# Aaron Bergman's tweets, January 2024 Every public tweet, reply, quote tweet and retweet that Aaron Bergman (@AaronBergman18 on X, formerly Twitter) posted in January 2024 and has not deleted: 508 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: [December 2023](https://abergman.com/tweets/2023-12). Next month: [February 2024](https://abergman.com/tweets/2024-02). ## Monday, January 1, 2024 ### [Reply to @eshear, 00:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741613225399988699) · 2 likes > **Emmett Shear (@eshear):** I want a “this is fine” dog, but depicting the energy of someone playing the status regulation game. Something depicting the energy of the scorn and confession behind “stop being so weird, nerd”. But as a meme. Not sure I get it but this is something ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GCtz_3iWsAAI3id.jpg) ### [Reply to @Soul0Engineer, 00:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741615646364864534) · 1 like _(The tweet being replied to by @Soul0Engineer is no longer available.)_ Ah yes pdf which totally does data processing ### [Tweet, 01:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741628874008457483) · 12 likes Might become a vagus nerve guy ### [Quote tweet, 01:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741629372988100902) · 5 likes Huge > **Quoting ra¢hel (@rachdele):** for the 3rd year in a row, i am offering my male followers a special new years gift! 🎉 you can explain a concept of your choosing to me in the replies 🥂 cheers! ### [Reply to @br___ian, 01:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741635260117328044) · 3 likes > **bri (@br___ian):** @AaronBergman18 In what sense! Mine has been pretty messed up the last yr so I have a bunch of little things I do to help it call down if u want Idk yet exactly. Just starting to think it’s closer to microbiome than glycemic load level of importance ### [Reply to @RokoMijic, 01:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741636067051098513) · 3 likes > **Roko 🐉 (@RokoMijic):** Grimes: "I happily am proud of white culture" > > Comments under this are astonishing. > > "White culture doesn't exist!!!!" (it does) > "Delete this or it will end your career!!!" (ad hominem) > "Race doesn't exist!!!!" (it does) > "Why are people are so obsessed with skin color?" (race ≠ skin) Eh cultural pride in general is silly and counterproductive ### [Reply, 01:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741636160122724444) _(The tweet being replied to is no longer available.)_ Lfg ### [Reply to @beala, 02:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741651174594371808) · 2 likes > **Alex Beal 🆎 (@beala):** @mealreplacer Completely unhinged, no regard for consequences. This but some modest regard for consequences ### [Reply to @calebwatney, 02:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741651648189960558) · 1 like > **Caleb Watney (@calebwatney):** Starting a New Year's Eve tradition: > > Give me your predictions for TFP growth in 2024 and we'll check back next year to see how everyone did 📈 6% ### [Reply to @beala, 02:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741654603580518621) · 1 like > **Alex Beal 🆎 (@beala):** @AaronBergman18 @mealreplacer No, i want to see you following rules, no matter the consequences. Imo he should simply strive to be virtuous ### [Tweet, 02:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741655023837204584) · 2 likes I’ll bite…what is an oomphy? ### [Reply to @wholebodyprayer, 03:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741655739301564863) · 2 likes > **rosalind lucy (@wholebodyprayer):** Hello from 2024 in new zealand Tell us what happens ### [Reply to @NathanpmYoung, 03:17 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741659850977743259) · 2 likes > **Nathan 🔎 (@NathanpmYoung):** turns out it's "one of my followers" > > took me a long time Hello to my oomphies ### [Reply to @mealreplacer, 03:20 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741660616320815523) · 8 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @mealreplacer is no longer available.)_ Maximize the stress of the your colleagues in the communications department ### [Reply to @mealreplacer, 03:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741660769677083031) · 3 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @mealreplacer is no longer available.)_ Wait since when do u have 15k followers lol ### [Reply to @mealreplacer, 03:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741662583612903438) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @mealreplacer is no longer available.)_ Then make them hire more so u will have more ppl to love 😊 ### [Tweet, 04:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741673798439502238) · 100 likes Honestly 2023 was probably the worst year of my life (though competitive with 2017) Here’s to regression to the mean! 🎉🥳🎊 ### [Reply to @sam_atis, 04:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741674651959373886) · 5 likes > **Sam Glover (@sam_atis):** @AaronBergman18 Sorry to hear that, I hope you enjoy 2024 Me too lol ❤️ ### [Reply to @thebestestpie, 04:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741677709728665955) · 1 like > **Fake News Pie (@thebestestpie):** @JesseTayRiver @AaronBergman18 but thats what makes it so relatable! Wait now I actually agree. Deleted bc not the vibe. Sorry for removing the relatability ### [Reply to @exdiegesis, 04:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741684518614908963) · 8 likes > **Hope (@exdiegesis):** @AaronBergman18 Oh. How come? Full year of chronic (though not permanent; proof of concept that it basically doesn’t exist with access to the right circumstances and medications) illness, basically ### [Reply to @eepysillyboy, 04:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741685206589878300) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @eepysillyboy is no longer available.)_ ### [Reply to @QualyThe, 13:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741820196967317994) · 3 likes > **Qualy the lightbulb (@QualyThe):** who called it the Happier Lives Institute and not Affective Ventures? Banger ### [Reply to @littIeramblings, 13:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741820446796833177) · 2 likes > **sarah (@littIeramblings):** I think in 2024 I will just be shooting for a consistent skin care routine, I’m not feeling up to much I have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about but skincare feels like a psyop ### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 19:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741906078810427863) · 7 likes > **Aaron Bergman, December 27, 2023:** Took me twice as long to shave and 90% of the time I’d cut myself. Skill issue, I’m sure. Idc, the modern ugly thing is a better product 37\) poetry is underrated. It’s kinda like music without the sugar My revealed preference isn’t to consume very much of it though, so maybe this is just signaling brain ### [Thread, continued, 19:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741906896548716581) · 5 likes 38\) Hanson is basically right about everything vis a vis signaling. I mean this purely descriptively, it’s sometimes used or taken as cynical or pejorative but it’s not (or at least not necessarily) It is just an extremely powerful explanatory lens for the social world ### [Thread, continued, 19:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741908455965720593) · 3 likes I can’t vouch for the entire field ofc because I don’t know it, but evo psych seems basically fine and legitimate People may co-opt it, or selectively cite it or whatever; I mean the field itself (It also seems interesting af) ### [Tweet, 19:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741911018450653669) · 8 likes These Cloud costs are getting out of hand ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GCyC1xjXYAAlv5N.jpg) ### [Quote tweet, 21:37 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741936807061627226) · 4 likes Don’t miss out $500 is a steal tbh > **Quoting Laura Muresianu 🌐🔸🇺🇸 (@Laura_k_Duffy):** Thanks to everyone who’s donated to the EA Twitter Fundraiser for the EA Animal Welfare Fund so far! > > If you’d like to contribute, we’ve still got 3 days left! (Link below) > > And if you donate $500+, I’ll make you a thank-you card with your favorite animal > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GCyU4bTWUAAueuE.jpg) ### [Reply to @niplav_site, 23:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1741971828585664632) · 4 likes > **niplav (@niplav_site):** Holy fuck https://www.effectiveacceleration.org/allPosts > > Why did I not find out about this earlier > > Maybe I'll post there lol ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GCy6JQ2XUAA-S8Y.jpg) ## Tuesday, January 2, 2024 ### [Reply to @Dan_Jeffries1, 04:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742037105373593934) · 2 likes > **Daniel Jeffries (@Dan_Jeffries1):** Here's the story of another technology that faced massive backlash in its time that will sound very familiar to today's battles over #AI. > > Coffee. > > a thread. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GCrZd3TWEAAKMNe.jpg) Hmm this is competitive ### [Reply to @AndrewCritchPhD, 04:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742047787485638758) · 2 likes > **Andrew Critch (🤖🩺🚀) (@AndrewCritchPhD):** When I count on my fingers, I use binary, so I can count to 31 on one hand, or 1023 on two. It took me about 1 hour to train the muscle memory, and it's very rhythmic, so now my right hand just auto-increments in binary till I'm done, and then I just read off the number. > > [video attached](https://x.com/AndrewCritchPhD/status/1741971580488409179/video/1) > (quoting @freed_dfilan: FYI: you can count up to 100 on your fingers like so: - right hand is ones - left hand is tens - thumbs are 5/50, fingers are 1/10. This is convenient enough that it's the way I count by default. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisanbop) What ### [Quote tweet, 10:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742128286283558996) · 7 likes 🚀💥🌪️🔥🎉🐾🦁🦍🦖🐍🦜🐊🌟🐅🐆🦈🐘🐪🦏🦚🦔🐓🐕🦢🦉🐾🐾🎊🎆🔮🌌💫🌠🤘🥳🎸🍾🍻🤪💃🕺💪👑🌪️🚀💥🔥\`\`\` > **Quoting oh dandy lion🔸 (@ohwizenedtortle):** @AaronBergman18 animal well-being rules 👍👍👍 > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GC0nbS2akAAWdqK.jpg) ### [Reply to @memecrashes, 10:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742130548632322068) · 1 like > **MatLab crashes (@memecrashes):** > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GCwnXCRXYAAEBoF.jpg) If I remembered how to do this right, something doesn’t check out ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GC1KgEzXQAAT8_0.jpg) ### [Reply, 10:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742131290046931272) · 1 like I should run for French president ### [Reply, 10:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742133387677044854) · 1 like Turns out I’m a value realist and normative anti-realist which basically just silently judges everyone without saying they should (objectively) do things Seems kinda fine tbh https://bit.ly/absstest ### [Reply to @BadmenBad, 10:41 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742133894197969201) · 4 likes > **Kaleidic Riot 🏴 🏳️‍🌈 (@BadmenBad):** Consuming eggs & some forms of fish seems to contribute more to animal suffering than consuming beef. > > We have terms for people who eat eggs but not meat & people who eat fish but not other meat. But there's not a term for people who refuse to eat chicken but eat beef. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GC0ndtMaoAAGtBX.png) I use “suffering reducetarian” Bonus points (health too apparently) for grass fed beef and dairy ### [Tweet, 10:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742135007743705497) · 15 likes If we don’t have to go ask people to donate to shrimp at the mall at this point, I’m losing all faith in effective altruism ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GC1OjhvXIAEJnKR.jpg) ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GC1OjhsWcAA9600.jpg) ### [Quote tweet, 11:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742139260050805126) · 6 likes 🚀🔥💥🐾🦁🐯🦍🦖🐍🦜🐊🦈🐅🐆🦏🦔🐓🐕🦢🦉🐾🎉🥳🍾🍻💪👑🤘🎸💃🕺🌟🌈🌌🎊🎆🔮💫🌪️🌕🐘🦚 > **Quoting Cameron Holmes (@CameronHolmes92):** @SpacedOutMatt @AaronBergman18 @absurdlymax @Laura_k_Duffy @Laura_k_Duffy please can I get a red panda? > > (This feels like a milestone as my first significant non-global health & development donation) > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GC1D-2aXsAA_6bQ.png) ### [Quote tweet, 11:09 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742141132681650393) · 13 likes Oh boy, here we go > **Quoting Eric Schmidt 🇺🇦 (@edavidds):** Gave another $500, need to see this footage > > (at $15,000 they’ll film themselves at a mall soliciting donations for shrimp welfare) ### [Reply to @edavidds, 11:10 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742141278446289268) · 4 likes > **Eric Schmidt 🇺🇦 (@edavidds):** Gave another $500, need to see this footage > > (at $15,000 they’ll film themselves at a mall soliciting donations for shrimp welfare) > > (quoting @AaronBergman18: If we don’t have to go ask people to donate to shrimp at the mall at this point, I’m losing all faith in effective altruism) FYI the counter thing takes a bit of time to update ### [Reply to @VineethSendil, 11:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742142436619464710) · 2 likes > **Vineeth Sendilraj (@VineethSendil):** how am i supposed to respond to this … > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GCzuLPuXEAAPQU7.jpg) “No sorry” ### [Quote tweet, 11:26 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742145377288028514) · 2 likes The -ese suffix is ok but pales in comparison to the poetic Spanish -eño (pronounced “ænyo”). We (America) should adopt it officially. Burmeño/Myanmareño > **Quoting Eric Schmidt 🇺🇦 (@edavidds):** Tried a Burmese (Myanmarese) restaurant for the first time. Really good. ### [Reply to @shakaz_, 11:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742145874665337249) · 4 likes > **shakaz (@shakaz_):** meanwhile, in ml > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GC1XmhWbUAAfZzh.jpg) lol ### [Reply, 11:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742146632802582862) · 1 like _(The tweet being replied to is no longer available.)_ @PeterJAngel looking fresh ### [Reply to @tunguz, 11:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742147044343431444) · 7 likes > **Bojan Tunguz (@tunguz):** Be careful who you talk about atoms to. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GCxr3c_bwAANzip.jpg) I thought I was the shit in first grade for knowing that protons, neutrons and electrons were a thing ### [Quote tweet, 11:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742151026415677591) · 8 likes This + rice and potatoes being staple foods in populations/cuisines with (I think?) no chronic health issues for hundreds or thousands of years means that glycemic index just doesn’t matter that much > **Quoting Dr David Unwin (@lowcarbGP):** 1/7 My 7sugar infographics are back! They help people with T2D predict the glycaemic consequences of dietary choices. Carbs are the main drivers of blood sugar. Here I reinterpret the glycaemic load as approx. 4g teaspoons of table sugar. Freely available https://phcuk.org/sugar/ > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2VlO1cWEAEHyMa.jpg) ### [Tweet, 12:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742165070589677970) · 4 likes Tfw too cold for tee but too hot for jacket ### [Tweet, 13:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742169229174976875) · 3 likes ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GC1trilWkAAK10m.jpg) ### [Reply to @inerati, 13:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742177064885580048) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @inerati is no longer available.)_ The fact that even doctors get stuff wrong like the questions here (there was a recent study going around twitter I think) is good reason to think this is at least sometimes wrong and totally plausible scenarios are ~out of distribution~ for us https://brownmath.com/stat/falsepos.htm ### [Reply to @QualyThe, 13:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742177375943573564) · 4 likes > **Qualy the lightbulb (@QualyThe):** who wants to claim that sweet sweet counterfactual impact of getting it over the line? > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GC1y0aXXUAAVOZC.jpg) Fun fact it’s actually the same impact bc diminishing returns don’t set in at this oom (ik what you mean dw lol) ### [Reply to @TetraspaceWest, 14:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742190787608064027) · 5 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @TetraspaceWest is no longer available.)_ The trick is that it’s not merely not counterfactual but actually a substantive input to production of shrimp welfare ### [Thread, continued, 14:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742191101732086066) · 3 likes Oh wait if this is what u thought, I was making a joke about the mall thing being an input of production. Like obviously money is lol ### [Reply to @notanastronomer, 14:40 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742194259493577199) · 4 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @notanastronomer is no longer available.)_ Going on the whiteboard Let the rejection process begin 😤 ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GC2EccUXUAA9zUX.jpg) ### [Reply to @TetraspaceWest, 14:41 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742194313142866063) · 4 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @TetraspaceWest is no longer available.)_ Thank u for this ### [Reply to @NathanpmYoung, 14:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742196414409494663) · 6 likes > **Nathan 🔎 (@NathanpmYoung):** "Terrible policy" > > We are too confident. > > The assumption seems to be that all students are brilliant and anything that reduces them must be terrible. > > I don't think we (nerd twitter) can back up this claim when it comes to the UK. Let's take a breath. