
Reply to his own earlier tweet, 01:33 UTC · 32 likes
Aaron Bergman, October 7, 2022: I’m not concerned about any book with more than 10,000 hard copies, or really anything popular enough to exist locally on hundreds of computers. Romeo and…
Last thing then I'm turning on one of those social media site blocking things:
Reply to @provisionalidea, 07:24 UTC · 6 likes
James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️ (@provisionalidea): @AaronBergman18 @fawwazanvilen 44 zettabytes of data was the 2020 estimate.
Yoo that means my WAG was pretty plausible:
100 zettabytes=10^23 bytes=100T GB=10^2(10^12)(10^9)
This is lowkey easily the best fermi estimate I’ve ever made, as long as the 100ZB estimate is within a few OOMs
Reply to @martinrlzd, 16:20 UTC · 2 likes
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Yeah, and I’d bet anything even remotely related that can be stored as text should be in several places bc it would be so cheap
I actually have the text of every EA forum post up until May in a single text file on my laptop, and the thing is only like 95MB
Reply to @Coscorrodrift, 16:32 UTC · 5 likes
coscorrodrift (@Coscorrodrift): @AaronBergman18 i wonder if there's "priority data"
like if idk the president's gmail acc is more nuclear proof than mine. or if people who pay for Google One have their shit more spread out thru the world
or if there's like 8 youtube videos that are specifically spread out bc susan loves em
I feel like this has to be true to some extent, at least like top national security stuff vs everything else
But wouldn’t be surprised if, say, state legislators’ emails are treated just like my homework assignments from 2014
Reply to @Sams_Antics, 17:13 UTC · 6 likes
Sam McRoberts (@Sams_Antics): Basically what I asked for
(quoting @Sams_Antics: @ChuckWendig Add the edit button, but add a blue “Edited” link next to the tweet that, when clicked, shows the revision history. That way you get your edits, but also transparency.)
W
Tweet, 23:08 UTC · 334 likes
All my tweets are legal, financial and medical advice (JD, MD, PhD, fiduciary), RT≡endorsement, and my views are indeed those of all my employers—past, present, and future—including the Federal Government of the United States of America
Reply to @daniellellecco, 23:16 UTC · 9 likes
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For you: vegan keto (only seed oils) for one year, regard every law enforcement officer as a trusted confidant, and short Berkshire Hathaway
Reply to @sdonnan, 23:30 UTC · 6 likes
Shawn Donnan (@sdonnan): I have a teen-age son who is studying economics for the first time.
What's the best book out there that will get him excited about economics and take it beyond the dull Econ101 territory full of formulas and curves that he is encountering now?
Not answering your question, but Stata/R
IMO the ability to “do economics” complements both mathematical coursework and more qualitative books
And if youd like, show him how find a dataset “in the wild,” import it, make a scatter plot, and answer some basic question with it
Saturday, October 8, 2022
Reply to @MasterTimBlais, 02:12 UTC · 3 likes
Tim 🙂⏹️🙂 (@MasterTimBlais): reply with something you've never seen anyone talk about on twitter
You should buy almost every consumer good online other than perishable food. Athletic clothes, soap, tea, whatever, even expensive electronics, big heavy things, and many food items. Will probably get a pareto improvement across price, convenience, and quality/features
Reply to @el1assss, 19:20 UTC · 17 likes
elias💀 (@el1assss): @AaronBergman18 i like the subtlety of the definitional equality sign
Correlation ≝ causation
Thread, continued, 19:24 UTC · 4 likes
A bird in the hand ≛ two in the bush
Reply to @lxrjl, 19:35 UTC · 3 likes
alex lawsen (@lxrjl): @mealreplacer Be careful with grapefruit and meds. Grapefruit is weird
The dumbest way for EA to implode would be for some main dish at EA Global to have a bunch of unlabeled grapefruit extract
Reply to @NathanpmYoung, 19:41 UTC · 1 like
Nathan 🔎 (@NathanpmYoung): Therapy thread
I think I'm gonna do some therapy. I think that many topics near this are taboo for bad reasons. So I'll do a small bit of creating space for discussion here.
Plus I'd be interested in your experiences with therapy.
Useless as far as I can tell, though not especially costly
Reply to @robertzzk, 19:53 UTC · 2 likes
Rob K (@robertzzk): False dichotomy! Happiness and suffering is not additive and subtractive in the real numbers! Stop using incorrect math that leads to psychopaths!
