# Aaron Bergman's tweets, April 2023

Every public tweet, reply, quote tweet and retweet that Aaron Bergman (@AaronBergman18 on X, formerly Twitter) posted in April 2023 and has not deleted: 185 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: [March 2023](https://abergman.com/tweets/2023-03). Next month: [May 2023](https://abergman.com/tweets/2023-05).

## Saturday, April 1, 2023

### [Reply to @JMannhart, 04:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1642017506146525184) · 3 likes

> **Jonathan Mannhart 🔎 (@JMannhart):** @serbantanasa I think he‘s just focusing! It‘s really hard to have a 3+ hour conversation like that with someone you don‘t know very well.
>
> Esp. if you know millions of people will probably watch this.
>
> Esp. if you think that some of the fate of the world depends on you (by sheer bad luck).

Theres a reason 80k lets both sides cut stuff post-interview, doesn’t even try to do everything in a continuous take, and has no video (except randomly Ezra Klein??)

Yeah it’s extremely difficult - at least for some! Reminds me of:

### [Reply to @diviaprocessing, 04:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1642018146075779072) · 3 likes

_(The tweet being replied to by @diviaprocessing is no longer available.)_

You believe in caves? Lol

### [Tweet, 04:22 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1642019473354895361) · 15 likes

Goddamnit, Rob Wiblin can delete his Twitter but he can’t stop me from QTing him from memory anyway:

Something like “Hypothesis: 2023 will be to AI what 2020 was to COVID”

### [Reply to @inerati, 04:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1642020152895066113) · 48 likes

_(The tweet being replied to by @inerati is no longer available.)_

Inside you there are 2 wolves

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsmgoGlWIAA4HZO.jpg)

### [Reply to @robinhanson, 06:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1642045684177141763) · 3 likes

> **Robin Hanson (@robinhanson):** GPT6 has arrived earlier than expected:
> https://gpt6.ai/gpt6

More below

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### [Thread, continued, 06:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1642045719069483009) · 1 like

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fsm34QnXwAArQSP.jpg)

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## Sunday, April 2, 2023

### [Reply to @RachaelvsWorld, 20:41 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1642628260155518978) · 5 likes

> **Rach (@RachaelvsWorld):** what’s the dumbest thing you got in trouble at school for?

Dropping a crumpled up ball of tin foil into a guy’s tuba while he was playing

### [Reply to @jam3scampbell, 20:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1642630849605644290) · 5 likes

_(The tweet being replied to by @jam3scampbell is no longer available.)_

Fuck

## Monday, April 3, 2023

### [Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 00:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1642686876086665217) · 3 likes

> **Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver):** Tbh my wife has rlhf'ed him by giving him a treat for dropping the knife.

We’re doomed

### [Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 00:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1642689803870191619) · 3 likes

> **Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver):** @AaronBergman18 @absurdlymax I legit wasn't trying for an allegory which probably makes it a bit worse.

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FswBq3HXsAARiQF.jpg)

### [Thread, continued, 00:46 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1642689879707377665) · 2 likes

This is the first and only thing I’ve made in Freeform

### [Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 01:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1642704202035081217) · 2 likes

> **Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver):** @AaronBergman18 @absurdlymax Omg that's amazing! So good. Tbh I'm a but sad that my dog probably won't understand it. Awesome!

Thx I do consider myself an artist

### [Reply to @daniel_271828, 03:13 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1642727033275858945) · 1 like

> **zzDANIEL_ETH (@daniel_271828):** Kinda don’t like it when jobs in the EA community say they pay “competitive wages”. Competitive with what? SF tech salaries? Nonprofit salaries? Living expenses? Shrimp welfare payments? Just list the pay range!

I can think of a couple reasons not listing is worth the annoying opacity, maybe the main one being an ability to honestly make a super high offer to someone if warranted without anchoring the other 90% of hires to smth super high

### [Tweet, 21:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1642998375900487686) · 595 likes

Academics submitting: peer review (PR) sucks

Academics reviewing: PR sucks

Meta-scientists: PR fails to catch even the most basic of errors

Entire PR’ed sub-fields: \*fail to replicate\*

Elsevier: \*cackles\*

Randos on Twitter: PR is the foundation on which all knowledge stands

### [Reply to @ryancbriggs, 22:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1643022929519599616) · 10 likes

_(The tweet being replied to by @ryancbriggs is no longer available.)_

I mean for some this is true, but in general I disagree. Pretty sure the great majority of say, US college educated adults have such a strong immune response to the terms “forum” and “blog” that a text’s status as such renders it automatically disqualified…

## Tuesday, April 4, 2023

### [Tweet, 17:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1643302825005309958) · 8 likes

I think I’ve seen exactly 1 tweet about the event which happened a few days ago and that easily lands somewhere between “very newsworthy and reasonably important” and “extremely newsworthy and very very important” on my made up qualitative 2x2

### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 18:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1643320691851247618) · 5 likes

> **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** @AaronBergman18 What event?

Trump indicted https://apnews.com/article/trump-stormy-daniels-case-explained-50513ce1d9ac25764d39dffbc6fe3c2a

### [Reply to @Bbburner19, 18:37 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1643322037602066440) · 2 likes

> **The People Mover That Was Promised (@Bbburner19):** @absurdlymax @AaronBergman18 I've seen at least 100 tweets about this tbh.

Huh, the algo has decided I'm a weirdo

## Wednesday, April 5, 2023

### [Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 06:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1643504330178174977) · 2 likes

> **Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver):** @bronzeageshawty Yes. Every single component down to charging refrigerant accurately in an HVAC system. Anyone claiming code as an obstacle is incapable of performing the most white collar part of this task so their answer should obviously be no.

I had to sleep outside one night for Boy Scouts. Turns out I cannot even build an effective lean-to (or whatever the branch and leaf thing is called)

It was an unpleasant, wet, and cold experience

### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 09:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1643547321743835137)

> **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):**
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fs7zM4ragAIP5DL.png)

Yes.

### [Reply to @ruth_hook_, 09:40 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1643549269138325506) · 2 likes

_(The tweet being replied to by @ruth_hook_ is no longer available.)_

Uh I’m pretty sure every study ever says the exact opposite of this. Like IQ >> conscientiousness>≈grit in predicting performance at ~anything

### [Reply to @waitbutwhy, 13:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1643613789600743425) · 16 likes

> **Tim Urban (@waitbutwhy):** If you could send your 22-year-old self a three-word message, what would you say?