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GC2Ako9WwAAMFcY.png) > (quoting @RishiSunak: From today, the majority of foreign university students cannot bring family members to the UK. In 2024, we’re already delivering for the British people.) I mean it seems like a bad policy even if that’s totally right, albeit maybe not for the same reasons ### [Thread, continued, 14:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742196596828180880) · 3 likes Ie like I would want this policy even if the economic effect was neutral or very slightly negative ### [Quote tweet, 18:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742252642850734569) · 3 likes Jfc > **Quoting Chris Masterjohn (@ChrisMasterjohn):** It gets worse. > > The USDA database reports “crude protein,” which simply takes nitrogen content and multiplies it by 6.25 based on the average nitrogen content of all known proteins. > > This overestimates protein by an average of 15%! ### [Reply to @tessafyi, 19:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742266328847655082) · 6 likes > **Tessa Alexanian (@tessafyi):** My new year's brag is that I exceeded 100,000 USD in lifetime donations in 2023 💸 > > I doubt I'd have given away quite that much (~16.5% of my post-undergrad income) without the influence of the EA community and my @givingwhatwecan pledge > > (quoting @givingwhatwecan: ✨ Happy New Year! ✨ Want to start 2024 doing something amazing? Taking a pledge with Giving What We Can makes for a New Year's resolution that will truly impact the world. Cheers to a year of meaningful change! 🌍💫) Hell yeah and we need more bragging This is the type of thing ppl should brag about ### [Reply to @ohwizenedtortle, 19:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742268253387337916) · 2 likes > **oh dandy lion🔸 (@ohwizenedtortle):** Remembering the time I had a call with a Twitter mutual and they suggested I get in contact with a different Twitter account to talk about the experience of being ugly Dude ur not ugly lol ### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 21:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742303046573367664) · 1 like > **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** @AaronBergman18 Hm it does a weird thing where it reads the lady period in a paragraph as not a period? Wait what is a lady period ## Wednesday, January 3, 2024 ### [Reply to @_HannahRitchie, 00:26 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742341517459734703) · 3 likes > **Hannah Ritchie (@_HannahRitchie):** Saying that "things have improved" does not mean things are perfect. > > It doesn't even mean things are "fine" or "okay". > > In fact, I can't think of many metrics in the world where things are "fine", because we can always push for better. > > 👇👇 > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GC1He3NWwAAGKCQ.jpg) “World is much better” I mean maybe, I’m basically 50/50, but the dominant consideration is wild animal suffering maybe declining thanks to habitat loss vs factory farming. Ik it’s supposed to be upbeat and motivational and symbolic but still ### [Reply to @bijibiji2023, 00:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742342916398264768) · 2 likes > **hoff 🧒🏻😻 (@bijibiji2023):** “for lack of a better term” ??? oh you went through all the terms? you thought of all existing terms and there wasn’t a good one? 🤨 I have so many things for this! Like there’s a type of question about which there is a fact of the matter, and that answer is based on criteria that currently exist/have resolved, but those criteria aren’t like normal things in the natural world that we can measure ~objectively ### [Tweet, 06:13 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742428946392580243) · 11 likes Thank god I didn’t get in to Harvard bc then I’d have to have a take on all this ### [Reply to @ilex_ulmus, 06:20 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742430618481283482) · 1 like > **Holly ⏸️ Elmore (@ilex_ulmus):** @AaronBergman18 Otoh I feel no obligation to No u have to or else u have to resign as alumnus sorry I don’t make the rules ### [Reply to @ilex_ulmus, 06:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742430963181728041) · 1 like > **Holly ⏸️ Elmore (@ilex_ulmus):** @AaronBergman18 You’ll have to fire me Ok ur fired ### [Reply to @austinc3301, 19:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742626100474224916) · 2 likes > **Agus 🔸 (@austinc3301):** @algekalipso This is like level 2 of @AaronBergman18’s take > > (quoting @AaronBergman18: I honestly think these should be, if not totally OTC, at least de facto available ~everywhere (like fire extinguishers) I complain about gatekeeping stimulants and random other drugs, but gatekeeping emergency pain relief comes pretty close to evil…) Great minds 🤝😎 ### [Reply to @Alex__H13, 20:20 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742642146291642660) · 3 likes > **Alex Hunt 🏹 (@Alex__H13):** Donated £64 to this. A pound for every day of vegtarianism so far 🐮🐑🐷🐔🐟 > > (quoting @SpacedOutMatt: Last day!!) 🔥🔥🔥 ### [Reply to @mauraball, 21:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742661968001995263) · 1 like > **MAURA (@mauraball):** 90% of startups fail. > > Why? > > Because they give up. > > They have no more energy or creativity to solve problems. > > Want to be the 10%? > > Don't give up. I think this is satire ### [Reply, 22:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742669971417677829) · 1 like You’ll do 10:1 odds? So I give you 100 if not real and get $1000 if it is? ## Thursday, January 4, 2024 ### [Reply to @JeremiahDJohns, 04:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742771417580523775) · 4 likes > **Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 (@JeremiahDJohns):** I need to know what Drunk Pigeon Hour podcast is Jeremiah you’re invited as a guest but fair warning this is not Dwarkesh or 80k or Neoliberal - I will do zero (intentional) prep for it (Before publishing I get them transcribed, put in a google doc, and then guests can indicate anything they want cut so it’s low stakes) ### [Reply, 05:08 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742775024069615869) · 2 likes Well they are now ### [Reply to @JeremiahDJohns, 05:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742785979868491896) · 3 likes > **Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 (@JeremiahDJohns):** @AaronBergman18 @Laura_k_Duffy @SpacedOutMatt I have a policy that the only good podcasts are those that invite me as a guest, and all the rest are cowards, so I accept Wait lfg I will dm you ### [Reply to @inerati, 15:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1742927588191060153) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @inerati is no longer available.)_ How much of this is no bed frame? Asking for a friend (I lied the friend is me) ### [Reply to @EmilybyNight, 20:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743005688467517778) · 1 like > **Emily (@EmilybyNight):** what notes app can I make my entire personality? need recs Physical white board ## Friday, January 5, 2024 ### [Quote tweet, 14:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743272421967159690) · 20 likes New policy (successfully limited damage radius once 😤): always ask someone you know 1-1 before doing anything new/weird/not what you were hired for > **Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18):** Did anyone else make a series of relatively small and inconsequential but kinda embarrassing faux pas when entering the corporate world for the first time? > > Like apparently ur not supposed to ask a random (relevant) question in a Slack channel with a couple dozen people? ### [Thread, continued, 14:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743272423678419383) · 3 likes The wise learn from the mistakes of others (me) ### [Reply to @inerati, 14:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743272737882165401) · 4 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @inerati is no longer available.)_ I do not feel gayer on dextroamphetamine I don’t think it affects my hormones beyond marginal changes in cortisol and such ### [Reply to @beala, 14:47 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743283170487701562) · 1 like > **Alex Beal 🆎 (@beala):** @AaronBergman18 No, I want to see you completely unhinged with no regard for consequences. One day I will fly free like a bird ### [Reply to @m_ashcroft, 15:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743286275312857208) · 3 likes > **Michael Ashcroft (@m_ashcroft):** connections in the mind can be so bizarre > > I just ate a spoonful of almond butter and it somehow reminded me of the Arbiter from Halo Real ### [Reply to @inerati, 15:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743296837186883766) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @inerati is no longer available.)_ True for plants, the opposite for animals ### [Reply to @Littoral_Gecko, 16:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743307791249350743) · 2 likes > **A Gecko🦎 (@Littoral_Gecko):** This miiiight be a tad too self-conscious. > > Make some faux pas, learn from them. Yes, ask people for advice on office culture, but you’re allowed to make mistakes—everyone has. In my experience, most people are understanding. Yeah I agree with the second part I think the too self conscious version would be just not doing the thing and not asking anyone ### [Reply to @focusfronting, 16:41 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743311726890606607) · 9 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @focusfronting is no longer available.)_ Wait why? He’s right that literal enforcement of all laws would be very bad (underage drinking, speed limits, mass deportation, copyright lawsuits for memes) ## Saturday, January 6, 2024 ### [Reply to @Nash076, 02:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743466776782889418) · 46 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @Nash076 is no longer available.)_ Grandfather recently told me he remembered choosing who to hire for a NYC finance intro level job (probably 70s?) from a stack of six—SIX—resumes ### [Reply to @beffjezos, 03:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743470374845628583) · 9 likes > **Beff (e/acc) (@beffjezos):** In college I experimented with various positions in philosophy class. > > One semester I wrote the most pro-communism essay. Got +5 sigma above avg. > > Next semester, I wrote a pro-capitalist essay. Got -4 sigma below avg. > > That's when I knew college is an indoctrination pipeline. Lol there is no 5 sigma above average unless you were graded by some unknown system that distinguishes between 99.99th and 99.999th percentile ### [Reply to @diviaprocessing, 03:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743473735217144091) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @diviaprocessing is no longer available.)_ Hope it’s bait ### [Reply to @diviaprocessing, 03:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743474530532679894) · 1 like _(The tweet being replied to by @diviaprocessing is no longer available.)_ Oh lol ### [Quote tweet, 03:29 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743474955910554028) · 123 likes No other part of society where this degree of infantilization is within the Overton window > **Quoting Alin Gragossian, DO, MPH (@AG_EM33):** Patient-doctor here. It’s nice getting quick blood test results as a patient, but there NEEDS to be a way for the results to be interpreted/checked before releasing them to patients. So many ppl getting anxious over RDW & things that we barely look at as docs (sorry #hemetwitter) ### [Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 14:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743638985266663544) · 2 likes > **Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver):** @GjMcGowan @arthur_spirling @notanastronomer Didn't know if was that much of a difference but check out the BK price differences! > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDKjxwdXcAApBgg.jpg) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDKjxyWW0AAsN3R.jpg) …and more expensive is better if it reduces bacon and egg consumption ### [Reply to @frances__lorenz, 14:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743643343697912065) · 9 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @frances__lorenz is no longer available.)_ How come BOTECs are never high confidence. Just once I want to be absolutely certain ### [Reply to @JosephPolitano, 15:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743663343942926744) · 2 likes > **Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 (@JosephPolitano):** \[jokingly\] women in same-sex couples also tend to have better labor market outcomes after giving birth/adopting than women in opposite-sex couples, encouraging bi women into same-sex marriages could be good for wage inequality and employment rates too. > https://www.census.gov/library/working-papers/2023/adrm/CES-WP-23-25.html > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDK48xFXEAEsHsj.png) Listen here bud, we need to have the exact opposite campaign or else I’m gonna be the only single cousin until the singularity arrives ### [Reply to @Trail_Cams, 16:17 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743668058105770264) · 3 likes > **trailcam (@Trail_Cams):** > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDK_CUxWUAAdC8K.jpg) @RafaRuizdeLira strange bear ### [Quote tweet, 16:29 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743671236750659905) · 61 likes Yes, Eliezer is right about a lot but \*confident\* disbelief in animal (and other minds’) sentience is both wrong and potentially very dangerous Even if I thought he was, say, 80% likely to be right, the downside to being wrong warrants extreme caution > **Quoting Charbel-Raphael (@CRSegerie):** This post from @webmasterdave is still legendary > > Context: Eliezer sets out his theory of consciousness in a Facebook post, followed by a debate in the comments about animal consciousness. It's like the Super Bowl. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GCsFJcZWIAAOgaa.jpg) ### [Thread, continued, 16:29 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743671238898139172) · 14 likes FWIW I actually \*hope\* he’s right - that would mean the world is currently much better than I currently believe ### [Tweet, 16:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743673474785116574) · 3 likes I could have landed that plane if the door blew out and the pilots suddenly had a heart attack ### [Tweet, 16:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743676955491209451) · 3 likes Do people have thyroid takes? \- Avg TSH across 3 tests: 5.55 (high) \- Avg free T4: 1.17 (lower half of range but pretty normal) \- Not autoimmune ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDLI8vDXoAAF4TM.jpg) ## Sunday, January 7, 2024 ### [Reply, 00:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743784845929554236) · 1 like Kinda pedantic but I’m not strongly convinced about the true answer (ex post) — just strongly convinced that given what we know and can reasonably find out, the (ex ante) EV is negative ### [Thread, continued, 00:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743785400559157457) · 1 like I don’t have specific resources off the top of my head (might look for some later) but a lot of the work going in to my take is just seriously considering whether I’d want to live the lives of all wild animals, and my answer to this isn’t close at all - I’d much rather not exist ### [Reply to @daniel_271828, 02:22 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743820324234207552) · 3 likes > **zzDANIEL_ETH (@daniel_271828):** Pic with the dog > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDNDZBSaUAAKlTH.jpg) ### [Reply, 14:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1743997643955523661) · 1 like I think this is wrong because directionally sleep deprivation is an \*antidepressant\* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7839702/ ### [Reply, 14:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744003941929505001) · 1 like I think this is basically wrong and that the US has a ton of leverage over all of Israeli policy It’s so far outside the Overton window rn but economic sanctions alone would basically just work ## Monday, January 8, 2024 ### [Reply to @finmoorhouse, 01:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744174961479016878) · 4 likes > **Fin Moorhouse (@finmoorhouse):** Here's the path you travel. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDQksG9XMAAg9S2.jpg) STOP doing geography ### [Quote tweet, 01:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744175308155056361) · 13 likes I don’t believe in geography (this is a straight line starting from Seattle walking east (allegedly)) > **Quoting Fin Moorhouse (@finmoorhouse):** Here's the path you travel. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDQksG9XMAAg9S2.jpg) ### [Reply to @ElytraMithra, 01:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744176385311035856) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @ElytraMithra is no longer available.)