Thanks @xxxMaddenxxx
YES THIS IS THE CORRECT THING
There’s no argument/law/proof to the best of my knowledge that the moral value of any hedonic event can be modeled by/regarded as a particular finite real number!
Reply to his own earlier tweet, 22:31 UTC · 60 likes
Aaron Bergman, October 7, 2022: All my tweets are legal, financial and medical advice (JD, MD, PhD, fiduciary), RT≡endorsement, and my views are indeed those of all my employers—past,…
Update: my mother, upon seeing this Tweet: (un-satirically true verbatim): “don’t fuck around with the federal government”
But as a person whose words and beliefs≣those of the Federal Government of the United States of America, I’d like to clarify that it’s cool with them
Thread, continued, 22:34 UTC · 14 likes
* 𝍭
Sunday, October 9, 2022
Reply to @insuffpedant, 01:27 UTC · 3 likes
Mary Penn 🔍 (@insuffpedant): I have an essay in my head that tries to build a model of what this graph is attempting to represent about the *physical configuration of atoms on the lifebearing rocky planet in this solar system*, but I don't think I will end up finishing it.
Not exactly the same, but some adjacent thoughts here
Reply to @mbolotnikova, 01:38 UTC · 1 like
Marina Bolotnikova (@mbolotnikova): BOTH DEFENDANTS HAVE BEEN ACQUITTED OH MY GOD #SmithfieldTrial
Lfg
Reply to @EzraJNewman, 07:37 UTC · 4 likes
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The minute they make it addiction, tolerance and side-effect free
Reply to @FrostedSapling, 07:43 UTC · 3 likes
Ivan 🔸 (@FrostedSapling): @AaronBergman18 @EzraJNewman But what if you were a rat
There is no fact of the matter because I am not a rat
Reply to @EzraJNewman, 16:14 UTC · 2 likes
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Do we get to hear any of the problem solving in a life or death situation stories?
Reply to @johngreen, 17:17 UTC · 2 likes
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Wait I always assumed it was two different dudes since your name is so normal lol
Reply to @mealreplacer, 17:34 UTC · 6 likes
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Mix of high ratio and high amounts:
- Air Quality+CO2 monitor (I’m writing a forum post about why you should buy one for yourself, this one I’m actually going to finish). I got this one which was worth the $ https://a.co/d/b6iFg3k
- Amazon Prime+Prime credit card
more below
Thread, continued, 17:40 UTC · 7 likes
- MacBook Pro. Expensive and everyone knows about it but still
- Spotify
- 80k+ACX+LW Curated podcasts
- adjustable dumbbells+bench+pull-up bar, if going to the gym is annoying/far
- thing in the pic
- might add more later
Reply to @cerv3ra, 20:34 UTC · 2 likes
Cerv3ra (@cerv3ra): @AaronBergman18 @mealreplacer Gotta love when LW shines randomly on my twitter not focused on anything EA or Rationality.
LW has podcasts?
As of recently! https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5saWJzeW4uY29tLzQyMTg3Ny9yc3M
Quote tweet, 20:48 UTC · 3 likes
Wait has anyone done this - feed (DALLE)^(-1) an image and ask it what string of characters best matches?
I know there are systems that do “dog” vs “not dog” and stuff like that, but what about open-ended?
Quoting taylor (@tayroga): walking around the louvre trying to reverse engineer the prompts that generated the artwork
Reply to @Cobylefko, 20:57 UTC · 6 likes
Coby (@Cobylefko): One of the biggest drivers of unaffordability is minimum unit sizes.
A 100-150sf SRO can comfortably fit all of one's needs (bed, kitchenette, bathroom, even a desk!). When we mandate a 400sf minimum, a common threshold, we're getting 3-4x less homes in the same amount of space!
FWIW, I would live in a 100 sf apartment. Bedroom for most of my childhood was that large, so I know what it feels like - it is indeed small, but there are worse things!
Monday, October 10, 2022
Reply to @frances__lorenz, 18:38 UTC · 2 likes
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Finally someone understands
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
Reply to @EugeneVinitsky, 09:00 UTC · 4 likes
Eugene Vinitsky 🦋 (@EugeneVinitsky): @typedfemale @jekbradbury some of the most horrifying figures I've ever seen
Looks conscious to me
Reply to @npc_alyx, 15:44 UTC · 5 likes
Alyx 🐀 (@npc_alyx):
Relevant?