“Nothing much changes in the proceeding 2 weeks”

### [Reply to @ohwizenedtortle, 14:29 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1643621924738592768) · 2 likes

> **oh dandy lion🔸 (@ohwizenedtortle):** @AaronBergman18 @waitbutwhy This um is longer than three words

:(

### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 14:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1643622097699176452) · 4 likes

> **Aaron Bergman, April 5, 2023:** “Nothing much changes in the proceeding 2 weeks”

“…including your ability to follow simple directions”

## Thursday, April 6, 2023

### [Quote tweet, 08:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1643891737520140288) · 10 likes

I…don’t find this that bizarre?

Seems analogous to the “fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too” copypasta thing, where a base text like

“story about shoggoths using magic spells to free humans”

is modified by some algorithm analogous to letter mixing…

> **Quoting Ezra Newman (@EzraJNewman):** @absurdlymax
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fs_wmJSWYAQBtab.jpg)

### [Reply to @peterwildeford, 15:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1644002600373682176) · 2 likes

> **Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 (@peterwildeford):** The FBI seizure graphics are so cool
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtCHPJWWYAcOfqK.png)

That is a chaotic monitor setup

## Friday, April 7, 2023

### [Reply to @dwarkesh_sp, 16:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1644374140088885249) · 3 likes

> **Dwarkesh Patel (@dwarkesh_sp):** If you want to get to the crux, fast forward to 2:35:00 - 3:43:54. Here we debate the main reasons I think doom is unlikely.
>
> Transcript: https://dwarkeshpatel.com/p/eliezer-yudkowsky
>
> YouTube: https://youtu.be/41SUp-TRVlg
>
> Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3mcPjON
>
> Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3KDFzX9

Doesn’t matter but fyi

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtH9kA6XwAUYqbV.jpg)

## Saturday, April 8, 2023

### [Tweet, 10:07 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1644643189746286593) · 7 likes

Fake QT to stop the algo boost algorithmically boost but this is a case where my system 1 “stfu asshole” take 100% stands up to system 2 scrutiny

1\) Sure, at a high level, the decision of whether to \*try\* \[IF/keto/\_\_\_\_\] is a matter of prioritization/choice/effort, but…

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtLyQ7jXwAMT2JS.jpg)

### [Thread, continued, 10:07 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1644643191918821376) · 5 likes

2\) Once you account for that^, actual bf% or BMI is just not something you control in any meaningful sense.

The thermostat metaphor is used so often because it’s super apt.

Once the black box of physiology (incl neurochemistry) decides what your set point is, it’s game over.

### [Reply to @Laura_k_Duffy, 18:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1644769853620862976) · 3 likes

> **Laura Muresianu 🌐🔸🇺🇸 (@Laura_k_Duffy):** FYI: There’s a playlist of Rob Wiblin’s top recommended EconTalk episodes!!
> I haven’t gotten to many of the old (pre-2017) episodes so super excited to binge-listen
> https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rob-wiblins-top-recommended-econtalk-episodes-v0-2-feb-2020/id1538606917

EconTalk is overrated

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtNldq4WcAE-X2w.jpg)

## Monday, April 10, 2023

### [Reply to @ruth_hook_, 02:46 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1645256816106823681) · 13 likes

_(The tweet being replied to by @ruth_hook_ is no longer available.)_

:(

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtUgWuLWAAEELRk.jpg)

### [Reply to @granawkins, 02:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1645257896265908224) · 3 likes

> **Grant♟️ (@granawkins):** I took the train from Casablanca to Marrakesh in 2014, and the toilet was literally a hole out the bottom of the train.
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtUSP7XaQAMeOiZ.jpg)

Train tho

### [Reply to @AlexGodofsky, 11:19 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1645386115606626304) · 2 likes

> **Alex Godofsky (@AlexGodofsky):** yes

Fuuuck

### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 16:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1645457255330971648) · 2 likes

> **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** What fiction book would you force me to read?

If I was a meaner person, and conditional on my memory being reliable over a 10 year timeframe, the hunger games ≣≝≔∝⊫☰₌⊜ 🐐

## Tuesday, April 11, 2023

### [Reply to @AndyMasley, 00:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1645592268483559424) · 5 likes

> **Andy Masley (@AndyMasley):** Think 71 is the Bangladesh genocide

Why was I unaware of this being a thing until 20 seconds ago? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_genocide

### [Reply to @pli_cachete, 18:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1645856318169677824) · 7 likes

_(The tweet being replied to by @pli_cachete is no longer available.)_

🐐(greatest of all Tripps)

### [Reply to @Aria_Babu, 18:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1645857635608977409) · 3 likes

> **Aria Schrecker (@Aria_Babu):** I have a couple of friends who need thyroid drugs to live and are prevented from stockpiling them. I understand why, but this seems silly in world where supply chain problems or a war could quickly cut them off.

Everyone should be allowed to have a 1kg block of pure thyroxine (unironic)

### [Reply to @Laura_k_Duffy, 20:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1645887164759310336) · 1 like

> **Laura Muresianu 🌐🔸🇺🇸 (@Laura_k_Duffy):** I support the burgeoning EABWNGBS movement
>
> (quoting @JosephPolitano: @ZeframM @Amtays yes, this is why we need a new movement called Effective Altruism But With No Galaxy Brain Stuff lmao)

Boo

### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 20:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1645889281108611072) · 2 likes

> **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** There's something to be said for stupid levels of optimism

What the something?

### [Tweet, 22:29 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1645916952756355073) · 8 likes

Alignment has gone too far

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ftd4umFXwAAjaZs.jpg)

### [Thread, continued, 22:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1645917299290038272) · 2 likes

...

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ftd5DZnXsAYObhd.jpg)

### [Thread, continued, 22:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1645917553687154689) · 2 likes

looks like I'm gonna have to raw dog this one

### [Reply to @ptrschmdtnlsn, 22:47 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1645921590796857344) · 4 likes

> **Peter Schmidt-Nielsen (@ptrschmdtnlsn):** Wow, that calibration curve, dang.

Doc should be age+sexuality+that pic alone

### [Tweet, 23:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1645926091675017216) · 4 likes

Some neighborhood kids have a bouncy castle going. No Happy Birthday signs or cake or anything, also no adults in sight

Very much like the symbolism here on at least several levels (I like it nonsymbolically too but that goes without saying)

## Wednesday, April 12, 2023

### [Reply to @JosephPolitano, 00:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1645940017213104128) · 2 likes

> **Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 (@JosephPolitano):** the castle man???? Come on

I too will defend the castle

[![Lets Go Fight GIF by Juanfran](https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video_thumb/FteNuFfWwAUvMeV.jpg)](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1645940017213104128/photo/1) (gif, plays on X)

### [Tweet, 03:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1645998758805553154) · 546 likes

I won't go down without a fight

![Truth](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtfDJbcWAAAXTHP.jpg)

### [Reply to @rmcwhorter99, 04:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646008548004904961) · 5 likes

> **Ryan McWhorter (@rmcwhorter99):** @Tjdriii @AaronBergman18 Are you sure tho

Yup

### [Reply to @MarkovMagnifico, 05:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646021088390856705) · 28 likes

> **Markov (@MarkovMagnifico):** girls, what is the most rizz someone has ever asked you out w?