_ Isn’t that the same thing? Like the point is that step 1 is due east and then from the walker’s POV every step is that same direction ### [Reply, 02:09 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744179543366070388) Isn’t the whole point here that from the walker’s POV the red line isn’t straight (ie the continuation of step 1) ### [Tweet, 04:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744211092501344530) · 18 likes It appears the electrical circuit in my room cannot handle 9 lamps, a monitor, a mini fridge, an air purifier, a space heater, an electric kettle, and a fan 😢 ### [Reply to @JgaltTweets, 04:20 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744212380433707141) · 5 likes > **JgaltTweets (@JgaltTweets):** @AaronBergman18 9 lamps? I know it’s really not many, should get a few more ### [Quote tweet, 06:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744247212891058495) · 35 likes Myers-Briggs isn’t “fake” - it’s not a good psychometric tool but like you’re allowed to categorize things however you want > **Quoting Alex Younger (@AlextheYounga):** @eigenrobot Why is Myer's Briggs fake? Everyone always says that, but I've never encountered a better alternative. ### [Thread, continued, 06:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744247215428620406) · 22 likes Here’s the Bergman Brain Classifier (each is a continuous scale but you can bin into high and low if you want) 1\) hedonic set point 2\) hedonic variance 3\) cringe tolerance 4\) decoupling tendency 5\) salience of social world ### [Reply to @RomanHauksson, 06:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744250978579226747) · 3 likes > **Roman Hauksson-Neill (@RomanHauksson):** it's a really good example a model that's memetically fit but not accurate / valid upon closer analysis Wdym not accurate? The model itself can’t be inaccurate right? ### [Reply to @ohwizenedtortle, 06:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744251156681932906) · 2 likes > **oh dandy lion🔸 (@ohwizenedtortle):** @AaronBergman18 Classic ENTP belief lol I’m not extroverted ### [Reply to @RuxandraTeslo, 09:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744293833150541903) · 3 likes > **Ruxandra Teslo 🧬 (@RuxandraTeslo):** What was the advice 👀 ### [Reply to @sullyj3, 10:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744311414137716796) · 5 likes > **░▒▓▒░▒▓▒░▒▓▒░ (@sullyj3):** @AaronBergman18 You know it's legit because it's named after someone's surname It’s actually named after Ingrid Bergman (no relation), just a coincidence I have it too ### [Reply to @APA_Planning, 11:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744319336553046017) · 1 like > **American Planning Association (@APA_Planning):** An affordable housing crisis grips the U.S. Beyond zoning reform, preserving existing stock is vital. Learn how local governments can use zoning strategies to safeguard smaller, older homes in this month's Zoning Practice. https://bit.ly/47Ptd7I I am commenting to contribute to the ratio, which is well deserved ### [Reply to @haskallcurry, 20:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744463030769824030) > **John (@haskallcurry):** By this logic astrology isn't fake; why shouldn't I be able to classify people by the positions of the planets when they were born AFAIK astrology doesn’t just do that- it also makes further claims about the meaning of those categories An astrology that literally just sorted people and didn’t say anything about personality or compatibility vis a vis the categories wouldn’t be fake ### [Reply to @JMannhart, 21:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744473224975454270) · 2 likes > **Jonathan Mannhart 🔎 (@JMannhart):** @AaronBergman18 @haskallcurry It's all on the Wiki page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers–Briggs_Type_Indicator# > > (Also I'm simplifying the validity & reliability problems with MB for the sake of argument, ofc some of the results are valid/reliable. But way less than the Big Five, and way way less than what Myers-Briggs itself implies.) Ok thanks. I wasn’t aware of all this. Still seems somewhat different from astrology in that the adjectives used have literal meanings with direct, intrinsic importance even if other implications are mostly bogus ### [Reply to @GjMcGowan, 22:09 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744481473023918255) · 4 likes > **George McGowan (@GjMcGowan):** @AaronBergman18 Is this an American thing where your electricity grid can’t handle kettles? Ya only one of us can make tea at a time or else all the ventilators and dialysis machines and such shut down across the country ### [Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 22:20 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744484131558338981) · 2 likes > **Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver):** @AaronBergman18 It's generally considered best practice to feed bedrooms via >1 circuit, so next time the breaker pops you might check for live outlets I’m thinking a small nuclear reactor in the room would be a good second source of electricity ### [Reply to @NoahTopper, 22:40 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744489208411033640) · 2 likes > **Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper):** I’m starting a new Flat Earth movement. Our founding principle: the Earth isn’t flat, but it \*should be\*. > > (quoting @AaronBergman18: I don’t believe in geography (this is a straight line starting from Seattle walking east (allegedly))) Yes I’m in ### [Reply to @besttrousers, 22:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744492739104788934) · 2 likes > **Matt Darling 🌐🏗️ (@besttrousers):** I used to argue with people about causal inference techniques. What’s ur fave? Mine is qualitative mechanistic reasoning with no econometrics or data whatsoever ### [Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 23:40 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744504435068260539) · 1 like > **Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver):** @AaronBergman18 Tbh I think you'd still have the same problem because you'd feed the whole building without changing the load on that particular circuit It’ll be its own circuit just for the tea kettle ## Tuesday, January 9, 2024 ### [Reply to @RicardoCaiano, 04:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744570583063441803) · 25 likes > **Ricardo Caiano 🥯☕ (@RicardoCaiano):** oh right mean vs median 👍 ### [Reply to @jkcarlsmith, 04:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744578655739592960) · 2 likes > **Joe Carlsmith (@jkcarlsmith):** Another essay. This one is about the connection between deep atheism (that is, a fundamental mistrust towards Nature — discussed in my last essay) and seeking control. https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/08/when-yang-goes-wrong Stop, too many bangers 😩 ### [Quote tweet, 04:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744584631721083325) · 6 likes Average about 8-10/day ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDYCeeMWUAAoCIz.jpg) > **Quoting 🐌 (@Wheeema):** “tea is nasty, its for old people” > > me: > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDVn-uWbUAAW-Zt.jpg) ### [Reply, 06:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744608485679980655) · 1 like What ### [Reply to @bijibiji2023, 06:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744609938771435677) · 1 like > **hoff 🧒🏻😻 (@bijibiji2023):** @AaronBergman18 Trying to avoid ghosts in the hallway at night wish me luck Oh ok good luck ### [Reply to @BootsPlatypus, 14:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744729282784670153) · 3 likes > **Platypussy in Bio (@BootsPlatypus):** @AaronBergman18 Wait what. You drink tea 8-10 times a day? That doesn't make sense 2 teabags per occasion bc I am a man of chaos ## Wednesday, January 10, 2024 ### [Quote tweet, 04:48 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744944342731563132) · 8 likes Tag urself (yes I know some of these contradict - I contain multitude) ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDdJoaQWIAAuYGc.jpg) > **Quoting eve (@agitbackprop):** qt with a meme you made > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDdHgaeW4AAKgIm.jpg) ### [Reply to @TylerAlterman, 04:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744945638532321564) · 13 likes > **Tyler is finishing a book, slow to reply (@TylerAlterman):** Legibility unlocked. Nice to meet you, I’m Tyler, I “create projects.” > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDdImhUW4AAWtSQ.jpg) I remember a couple years ago having this conversation and playing the role of the grandparents, and my actual thought was like “very cool that you have a weird unconventional answer to ‘what do you do’ but like what I really want to know is ‘where does your money come from?’ ” ### [Reply to @albrgr, 05:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744951316948955612) · 5 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @albrgr is no longer available.)_ To state the obvious, the paper doesn’t attempt to consider the general equilibrium effects of making eviction harder or easier (ie I’d expect it to get harder/more expensive for everyone but especially eviction-prone demographics to rent at all if eviction becomes harder) ### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 05:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744951424352387541) · 5 likes > **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** Fuck... > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDdPcUaXYAEYvoH.jpg) \*swipes left\* ### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 05:19 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744952018609778853) · 3 likes > **Aaron Bergman, January 1, 2024:** I can’t vouch for the entire field ofc because I don’t know it, but evo psych seems basically fine and legitimate People may co-opt it, or selectively cite it… 39\) Microsoft Word is an excellent amateur graphic design tool ### [Reply to @ohwizenedtortle, 05:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744952465022197950) · 3 likes > **oh dandy lion🔸 (@ohwizenedtortle):** @AaronBergman18 @absurdlymax Prejudice strikes again https://x.com/ohwizenedtortle/status/1692652355366641736?t=8QzCUnldlcq-X9RErPPMpw&s=19 I would like to represent the non-creepy weirdo demographic ### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 05:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744952589907628217) · 3 likes > **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** @AaronBergman18 @ohwizenedtortle You do 👍 😊 ### [Reply to @Austen, 05:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744958668695622007) · 2 likes > **Austen Allred (@Austen):** The Overton Window has shifted so severely over the past three years that it's difficult to even wrap my mind around ### [Reply to @alt_truistic, 06:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744963814917902421) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @alt_truistic is no longer available.)_ [![I Dont Believe You Lies GIF](https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video_thumb/GDdbVrnXwAEnuXd.jpg)](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744963814917902421/photo/1) (gif, plays on X) ### [Reply, 06:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744963976654467262) · 1 like Secret third thing ### [Thread, continued, 06:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744964018329059433) · 2 likes Jk I have no idea what any of this means ### [Tweet, 07:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1744978311074205726) · 33 likes ☹️ ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDdohrEXQAAv3KP.jpg) ### [Reply to @littIeramblings, 17:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1745129297549877399) · 1 like > **sarah (@littIeramblings):** I just realised that I had direct messages disabled for anyone I don’t follow, this was unintentional! So if u want to reach out for a chat (especially if u want to be on my podcast 😇) please do! My DMs are open I wanna be on ur pod ### [Reply to @thechosenberg, 18:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1745150567201046680) · 17 likes > **rosey🌹 (@thechosenberg):** I already resent my parents for creating me, I can’t imagine how he feels > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDf1y4PWoAEfNGl.jpg) I relate to this guy mostly bc he also uses multiple levels of parentheses ### [Reply to @littIeramblings, 23:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1745228651363242289) > **sarah (@littIeramblings):** ofc what do u wanna talk about this time idk the honest answer is 'whatever u/ppl want to hear me talk about' (subject to veto by me) ### [Thread, continued, 23:41 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1745229382006743316) also very happy to wing it ## Thursday, January 11, 2024 ### [Reply to @littIeramblings, 10:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1745396214420390353) > **sarah (@littIeramblings):** let’s wing it 🪽 ### [Reply to @frances__lorenz, 15:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1745474276021461136) · 1 like _(The tweet being replied to by @frances__lorenz is no longer available.)_ Poast x ### [Reply to @sama, 16:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1745476195825676501) · 2 likes > **Sam Altman (@sama):** Low point: turned down at the bar of the Ritz for a meeting because I'm wearing "sport shoes" > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CkXCIcZUUAAc3gc.jpg) He just like me fr ### [Reply to @nocontextmemes, 16:40 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1745485868947677636) · 2 likes > **no context memes (@nocontextmemes):** > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDgvVxxXUAAXDoF.jpg) ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDk2JXVXIAA-Oup.jpg) ### [Reply, 16:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1745488068377788467) I am a vector of misinformation ### [Reply to @frances__lorenz, 20:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1745540033774231584) _(The tweet being replied to by @frances__lorenz is no longer available.)_ lol I would also have done this ### [Reply, 20:26 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1745542779831284190) Guessing it’s intentionally weird and borderline social norm breaking as a marketing strategy to get people to share ### [Reply to @ElytraMithra, 20:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1745544338774347941) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @ElytraMithra is no longer available.)_ Great minds ## Friday, January 12, 2024 ### [Reply to @__drewface, 09:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1745735191732138475) · 1 like > **Andrew Rose (@__drewface):** Is it possible to occupy the conscious experience of my gut microbiome without basically hallucinating it or acting it, if that makes sense? > > Can I listen directly to the gut microbiome signals and notice them directly and vividly in conscious experience? > > Who has done this? I’m gonna go with no ### [Reply to @NoahTopper, 15:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1745832154729193945) · 2 likes > **Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper):** Any thoughts on reducing cortisol? Phosphatidylserine ### [Reply to @NoahTopper, 16:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1745852386365632650) · 2 likes > **Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper):** Taking a supplement that’s just an element goes pretty hard tbh. Like yeah bro I’m just taking some element 12, one of the base structures of the universe. I kinda doubt you’re taking pure magnesium. It’s always a salt (citrate, glycine, etc) afaict ### [Reply to @inerati, 17:20 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1745858216439824766) · 7 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @inerati is no longer available.)_ Intra-sex as well. Almost certainly testosterone explains variance in muscle mass (maybe strength as well?) better than lifting does among adult males ### [Reply to @mealreplacer, 17:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1745859052247175573) · 10 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @mealreplacer is no longer available.)_ Hot take but price taste and convenience aren’t enough for plant meat to replace animal It’s a model that fails out of distribution ### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 18:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1745878812716368155) · 5 likes > **Aaron Bergman, January 10, 2024:** 39\) Microsoft Word is an excellent amateur graphic design tool 40\) I used to think that consumers at large would choose plant based meat if it was at least as cheap, tasty, and convenient as animal meat I no longer think this is true ### [Reply, 18:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1745879355941646400) · 1 like Yes I love the contrarian energy ### [Reply, 23:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1745952906883297324) · 2 likes I don’t have a good point estimate but I’m enthusiastically supportive if this would be at least in part for earning to give Guess I’ll throw out .1% but this is out of nowhere ### [Reply to @BrandonGoldman, 23:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1745953763116925439) · 1 like > **Brandon Goldman (@BrandonGoldman):** If plant meat nails all three of those, why would that not be enough? Nutrition, though this operates at a few levels/time scales. And tbc I mean more like “molecular contents” than “how healthy on a scale of 1-10” ## Saturday, January 13, 2024 ### [Tweet, 00:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1745965280948265180) · 73 likes Made a custom GPT that is just normal, fully functional ChatGPT-4 but if it makes any money I'll donate it all I present: Donation Printer https://chat.openai.com/g/g-Mw5dOueTG-donation-printer ### [Reply to @historyinmemes, 16:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746201772371193969) · 5 likes > **Historic Vids (@historyinmemes):** Difference between a seagull and a crow's accuracy > > [video attached](https://x.com/historyinmemes/status/1746020058311078127/video/1) Deeply unserious bird ### [Reply to @inerati, 16:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746210467368903109) · 1 like _(The tweet being replied to by @inerati is no longer available.)