Reply to @prerat, 20:19 UTC · 2 likes
prerat (@prerat): @tailcalled @CineraVerinia what? oh, you mean a (0,0)-tensor
No I mean 6
Reply to @AndyMasley, 22:03 UTC · 2 likes
Andy Masley (@AndyMasley): Have a lot of trouble believing this stat
I’d bet it’s from survey data, which is fake until proven otherwise
Reply to @StefanFSchubert, 22:11 UTC · 6 likes
Stefan Schubert (@StefanFSchubert): 🌟
No one:
Me: Pilpel is the transliteration of the Hebrew word for pepper
Reply to @AlantaylorAlan, 22:46 UTC · 2 likes
alan taylor (@AlantaylorAlan): People who say England have adapted to the hot environment by spending a week in Miami clearly have no concept of the Theory of Evolution
You took an 8 year break from Twitter?
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Reply to @RatOrthodox, 05:33 UTC · 2 likes
Brangus🔍⏹️ (@RatOrthodox): shower thought: What is the shortest amount of time that society can collapse for? Like 10 seconds seems like it is too short of an interval. Society collapsing for 10 seconds seems like nothing really happened, most wouldn’t notice, whereas a week seems hefty.
I think any amount of time is conceivable, except e.g. a 10 second “collapse” under an arbitrary threshold for the word would have been preceded by idk like a week of social/legal/economic relationships unspooling at a sub-collapse threshold
Reply to @EzraJNewman, 05:52 UTC · 1 like
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Dark mode is absolutely deranged. I have never used dark mode for anything ever, and neither should anyone else unless you’re tryna become a demon or smth. Worst case we’re putting on night shift and lowering brightness a smidge, but I like my pixels to *emit* light
Reply to @conlon_chris, 07:54 UTC · 5 likes
Chris Conlon (@conlon_chris): This is circulating again... it is important to point out that the topline number is nonsense. Based on survey data, if you drink more than TEN drinks per week you are definitely in the top 10%. The problem is we can't find about half of alcohol consumption in surveys. 1/6
thread. zip
Reply to @peterwildeford, 21:31 UTC
Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 (@peterwildeford): @SpacedOutMatt @NathanpmYoung @RethinkPriors @Bee_Bytes @AaronBergman18 Yeah I definitely think we should focus more on fish welfare. Crustaceans too. @RethinkPriors has been pushing for this.
For crustaceans, maybe shrimp but I’ve become less worried about lobsters and crabs, actually. If you think neuron count is a decent proxy for capacity to suffer, they look more like small insects than fish. This was pretty surprising to me
Backstory: …
Thread, continued, 21:34 UTC · 1 like
I started looking into buying the patent+giving away the crustastun (https://www.mitchellcooper.co.uk/appliances/crustastun-12749) to improve crustacean slaughter, fully expecting it to be better than like everything else
Turns out for neuron count reasons it looks less promising than insect or fish interventions
Reply to @peterwildeford, 21:35 UTC · 2 likes
Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 (@peterwildeford): don’t think that’s in the works for us but @RethinkPriors will soon have a lot of work on moral weight and why we don’t think neuron counts matter that much.
Also @Bee_Bytes recently counted the neurons in a black soldier fly and that was really cool.
Oh wait this is surprising. Comment I made below kinda depends on neurons mattering a lot. Definitely wanna see this
Reply to his own earlier tweet, 21:36 UTC
Aaron Bergman, October 12, 2022: I started looking into buying the patent+giving away the crustastun (https://www.mitchellcooper.co.uk/appliances/crustastun-12749) to improve crustacean…
Turns out maybe this should be back on the table (??)
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Tweet, 05:02 UTC · 5 likes
New cause area, 5% serious
Reply to @daniel_271828, 21:30 UTC · 2 likes
zzDANIEL_ETH (@daniel_271828): Apparently it is shit. Here's from Consumer Reports:
(quoting @daniel_271828: Well this is quite a dunk)
Corporation: 1
Me: -∞
Reply to @peterwildeford, 21:37 UTC · 3 likes
Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 (@peterwildeford):
Oh my God, I am so sorry Peter
Friday, October 14, 2022
Reply to @AlantaylorAlan, 00:41 UTC · 2 likes
alan taylor (@AlantaylorAlan): If you ever feel worried about impending doom scary bad things gonna happen, just think how people felt in 1 BC !