Good luck to my nine fellow bookmarkers

### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 05:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646023397674037248) · 14 likes

> **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** I think Nathan is doing a really good job responding to some of these horrible comments and I respect it a lot
>
> (quoting @NathanpmYoung: I very rarely express anger online But I am tempted to go to war in the replies to @KatjaGrace's dating doc. Those people need Jesus. And I mean the one in Revelation. vox populi, vox dei)

🧊

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtfZjkTXwAAzyT7.jpg)

### [Reply to @ohwizenedtortle, 05:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646025044731088897) · 3 likes

> **oh dandy lion🔸 (@ohwizenedtortle):** @absurdlymax @JesseTayRiver you should work out! join the group fitness gc!
>
> devil's advocate hat is that hs boys are less attractive cos they're not fully developed so you were right to be displeased. but yeah agree it's (at least now, if not always) not the limiting factor for most people

Can I get in on the GC

### [Reply to @vious_and_couth, 13:04 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646137293764284417) · 4 likes

> **vy (@vious_and_couth):** @AaronBergman18 @mattparlmer Lots of obvious clues this was written by some sort of analyst and not anyone who’s even vaguely computer literature, beginning with the “R is so amazing it’s literally Turing complete!”

U got me

### [Reply to @ohwizenedtortle, 13:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646137545175048192) · 4 likes

> **oh dandy lion🔸 (@ohwizenedtortle):** @AaronBergman18 I don't like R Studio as a text editor :'(

One reasonable critique

### [Reply to @granawkins, 13:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646142181839720451) · 13 likes

> **Grant♟️ (@granawkins):** @AaronBergman18 R is the Blackberry of programming languages

Making me want a blackberry

### [Reply to @NathanpmYoung, 17:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646204717633093639) · 2 likes

> **Nathan 🔎 (@NathanpmYoung):** Incels/manosphere
>
> My general view is that:
> \- Some people do find it harder to date than others
> \- This \*is\* a problem
> \- The majority of the suffering seems to fall on men who want to date women
> \- This problem isn't women's fault or responsibility
> \- Hating women isn't the answer

(Not contradicting just adding…) Ambiguous terminology doesn’t help - afaik “incels” sometimes means the original (hateful) subculture or it’s self-identified members and sometimes the descriptive category of straight men who want to have sex but can’t

### [Thread, continued, 17:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646205288616280073) · 2 likes

Both have corresponding pejoratives - the former deservingly so (like ‘racist’) and the latter not so much (‘low status’ in ‘racist’ clothing)

### [Reply, 17:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646206042743750715) · 1 like

Yes we shall https://shiny.rstudio.com/gallery/

### [Reply, 17:41 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646206937753698322) · 12 likes

Only the good ones use R I promise

### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 18:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646222191602565126) · 13 likes

> **Aaron Bergman, April 12, 2023:** I won't go down without a fight

Might git push this mf

### [Thread, continued, 23:26 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646293641575424007) · 15 likes

We're live folks https://github.com/AaronBergman/RPmeme

## Thursday, April 13, 2023

### [Reply to @WesternScramasa, 04:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646362767723511809) · 5 likes

> **Eyes Alight (@WesternScramasa):** i will not eat the bugs, i will not assign variables using "<-", i will not cast to an integer with an L

Dw I don’t either, ‘=‘ works too

### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 05:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646385605046091777) · 13 likes

> **Aaron Bergman, April 12, 2023:** I won't go down without a fight

Presented with one vacuous comment

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ftki8UZWAAA6xPY.jpg)

### [Reply to @ohwizenedtortle, 10:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646456217982697473) · 5 likes

> **oh dandy lion🔸 (@ohwizenedtortle):** I stg if one more friend tells me they're into bouldering...
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtlHyuAagAIu-cu.jpg)

Not bouldering (and idk if Twitter friends count) but I’ll have you know I placed 13th in lead climbing nationals for 16-17ish y/o boys back in 2013 (and 20th the next year)

Never made natties for bouldering though - relatively too many slow twitch muscle fibers 😂

### [Reply to @ohwizenedtortle, 10:19 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646458015665512451) · 4 likes

> **oh dandy lion🔸 (@ohwizenedtortle):** @AaronBergman18 Hi this is tortle's friend, we found screaming and foaming at the mouth at the computer. We've sedated him and are waiting for him to calm down, but this tweet was up on his computer when we walked in. I was hoping you could help us understand what happened?

Maybe this?

[![turtle fail GIF](https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video_thumb/Ftlk1PzX0AExzFV.jpg)](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646458015665512451/photo/1) (gif, plays on X)

### [Quote tweet, 11:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646474671259262977) · 17 likes

Michael Lewis rn

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ftlz_C_WIAEpzFf.jpg)

> **Quoting Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru):** JUST IN: Bankrupt FTX has recovered $7.3 billion in assets and is considering relaunching the exchange in Q2.

### [Reply to @GjMcGowan, 13:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646512315435569152) · 2 likes

> **George McGowan (@GjMcGowan):** @QualyThe I would like to eradicate \*just\* those things, not all life

No take backs

### [Reply, 15:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646530170906345472) · 1 like

Just do 1 today, 2 tomorrow, 4 the next day, and so on, easy :)

### [Reply to @Laura_k_Duffy, 15:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646531644218568705) · 1 like

> **Laura Muresianu 🌐🔸🇺🇸 (@Laura_k_Duffy):** If you told my 16-year-old self I’d have to do integration by parts for my job, I’d never have believed you. But here we are and I love it

Preregistering my memory that this is the thing that goes like ∫uv= ∫uv’+vu’ before I google

### [Thread, continued, 15:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646532349109075968) · 2 likes

0/1 kinda got the vibes tho

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtmocbiacAEKQaF.jpg)

### [Reply to @DeadFishCapital, 15:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646532511453925376) · 3 likes

> **dead fish (@DeadFishCapital):** @AaronBergman18 >praises pipe command
> Opinion disqualified

DeadFish%>%rm()

### [Reply to @ohwizenedtortle, 15:17 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646533008772460544) · 2 likes

> **oh dandy lion🔸 (@ohwizenedtortle):** What is the EV of paying for every EA employee to get the flu vaccination?