_ Incorrect opinion ### [Reply, 17:41 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746226019122434366) · 1 like A couple reasons… Most fundamentally, the missing category is “nutrition” (or ‘nutrient profile’ if u prefer) Humans (and other animals) regulate nutrient intake in large part via intuition and preferences that manifest consciously (eg “I really feel like a steak”)… ### [Thread, continued, 17:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746226781944758498) · 1 like At a very short timescale, before your brain has figured out what nutrients to associate with eg a plant based burger, yes taste is the only proxy it has access to … ### [Thread, continued, 17:46 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746227290860658693) · 2 likes But over a medium timescale, it will stop associating the taste of beef (even perfectly emulated) with the nutrient profile of cow flesh, and so will not instantiate a preference for beef-tasting things like it used to (or ‘would’) ### [Thread, continued, 17:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746228173870673928) · 2 likes Maybe most importantly, over a longer timescale of at least a few years, I strongly suspect that most vegan recidivism is fundamentally caused by a similar process going on wrt beliefs/policies/behavioral patterns rather than individual meals ### [Reply, 17:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746229084881907770) And all this^ depends on a premise (which I think is true) that animal flesh provides humans a very important nutrient profile that we (1) don’t know how to and (2) couldn’t afford to replicate with plants/fungi/whatever ### [Reply to @SpacedOutMatt, 18:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746231600973513175) · 1 like > **Matt 🔸 (@SpacedOutMatt):** @AaronBergman18 @metakuna Very skeptical of your suggested pathway (plant based meats have poor nutritional profile -> consumers don't crave them in the same way as animal meats) because like 75% of the average American's diet is highly engineered craveable foods with poor nutritional profiles And yet Americans don’t have widespread arbitrary clinical micronutrient deficiencies! “Craveable” is endogenous here - there is a reason almost nobody eats exclusively donuts, skittles, and Doritos (or whatever literally tastes the best) ### [Reply to @PeterJAngel, 18:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746232116256428506) · 2 likes > **Peter🧅📈 (@PeterJAngel):** @AaronBergman18 @metakuna Does this logic extend to diet coke 😭? Uh idk? It would in the sense that you stop associating the taste with a sudden surge of fructose/blood sugar ### [Reply to @keithfrankish, 18:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746236110332711111) · 4 likes > **Keith Frankish (@keithfrankish):** Of course I don't deny that you have consciousness! Why would you think I deny that? What's illusory, according to illusionists, isn't conscious experience itself; it's the magical, scientifically inexplicable properties some philosophers think experiences have. When people talk about consciousness, the sui generis private, subjective nature of it is (implicitly) part of its definition I can layer on adjectives: (afaik) you deny genuine, subjective experience phenomenal consciousness ### [Reply to @PYeerk, 18:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746236712819298406) · 2 likes > **Yeerk.P 🦆 (@PYeerk):** 'Illusionists' like @keithfrankish are idiots and traitors to the human race > > (quoting @tomwelcomeclark: @2Philosophical\_ To be fair to illusionists like @keithfrankish it's not consciousness tout court they deny but of phenomenal, "what it's like" consciousness. Agreed that seems bizarre, but consciousness can be conceived as just functions. A lot easier to physicalize!) A little strong no? How about just “probably wrong”? ### [Reply to @inerati, 18:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746238476859605050) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @inerati is no longer available.)_ Might be willing to actually bet on smth here - what odds would you give capital share of income > labor share of income in the United States on Jan 1, 2029? I’d do 10:1 (ur $1k to my $100) ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDvio_VXQAA--v1.jpg) ### [Tweet, 19:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746252890996351139) · 48 likes Thought it was just a meme but now I am 100% seriously curious what is going on with girls and Taylor Swift Like evidently y’all don’t merely like her bc she makes songs you enjoy listening to. What else is going on? What do you see in her? What does she represent? ### [Quote tweet, 19:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746253969511370791) · 12 likes Me when I put on a collared shirt > **Quoting internet hall of fame (@InternetH0F):** my man looks good > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDth8vLWkAAWakc.jpg) ### [Reply to @tmychow, 23:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746307639556915452) · 7 likes > **trevor (taylor’s version) (@tmychow):** why do you think it's "not merely bc she makes songs you enjoy"? ### [Tweet, 23:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746319104837894162) · 2 likes Any web apps (or perhaps downloadable things) you’d personally pay say $5-$10 for? ## Sunday, January 14, 2024 ### [Reply to @tmychow, 00:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746321260450021682) · 7 likes > **trevor (taylor’s version) (@tmychow):** @AaronBergman18 i too have taylor on my hinge profile (and on my twitter, and on my website etc.) > > i still don't see your point tho - her songs really are that good! I mean I ~never see this with any other artist which indicates that really liking someone’s songs isn’t a sufficient condition for showing up like this And on Hinge in particular you only get a bit of space to signal information - seems substantial to use it in this way ### [Reply, 00:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746328972974055497) · 1 like No I mean like you’d give me a $5 one time tip or smth ### [Reply to @pli_cachete, 01:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746349165414674476) · 3 likes > **Rota Is In Israel🚪🧎‍♂️ (@pli_cachete):** The world if the infinite sum of 1/n was convergent > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDwnUSdWgAAZ1F1.jpg) Would look more like ∅ ### [Reply to @NathanB60857242, 02:13 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746354825531363792) > **Nathan Barnard (@NathanB60857242):** I don't think Guissepie Garibaldis revolution in the kingdom of the two scillies had really any support from a meaningful fraction of the ancien regime. > > The Shah maintained support of the army throughout the Iranian revolution and also controlled the oil feilds. Dude why do u know this ### [Tweet, 16:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746576180663247250) · 27 likes IT’S SNOWING ❄️⛄🌨️☃️🎿❄️⛷️🏂❄️🧊🏔️⛸️🏒🥌❄️🌨️☃️🎄🎁❄️🌬️🧣🧤❄️🏔️🚠🛷❄️🥶💎❄️🕯️🔥☕🍪❄️🌟💤❄️🌙🦌🛷🎅🤶❄️🌨️🎉🥳❄️🧦🎶❄️📚🛋️❄️🕰️🌨️❄️🔮🌨️🎈❄️🌐📡❄️🎨🖌️❄️🎭🎤❄️📺🎮❄️🍿🍫❄️🍜🥘❄️🍷🍺❄️🛀🧼❄️🧘‍♂️🧘‍♀️❄️🎆🎇❄️🏰🗝️❄️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♀️❄️🔍📚❄️🚀🪐❄️👽🤖❄️🎸🎷❄️🕹️🎲❄️🧩🃏❄️🏰🐉❄️🏹🛡️❄️🚂🎠❄️🏰🎢❄️🚤🏖️❄️🛶🌊 ## Monday, January 15, 2024 ### [Reply to @polisisti, 01:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746702563511083256) · 1 like > **Alessandro (@polisisti):** @AaronBergman18 9/10 tweet, could have been improved by more emojis Thx ❄️🚀👽❄️🦄🍔❄️🤖🍕❄️🐉🌈❄️🧙‍♂️🎸❄️🐘🚗❄️👻🥑❄️🔮🌮❄️🦖🏰❄️🎨🛸❄️🚀🍟❄️🌌🥨❄️🛒💎❄️🍩🍿❄️🦍🚀❄️🧜‍♂️🍭❄️🔥🍉❄️🧠🍪❄️🐱🎉❄️👽🚁❄️🐙🍦❄️🎈🐢❄️🧀🏍️❄️🎮🥥❄️🎪🍍❄️🚂🍣❄️🎤🌮❄️🚁🍔❄️🎃🚀❄️👑🍺❄️🍕🦜❄️🧁🏆❄️🍔🎠❄️🍕🛹❄️🥳🦕❄️🕹️🍿❄️🍟🛸❄️🍩🛶❄️🍪🚤❄️🍭🌊❄️🧁🏊‍♂️❄️🍿🏊‍♀️❄️🥤🧜‍♂️❄️🌮🧜‍♀️❄️🍺🐚❄️🍷🐠 ### [Reply, 01:37 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746708275423273384) Kinda doubt it. All good things are positively correlated in humans ### [Reply to @focusfronting, 05:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746770315915489465) · 4 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @focusfronting is no longer available.)_ 2/14, surely that’s not the high score ### [Reply to @ElytraMithra, 05:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746772406494965991) · 95 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @ElytraMithra is no longer available.)_ Real af, I honestly do not think ships should float like that Maybe a wooden boat but like not a cruise ship ### [Reply to @staffcommenter, 05:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746772583712686107) · 44 likes > **Staff Commenter (@staffcommenter):** \>put heavy piece of metal on ground > \>it sits > \>make it curvy and blow air horizontally past it > \>it move upward Fr planes do not make sense ### [Reply to @iggypoop, 07:20 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746794498842067041) · 28 likes > **🙂 poop! 🙂 (@iggypoop):** simple archimedes. if the weight of the ship below water is lower than the weight of the displaced water, it floats. basically, you want to make the boat have lesser average density than water. it's why you only see half of a boat above water level. the rest is empty space. Sounds fake ### [Quote tweet, 14:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746904005089931368) · 4 likes ☹️ > **Quoting Frances Lorenz (@frances__lorenz):** Okay :( ### [Reply to @alt_truistic, 15:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746911046650994995) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @alt_truistic is no longer available.)_ Lfg ### [Reply to @the_megabase, 15:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746914113937195343) · 1 like > **megabase (@the_megabase):** > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GD4VkqrWEAAb6l4.jpg) Very non-relatable meme ### [Reply to @inerati, 15:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746915552323322241) _(The tweet being replied to by @inerati is no longer available.)_ NSAIDS overrated, SAIDS underrated ### [Reply, 19:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746978751462691311) ### [Quote tweet, 20:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1746997097532944429) · 28 likes Planes aren’t real. The elites want you to believe that huge metal tubes can give flying piggy back rides > **Quoting Sheel Mohnot (@pitdesi):** @paulg very on-brand for Russians but they had the An-225 so the rationale doesn't make sense > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GD5COkFWkAAPQnw.png) ### [Reply to @nomanautomata, 21:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747004755631546560) · 5 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @nomanautomata is no longer available.)_ Me but the last bit is spoken out loud ### [Reply to @nickcammarata, 23:19 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747035770941026341) · 12 likes > **Nick (@nickcammarata):** would you +1% your net worth for being tortured for a day with your memories then removed and there’s no side effects No amount of money, and I’d pay any price for it not to occur I predict that almost everyone who thinks otherwise would change their mind during the experience ### [Reply to @daniellellecco, 23:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747039364826235341) · 24 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @daniellellecco is no longer available.)_ We super literally do not know how they work, except in the case of a few tiny c-elegans-analogous models created specifically for study We know how to make them but only in the sense that we “knew how to make” babies before modern biology ### [Quote tweet, 23:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747039964028624991) · 6 likes You might not like it but this is what peak performance looks like > **Quoting Rota 🚪🧎‍♂️ (@pli_cachete):** I have developed a stimulant rotation that consists of caffeine, dextroamphetamine, nicotine, and modafinil where I am using none more than 2 days a week. I have no science to back me up but I think it avoids acclimatization and dependency. Never heard of anyone else doing this ### [Reply to @randomstring729, 23:40 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747041105466593696) · 4 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @randomstring729 is no longer available.)_ U-shaped curve (upside down) More hornt -> less need for it for arousal, especially the more superstimuli forms ### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 23:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747041893186248812) · 2 likes > **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** Seems wrong \- guy who has never been tortured ### [Reply to @daniellellecco, 23:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747043643460931659) · 13 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @daniellellecco is no longer available.)_ GPT-4 base model for text completion. I give it a string “The following is a poem about blueberries: ” And then it returns some text, but just consider the very first token to be maximally specific. Nobody, including at OpenAI, can describe the process that generated that… ### [Thread, continued, 23:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747044322371879027) · 12 likes token at any level other than writing out a several-billion step algebraic expression that takes the embeddings of my prompt as an input and then which simplifies to a number that directly corresponds to that first token ### [Reply to @halcyon_hazel, 23:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747045532206248300) · 4 likes > **❤️‍🔥 hazel ❤️‍🔥 (@halcyon_hazel):** @randomstring729 @AaronBergman18 people in my family hit puberty at 18-20 Omg me fr (I was 5’2” in senior year of high school, stopped growing at 5’7”) ## Tuesday, January 16, 2024 ### [Reply to @daniellellecco, 00:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747049732617142398) · 14 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @daniellellecco is no longer available.)_ At some level I agree! But for almost all intents and purposes this is not helpful at all - if you want to know whether your AI is giving you information it knows to be false, for example, you quite literally can’t tell from that long algebra expression ### [Reply to @RethinkPriors, 00:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747050769612771448) · 1 like > **Rethink Priorities (@RethinkPriors):** At least 290 billion yellow mealworms are farmed annually, and while the larvae may be considered for human consumption, it's likely to play a more immediate role as a replacement for fishmeal. Seems bad ☹️ ### [Reply to @4confusedemoji, 00:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747051448314048756) · 2 likes > **olivia (@4confusedemoji):** @WillowChem python and rpy2, fuck using actual r \* picking a fight \* ### [Reply to @daniellellecco, 01:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747071740054794705) · 9 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @daniellellecco is no longer available.)_ Afaict, LLMs saying things they “know” to be false is super well documented and not controversial (Ik “know” is doing some work here but I think it checks out) ### [Thread, continued, 01:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747072034033549811) · 6 likes And why wouldn’t this be the case? The internet has plenty of lying for the model to train on Also trivial example: ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GD7YwaHW8AA5dD1.jpg) ### [Reply to @daniellellecco, 01:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747075240562217268) · 5 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @daniellellecco is no longer available.)_ I don’t think there is a fundamental difference, I agree! Totally demoralize the situation and just taking things at face value, the point here isn’t that LLMs are bad or taking an oppositional stance in some sense… ### [Thread, continued, 01:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747075961193988295) · 4 likes It’s that you might for very good reasons want to know if the thing you’re talking to is saying information it knows to be false (which I’m happy to call “lying” but that word has moral connotations) … ### [Thread, continued, 02:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747076424391901498) · 4 likes \- and my point is that we can’t tell because we don’t know how the thing works (!) in any sense other than that mechanistic algebraic equation which doesn’t help! ### [Reply to @daniellellecco, 02:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747080262465286258) · 3 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @daniellellecco is no longer available.)_ A couple levels to answer this The highest one is just like “idk whatever I am doing when I write the words “I am 25 years old’ \[I am not 25\] ” Probably the best level is like: You have the long ass algebra expression. Many facts about the world are embedded in it, somehow… ### [Thread, continued, 02:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747081630781432043) · 4 likes At some level these facts and concepts (which I should have added above) are exclusively about language, but included here are things like “if some text is a person asking about the weather right now, and previously there is some text saying that it’s raining, ### [Thread, continued, 02:22 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747081897920926207) · 3 likes The dialogue is likely to be completed with a person saying “it’s raining” unless it is also in the text above that the answered is a compulsive liar, in which case they will say it’s not raining” ### [Thread, continued, 02:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747083304556204207) · 3 likes Anyway, long story short, this results in some subpart of the algebra equation in perentheses evaluating to some figure which is like “probability that the next tokens are going to be claiming some things that a person described as ‘a liar’ are more likely to say … ### [Thread, continued, 02:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747084758134161408) · 2 likes ^ this is during training And then if ur using the LLM, this same probability subsystem is higher or lower depending on the input/context window tokens So “know” cashes out as this subsystem being high There’s more to be said here but 6 tweets or however are enough rn lol ### [Reply to @littIeramblings, 17:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747308598495940980) · 3 likes > **sarah (@littIeramblings):** genuine question inspired by this recent 44-chapter podcast interview with Tyler Cowen - is there such thing as too many takes? > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GD9tvn1W4AEl2xR.jpg) No ### [Reply to @littIeramblings, 17:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747308768302444715) · 1 like > **sarah (@littIeramblings):** even this is proving too ambitious > > (quoting @littIeramblings: I think in 2024 I will just be shooting for a consistent skin care routine, I’m not feeling up to much) I still think skincare is fake ### [Reply to @bijibiji2023, 17:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747311554477842495) · 1 like > **hoff 🧒🏻😻 (@bijibiji2023):** the whole “palestinian rights are \_\_\_ rights!” trend is just another example of western narcissism. what if palestinian rights aren’t abortion rights or trans rights? do they deserve to deaf ears and massacres if they don’t fit cleanly into your cookie cutter libtard yard sign? > > (quoting @narrenhut: Yes, there is. It's half-assed intersectionality. Why is Israel a capitalism issue? The same reason why climate change is a trans rights issue. Because everything must be everything to everyone even if the causal links are tenuous at best and nonexistent at worst.) Banger ### [Reply to @pli_cachete, 17:46 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747314297665978827) · 1 like > **Rota Is In Israel🚪🧎‍♂️ (@pli_cachete):** How to fill out pdf form without Adobe free trial bullshit Word + insert textbox ### [Reply to @NathanpmYoung, 17:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747317377040052565) · 2 likes > **Nathan 🔎 (@NathanpmYoung):** One thing I don't get is why the US doesn't only protect ships within its coalition. > > Why is the US feeling so altruistic as to protect ships that aren't paying or helping? Global economy -> global recession Doesn’t seem altruistic to me at all ### [Reply to @ElytraMithra, 18:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747318526895960156) · 5 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @ElytraMithra is no longer available.)