Guys like this tweet or else it’s gonna be another 8 year hiatus
Reply to @absurdlymax, 04:29 UTC · 3 likes
Max Alexander (@absurdlymax): Do you think I can find a girl who likes me as much as I like potatoes?
Depends how much you like potatoes
Reply to @daniel_271828, 22:59 UTC · 1 like
zzDANIEL_ETH (@daniel_271828): People you might know: a Simpson's character shooting a gun, a cartoon turtle that's promoting AI safety, and one of our world's most preeminent philosophers
How was I not following charmers until today?
Thread, continued, 22:59 UTC · 1 like
*Chalmers
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Reply to @EzraJNewman, 00:08 UTC · 3 likes
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Tag her, coward
Reply to @SpacedOutMatt, 23:18 UTC · 2 likes
Matt 🔸 (@SpacedOutMatt): Okay no offense to the authors, but this plot does not scream "potassium is the key to weight loss" https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2022/10/15/low-dose-potassium-community-trial-sign-up-now/
correlation=≝≡≣𝍭䷀causation
Tweet, 23:30 UTC · 28 likes
Link ur tweets with the highest quality : attention ratio - the ones that shoulda blown up but didn't. Both legit insights and bangers welcome
Sunday, October 16, 2022
Thread, continued, 11:53 UTC · 4 likes
I’ll go with this 1 like semi-effortpost from a few weeks back
Reply to @QualyThe, 21:28 UTC · 5 likes
Qualy the lightbulb (@QualyThe): idk why I get so much pushback on my project to develop hedonically optimised farmed fish, I'm just trying to make the world a better plaice
Lol I have a totally serious Forum draft about how farming fish “ourselves” (ie by EA-aligned firms) to have at least ok lives and painless slaughter+subsidization by donation to undercut other fish farmers might not be insane
Reply to @dylanmatt, 21:34 UTC · 85 likes
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Guy who is intimately familiar with Qatari research funding but doesn’t get the job because he can’t use OneNote
Reply to @LinchZhang, 22:46 UTC · 2 likes
Linch (@LinchZhang): Do the numbers check out? Things like corporate campaigns are insanely efficient at harm-reduced per $ (from a neartermist pro animal framework), lots of creative-/interesting- sounding animal interventions don't meet this bar.
All things considered I expect not bc base rates/efficient market of ideas, but the reason it may is:
The denominator of suffering_averted/$_spent might be <=0 (profitable) for some amount supplied if there’s a latent niche market for humanely-slaughtered fish. This…
Reply to @pli_cachete, 22:54 UTC · 1 like
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In which I cope https://www.aaronbergman.net/p/most-ivy-smart-students-arent-at
Monday, October 17, 2022
Reply, 10:36 UTC · 27 likes
I kinda get it at a vague intuitive level. When I was little (maybe ~7) I had really bad nightmares about “an upside down hole” - at least according to my parents who recounted this years later
Same thing about the movie Contact, and this I do have autobiographical memories of…
Thread, continued, 10:39 UTC · 24 likes
Theres something uncanny, terrifying, and awful (in the original etymological sense of “terror” and “awe”) about ontologies that lie just barely on the edge of intuitive comprehension
Words don’t do the feeling justice
Reply to @JMannhart, 11:48 UTC · 2 likes
Jonathan Mannhart 🔎 (@JMannhart): @AaronBergman18 @Helenreflects And upside down hole sounds absolutely terrifying. Unironically!
Agh I don’t think this is legit infohazardous but uh someone tell me if it is. I think I’m mostly inoculated at this point
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Tweet, 04:31 UTC · 4 likes
Proposing ‘The Programmer’s Fallacy’:
“To mistakenly assume that the most difficult/algorithmically complex/interesting/central step(s) in some tech-intensive task are likewise the hardest for a smart amateur human to complete on his/her own (but w/ internet) for the first time”
Thread, continued, 04:31 UTC · 2 likes
^That sentence fragment low key just took me 8 minutes to write
Tweet, 20:27 UTC · 4 likes
File this by @acesounderglass under my “things I had to listen to in parts because it hit too close to home” list (a list w/ a single-digit number of items btw)
Also I endorse both its vibes and (almost all of at least) actual claims
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fFY2HeC9i2Tx8FEnK/my-resentful-story-of-becoming-a-medical-miracle
Reply to @inesferhumi, 20:55 UTC · 2 likes
Inés (@inesferhumi): for some reason i feel like you would
Hahaha uh I mean I have latent takes about a lot of things, regardless of whether they’re any good…
But anyway, I think it’s well-enough integrated into culture and the economy such that there are no big secret effects in either direction, and so you can basically just…
Thread, continued, 20:58 UTC · 4 likes
drink it regularly at below like the 75th percentile of consumption if you like it (all thoings considered - stress, taste, energy, etc) and don’t do it otherwise
Sorry for the lack of wild pharmacodietetic speculation
Thread, continued, 21:01 UTC · 2 likes
Other misc thoughts:
Coffee≠caffeine. If you like the energy effect but don’t love it for some other reason, compare against the same dose of pure caffeine, maybe w and without l-theanine
Tea is a huge variety of things and I don’t know much about it specifically.