Probably negative because everyone already does

### [Reply to @Bbburner19, 15:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646535080880353285) · 2 likes

> **The People Mover That Was Promised (@Bbburner19):** @AaronBergman18 @ohwizenedtortle Miniscule but not negative. GiveDirectly for middle class westerners would be incredibly ineffective but not negative.

I was trying to account for opportunity cost of shifting money away from other things but on second thought that’s not usually how the term is used

### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 18:48 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646586136272273426) · 2 likes

> **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** If I want to work on questions about Value Lock In, what should I study and what questions should I try to answer/write a paper about?

I don’t wanna go full normative “You Should Do This” but an idea that seems important but I haven’t really heard discussed is AI misalignment harm reduction:

what kinds of goals can GodAgentGPT pursue st that were confident the future is >=neutral, not filled with suffering?

### [Tweet, 20:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646612733868081152) · 5 likes

Modeling(!) the Yud vs Christiano (et al) debate:

\- Yud’s bundle of claims/arguments/beliefs/models -> alignment = intractable

\- Paul’s bundle -> alignment = tractable

Under some pretty plausible assumptions (mainly: normative alignment agenda <> P(doom) <> tractability)...

## Friday, April 14, 2023

### [Tweet, 06:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646755949741236225) · 10 likes

While it still exists, the post-LLM world is funny as hell. Why make a list of links when you can make a whole website with the same aesthetic energy as a little kid decorating a cake

https://aaronbergman.neocities.org/pods

### [Reply to @inesferhumi, 15:26 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646897755564941312) · 3 likes

> **Inés (@inesferhumi):** Qualy q-anon. Is there a joke in here somewhere? I think so but i can’t figure out what it is. Qualy is hillary clinton or something

Qualy has ties to an organization which makes even volunteers sign NDAs, owns a castle, and can be reasonably described as a “secret cabal” of some of the worlds most influential and including an obscenely wealthy Jew

### [Reply, 15:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646902585683587079) · 8 likes

From my less knowledgeable perspective, “virus causes weird bad downstream effects which don’t seem connected to the virus” also makes sense

### [Reply to @Laura_k_Duffy, 16:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646906891052654592) · 2 likes

> **Laura Muresianu 🌐🔸🇺🇸 (@Laura_k_Duffy):** Looking for new music recommendations! What are your favorite albums of all time?
>
> Mine: The Rising (Bruce Springsteen), Joshua Tree (U2), and Wildflowers (Tom Petty)

Not much genre overlap but https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2nCLFKsFZwCKDL23Xe12RH

### [Reply, 21:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1646987541952724992) · 3 likes

I mean there’s this  https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-108hr534eh/pdf/BILLS-108hr534eh.pdf

### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 23:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1647026068459511810) · 2 likes

> **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** @AaronBergman18 @joe_zimmerman
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FttdSZ5aAAA1Ib2.png)

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## Saturday, April 15, 2023

### [Reply to @SpacedOutMatt, 05:19 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1647107476997677056) · 7 likes

> **Matt 🔸 (@SpacedOutMatt):** I’m consistently amazed that the longest escalator in the western hemisphere is 2 stops away from me on the metro. There’s not even a plaque or anything!
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FttoPb7WcAAPlUU.jpg)

They should have a "try to run up the down one" charity challenge. For shrimp obviously

### [Reply, 07:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1647140783231827969) · 2 likes

the shrimp (in an unpleasant manner) if this doesn't come to fruition

### [Tweet, 07:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1647145034439958531) · 2 likes

Hope it's just an exciting game 😅

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## Sunday, April 16, 2023

### [Reply to @Willyintheworld, 01:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1647413363754803200) · 2 likes

_(The tweet being replied to by @Willyintheworld is no longer available.)_

I share Will’s intuition that each branch is morally independent/additive

But also, anyone who’s confident about the relationship between quantum mechanics and qualia is lying to you or to themselves

### [Reply to @ryancbriggs, 03:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1647442278355443712) · 3 likes

_(The tweet being replied to by @ryancbriggs is no longer available.)_

Alternatively: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/simple-health-export-csv/id1535380115

## Monday, April 17, 2023

### [Reply to @GjMcGowan, 18:40 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648033826109550593) · 1 like

> **George McGowan (@GjMcGowan):** @SpacedOutMatt @inesferhumi @mattyglesias Unity is strength. Matt has rabbits whereas I have a cat, important difference

Both of your pets: https://youtu.be/vq5_pz7MKAg

### [Quote tweet, 19:17 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648042933193437203) · 3 likes

Might become a heterodox evolutionary biologist

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102899580/cabbit-myth-meets-fact/

https://macroevolution.net/cat-rabbit-hybrids.html

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> **Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18):** @GjMcGowan @SpacedOutMatt @inesferhumi @mattyglesias Both of your pets: https://youtu.be/vq5_pz7MKAg

### [Reply to @ruth_hook_, 21:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648073351234043904) · 3 likes

> **Ruth Hook (@ruth_hook_):** what are your wildest theories about eosinophils

In obesity, adipose tissue becomes dysfunctional, leading to the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines and the development of insulin resistance. Eosinophils have been shown to regulate adipose tissue function by promoting the browning of white adipose tissue, which involves the

## Tuesday, April 18, 2023

### [Tweet, 04:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648188361423613953) · 6 likes

He’s back

[![Al Alzolanskii GIF](https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video_thumb/Ft-Kk4ZWwAEUmuR.jpg)](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648188361423613953/photo/1) (gif, plays on X)

## Wednesday, April 19, 2023

### [Reply to @StefanFSchubert, 01:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648505470343327745) · 4 likes

> **Stefan Schubert (@StefanFSchubert):**
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ft_RvopWwAAcNqu.jpg)
> (quoting @Nigella_Lawson: Sorry to do this to you on a Monday morning, but the end of the world is nigh https://www.ft.com/content/03895dc4-a3b7-481e-95cc-336a524f2ac2)

She’s got to be one of the biggest accounts/people I don’t recognize at all. Is she more first name-y than Elon around these parts?

### [Reply to @Simeon_Cps, 02:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648514735024017410) · 2 likes

> **Sy (@Simeon_Cps):** Is there a big difference btwn 13.5 inch and 16 inch screen for a computer in terms of user experience?

Yeah. I actually sold my weeks old 14" and bought a used 16" because of this

### [Reply to @ohwizenedtortle, 05:26 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648558570248519680) · 2 likes

> **oh dandy lion🔸 (@ohwizenedtortle):** wait wait wait you don't know nigella lawson??

I mean all I know is that she's a renowned British journalist, broadcaster, and author, best known for her expertise in food writing, quirky personality and love of puns who has inspired countless home cooks with her approachable and delicious recipes.