_ I could use some hypomania fr ### [Reply to @sciencegirl, 18:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747330314643411409) · 2 likes > **Science girl (@sciencegirl):** Physics! > > [video attached](https://x.com/astheticviews/status/1747091264930201841/video/1) “You have cancer” ### [Reply to @sciencegirl, 18:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747332006923424000) · 1 like > **Science girl (@sciencegirl):** Squirrel contemplating watching snowfall > > 📹Willem Span > https://x.com/Nikkivixxen/status/1741227214891569528/video/1 Ideal state ### [Reply to @Kirsten3531, 19:04 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747334096571801821) · 3 likes > **Kirsten (@Kirsten3531):** What is with people asking me if I miss my baby while he's at nursery? I don't, it's really not that long a time, but thanks for making me sound like a bad person! My parents to me 1 week after I move out: “do you miss us?” Me: “uh not yet it hasn’t been that long sorry” ### [Quote tweet, 19:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747338707512987865) · 60 likes Lol at me bringing my dad my dad to an EA DC meetup (first for both of us) when I was 16 We were the youngest and oldest respectively by at least a decade > **Quoting depths of wikipedia! (@depthsofwiki):** My favorite people at Wikipedia editor meetups are parents who get dragged there by their precocious teens. They're always like, "I just came to be a good mom since this is all my kid talks about" and then they gradually get more into it than anyone else <3 ### [Reply to @SpacedOutMatt, 19:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747344179145961673) · 2 likes > **Matt 🔸 (@SpacedOutMatt):** @AaronBergman18 Based. How did it go? Like fine/good I think, but it mostly quenched my curiosity and I realized it wasn’t worth like a multi-hour excursion by metro on a Tuesday night to talk to ppl twice my age for a little while ### [Quote tweet, 19:46 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747344540137119896) · 5 likes Presented with one comment > **Quoting Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** If you want to present something without comment retweet it 🙄 ### [Reply to @Mihonarium, 20:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747348637183578294) > **Mikhail Samin (@Mihonarium):** @AaronBergman18 😅 when I was 13, I dragged my dad to a Wikipedia event in Moscow > I think I still have some flags 10 years later > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Party_in_Moscow_2013-05-18_(Before%3B_Krassotkin%3B_11).JPG > At 15, I was already organising Pastafarian meetups, somehow without any parental involvement Based ### [Tweet, 20:22 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747353641638371515) · 17 likes Obligatory “me and who” ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GD_Y4AjWgAAmX_V.jpg) ### [Reply to @daniel_271828, 21:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747367829727309876) · 1 like > **zzDANIEL_ETH (@daniel_271828):** @IterIntellectus . @AaronBergman18 I think what your idea was missing is some baller aesthetics Agreed, let’s add those in ### [Reply to @littIeramblings, 22:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747393264519406074) · 2 likes > **sarah (@littIeramblings):** oh yeah I’ve heard of that Wait literal vitamin A induces cell regeneration and people are mostly using this for the \*skin\*???? Like have people tried injecting it?? ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GD_86YQXEAAipOC.jpg) ### [Reply to @frances__lorenz, 23:10 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747395858243465724) · 1 like _(The tweet being replied to by @frances__lorenz is no longer available.)_ lol yeah I agree, I think most of the letter vitamins have been studied enough that we would know if it was like a panacea drug ## Wednesday, January 17, 2024 ### [Tweet, 01:20 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747428531448005079) · 27 likes Name a thinker/writer I’ll be familiar with (can be urself), I’ll tell you what they get wrong (inspired by @jkcarlsmith being wrong about meta-ethics and @ESYudkowsky being wrong about philosophy of mind) ### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 01:26 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747430085613822300) · 2 likes > **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** @AaronBergman18 @jkcarlsmith @ESYudkowsky me Too easy, value realism is true and you think it’s not ### [Reply to @tautologer, 01:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747430401918828630) · 1 like > **tautologer (@tautologer):** idk if the 240W of ultra-bright LED corn bulbs are fixing my brain or whatever but they are impressively bright, so much so that I don't notice when the sun goes down. like I look out the window and I'm viscerally shocked to find it's dark out Lfg ### [Reply to @AndyMasley, 01:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747432340333244532) · 3 likes > **Andy Masley (@AndyMasley):** @AaronBergman18 @jkcarlsmith @ESYudkowsky Let's gooooo what am I wrong about Need to do some oppo research but how did I not know u have a ‘stack ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEAgc6oXUAAGpZW.jpg) ### [Reply to @AndyMasley, 01:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747433255102558332) · 1 like > **Andy Masley (@AndyMasley):** @AaronBergman18 @jkcarlsmith @ESYudkowsky I bet all my foundational philosophy beliefs are wrong Anyway, this for sure (in that this would be an irrational choice for an egoist to make) ### [Reply to @inesferhumi, 01:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747438098097504659) · 4 likes > **Inés (@inesferhumi):** @AaronBergman18 @jkcarlsmith @ESYudkowsky Peter singer I could probably find a technical point to nitpick in one of his 10 gazillion papers but more importantly: emphasizes/calls for moral actions that aren’t appropriately ambitious. Like giving 10% instead of trying to make and give away millions of dollars ### [Reply to @goingawoll, 02:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747442692437471258) · 2 likes > **Amos Wollen 🦐🪰✴️ (@goingawoll):** @AaronBergman18 @jkcarlsmith @ESYudkowsky me please Tragically idk ur views super well but seems like you’re not a utilitarian? ### [Reply to @polisisti, 02:17 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747443038664741305) · 3 likes > **Alessandro (@polisisti):** Julia Galef lol I don’t know her views well enough! Like I basically think Scout Mindset was spot on, and it’s been a long time since I’ve heard her opine on other stuff ### [Reply to @polisisti, 02:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747445035283427684) · 1 like > **Alessandro (@polisisti):** @AaronBergman18 see it's a trick question because Galef isn't incorrect about anything Honestly she’s a good candidate for this lol ### [Reply to @goingawoll, 02:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747445575761428759) · 4 likes > **Amos Wollen 🦐🪰✴️ (@goingawoll):** @AaronBergman18 @jkcarlsmith @ESYudkowsky Ya, sorry :( You can always convert ### [Reply to @nickcammarata, 02:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747446915866771530) · 5 likes > **Nick (@nickcammarata):** has anyone looking for a house just tried knocking on the door of beautiful houses and ask if they’d be interested in selling? > > so many houses are beautiful and not on the market, surely a reasonable percentage of them would at least be open to a conversation about selling? Someone asked my dad about selling my parents’ car in the driveway He was interested and didn’t mind the ask at all but didn’t end up selling ### [Reply to @JMannhart, 02:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747450026291347465) · 4 likes > **Jonathan Mannhart 🔎 (@JMannhart):** @AaronBergman18 @jkcarlsmith @ESYudkowsky Elon Musk > > (Your tweet might have made you vulnerable to DDoS attacks.) Ya, I can always just turn my tweet into a lie by not responding lol Elon seems wrong about a lot. To name one, his AI alignment plan doesn’t make any sense ### [Reply to @eshear, 03:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747454246138613766) · 3 likes > **Emmett Shear (@eshear):** The unreasonable power of high but well-calibrated expectations “All my students who expected to get an A+ and were well calibrated about this did, in fact, get an A+” ### [Reply to @gdere, 03:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747467682587226437) · 2 likes > **Gabe De Repentigny (@gdere):** @AaronBergman18 @jkcarlsmith @ESYudkowsky Derek Parfit Hmm I feel like I don’t actually understand his views super well Tentatively I don’t think deontology and consequentialism converge ### [Reply, 04:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747469747887780128) · 1 like Alright lol. We’ve discussed this before but for the benefit of others: Highly misleading piece. It actually argues for life being \*meaningful\* but the title and vibes give off the impression (I think intentionally) … https://scouting-ahead.com/2022/12/25/its-a-wonderful-life/ ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEBCeYHWUAA4Ooq.jpg) ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEBCeX7WAAA3gi7.jpg) ### [Thread, continued, 04:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747470368736969213) · 1 like of life (or at least human life) basically being good, all things considered I think this is just in fact wrong, and is only plausible because you were born into some exceptionally lucky circumstances involving food, shelter, and access to medical care and pain relief ### [Reply, 04:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747472597313265962) _(The tweet being replied to is no longer available.)_ Haha yes join the club ### [Reply to @AndyMasley, 04:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747476030925775156) · 1 like > **Andy Masley (@AndyMasley):** @AaronBergman18 @SpacedOutMatt @jkcarlsmith @ESYudkowsky I genuinely don't know and am diversifying 😇 If you’re really unable to choose you should probably save and wait for more info to come in Don’t need a literal donor advised fund, can just make a second checking account to keep things neat if you want (I actually did this for smth) ### [Reply to @loveofdoing, 04:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747482126826500429) · 2 likes > **loveofdoing (@loveofdoing):** embodied belied | middle thing | propositional knowledge > > What is the word you use to describe the middle thing? Vibe/art/simile or metaphor ### [Reply to @FeralPHunter, 16:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747653888642089322) · 4 likes > **𝔽. ℙ. ℍunter 🦅 (@FeralPHunter):** what the fuck is the 'divine feminine' An album by Mac Miller ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEDp8xvWEAADkO0.jpg) ### [Reply to @kindgracekind, 16:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747656340858622450) · 2 likes > **Grace (@kindgracekind):** William MacAskill Glad you asked! (There’s more I might be able to find) ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEDsLfqXUAM3QgL.jpg) ### [Reply, 16:26 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747656668190560299) · 1 like > **Coase’s "Net effect?" Ghost 🏴🕊️ (@GhostCoase):** @AaronBergman18 @jkcarlsmith @ESYudkowsky Me 😎 You’re an illusionist right? ### [Reply to @PiquantParvenu, 16:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747658495946523100) · 4 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @PiquantParvenu is no longer available.)_ No ### [Reply, 16:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747658682823758316) · 1 like > **Coase’s "Net effect?" Ghost 🏴🕊️ (@GhostCoase):** @AaronBergman18 @jkcarlsmith @ESYudkowsky Yeah. Well ur wrong! (P=90% maybe) ### [Tweet, 16:37 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747659329807769672) · 3 likes British rap/drill is so cute and endearing 🥹 ### [Tweet, 18:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747680387231334640) · 13 likes You might not like it but this is the ideal weather forecast ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEECDLbXcAATYxI.jpg) ### [Quote tweet, 23:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747764030339514440) · 7 likes Brilliant > **Quoting James Mulholland (@mulholo):** You are utilising a well-funded and functional health system. > > I am circumnavigating NHS wait times and OpenAI content policies by analysing my blood work in an unreleased episode of House. > > We are not the same. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEEn4SOWYAAbwph.jpg) ### [Reply to @nickcammarata, 23:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747766945875657115) · 1 like > **Nick (@nickcammarata):** joy comes from removing bad things, not adding good things > > the bad things are craving, aversion, tension, selfing, tanha, etc. they are like clouds. joy and freedom are the sky > > (quoting @jonnym1ller: Most people have their understanding of joy backwards. They think it's a feeling to be earned. It's not. It's our default state. It emerges effortlessly when we feel safe and welcome the full spectrum of our emotional experience.) I think the hedonic baseline you’re describing is positive for some, and maybe most, but probably not all people ### [Reply to @daniellellecco, 23:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747767031405879514) · 1 like _(The tweet being replied to by @daniellellecco is no longer available.)_ Ideal temperature ## Thursday, January 18, 2024 ### [Reply to @bryancsk, 00:22 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747776379603873886) · 4 likes > **Bryan Cheong 🥮 (@bryancsk):** If you work in tech you probably had a bunch of near misses with a 7 fig comp (I know I have). > > (quoting @anonynaut: ) Same except we’re counting the two after the decimal ### [Quote tweet, 00:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747784933811146842) · 15 likes Yeah it’s inaccessible with \*that\* attitude > **Quoting Alan Corey | Atlanta Real Estate Expert (@RealEstateMaxi):** One of my least-liked design elements of suburban design is this inaccessible landing I see in foyers. > > Any creative solutions for "staging" it out there? > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GD_g5CCXAAADE5l.jpg) ### [Reply to @JosephPolitano, 00:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747785558422675957) · 4 likes > **Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 (@JosephPolitano):** OMG they made a WMATA wrapped!!! > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEEtxulW4AANs5u.jpg) > (quoting @wmata: It's time for your mass transit year-in-review. Were you a wizard of the rails?🚄 A baroness of bus service? 🚍 An emissions reductions rockstar? 🌟 Get #YourMetroReport stats 📊 and see how they stack up to others. 🔍 Visit http://wmata.com/YourMetroReport. #wmata) I’m a pleb ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEFhs9CXsAANEcq.jpg) ### [Reply to @JgaltTweets, 01:04 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747787098722046217) · 2 likes > **JgaltTweets (@JgaltTweets):** @AaronBergman18 That's where you keep the cauldron of boiling oil ready to tip onto invaders, right? Sounds kinda mean. I just knock them out with syringes full of ketamine ### [Tweet, 01:08 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747788114213454096) · 59 likes ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEFkButXEAAQR64.jpg) ### [Quote tweet, 14:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747982417686630428) · 91 likes When we end predation we should keep pelican-capybara predation specifically > **Quoting Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE):** Pelican tries to eat capybara > > [video attached](https://x.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1747819887882318043/video/1) ### [Reply to @robertwiblin, 14:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747986034850177037) · 6 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @robertwiblin is no longer available.)_ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Sam_Altman_from_OpenAI ### [Reply to @dissproportion, 14:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747992821049479614) · 8 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @dissproportion is no longer available.)