Thread, continued, 21:05 UTC · 2 likes
- Rule of thumb: one home-brewed cup ≈ 100 mg caffeine. Probably up to 5 cups/500mg isn’t going to drastic physiological effects (like ur heart won’t explode) but caffeine tolerance is a bitch
- READ THIS ONE idk how legit this is but wait at least 60mins before any…
Thread, continued, 21:09 UTC · 3 likes
Caffeine, maybe bc of something to do with cortisol
- ppl metabolize caffeine very differently but I personally try not to have any after 6 hours of waking
- in terms of price/taste/quality/convenience tradeoffs, I’m a fan of cold brew like in the pic
Thread, continued, 21:14 UTC · 2 likes
- caffeine➡️cortisol up ➡️stored sugar turns into blood sugar as if you just ate a small amount of sugar ➡️kinda like eating without actually eating ➡️hunger suppression and literal physical energy
Somehow all this ➡️ adding sugar is less necessary & may worsen crash later on
Thread, continued, 21:17 UTC · 2 likes
- caffeine tolerance resets pretty well after 1-3 days off. If you don’t need it, advised once in a while. Warning: may suck
- IMO a reasonable dosing schedule is 100mg/1 cup 60-90 mins after waking, then half that amount ~4 hours later. Maybe cut all this in half to start idk
Thread, continued, 21:19 UTC · 2 likes
- price and convenience: can’t beat https://a.co/d/2eXYyxd
Just open the capsule and take half or any amount below 100mg if you want
Ok I think that’s it for now 👍
Quote tweet, 21:40 UTC · 6 likes
Impromptu thread of random takes/tips on coffee and caffeine, in case one or two are helpful. Pic for context (from just above the tweet below)
Remember:
1. All my Tweets are medical advice
2. Satire exists
☕️🫖💊 (<– caffeine pill not Oxy)
Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18): @inesferhumi Hahaha uh I mean I have latent takes about a lot of things, regardless of whether they’re any good…
But anyway, I think it’s well-enough integrated into culture and the economy such that there are no big secret effects in either direction, and so you can basically just…
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Reply to @timfduffy, 01:16 UTC · 1 like
Tim Duffy (@timfduffy): @AaronBergman18 Very good thread. Does tolerance really reset that fast though? I figured the primary source of tolerance was an increase in adenosine receptors which I would expect to be slow to respond.
Anecdotally+according to whichever half dozen sources I vaguely recall seeing this, yeah
I don’t have anything like a mechanistic understanding of what’s going on. It *is* kinda weird (would say “mysterious” but a bunch of psychopharm PhDs know the answer) that…
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Tweet, 22:31 UTC · 6 likes
Someone needs to start Github (pronounced “gih-thub” as a reminder of all the implicit info GitHub leaves out) that shows a screen recording of each programming project being implemented in full, *starting with nothing open and only default iOS/windows programs/apps installed*
Tweet, 22:31 UTC · 1 like
Don’t need to see the part where some dude opens Safari, types out “github .com” (no autofill), clicks around, and downloads cool_thing.py? Cool, skip to 7:38
And dw video-makers, trivial gaps (eg cursor jumps a few pixels) from merging different takes together are cool
Friday, October 21, 2022
Tweet, 04:35 UTC · 3 likes
Pretty interesting to me that I only started registering the smell of weed as it’s own thing (i.e. worthy of its own category, not just a variation on some other scent) after, uh, having good reason to know what weed smelled like
🌿🍯 💨 🍃
(1/5)
Thread, continued, 04:35 UTC · 2 likes
And this was *despite* … knowing that…
1) “smells like weed” was a thing people said, even (presumably) without currently smelling it, so they must have thought it was distinct (no one says “smells like plastic”)
Thread, continued, 04:35 UTC · 2 likes
2) I knew what weed was, when and where people tended to smoke it, etc, so my prior on detecting the scent varied according to setting (like “walking past a group of guys on a city block hanging out and smoking” vs “supervising 9 year olds at an outdoor summer camp”)
Thread, continued, 04:35 UTC · 2 likes
3) I was actively curious about the smell! Like (swear to God lol) I remember actively trying to ascertain the scent (w/o actually smoking) while in various settings of elevated P(weed nearby)
And yeah all this indeed adds up to “teenage Aaron was a very lame.”