### [Reply to @PradyuPrasad, 05:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648558904387796992) · 2 likes

> **Pradyumna 🇸🇬 (@PradyuPrasad):** I googled her yesterday. Knew her father from the thatcher biography

Born on January 6th, 1960, in Wandsworth, London, she is the daughter of the late British politician Nigel Lawson and his first wife, Vanessa Salmon. She grew up in a well-to-do family and was educated at the prestigious Godolphin and Latymer School in London 👍

### [Reply to @inesferhumi, 12:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648660882824544260) · 3 likes

> **Inés (@inesferhumi):** I KNEW IT
>
> (quoting @stevehou: Legend)

Legend has it Taylor is EA adjacent-adjacent-adjacent

### [Reply to @esceydabulyu, 12:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648661896592064512) · 2 likes

> **Lark (@esceydabulyu):** @AaronBergman18 @MarkovMagnifico Bro she left in the middle of the class I couldn't talk to her afterwards 💀 Give me 1 more week

Godspeed🫡

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### [Reply to @inesferhumi, 12:20 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648662735062720512) · 2 likes

> **Inés (@inesferhumi):** @AaronBergman18 Everyone is at most 6 degrees of adjacency from any ideology on earth

Idk I think subcultural/ideological "adjacency" as generally used is more restrictive than social acquaintance

### [Tweet, 14:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648700540828925952) · 8 likes

Lol at chatGPT hallucinating ~everything here

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### [Reply to @peterwildeford, 17:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648736356984553482) · 2 likes

> **Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 (@peterwildeford):** @austinc3301 correct
>
> All I did was mention I work remotely (didn't even mention software/tech at all) and that was enough to trigger the question

That is a prescient dentist

### [Reply to @Bbburner19, 17:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648736959232081920) · 3 likes

> **The People Mover That Was Promised (@Bbburner19):** @peterwildeford @austinc3301 He had no idea who he was speaking with about this LMAO.

\*Altman, Yud, Karnofsky, and LeCun are in the waiting room\*

### [Reply to @NathanpmYoung, 17:20 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648738235109998604) · 2 likes

> **Nathan 🔎 (@NathanpmYoung):** Is an exogenous shock by it's nature unpredictable or just from outside?
>
> Like if I think my country will be invaded, is that exogenous?

The etymological, nontechnical definition is just “originating from outside” like I just inhaled some exogenous air

afaik in econ “outside” is taken to mean relative to a particular model…but “particular model” sometimes implicitly means “any model a social scientist might care

### [Reply to @Bbburner19, 18:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648761271909580800) · 3 likes

> **The People Mover That Was Promised (@Bbburner19):** @ryancbriggs @frances\_\_lorenz Along with the NBA, NYTimes, Sequoia capital and a whole bunch of other VC's. Just need to get Taylor Swift to sign the GWWC pledge and then we can have a much better figurehead than Will.

Until she breaks up with us...

[![Video thumbnail](https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1648761151793029125/pu/img/4yXWHh0t84oeayH6.jpg)](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648761271909580800/video/1) (video, plays on X)

### [Tweet, 18:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648762827669135373) · 16 likes

On priors it seems implausible that twinship would not be reflexive, though indeed some triplets exist

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### [Reply to @Laura_k_Duffy, 18:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648762996909277184) · 2 likes

> **Laura Muresianu 🌐🔸🇺🇸 (@Laura_k_Duffy):** @absurdlymax @mealreplacer So how do you deal with piecewise functions? Also much faster for integrals and essential blackboard bold math letters! Cannot imagine proofs without LaTeX

Microsoft Word + screenshot

### [Thread, continued, 19:09 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648765761979047966) · 2 likes

jk I ❤️ Latex

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### [Thread, continued, 19:10 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648765911581483047) · 2 likes

Microeconometrics 😤

### [Tweet, 21:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648794401374711808) · 2 likes

S/o to @jacyanthis for spending some hard-earned manna on a (couple?) true, and important, and underrated response to my intergalactic-brain manifold market

(Not too late to submit though, in fact you still have a few dozen centuries till it resolves)
https://manifold.markets/AaronBergman/what-string-if-submitted-as-a-respo

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### [Reply to @RichardMCNgo, 21:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648797218638274571) · 7 likes

> **Richard Ngo (@RichardMCNgo):** The universities' arguments are downright farcical. You can't defend "personality scores" which wreck Asian applications with a straight face. They're shamelessly recycling the same tactics used against Jews decades ago. The emperor has no clothes and is trying to cover his ass.

Yeah, pretty wild that it pattern matches 20th.c Jewish quotas almost perfectly and yet hardly raises the eyebrows of anyone on the left

### [Reply to @inesferhumi, 21:19 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648798373988761602) · 2 likes

> **Inés (@inesferhumi):** The hardest part about being gay has got to be not knowing what to do about your hair

Is there even a good explanation for why (straight I guess) female hair is generally longer across cultures?

## Thursday, April 20, 2023

### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 03:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1648884329240576000) · 2 likes

> **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** My sense is many standardized tests are not particularly good?

Depends what you want from them, but they’re very good (and linear in sample) proxies for IQ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6963451/#B3-jintelligence-07-00026

I glanced at some of the referenced papers which seem to check out but didn’t like scrutinize them carefully

### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 11:07 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649006776119959552) · 4 likes

> **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** @RafaRuizdeLira @QualyThe This adds a new layer to the acknowledgment section of my thesis

Sneaking in a second paper on personal identity in the credits

### [Reply, 12:41 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649030535266594818) · 5 likes

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### [Reply to @sentientlentils, 12:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649030837189373953) · 12 likes

_(The tweet being replied to by @sentientlentils is no longer available.)_

Uh because it will take your money and in return deliver you any non perishable non illegal good on the planet in 6-24 hours

### [Reply to @peterwildeford, 17:09 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649097960142274561) · 3 likes

> **Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 (@peterwildeford):** Question about allocating credit:
>
> If two different groups do an intervention separately without coordination, and it only takes one group to succeed such that the other group wasted their time, how do you allocate credit between them? How is timing relevant, if at all?

I think “credit” is like “credence” in that it breaks down into multiple things depending on what you really care about on edge cases

In some metaphysical sense I don’t think there’s a fact of the matter. So, social credit, evaluation of certain decisions, or something else?