_ It’s fine for people to wear masks to protect themselves from pathogens ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEIeNFJWwAAyP-X.jpg) ### [Quote tweet, 14:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747994656611176714) · 6 likes I hope this trend continues so that I can personally buy a Boeing plane on clearance for like $12.99 Idk what I’d use it for exactly but it would be cool to have for sure > **Quoting Oren Cass (@oren_cass):** Absolutely brutal Boeing story > @nytimes. > > "What used to be a duopoly has become two-thirds Airbus, one-third Boeing. A lot of people are looking at Airbus and seeing a company run by competent people. The contrast with Boeing is fairly profound.” > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEDxHy7XYAAN8BX.png) ### [Reply to @AMAZlNGNATURE, 14:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1747996024201716013) > **Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE):** This world has 14 foot high, 5000 lb fish. > Mola molas are awesome. > > [video attached](https://x.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1747683965874348265/video/1) ### [Reply, 15:22 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748002834082119911) · 1 like > **Coase’s "Net effect?" Ghost 🏴🕊️ (@GhostCoase):** Do phenomenal realists believe in horny qualia Ya ### [Reply to @EddyVGG, 15:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748005858175332738) · 1 like > **EDDY V (@EddyVGG):** my grandpa is my hero > > he’s 85. self made man. sharper than anyone I know. successful chemical engineering career. tinkers with hardware, codes to automate manufacturing processes and always tries to make you laugh. > > always learning. always reading. always building. 100xer. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEGNEXNa0AAF7gv.jpg) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEGNEXNbQAAOHTt.jpg) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEGNEXNbsAAMsxn.jpg) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEGNEXNbsAEEwLE.jpg) Get my man a better monitor ### [Reply to @s8mb, 15:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748008618710950319) · 2 likes > **Sam Bowman (@s8mb):** It’s amazing seeing your baby react to pictures for the first time. These high contrast images are much easier for a newborn to see - it’s really remarkable how interesting they are to him! > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEHK2rZW4AAflQE.jpg) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEHK2rbWwAAwn6h.jpg) 🚨🧠NEW PATTERN 🧠🚨 ### [Tweet, 16:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748023242386710691) · 3 likes Kinda wild we got the ability to run python on an iPhone via LLM + virtual machine + user friendly GUI instead of like actual python or a non-LLM based app that runs in the cloud ### [Reply to @tescrealaccist, 17:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748038234980975022) · 2 likes > **TESCREAL/acc💙 (@tescrealaccist):** What do you mean? ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEJHgsAWkAAXfGC.jpg) ### [Reply to @AndyMasley, 17:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748041727066202235) · 2 likes > **Andy Masley (@AndyMasley):** Not into evo psych but I just saw a guy next to me at the gym squat 565 pounds and my immediate impulse was to offer him my resources and to fight in any local skirmishes on his side Yeah but can he write funny tweets sometimes ### [Reply to @paulg, 17:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748042161348608127) · 3 likes > **Paul Graham (@paulg):** "No one’s family name was changed, altered, shortened, butchered, or 'written down wrong' at Ellis Island or any American port. That idea is an urban legend." > > Wow. I didn't realize this till now. > > https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/01/no-ones-name-was-changed-at-ellis-island.html Surely this happened at least once ### [Reply to @jonnym1ller, 18:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748049857321820291) · 4 likes > **Jonny Miller (@jonnym1ller):** contrarian take: many of the people that society would label as “privileged” — especially those who have accrued fame + fortune — are also the humans who likely experience the most intense suffering, and you almost certainly wouldn't want to inhabit their mind + life > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEIwtLLWUAAir4H.jpg) “Many” yes that is probably true, the world is a big place, but I’d bet some typical notion of privilege is correlated with access to medical care and especially pain relief, as well as protection from the elements and hunger ### [Reply to @NoahTopper, 19:09 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748059995671810214) > **Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper):** It’s a good thing she did not ask for an orange > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEJaVvRWYAEO3Ra.jpg) Did u do it ### [Reply, 19:47 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748069639421104391) · 1 like Did u actually write any of these? ### [Reply to @NoahTopper, 19:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748070959175643212) · 1 like > **Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper):** @AaronBergman18 Yeah an apple is no biggy Husband of the century ### [Reply to @univrsw3th4rt, 21:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748096525090070797) · 2 likes > **universe sweetheart 💓🌈💭 (@univrsw3th4rt):** hmm. i don’t plan to ever be back on dating apps, but i wonder if making 22k tweets has helped me hone my personal voice enough that i’d able to be more myself in dating app convos. although now that i think about it prob not bc i haven’t had nearly as much convo practice > > (quoting @AaronBergman18: ) The dynamics are super different though lol. Like on-brand weirdness is kinda fine bc of social proof that comes from likes and comments (which followers self-selected in to) ### [Reply to @beffjezos, 22:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748106627935252971) · 2 likes > **Beff (e/acc) (@beffjezos):** Spotted in the SF Ferry building 👀🚢🏢 > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEJu7YdawAAg5Ss.jpg) Tag urself I’m the Rice Krispie treat ## Friday, January 19, 2024 ### [Reply to @ElytraMithra, 04:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748199076791750860) · 3 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @ElytraMithra is no longer available.)_ 👇 ### [Reply to @ElytraMithra, 04:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748199736807452693) · 4 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @ElytraMithra is no longer available.)_ Huh, to each their own ### [Reply to @ElytraMithra, 04:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748201746994782404) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @ElytraMithra is no longer available.)_ I basically disagree because we can see various population-level changes over time for various large populations (generally countries or ethnicities) It’s about finding the upstream causal population-level variables, not modeling biology mechanistically ### [Reply, 05:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748213436280971651) · 47 likes “Antarctica is the question and the answer is ‘yes’” ### [Reply to @RandomSprint, 14:29 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748352092136177968) · 2 likes > **RandomSprint🧭 (@RandomSprint):** @roboticparts We should make an RShiny version of Twitter. Correct take ### [Reply to @RandomSprint, 14:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748352331714793728) · 2 likes > **RandomSprint🧭 (@RandomSprint):** only 2 programming languages should exist > > R for research and Excel for anything else > > every other language is bloat R is the one true language Programming, natural, love, any kind of language ### [Reply to @daniel_271828, 15:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748374150232560039) · 1 like > **zzDANIEL_ETH (@daniel_271828):** > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEKonb-aAAApoc-.jpg) The pants are the only reasonable purchase ### [Tweet, 16:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748388885325852983) · 11 likes Successful (and IMO correct) steelman Link below ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEOGbLQXIAAxycl.jpg) ### [Reply to @AndyMasley, 17:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748402749711003735) · 5 likes > **Andy Masley (@AndyMasley):** Happy Friday folks > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEOMGCmXkAAzcKf.jpg) Washington, D.C. ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEOTCLQWwAAdeGk.jpg) ### [Reply, 17:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748404704927793521) · 1 like is exactly the same situation that let’s me access moral value ### [Reply to @alt_truistic, 18:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748405945569317081) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @alt_truistic is no longer available.)_ No such thing (jk, for me uninteresting/unimportant things start to seem interesting and important) ### [Reply to @RafaRuizdeLira, 18:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748406369198219701) · 2 likes > **Rafael Ruiz ⏸️🔸 (@RafaRuizdeLira):** @AaronBergman18 I accept that morality is tied to consciousness and that it's a necessary component for morality to arise, but not that morality has "the same kind of (metaphysical) nature" as consciousness. > > Many many things need consciousness without being consciousness itself Idgaf about metaphysics then. The critique Joe is getting at is “how could we, in the physical world, gain information about the Moral Realm” which is fundamentally epistemological ### [Reply to @RafaRuizdeLira, 18:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748406520193146988) · 1 like > **Rafael Ruiz ⏸️🔸 (@RafaRuizdeLira):** @AaronBergman18 Probably not the best example, but... money (as a social construct, not as the pieces of paper) necessitates consciousness with intentional states by agents. > > But I think it'd be weird to say that the social construct of money is metaphysically like consciousness. Wait what? No, I don’t think money depends on consciousness at all. Zombie world with money is totally conceivable ### [Reply to @RafaRuizdeLira, 18:08 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748407160269115899) > **Rafael Ruiz ⏸️🔸 (@RafaRuizdeLira):** @AaronBergman18 Bugs and many other animals can have consciousness without having morality. > > They can feel "ouch" and scurry away due to evolution, without a normative judgement. I endorse secret third thing quasi-realism (value realism, normative anti-realism) FWIW I think in practice the value part carries ~all the practical implications ### [Quote tweet, 18:10 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748407606798946639) · 5 likes Should I call myself a moral realist or anti-realist, if nuance is not an option? Poll below > **Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18):** @RafaRuizdeLira I endorse secret third thing quasi-realism (value realism, normative anti-realism) > > FWIW I think in practice the value part carries ~all the practical implications ### [Thread, continued, 18:10 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748407610024378672) · 2 likes ¿ ### [Reply to @eshear, 18:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748408615138898094) · 5 likes > **Emmett Shear (@eshear):** Nothing to see here, definitely no reason to think trying to make LLMs “safe” by training them extensively on behaviors-to-avoid will backfire > > (quoting @peterwildeford: ChatGPT is just like us... it also struggles to not think about an elephant) I agree this is an issue, but also I strongly expect RLHF with a bunch of examples of this (“do not show a \_\_\_\_\_”) would in fact work for images ## Saturday, January 20, 2024 ### [Quote tweet, 00:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748507999050596760) · 8 likes Nah my dad’s keyboard is one bit button that says “click to make an SMS group chat with 14 people who have never interacted in their lives” > **Quoting Jenni (@hashjenni):** Dad’s keyboard > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GENC5HqagAE6_7J.jpg) ### [Reply to @polisisti, 00:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748509027414270274) · 2 likes > **Alessandro (@polisisti):** the break in new 80,000 Hours Podcast episodes is letting me finally start getting through the backlog in my podcast queue 🎉 @80000Hours please sabotage this man’s plan ### [Reply to @nullpointered, 00:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748509404012462380) · 2 likes > **null (@nullpointered):** If you don’t live in the Bay Area or NYC you’re living in the periphery of the empire Noooo u have to include DC nooooo ### [Reply to @ManifoldLoveApp, 01:19 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748515485879005439) · 7 likes > **Manifold Love (@ManifoldLoveApp):** hypothesis: people tend to think of "flirting" as a collection of specific behaviors that you just have to identify when really it's a back-and-forth escalation towards physical intimacy > > (quoting @izs: Possibly controversial take: I think a lot of people don't just not know what flirtation looks like when they're the target, but also when they're the one doing the flirting. Because it's not really any different from "I'm enjoying playful conversation with this person".) The people (me) demand an infinite series of threads like this Dating for Hyperanalytical Idiots by Manifold Dot Love ### [Reply to @ZyMazza, 01:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748516447012151503) · 2 likes > **Zy (@ZyMazza):** The thing about this web design is that it’s perfect. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEPe8_VXYAAuNsc.jpg) Fr ### [Reply to @catehall, 02:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748534466656477353) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @catehall is no longer available.)_ This but for when I stay on an unimportant topic bc it’s interesting ### [Reply to @ManifoldLoveApp, 02:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748536850275323935) · 3 likes > **Manifold Love (@ManifoldLoveApp):** men: > > do you have trouble identifying when someone is flirting with you? / do you expect flirtation to look like it does in media (including porn)? I have no idea lol (no ground truth feedback) ### [Reply to @NLRG_it, 02:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748538860043178208) · 2 likes > **no longer respecting gardenias (@NLRG_it):** c++ is unsatisfying to me because its like, if im going to use a fancy language with all the bells and whistles why not just write in python or something Why not R, the purest of all languages ### [Reply to @austinc3301, 02:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748540037870817615) · 4 likes > **Agus 🔸 (@austinc3301):** how come when I say I’m in SF nothing happens but when treta does it… > > (quoting @ManifoldMarkets: @TetraspaceWest Come visit the Manifold office! Would love to meet you IRL) The mysterious anonpoasting mystique ### [Quote tweet, 03:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748544903020224532) · 105 likes Unironically please, we are begging for actual feedback > **Quoting Soren Iverson (@soren_iverson):** Tinder provide a reason why you swiped left > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GENunmFa0AAu1a4.jpg) ### [Reply to @JgaltTweets, 03:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748545472661172428) · 7 likes > **JgaltTweets (@JgaltTweets):** I think many (most?) men would find it demoralizing and give up And the status quo is any better? ### [Reply to @JgaltTweets, 03:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748552361675555230) · 4 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @JgaltTweets is no longer available.)_ Uh no it’s not “Stranger coming to my house” is not sufficient reason to try to kill that person ### [Reply to @Aella_Girl, 03:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748553502647844967) · 2 likes > **Aella (@Aella_Girl):** I think this is what \*most\* women are doing during dating, I'm just more self aware and explicit about it. My takeaway here is “play high but also signal being non-threatening/safe” Does that sound right? ### [Tweet, 03:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748553908471861467) · 20 likes It should be illegal for people to be married if they’re less than 1 year older than me Like you can still hang out, be bf/gf (gender neutral), but let’s not get ahead of ourselves ### [Reply to @NoahTopper, 04:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748556531811938566) · 2 likes > **Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper):** @AaronBergman18 sorry U have to get divorced sorry ### [Reply to @FairfieldPolice, 04:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748558779749138735) · 2 likes > **Fairfield, CA Police (@FairfieldPolice):** The fact that so many people fail to realize the safety issue this poses is astounding. All it takes is one panicked, distracted or bad driver and this could have resulted in injury to the kids. L + ratio ### [Reply to @NoahTopper, 04:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748561437469941975) · 2 likes > **Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper):** @AaronBergman18 My wife submits that she is 28 if that makes you feel any better U still have to go to jail. She gets off on a technicality ### [Quote tweet, 04:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748561934583038184) · 8 likes Remembering when I tried to monetize twitter infamy for the sake of all fishkind > **Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18):** Since this is getting some attention, gonna shamelessly plug an excellent giving opportunity if you care about animal suffering🐠 > > The Fish Welfare Initiative has a $180k funding gap - super high altruistic return IMO! https://www.fishwelfareinitiative.org/donate ### [Reply, 04:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748562783866663355) · 1 like Come to the light side ### [Reply to @ElytraMithra, 05:19 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748575950072164671) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @ElytraMithra is no longer available.)