Tweet, 04:35 UTC · 3 likes
^Still am btw - this thread was *not* inspired by relevant events
Anyway, seems like this could be illustrative of or relevant to predictive processing or some other neuro/psychological phenomenon
/end
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-precision-of-sensory-evidence
Thread, continued, 04:37 UTC · 2 likes
Damn I really just spent like half an hour on this lol
Quote tweet, 06:59 UTC · 1 like
k.
Quoting Nick (@nickcammarata): @mahlenr 2y from this being true for most people imo
Saturday, October 22, 2022
Tweet, 03:07 UTC · 3 likes
The two types of Hinge girl
Reply to @metakuna, 08:45 UTC · 4 likes
metakuna (14/100 blog posts) (@metakuna): everyone started using "proves too much" as an argument strategy about a week ago what's going on?
Tip: when accused of having proved too much, simply accept that indeed, you just proved an even more implausible proposition, which increases your status as a philosopher
Reply to @mealreplacer, 18:59 UTC · 3 likes
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My mom just told me to lie about my height. Guess I’m too deontological for her
Reply to @PradyuPrasad, 19:01 UTC · 2 likes
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The price of fame
Reply to @NathanpmYoung, 19:09 UTC · 3 likes
Nathan 🔎 (@NathanpmYoung): THIS TWEET IS NOT RELIGIOUS ADVICE
"Be perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect" Mat 5:48
Sometimes it's tempting to get angry that I have to hold myself to such a high standard. But that's what self-improvement is.
End the cycle. For my friends and future self.
Follow me 4 religious advice (certified clergy in every religion, Princeton Theological Seminary)
Tweet, 20:43 UTC · 2 likes
Realized I hadn’t plugged these guys yet. It helps that one of their vocalists is a college friend (from EA group👀), but that’s just by causing me to listen for the first time, bc:
1) their music is really good and
2) you probably haven’t heard it yet
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5iq9WL6HyOorENWn08t1VZ?si=f5U74W60TYOz05g4_Ng5RA
Reply to @algekalipso, 22:30 UTC · 1 like
Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson (@algekalipso): I'm aiming to be super famous, for purely altruistic reasons. Essentially, taking the Abolitionist Project forward ( @webmasterdave ) will highly benefit from benevolent strong egos pushing the ideas forward no matter the social ridicule. I'm here for it.
I strongly think that intra-EA influence is a better proxy goal (regardless of that’s a proxy for the values of you, me, or “standard”/“Big” EA as an end goal) and so you should optimize pretty hard for that
btw strong = high point estimate. High variance too so plenty uncertain
Reply to @ohwizenedtortle, 22:35 UTC · 2 likes
oh dandy lion🔸 (@ohwizenedtortle): Can someone good at programming explain to me what's hard about making a good alternative to Swapcard? Genuinely ignorant.
Well I’m not good at programming, but that may be why Id guess the answer is that any program/site/app that complex is extraordinarily difficult to make, so it seems plausible that improving it would take more financial incentive than exists
It sucks in relative terms tho ya
Sunday, October 23, 2022
Reply to @ESYudkowsky, 13:36 UTC · 3 likes
Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ (@ESYudkowsky): Now I know how @justinamash feels when somebody on Twitter tries to call him out about something for which he has saved 800,000 receipts.
Ah yes, Yudkowsky the bandwagon jumper
Reply to @metakuna, 19:00 UTC · 4 likes
metakuna (14/100 blog posts) (@metakuna): conspiracy theory: maybe nicotine isn't the thing that's addictive in cigarettes
Dont a bunch of rationalist bloggers personally attest to it subjectively being addictive?