### [Reply to @Laura_k_Duffy, 17:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649102104781373449) · 1 like

> **Laura Muresianu 🌐🔸🇺🇸 (@Laura_k_Duffy):** @AaronBergman18 @peterwildeford Right, ex ante

Wait I think I was wrong before, if it really is a binary outcome then who finished first doesn’t matter by assumption (which seems unrealistic but whatever)

### [Thread, continued, 17:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649102539932024877) · 2 likes

In which case

credited QALYs = P(I finish)\*P(nobody else does \[ever\])\*(QALYs from anyone finishing)

### [Reply to @lifebettergreen, 17:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649105479379845141) · 2 likes

_(The tweet being replied to by @lifebettergreen is no longer available.)_

Brb getting fake crow to attract local ducks

### [Reply, 18:13 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649114144933650433) · 2 likes

I think this is just the model bumping up against intuitions from real life. Like the covid vaccine: in principle one excellent vaccine could be sufficient, but there are supply constraints and maybe different side effects and

### [Reply, 18:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649114550875062286) · 2 likes

who knows maybe Moderna will pull an FTX and collapse in 2 days So there are usually good reasons to want redundancy

But if 1 success really is (by assumption) totally sufficient for the best outcome w zero uncertainty, redundancy is just waste

### [Reply to @warty_dog, 18:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649116783339503642) · 2 likes

> **troon (@warty_dog):** are you EA  |  would you step into the park pond to save a duck from being group r\*p\*d by male ducks

Hey I’m wild animal suffering pilled as anyone but my base rate for anything like this is 0%

### [Reply to @PradyuPrasad, 21:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649164242463883265) · 17 likes

> **Pradyumna 🇸🇬 (@PradyuPrasad):** A rat went into my bathroom last night. Spent a lot of time looking for it. Couldn't find it. No way to escape.
>
> About to open said bathroom rn

Have u tried saying “new LW post with 800 upvotes and -16 agreement!”

### [Reply to @PradyuPrasad, 23:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649186306369495041) · 4 likes

> **Pradyumna 🇸🇬 (@PradyuPrasad):** @AaronBergman18 Maybe I should put a poster of Yudkowsky neat the exit

Nah won’t work they love to countersignal intellectual independence

### [Reply to @TenreiroDaniel, 23:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649187933256073218) · 43 likes

_(The tweet being replied to by @TenreiroDaniel is no longer available.)_

Choose chaos

Import pandas as torch
Import numpy as conda
Import sys as python
Import matplotlib as model
Import os as dot

### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 23:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649199388055445507) · 4 likes

> **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** @AaronBergman18 @PradyuPrasad I hate when someone makes my joke before I can, and better than I would have

It wasn’t a fair race, I had the secret head start of having written this draft which I’m now floating to gather preliminary reactions to

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## Friday, April 21, 2023

### [Reply to @SpacedOutMatt, 00:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649207195974680576) · 2 likes

> **Matt 🔸 (@SpacedOutMatt):** @AaronBergman18 @absurdlymax @PradyuPrasad This is the oldest Yudkowsky writing I can easily find https://extropians.weidai.com/extropians.96/2519.html

Wild. I’ll be poking around there haha

In 1996 my parents were using typewriters, as were most Americans apparently

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### [Thread, continued, 00:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649207685030502400) · 2 likes

I, on the other hand, wasnt using such passé normie devices (or anything else, being -4)

### [Reply to @then_there_was, 16:19 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649447849803784192) · 88 likes

> **Andrew Ruiz (@then_there_was):** The legend of Cleo in the Mathematics StackExchange. 😂
>
> [video attached](https://x.com/then_there_was/status/1649150416049827922/video/1)

Have people considered whether she just makes alt accounts on vpns to submit questions which she started with the answer to?

### [Quote tweet, 16:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649450421050638336) · 97 likes

Ok tell me it isn’t a little sus that the accounts asking for random proto-impossible integral solutions made their account in the same month, a few months before Cleo

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> **Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18):** @then_there_was Have people considered whether she just makes alt accounts on vpns to submit questions which she started with the answer to?

### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 16:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649454131843682304) · 20 likes

> **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** How deep does this go??

Clinton and Soros are freaking out rn

### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 19:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649496714330492929) · 16 likes

> **Aaron Bergman, April 21, 2023:** Have people considered whether she just makes alt accounts on vpns to submit questions which she started with the answer to?

https://x.com/aaronbergman18/status/1649450421050638336?s=46&t=zFSMbdq7sUeaJ_kJen_W-g

## Saturday, April 22, 2023

### [Reply to @AlecStapp, 00:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649564006787477507) · 4 likes

> **Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp):** Example of why @RyanRadia is the best reply guy on here:
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuRD-i8XgAMkI5K.jpg)

Sorry guys. @ODOT_Statewide who puts exits on the left side of the highway??

### [Thread, continued, 00:04 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649564818032979968) · 2 likes

Tbc I did crash a car but the car suffered the only injury

### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 06:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649665335509803009) · 10 likes

> **Aaron Bergman, April 21, 2023:** https://x.com/aaronbergman18/status/1649450421050638336?s=46&t=zFSMbdq7sUeaJ_kJen_W-g

This is a surprising development

### [Reply to @chloe21e8, 06:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649666757286674435) · 20 likes

> **@CHLOE21E8 (@chloe21e8):**
>
> (quoting @chloe21e8: chloe21e8 in the club managing her alt account ecosystem like it’s a voguing ballroom)

Thought I cracked an internet mystery wide open and a month old post is just like:

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuTLLGRXsAAOWX0.jpg)

### [Tweet, 22:10 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649898518256001024) · 4 likes

None of the pictures of a food/supplement listed on Amazon is of the nutrition+ingredients label 🚩🚩🚩

## Sunday, April 23, 2023

### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 01:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1649952113861042177) · 4 likes

> **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** I fucking love clouds

R u high

### [Reply to @BootsPlatypus, 08:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1650049905761697792) · 2 likes

> **Platypussy in Bio (@BootsPlatypus):** does sun make you feel better? sunny weather always makes me depressed

Even sunny and cold? For me mood is best during winter and fall

### [Reply to @Laura_k_Duffy, 14:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1650138412005969921) · 2 likes

> **Laura Muresianu 🌐🔸🇺🇸 (@Laura_k_Duffy):** Hey everyone! I’m going to start putting this together today, so get any other submissions in now! 😊
>
> (quoting @Laura_k_Duffy: Announcing: EA Twitter Cookbook! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 (with @baesrule1 and @ryancbriggs) If we get enough submissions, I’ll make an e-cook book for everyone! What are your favorite recipes? Link them/post pictures below!! To start: Kimchi fried rice, but with udon noodles instead 🍜 😊)

Toasted Asian Great Soufflé in an aqueous-nut reduction

1\) combine Rice Krispies and almond milk
2\) serve with no garnish

### [Thread, continued, 14:04 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1650138522890715138) · 2 likes

\*grain, though great works too

### [Reply, 23:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1650286803654520832) · 1 like

Ceteris paribus, sure, but awareness≠alignment

## Monday, April 24, 2023

### [Tweet, 03:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1650342330044391424) · 4 likes

I don't know anyone with UpToDate access (who's fond of sharing 😊) do I?