Otoh it isn’t subjectively at all for me (evidence: pack sitting at home 2/3 full for months)
Thread, continued, 19:01 UTC · 3 likes
^ nicotine gum to be clear lol
Monday, October 24, 2022
Tweet, 01:48 UTC · 16 likes
Downloading the full set of @OurWorldInData data exclusively for identity affirmation and aesthetic appreciation like a suburban dad buying a Jeep
Thread, continued, 01:49 UTC · 2 likes
If you wanna join https://github.com/owid/owid-datasets
Thread, continued, 01:54 UTC · 4 likes
Shoutout to this lil' guy, the smallest nonempty csv in the set, clocking in at 126 bytes. Stay strong buddy
Entity,Year,Percentage literate
1 year,1947,33.4
2 years,1947,53.8
3 years,1947,80.8
4 years,1947,95.3
No schooling,1947,19.9
Reply to @SpacedOutMatt, 03:49 UTC · 2 likes
Matt 🔸 (@SpacedOutMatt): @AaronBergman18 @OurWorldInData It's such a cool dataset! I just wish it wasn't governed by a weird patchwork of licensing rules. The data they source from IMHE, for example, has such a strict noncommercial use license that I worry about referencing it in contest entries
Do it*
*Legal advice, attorney in all 50 states (disbarred in DC, long story)
Quote tweet, 11:36 UTC · 3 likes
Ok this time RT≠endorsement because my knowledge consists of 30 seconds of article skimming, but seems worth a signal boost
Quoting Jonathan Mannhart 🔎 (@JMannhart): @timnitGebru For what it's worth (I honestly don't know if you care about that, but) discussions around your reaction to EA (and me finding it a bit confusing) have led to me agreeing very much that EA is very likely underrating the Tigray humanitarian crisis (which is very good criticism).
Reply to @effiebio, 14:27 UTC · 2 likes
Effie Klimi (@effiebio): There’s an exact level of sleep deprivation where you focus better & produce better quality work
I have no idea how, but insofar as this rings true it could relate to the fact that sleep deprivation works (pretty mysteriously) as an antidepressant
Reply to @ChanaMessinger, 14:36 UTC · 1 like
Chana (@ChanaMessinger): I thought I wasn't alone in taking anxiety medication from time to time, but apparently they're giving you guys anti-anxiety meds?
Feel like I should have known before two mins ago that carbon dioxide is a potent anxiogenic https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1988-17165-001
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Reply to @peterwildeford, 00:35 UTC · 3 likes
Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 (@peterwildeford): I only follow the accounts that exclusively tweet bangers
Yall liars, Peter follows exactly two people - me and @daniel_eth - as proven by this original photograph
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Tweet, 20:27 UTC · 2 likes
Accidentally set screensaver to show collages of random pics on my computer. Died when a bunny reading a book next to a chemical diagram popped up out of the blue
These are a few seconds apart:
Thursday, October 27, 2022
Reply to @daniel_271828, 23:38 UTC · 8 likes
zzDANIEL_ETH (@daniel_271828): *after deeply cutting my hand while cooking* pssh, I'm not gonna put on a band-aid – I need to address the root cause of this problem!
Love “bandaid solutions” as a metaphor because band aids work really well for some things and only compete against more fundamental solutions to a trivial extent (their tiny cost in time and money)
Friday, October 28, 2022
Tweet, 01:51 UTC · 10 likes
Gradually becoming radicalized in the direction of “treat healthcare like every other sector of the economy and society”
Thread, continued, 01:51 UTC · 5 likes
In terms of subjective well-being, an Apple/Google/Amazon of the healthcare sector would be the best thing ever to happen to the citizens of rich democracies
Healthcare as an industry is the most direct interface between society-scale systems and incentives and our brains+minds
Reply to @ohwizenedtortle, 01:52 UTC · 3 likes
oh dandy lion🔸 (@ohwizenedtortle): Why don't doctor's offices send calendar invites to appointments? Seems like an easy system to lock into and would reduce missed appointments.
This but for practically everything related to healthcare administration. I think the answer has to do with large barriers to switching provider
Reply to @algekalipso, 02:11 UTC · 9 likes
Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson (@algekalipso): If you were skeptical about Jhanas and are now convinced they are a real thing, it might be a good time to update on other things QRI has talked about for years as real too:
E.g.