### [Thread, continued, 03:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1650342331101458435) · 3 likes

$720/year is a liiitle steep

### [Reply to @austinc3301, 03:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1650345076000686081) · 3 likes

> **Agus 🔸 (@austinc3301):** @AaronBergman18 What do you need it for?

curing myself of miscellaneous things

### [Reply to @ylecun, 21:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1650607259234213899) · 112 likes

> **Yann LeCun (@ylecun):** An essential step to becoming a scientist is to learn methods and protocols to avoid deluding yourself into believing false things.
>
> You learn that by doing a PhD and getting your research past your advisor and getting your publications to survive peer review.

I really think peer review does the exact opposite. Not a coincidence cs survives on preprints!

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FugijgXWIAQpjtw.jpg)

### [Reply to @151Call, 21:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1650612821128892416) · 3 likes

> **call-151 (@151Call):** @AndyMasley @mattyglesias change is not "entirely" by humans - the question isn't valid.

“Mostly or entirely”

### [Reply to @CineraVerinia, 23:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1650644777631719426) · 2 likes

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The catch is that they cut the monthly check in half first :(

### [Reply to @SpacedOutMatt, 23:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1650645442827366405) · 4 likes

> **Matt 🔸 (@SpacedOutMatt):** Bennet losing the all-important fish welfare vote
>
> (quoting @MichaelBennet: I caught that fish! How are you celebrating #EarthDay this weekend?)

Maybe he’s saving it from a predator

## Tuesday, April 25, 2023

### [Reply, 00:09 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1650653343440596995) · 7 likes

You mean nuts?

### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 00:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1650653636295311361) · 2 likes

> **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** @SpacedOutMatt Its not obvious to me that we shouldn't eat fish but I do feel for that little guy what has EA done to my brain

I’m unironically in favor of eating wild-caught fish that is killed the Japanese stabby way

### [Reply to @mealreplacer, 11:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1650821597278752769) · 6 likes

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Take out the huel part and I 90% endorse this unironically

### [Tweet, 12:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1650843023465492481) · 6 likes

It’s a transformer-instantiated token-predicting neural network with user-modulated stochasticity

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fuj4-0TX0AIllq9.jpg)

### [Reply to @atroyn, 16:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1650900926943707149) · 5 likes

> **anton 🇺🇸 (@atroyn):** scott alexander: ‘government oversight boards have likely killed millions of people by blocking life saving medical studies’
>
> also scott alexander: ‘a.i needs government oversight or it might kill us all!!!’

Yes because some government things are good and others are bad

## Wednesday, April 26, 2023

### [Reply to @jam3scampbell, 06:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1651112872552923136) · 2 likes

_(The tweet being replied to by @jam3scampbell is no longer available.)_

It feels like a mean joke the universe is playing that maybe the single most morally important question ever - what, if anything, is the subjective experience of a very non human-like mind (system? object? event?) - seems utterly and intrinsically intractable

### [Reply to @azsantosk, 06:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1651115040286679040) · 1 like

> **KAS (@azsantosk):** How could a planner possibly have access to all economically important information about everything?

In principle it’s possible, or at least possible to get very close, but you’re right that it’s not (at this margin) bottlenecked by compute

Like you’d need a mechanism for informing the central planning machine how much I would pay for ~everything at this very moment

### [Reply to @ReflectiveAlt, 09:40 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1651159212477542400) · 2 likes

> **Reflective Altruism (@ReflectiveAlt):** "Is Thorstad just one bad thinker" because ... I made two typos and said one word people don't like. Seriously? https://criticalfallibilism.com/checking-citations-from-david-thorstad/

Oy vey

### [Reply to @joe_zimmerman, 23:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1651360729495224320) · 4 likes

> **Joe Zimmerman (@joe_zimmerman):** I'm not saying Roko is necessarily right, but at some point, Roko will become right
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FurBHQkaYAMjGUj.jpg)
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FurBHaRaUAEVXvO.jpg)

Compute is necessary but not sufficient, so maybe, but not just bc that graph keeps going

### [Reply to @austinc3301, 23:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1651371503831662601) · 1 like

> **Agus 🔸 (@austinc3301):** @Laura_k_Duffy I more or less hate your country but your civic spirit is inspiring

^Ooh yeah I wanna know why

### [Reply, 23:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1651373244014813184) · 4 likes

Wait I have a guess

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FurbNo_XoAQSJ7h.jpg)

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FurbNpDWcAgNWUU.jpg)

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FurbNpFXsAA6f9I.jpg)

## Thursday, April 27, 2023

### [Tweet, 02:19 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1651410655730192385) · 11 likes

From middle school through college, my main/default method of studying was just to rewrite dozens of pages of notes and examples, verbatim, over and over, because eventually things would “just sink in”

Pretty sure this was grokking, or at least something very closely analogous

### [Thread, continued, 02:22 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1651411568117141505) · 4 likes

Did it work? Yeah I’d say so, except for abstract algebra

### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 03:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1651433582995423235) · 2 likes

> **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** @AaronBergman18 Huh, I never studied and abstract algebra was the only math class I got really easy

What

I mean I think some idiosyncratic circumstances contributed to my C+, but “getting everything without studying” would have been sufficient to overcome those lol

At least I can say I’ve never gotten a B in math 🥳

### [Reply to @austinc3301, 05:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1651451911667679232) · 5 likes

> **Agus 🔸 (@austinc3301):** I hate pandas with every fiber of my being

I have a solution

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FusiwwSX0AA8Kru.jpg)

## Friday, April 28, 2023

### [Reply to @MalekPyrrhonist, 02:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1651774025931145224) · 4 likes

> **Μαλεκος (@MalekPyrrhonist):** IBS is, to a significant degree, diagnosed by exclusion.
>
> You diagnose a patient with it precisely when you exclude other (including bowel) conditions.
>
> Looked this way, the results aren't that surprising.

^correct take. It’s anticorrelated with IBD by definition

### [Reply to @cremieuxrecueil, 02:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1651776415950417920)

> **Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil):** What a confusing take given that it's correlated with a variety of gut problems.

Which? It’s correlated with its own symptoms, but not with anything that describes a biological primary cause afaik

### [Tweet, 14:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1651958639240916994) · 24 likes

In honor of 1002 followers
(so it would take an impossible level of coordination to bring me under 1k):
AMA, Low Status Edition\*!🙋‍♂️🤨

\*AMALSE is like a normal AMA except you pin the announcement post and it goes on indefinitely bc your expected rate of question receiving and…

### [Thread, continued, 14:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1651958641543577600) · 6 likes

opportunity cost of time are both sufficiently low to permit an unbounded time window for questioning

So if you’re reading this and there’s no update below calling things off, AMA!

### [Thread, continued, 14:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1651958643074400257) · 5 likes

I’m not actually certain this makes sense - I can think of a few reasons why an implicit time bound is a necessary part of the social machinery that makes AMAs a thing, but there’s only one way to find out 👍

### [Reply to @xuanalogue, 14:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1651959213940154375) · 4 likes

> **xuan (ɕɥɛn / sh-yen) (@xuanalogue):** kids who do this are so based
>
> (quoting @alexa_sacchi: Please share & RT! We are inviting children (ages 8-11) who were raised in meat-eating families, but chose to go vegetarian/vegan/pescatarian on their own to participate in a short online study. 🥕 Link for more information & to sign up here!…)

Drove my parents fucking insane but thx

### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 17:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1652008633624821762) · 2 likes

> **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** What's something you care a lot about/think about a lot/ spend a lot of time on that if you tweeted about you'd get 0 engagement

This isn't exactly answering ur question (and Ill try to think of a real answer to add) but...anything?

What I mean is that there seems to be an inverse relation between how long I've thought about something before tweeting about it and how much engagement the tweet gets

### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 20:20 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1652045045048942609) · 2 likes

> **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** What's something you care a lot about/think about a lot/ spend a lot of time on that if you tweeted about you'd get 0 engagement

All my literal answers are trivial and obvious ("sleeping") but a juicier half answer is the IBS/GI symptoms that kinda suddenly appeared a few months ago and is reasonably often the ~\*only\* thing I think about

I'm not really embarrassed/shy - more just don't wanna seem like I'm

### [Thread, continued, 20:20 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1652045216965074949) · 2 likes

farming sympathy engagement.

Also its just not very interesting of a topic lol

### [Reply to @SpacedOutMatt, 20:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1652047222064791552) · 4 likes

> **Matt 🔸 (@SpacedOutMatt):** Have you updated on your views of the best animal charity to donate to since the RP moral weights came out?

Nah, but maybe it should? So far RP and Shrimp WI seem slightly overdetermined (relative to others, not to each other)

If you're reading this and have a take: vote! https://manifold.markets/AaronBergman/what-donationaccepting-entity-eg-ch

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fu0_hVrWcAAjX2Y.jpg)

### [Reply to @dwarkesh_sp, 23:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1652095909855985665) · 12 likes

> **Dwarkesh Patel (@dwarkesh_sp):** Who should I have on the podcast to discuss The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind?
>
> Yes, I know it's bonkers and probably false, but it's also really interesting.
>
> Especially interested in someone who has studied what the historical evidence has to say about the psychology/gods of the ancients.
>
> Bonus points for anyone who can comment on Jaynes's claims about neuroscience, linguistics, and/or schizophrenics.

Not super familiar with that book beyond what I think is the main thesis, but check out Iain McGilchrist

The Master and His Emissary (which he wrote) probably my single favorite book, making some pretty grand, prima facie “bonkers” claims

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_McGilchrist

### [Reply to @tomowenmorgan, 23:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1652096108926062594) · 2 likes

> **Tom Morgan (@tomowenmorgan):** I think @BrettPAndersen or obviously @dr_mcgilchrist would be amazing.

Beat me by a few minutes!

## Saturday, April 29, 2023

### [Reply to @bryan_caplan, 02:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1652140291317440514) · 13 likes

> **Bryan Caplan (@bryan_caplan):** Democracy enthusiasts baffle me.
>
> How can anyone get excited about a system where people you loathe rule half the time?

Hate to be such a normie but have you seen all the other ones?

### [Reply to @krishnanrohit, 12:40 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1652291854661033986) · 2 likes

> **rohit (@krishnanrohit):** Are there regularly used mathematical functions which can't be replicated or approximated by matrix multiplications?
>
> Thinking through implications of what types of questions LLMs can only approximate solving.

Just on intuition, the more productive question would be about real number operations rather than matrix multiplication

AFAIK the literal matrices are of direct representations of floating point ie real numbers

### [Tweet, 13:17 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1652300975535693825) · 15 likes

I regret to report that Spotify has short, doomy timelines

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fu4m-neWwAI9ojH.jpg)

### [Reply to @adam__isom, 19:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1652387764317437952) · 2 likes

> **adam ✧ ❥ ~ (@adam__isom):** I truly believe that once I get 1k followers I will never want for more

I now live in a state of timeless ethereal bliss

### [Reply to @catehall, 23:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1652450729909534720) · 3 likes

_(The tweet being replied to by @catehall is no longer available.)_

Doesn’t seem like geopolitical power should be the main consideration for where you personally live tho?

If everyone I knew moved to Canada I’d probably move there too

## Sunday, April 30, 2023

### [Reply to @NathanpmYoung, 05:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1652544119216939008) · 4 likes

> **Nathan 🔎 (@NathanpmYoung):** @ReflectiveAlt Thoughts:
>
> I think this is true but I'm not sure it's worse than mainstream academia. I'm not sure it's a priority.
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fu490b6XoAIxuFJ.jpg)

Topical bias seems good(?)

Like yeah I want more research about whatever OpenPhil cares about relative to whatever % that would be absent philanthropic funding

### [Reply to @pearl_please, 15:47 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1652701284347047938) · 2 likes

_(The tweet being replied to by @pearl_please is no longer available.)_

Have you fully modeled the long run steady-state equilibrium effect on aggregate wild animal welfare of negative marginal birds

### [Reply to @powerfulwizerd, 15:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1652703889811021831) · 34 likes

> **powerful wizerd (@powerfulwizerd):** The craziest post of all time is that one where that girl said she got the ick from the way her bf flailed around during a car crash i think about it daily

Attention females: when I crashed my car (to assert dominance over it) I willed my body to remain stationary relative to the road, floating in a seated position in mid air until the vehicle came to a stop

### [Reply, 18:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1652747318213373954)

Idk if this checks out at all but they both share the feature of being attracted to earth by gravity but not so strongly that they collide, which might place bounds on how big astronomical objects of this type can look

### [Thread, continued, 18:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1652747726784790530) · 1 like

Boundary width seems mostly due to density variation, but this again is bounded because too high gives u a black hole and too low means a coherent entity won’t be held together

### [Thread, continued, 18:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1652747795311255564) · 1 like

@AndyMasley fact check

### [Tweet, 21:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1652792518264733697) · 12 likes

New post: conversation with @austinc3301, dedicated to my fellow "where do u do python" wonderers

https://www.aaronbergman.net/p/tf-is-a-kernel

### [Thread, continued, 21:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1652792519544000512) · 3 likes

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