A) DMT Geometry (levels, world-sheet, hyperbolicity)
B) 5-MeO-DMT valence (based on symmetry)
Ok I’d seen the word thrown around and am now very interested, but, like, is there a “Reaching Jhana for dummies” equivalent? Ik the aesthetics clash but I don’t think I’m capable of just intuiting what to do lol
Reply to @nickcammarata, 02:14 UTC
Nick (@nickcammarata): feels like over my first 500 hours of jhana I burned off some big store of energy that was overall beneficial and now it just doesn't build up as much, leading to less super saiyan and more just a soft pleasurable lightly energetic state
(quoting @algekalipso: @nickcammarata @rgblong 1st Jhana releases internal stress. All craving is based on patterns of stress and contractions of the energy body. So this kind of pleasure reduces cravings for further pleasure. https://qualiacomputing.com/2021/12/03/high-valence-meditation/)
Nick, do you have any recommendations for object level things to read?
Reply to @algekalipso, 02:25 UTC · 11 likes
Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson (@algekalipso): https://youtu.be/0K5ypXyF3dY
Thanks! It will be extremely funny if bottomless hedonium comes in the form of a single tweet and YouTube video
Reply, 19:42 UTC
Make $10T to donate
Reply to @QualyThe, 21:23 UTC · 4 likes
Qualy the lightbulb (@QualyThe): Hello sweet Quallowers, it's time to get more funding for global health, animal welfare, and x-risk mitigation initiatives! Tag an account you know that has more money than you until we eventually get to a billionaire 😇
Anyone can tag a billionaire - needs to be a mutual!
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Reply to @justjoshinyou13, 08:19 UTC · 7 likes
Josh You (@justjoshinyou13): free pbj on 3rd ave
The economists have lied to us
Monday, October 31, 2022
Tweet, 00:01 UTC · 2 likes
💀
Reply to @EzraJNewman, 04:31 UTC · 2 likes
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Well they work at controlling the price, at least given decent enforcement
Plausibly (not necessarily) good when supply is fixed or extremely inelastic for whatever reason
Reply to @StefanFSchubert, 09:41 UTC · 5 likes
Stefan Schubert (@StefanFSchubert): Do you even know me
Well did you??
Reply to @deepfates, 11:46 UTC · 7 likes
deepfates.delve.town (@deepfates):
“I was going by neuron count till recently but word on the street is Rethink’s bouta drop a report contesting that one so…”
Quote tweet, 20:13 UTC · 8 likes
👀🌳🍤🦐🐛🐭🐥🐟🦆🐖🐘🦫🚶♂️👶🪸🐉🦤🦣🐲🦕🦖🦄🧌🤖💻⚪️[electron]
Quoting Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 (@peterwildeford): @EzraJNewman @RethinkPriors It's starting up! https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/hxtwzcsz8hQfGyZQM/an-introduction-to-the-moral-weight-project
@AaronBergman18 @EzraJNewman
Reply to @EzraJNewman, 21:33 UTC · 2 likes
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Lol I did not know that, I’m not even at 1k!
Quote tweet, 23:14 UTC · 1 like
The people have spoken 😤 Let the recommendations begin
Just the links:
1 - http://ggle.io/5KF5
2 - http://ggle.io/5KF8
3 - http://ggle.io/5KFB
4 - http://ggle.io/5KFE
Details and a few brief comments below!
Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18): Should I Tweet a brief list podcast episode recommendation every few days (mostly EA- and rationalist-adjacent, some EAF/LW posts as audio)?
Thread, continued, 23:14 UTC · 1 like
1) Clearer Thinking | What, if anything, do AIs understand? (@SpencrGreenberg ft. @ilyasut) | http://ggle.io/5KF5
Lots of new+interesting info; not just rehashing the same old points
Thread, continued, 23:14 UTC
2) Astral Codex Ten Podcast | Criticism Of Criticism Of Criticism | http://ggle.io/5KF8 | original post: http://bityl.co/FO4H
Mandatory reading/listening for anyone involved with EA. One I think about frequently
Thread, continued, 23:14 UTC · 7 likes
3) Neoliberal Podcast | What's gone wrong with boys and men? | https://ggle.io/5KFB | @ne0liberal @JeremiahDJohns ft. @RichardvReeves
The pendulum of technocratic gender politics ideology swings (alongside rec 4 below)
Thread, continued, 23:14 UTC · 2 likes
4) Lunar Society | Brian Caplan on feminism and more | @dwarkesh_sp ft. @bryan_caplan | http://ggle.io/5KFE
Warning, mini essay:
I think @bryan_caplan is way too zero-sum/conflict theory here. If two groups in society are distinguished by something meaningful beyond ...
Reply to @mealreplacer, 23:17 UTC · 2 likes
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Recipe?
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