_ Real ### [Reply to @AskYatharth, 05:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748578806334378118) · 9 likes > **yatharth ༺༒༻ (@AskYatharth):** when do you notice you use boy/girl vs man/women? > > noticing i switch at around 28-32 It’s really not fair that guys have “guy” which should be gender neutral but isn’t ‘Girl’ sounds a bit too young, ‘woman’ a bit too formal. And ‘lady’ fell out of common usage for some reason ### [Reply to @livgorton, 05:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748582024451903979) · 2 likes > **Liv (@livgorton):** @AaronBergman18 poast profile for twitter feedback? > > more seriously, have seen profiles of men i know IRL and think are wonderful but their profiles are just kinda bad/generic or filter in unimportant ways. not everyone has access to honest feedback, seems good if possible? Dming, maybe I should just poast tho lol ### [Reply to @maebichka, 05:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748585483993542906) · 2 likes > **Gwenhwyfar (@maebichka):** Oh nothing too fancy just a nitpick about wording! - if u tell an average guy "women need to know they're safe," the guy will think "ok got it be as nonviolent and asexual as possible" > > So a better way to say it is "women need to know they're EMOTIONALLY safe/attuned to" Lol this is not a nitpick, these are like two extremely different things I think (not in opposition, maybe even positively correlated, just different) ### [Quote tweet, 06:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748586163617628419) · 6 likes Is there a book like this that isn’t poetry and \*is\* a set of instructions? Not extremely low level “do these specific actions, say these specific words” ofc but instructions nonetheless > **Quoting QC (@QiaochuYuan):** deida was lowkey right about everything but you can't read this book completely literally or as a set of instructions. it's poetry > > https://www.amazon.com/Way-Superior-Man-Challenges-Anniversary/dp/1622038320 > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqWnu9RaUAAkfSe.jpg) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqWnvw5aMAUcqbK.jpg) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqWnwyAaQAAECSk.jpg) ### [Quote tweet, 20:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748803359887208699) · 8 likes Truly a mysterious world One we will never understand > **Quoting Manifold Love (@ManifoldLoveApp):** he's not kidding about the comments > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GETl-qLXcAA1mDU.jpg) ### [Reply to @skooookum, 20:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748805206538596413) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @skooookum is no longer available.)_ Where’d he go ### [Reply, 20:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748805785532965334) · 1 like I had never seen this image before the tweet u quoted ### [Quote tweet, 21:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748813973246324812) · 43 likes Forgot the obvious 3rd bar ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEUJCofXAAAEjAr.jpg) > **Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18):** > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEFkButXEAAQR64.jpg) ### [Quote tweet, 22:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748842054015127692) · 12 likes Ok but fr microwave and electric kettle is all you need There is nothing this can’t cook > **Quoting mr_eggs 🇵🇸 (@scrumble_eggs):** This cover goes hard. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEQDFA3a8AAa76-.jpg) ## Sunday, January 21, 2024 ### [Reply to @metakuna, 08:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748990019602157988) · 1 like > **metakuna (14/100 blog posts) (@metakuna):** @AaronBergman18 arbitrage opportunity > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEWnOgtXAAACQAH.jpg) Wdym ### [Reply to @pearl_please, 08:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748991543686426939) · 4 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @pearl_please is no longer available.)_ Too many ### [Quote tweet, 08:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1748992932428882295) · 8 likes We demand our own Taylor Swift > **Quoting Dan Nouement (@nomanautomata):** No art has EVER been made for angsty introverted white guys ### [Reply to @ManifoldLoveApp, 19:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749147718759440572) · 2 likes > **Manifold Love (@ManifoldLoveApp):** yeah it's a weird combination of realizing that the opposite sex aren't aliens but when they do things that make no sense if you imagine they're just like you, it's because of actual differences and not necessarily because of some character flaw Yeah I’ve updated pretty hard toward “gender differences are bigger and more important than I thought” over the last year (time period re-entering the dating market) ### [Reply to @jide_alaga, 19:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749148604659339572) · 8 likes > **Jide 🔍 (@jide_alaga):** I'm thinking about increasing my animal welfare donations and easing off veganism. Any reason why this might be a bad idea? Not what you’re asking but I endorse this for basically everyone ### [Thread, continued, 19:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749148827100017010) · 2 likes ### [Tweet, 19:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749149525221011931) · 19 likes I’m at risk of being negatively polarized towards being pro-AMF\* again \*I do think malaria nets are better than personal consumption, but much worse than other types of donation ### [Tweet, 19:19 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749149705055920453) · 7 likes Me n the introverted homies at the function ### [Reply to @QualyThe, 19:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749155949216985486) · 2 likes > **Qualy the lightbulb (@QualyThe):** we need to consider that the bonking lowers his IQ and hence his lifetime earnings Worth it imo ### [Reply to @ilex_ulmus, 19:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749156348351201473) · 2 likes > **Holly ⏸️ Elmore (@ilex_ulmus):** All my twitter bookmarks are ads for cool kitchen gadgets The two genders ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEZAbaOXYAA_uz5.jpg) ### [Tweet, 19:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749159352429056249) · 44 likes Idk who needs to hear this (possibly @pmarca himself) but Marc Andreesen aka pmarca is a sociopath and doesn’t deserve any of the respect he sometimes gets on tech-adjacent twitter ### [Reply to @soychotic, 20:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749163070268592539) · 51 likes > **annie (@soychotic):** I love installing anaconda because now there’s 3 diff pythons on my computer and they’re all broken Come to the light side ### [Reply to @drctffct, 20:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749165940279812181) > **direct effects (@drctffct):** @AaronBergman18 @pmarca I agree with the second part, but sociopathy is a pretty aggressive accusation, and evaluating it is made harder when it’s someone you don’t know personally. What do you think he’s done to qualify? Why not just list those things, rather than being vague and inflammatory? Yeah I mean obviously people should take my personal best guess with a grain of salt But it’s been a pattern of things and accumulating evidence without evidence to the contrary ### [Reply to @kan_immanuel, 20:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749166174242275464) · 7 likes > **Immanuel Kan’t (@kan_immanuel):** @AaronBergman18 @pmarca Who are you? I’m Aaron who r u? ### [Reply to @jskf__, 20:37 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749169476375908799) · 8 likes > **jskf 🔀 (@jskf__):** @AaronBergman18 I assume this is a long-termism thing? If not I'd be interested to hear you say more about this. Sorta, I’m actually more confident that standard animal welfare donations (eg to the Humane League) beat AMF, and am pretty unsure how various explicitly longtermist orgs compare to that ### [Reply to @frances__lorenz, 20:41 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749170300745285737) · 4 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @frances__lorenz is no longer available.)_ Gene therapy: 🙅‍♂️🚫 Jeans and therapy: 👍👌 ### [Reply to @morallawwithin, 21:22 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749180782990541250) · 38 likes > **florence ⊮ (@morallawwithin):** i wish more people would admit that effective altruism is objectively correct and they just don’t like the people associated with it Also: you can “do EA” while opting out of the social/aesthetic/cultural scene In fact I have tremendous respect for people who do just this ### [Reply to @RichardMCNgo, 22:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749191082028511701) · 2 likes > **Richard Ngo (@RichardMCNgo):** Wtf? Going from “I don’t like his vibe” to “I’m publicly calling him a sociopath” is absolutely wild. > > I have been gradually updating for a while that tribalism is breaking EAs’ abilities to reason about the world, but disappointing to see it progressing this far. I mean I think he is in fact a sociopath, and hope the rest of my record on twitter and elsewhere gives me some credibility for not generally being knee-jerk tribal or bad faith Fwiw my take here has been accumulated from past evidence as well, not just the malaria nets thing ### [Reply, 22:08 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749192213605540335) · 6 likes _(The tweet being replied to is no longer available.)_ I mean I have a pretty strong bias/prior against saying things like this and Altman certainly doesn’t reach my threshold to overcome this like Marc does ### [Reply to @michael_nielsen, 22:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749197767543509105) · 1 like > **Michael Nielsen (@michael_nielsen):** What are some of the more unusual causes you've given money to over the last 1-3 years? An individual trying to do important work under financial stress ## Monday, January 22, 2024 ### [Reply, 01:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749247934384771209) · 1 like Thanks for the pushback; I’m not sure whether I agree I think there’s a substantive difference between accusations of public figures based on non-privileged evidence (ie I don’t know anything about him that isn’t fully public) and accusations (implicitly) based on non-public ### [Thread, continued, 01:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749248197417922746) · 2 likes evidence Perhaps I should have made it clear that mine is the former (it didn’t occur to me bc, like, why would I have any privileged info about him?) ### [Reply to @dissproportion, 02:17 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749254936179741065) · 12 likes > **Dissproportionately (@dissproportion):** Our food culture has changed: > > \- adults now snack between meals like it’s normal > \- sugary drinks, including milkshake coffees > \- eating out instead of cooking & entertaining at home > \- portion sizes are enormous > \- people eat at their desks, all day > \- food is cheap entertainment > > (quoting @DaveEDanna: Why have obesity rates tripled in one generation?) Disagree in the sense that I think these are downstream of some other more fundamental cause of setpoint disregulation ### [Reply, 04:09 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749283027828568371) · 23 likes She’s right! ### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 05:08 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749298039796236535) · 3 likes > **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** Give me a job > > (quoting @NLRG_it: most people dont seem to realize you can just tell people to do something and they'll do it) Ok ur hired ### [Reply to @robi_rahman, 07:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749331420676321441) · 2 likes > **Robi Rahman (@robi_rahman):** @austinc3301 @AaronBergman18 Oh yeah, he's pretty dumb on this one issue Lmao thanks ### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 08:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749349094206669241) · 7 likes > **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** Low decouplers be like: 'I've been happily married for 20 years" High decouplers be like: “my name is Aaron and I am under the influence of marijuana” ### [Reply, 10:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749379740295672176) · 1 like Am I being dumb or is it possible that your body moving at 320 km/h relative to the ground doesn’t imply that the air moving around your skin is going the same speed? ### [Reply to @NoahTopper, 15:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749450760570462548) · 1 like > **Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper):** About to go running in 33 degree weather, may @AaronBergman18 give me strength. 🙏 [![You Have My Blessing Granted GIF](https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video_thumb/GEdMMV0WYAEC-EL.jpg)](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749450760570462548/photo/1) (gif, plays on X) ### [Tweet, 19:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749515509958074680) · 20 likes Blocked Mr. Beast. I don’t have anything against him, he’s just evidently too memetically powerful ### [Reply to @IsaacKing314, 19:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749517161973080378) · 4 likes > **Isaac King 🔎 (@IsaacKing314):** @AaronBergman18 He even got \*you\* to post about him! Mr Beast: 2 (including this tweet) Aaron: 0 ### [Reply to @Coscorrodrift, 20:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749525590229881134) · 17 likes > **coscorrodrift (@Coscorrodrift):** wait this is insane LMAO ppl talk about tiktok so much but youtube is at NINETY FIVE > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEdQco3XIAA3f31.png) “Ever” is a low bar Like it’s not an app I click on with any regularity but it’s pretty hard to never have any reason to watch a yt vid ### [Reply to @exdiegesis, 21:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749550964661535075) · 2 likes > **Hope (@exdiegesis):** @AaronBergman18 feel free to ignore, but i desire ur take on first-principles-reasoning economics. esp since i benefited from and rly liked ur blog post on it. : ) > > https://www.aaronbergman.net/p/deficits-dont-matter-spending-does Haha thanks! Have a similar thread (doesn’t really make a claim tho) There are a bunch of interesting dimensions here \- Pyramid vs painting (labor consumed) \- consumable vs durable (throw the painting in a fire vs give it as inheritance which is later sold) ## Tuesday, January 23, 2024 ### [Reply to @daniel_271828, 06:17 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749677611951743221) · 6 likes > **zzDANIEL_ETH (@daniel_271828):** Normie friend just now after I explained recent discourse: “Sounds to me like the difference between EAs and e/acc’s is EAs are all autistic while e/acc’s are all psychopaths” Wait normies (non-pejorative) use autistic as like a half serious personality trait descriptor? ### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 06:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749685704932642865) · 3 likes > **Aaron Bergman, January 12, 2024:** 40\) I used to think that consumers at large would choose plant based meat if it was at least as cheap, tasty, and convenient as animal meat I no longer think… 41\) I get it — feels kinda icky from a rationalist perspective to have to rhetorically toe some socially enforced line like this — ### [Thread, continued, 06:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749685706560078330) · 5 likes but actually I think the rhetorical move that goes like "libertarian-leaning techno-optimist nerds for AI pause/regulation bc this time is different" is rhetorically powerful and more substantive than it might first appear ### [Thread, continued, 06:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749685708795572518) · 3 likes Like people are used to digging in with their usual coalition and with their usual talking points/vibes/arguments/memes/priors/heuristics whenever there's some "new thing: good or bad" discourse ### [Thread, continued, 06:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749685709877674455) · 4 likes So a fellow member of the "new things generally good" tribe conspicuously taking the opposing stance is like legitimate Bayesian information that your bundle of heuristics might be failing you this time ### [Reply to @mattyglesias, 15:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749812977598103764) · 2 likes > **Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias):** I'm working on a new political compass about how free markets are good but you also need to regulate some stuff and how people should mostly be free to do what they want but probably not if "want they want" is to shoot heroin on the street etc etc etc > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEeuEenWIAApI3x.jpg) Your job is to figure out which 10% of nutjob opinions are good and true ### [Quote tweet, 15:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749814607022350679) · 11 likes Yo they’re making $75k into the poverty line now > **Quoting 🪬🟣🧠 (@slurplebrained):** TC <$75k: “Ah, yes. The McChicken. The best fast food sandwich” > > TC between $75k and $300k: “Why would you eat disgusting poor-people food like McDonald’s? I know a great poke bowl place on Doordash” > > TC >$300k: “Ah, yes. The McChicken. The best fast food sandwich” ### [Reply, 15:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749818008011432151) · 3 likes Not just social media activism tho. A lot of irl stuff the left is doing on Gaza doesn’t seem to have any theory of change either (although I wouldn’t necesssarily know if it was indeed more thought out than it appears ) ### [Tweet, 16:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749832564901134470) · 4 likes Petition to make pajama pants the same as khakis in terms of when/where you can wear them ### [Reply, 16:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749833167500918789) · 1 like People make him into a quasi-positive meme on here sometimes ### [Tweet, 16:41 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749834678708711664) · 4 likes Audio editing/joining/cutting is easier with chatgpt\* + python/ffmpeg now than with GarageBand \* code runs locally, the vm thing is too slow ### [Reply to @pli_cachete, 16:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749835115633483816) · 3 likes > **Rota Is In Israel🚪🧎‍♂️ (@pli_cachete):** What should I do in Nigeria Tweet ### [Quote tweet, 16:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749837542843617560) · 5 likes Philosophy nerd thing just dropped > **Quoting Jeff Sebo (@jeffrsebo):** The NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program is co-sponsoring a conference on animals and equality that will take place October 18-19. If you have interest in participating, you can apply below. And if you know others who might have interest, please share! > > https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/mindethicspolicy/opportunities ### [Reply to @littIeramblings, 17:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749845636021723339) · 1 like > **sarah (@littIeramblings):** I have audacity! Unfortunately my current laptop is too rubbish to even run that properly but I’m working on it 😂 https://www.ebay.com/itm/166206685749 ### [Reply to @ManifoldLoveApp, 21:20 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749904963805811033) · 3 likes > **Manifold Love (@ManifoldLoveApp):** all the dating advice in the world won’t make a whit of difference if you aren’t actually out there going on dates 🧵 Tragic ### [Reply to @halcyon_hazel, 21:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749907035590635989) · 26 likes > **❤️‍🔥 hazel ❤️‍🔥 (@halcyon_hazel):** “oooh im such a high decoupler” cmon man. some amount of pattern recognition is good! like yea sure 2% of people who say slurs don’t suck but that doesn’t mean you’re obligated to trudge through the other 98%. pick a better signal LMAO > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEjWOPFXQAEiVl1.jpg) What a terrible test lol Like I see the draw of seeing how people engage with a take that’s unorthodox in your circles. “Roe v Wade was wrongly decided” seems like a good one ### [Reply to @AlecStapp, 21:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1749910916391452790) · 4 likes > **Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp):** Early nominee from the NYT for chart crime of the year Oh man this is good because it looks fine at first glance ## Wednesday, January 24, 2024 ### [Tweet, 05:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750026795624128594) · 9 likes Love the chutzpah of whichever Chinese person put “英语熟练” \[proficient in English\] on their resume when applying to work at the consumer-goods-for-export factory ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GElYF_cWkAA2Jt7.jpg) ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GElYF_fWEAATTDS.jpg) ### [Tweet, 17:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750216518716080222) · 9 likes I think 2 factor authentication on everything is good ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEoEpSKXQAEsa4O.jpg) ### [Tweet, 19:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750235096437669991) · 25 likes Guy who prefers living near an airport bc the sound is pretty minor and the planes are cool to look at (me) ## Thursday, January 25, 2024 ### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 11:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750480732613419168) · 2 likes > **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** "a watched pot never boils" > > True, it's the water that is boiling Huge ### [Tweet, 11:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750484588961366186) · 20 likes Perpetually excellent take ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEr4dL9XkAAIGQ_.jpg) ### [Reply to @pronounced_kyle, 12:40 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750498756569547215) · 1 like > **Christian Keil (@pronounced_kyle):** Just make babies > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEpiPPqbEAAX7B7.jpg) Rightmost point looks about 1/40 as common as leftmost point ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEsFV7DWwAApc-E.jpg) ### [Reply, 12:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750503691247915292) · 1 like https://x.com/aaronbergman18/status/1682203665539497985 ### [Reply to @arctanno, 13:10 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750506341632753833) · 3 likes > **Arc (@arctanno):** https://www.premier1supplies.com/p/heat-lamp-bulbs All hail the chicken warmer ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEsMPX3W0AACQYs.jpg) ### [Reply to @NoahTopper, 13:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750517839683842286) · 2 likes > **Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper):** you WILL recall I shan’t ### [Reply to @wight1984, 14:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750531748348457160) · 2 likes > **Jamie H (@wight1984):** @Manuel_do_rio @AaronBergman18 @daniel_271828 But, sure, the reason why I don't feel like I'm 'wasting' my money on a 'not good' option for charitable giving is that the money I donate to deworming charities probably does more to improve happiness/welfare in the world than any of my other spending, so still pretty good. I mean as a sociological/social/rhetorical point I agree it’s generally unwise to go around calling arbitrary suboptimal things bad (though I think there are exceptions like an EA hot takes twitter thread lol)… ### [Tweet, 15:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750536853403345112) · 8 likes POV: we are living in a Hansonian post-AGI utopia where self-driving cars operate according to real-time prediction Manifold markets about what the car should do and ur simulated Uber driving agent shows up with these ratings. Wyd ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEsn_Z0WQAAwB7s.jpg) ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEsn_Z4WIAASjQm.jpg) ### [Reply to @dylanmatt, 19:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750605112395882932) · 7 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @dylanmatt is no longer available.)_ :( ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEtmEj5WgAAqQh3.jpg) ### [Reply to @cremieuxrecueil, 20:29 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750616959241343064) · 46 likes > **Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil):** Americans who identify as Swiss seem to be the most right-wing in the General Social Survey. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEtkRllWcAAs6cN.jpg) Lol lots of selection here for who \*leaves\* Scandinavia ### [Quote tweet, 21:08 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750626810230923282) · 33 likes Tomasikian supervillain > **Quoting Science girl (@sciencegirl):** Man posing with picture of forest he restored > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEmfCy5WoAApSgd.jpg) ## Friday, January 26, 2024 ### [Reply to @ilex_ulmus, 04:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750736304256487678) · 3 likes > **Holly ⏸️ Elmore (@ilex_ulmus):** Useful tool gives a percentage prognosis on the passage of bills > > https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/hr7018 :( ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEvdY89XYAEsw8v.jpg) ### [Tweet, 04:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750744321152688622) · 6 likes Will is hiring. Let the rejection process begin https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/TeBBvwQH7KFwLT7w5/william_macaskill-s-shortform?commentId=RLMp7cHf9fdLuRSfe ### [Quote tweet, 05:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750746971298558314) · 8 likes The funny part is that there are good reasons not to donate to AMF (ie if you’re willing to donate elsewhere instead) but these never cross the minds of EA Critics (TM) > **Quoting Andy Masley (@AndyMasley):** Oh nooooo not the malaria nets don't bring those up noooo the least defensible part of EA oh noooo how could our enemies have so easily found our greatest weakness aaaaah ### [Tweet, 06:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750768424416932145) · 15 likes Unironically Morton Salt is responsible for like $1T in GDP (and much more value not captured in that figure) ### [Quote tweet, 06:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750769531838943439) · 26 likes Fission is such a physics hack lol Almost as wild as flying metal tubes and huge metal floaty things > **Quoting Hunter📈🌈📊 (@StatisticUrban):** This is the argument for nuclear power in a nutshell. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEueBiTXEAAukZU.jpg) ### [Reply to @StatisticUrban, 07:08 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750777734312190203) · 2 likes > **Hunter📈🌈📊 (@StatisticUrban):** British salaries give me depression. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEvhCnnXYAA6qDV.jpg) @littIeramblings Sheffield mentioned 😤🇬🇧🦆 ### [Reply to @StatisticUrban, 07:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750783775586374136) · 8 likes > **Hunter📈🌈📊 (@StatisticUrban):** At some point we do need to ask ourselves "Why was the Trump White House ordering boatloads of every drug under the sun, including ketamine, psychostimulants, and opioids?" > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEwHku2XoAEBUBn.jpg) As much as I hate Trump, this is based ### [Reply to @littIeramblings, 08:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750793845464318385) · 2 likes > **sarah (@littIeramblings):** ok but do I have to be a statistician when I get there cause I can’t count No dw just hmu I’ll send u some R code and just pass that on to whomever ### [Reply to @animeterrorist, 08:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750796992547103004) · 5 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @animeterrorist is no longer available.)_ What was his reason for creating it, if anyone knows? Like what does it do better than the alternatives? ### [Reply to @billyhumblebrag, 08:41 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750801105083154899) · 2 likes > **billy (@billyhumblebrag):** He should have done the Seinfeld move "bet you a coffee I make this shot" > \*miss\* Peak rizz ### [Reply to @daniel_271828, 09:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750807387643007125) · 5 likes > **zzDANIEL_ETH (@daniel_271828):** @peterwildeford @dylanmatt no. Reports of a schism in EA ### [Reply to @simonbuerger, 09:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750814320680681603) · 5 likes > **Simon Buerger (@simonbuerger):** Faster web page loading. webp has a better compression algorithm so you get much smaller file sizes than jpg, png or gif for the same quality. It also supports all the features of the other 3 formats (lossy and lossless compression, alpha transparency and animation) @jyzg good job 👍 ### [Reply to @StatisticUrban, 09:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750814496002556395) · 1 like > **Hunter📈🌈📊 (@StatisticUrban):** I hate it when people humblebrag about where they went to uni. Like I have this friend who went to Harvard and he just won't shut up about it. He's always been like that, even when we were college dormmates. Ha ### [Reply to @bryancsk, 09:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750814917588881584) · 2 likes > **Bryan Cheong 🥮 (@bryancsk):** I didn't realise door handles can be opened by being lifted up in lieu of being pushed down until a really tall colleague did it (his usual way of opening doors) and blew my mind. 🤯 ### [Reply to @robertwiblin, 20:40 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750981942592303157) · 12 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @robertwiblin is no longer available.)_ How does he write so much ### [Reply to @Empty_America, 20:41 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750982364103057749) · 4 likes > **VB Knives (@Empty_America):** They are paying you to live in Tulsa. > > They have all the normal restaurants and stores. > > Many houses listed in the 100s. > > But it's not hip. > > (quoting @JuddBaroff: @Empty_America “Free tickets” is nothing. Tulsa will give you $10,000 https://www.tulsaremote.com/) Lol fwiw you do have to apply. I applied and got rejected ### [Reply to @MariGO2thepolls, 20:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750986941623898213) · 2 likes > **🏳️‍🌈Mar G-O 🌐🇺🇦 (@MariGO2thepolls):** Mid priced haircuts should come with a beer the way fancy haircuts come with a glass of Prosecco tbh Lol they give u wine when u get a haircut??? I just get a lollipop, and only if I ask for it at checkout ### [Reply to @Anthony_Bonato, 21:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750988332866404429) · 38 likes > **Anthony Bonato (@Anthony_Bonato):** The dark, arcane world of physics > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GExqXvbXwAEGgWQ.png) Boy math ### [Quote tweet, 21:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750993018549936611) · 4 likes Real > **Quoting ☔ (@Whotfismick):** Real > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEvvzYEWIAArFP7.jpg) ### [Quote tweet, 21:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1750995944005353877) · 10 likes Who tryna buy the plane I can contribute $45 > **Quoting Sheel Mohnot (@pitdesi):** The A380 was a dumb boondoggle of a project. > > This 10-year-old one was listed at $445M new, tho we don't know what Lufthansa actually paid. > > It can now be yours for only $25M. > > Nobody wants a plane this large, there is no market for it. > > It has at least 20 years of life left. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEyTEyYWgAAyZzx.jpg) ### [Reply to @frances__lorenz, 21:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751000146496668025) · 3 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @frances__lorenz is no longer available.)_ But what if u are, in fact, a toad? ### [Reply to @eshear, 22:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751002302754771415) · 5 likes > **Emmett Shear (@eshear):** Second, the entire idea is evil because it's based on an oppositional frame. Any AI that powerful will be a sapient being, whose experiences will matter too. Enslaving it for our benefit is wrong. (And back to point one...I don't want to be around when it breaks its chains!) I mean maybe, but we are radically unsure about the nature of consciousness ### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 22:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751003058694189259) · 2 likes > **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** Me and Aaron hanging out: > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEzP48IXoAAq1RQ.jpg) Real ### [Reply to @cxgonzalez, 22:26 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751008728164246002) · 22 likes > **christian (@cxgonzalez):** making friends and dating is the same skill > > (quoting @hashjenni: What opinion about Dating will have you like this?) [![I Dont Believe You Will Ferrell GIF](https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video_thumb/GEzVJuvWoAEpSAz.jpg)](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751008728164246002/photo/1) (gif, plays on X) ### [Reply to @IsaacKing314, 22:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751009160781586511) · 1 like > **Isaac King 🔎 (@IsaacKing314):** Has there ever been an instance of a torpedo running into a big fish and causing a malfunction? > > Feels like it's gotta have happened at some point... 😢🐟 ## Saturday, January 27, 2024 ### [Reply to @daniellellecco, 02:26 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751069162523218141) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @daniellellecco is no longer available.)_ Hot take words do mean things ### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 02:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751070524304654367) · 3 likes > **Aaron Bergman, January 26, 2024:** Who tryna buy the plane I can contribute $45 ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GE0NXL4XQAA7-eY.jpg) ### [Reply to @meadandjuniper, 02:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751070852643209447) · 2 likes > **j (@meadandjuniper):** @adamrisom Maybe if I think hard enough a gf will just materialize in from of me This is my plan too 👍 ### [Reply to @saulgoodwoman__, 02:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751071031899369563) · 2 likes > **Talia 👾 💿 (@saulgoodwoman__):** guess what i’m making? > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEzX2yQWsAApej6.jpg) Potatoes ### [Reply to @daniel_271828, 02:37 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751071872538603731) · 2 likes > **zzDANIEL_ETH (@daniel_271828):** My jacket kinda makes Eddie look like he’s from Star Wars > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GE0NaWkbEAAqfac.jpg) Dog ### [Reply to @liron, 02:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751075613383798917) · 2 likes > **Liron Shapira (@liron):** Dude is gonna be remembered for the 2nd AND 3rd worst music festival nightmares This guy still on his bullshit huh ### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 02:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751076936967704924) · 3 likes > **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** @frances\_\_lorenz @tenobrus Is this true? Idk. Big if true ### [Quote tweet, 03:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751079116453954045) · 21 likes Moose ⊂ deer?!?! ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GE0VLPMXIAATANi.jpg) > **Quoting Science girl (@sciencegirl):** A moose and her twin calves going for a walk > https://x.com/istanbul_mu/status/1267131793444147201/video/1 ### [Reply, 03:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751086100263600165) It’s actually magic right ### [Reply to @HDPbilly, 03:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751086421761315134) · 2 likes > **HDP (@HDPbilly):** Will you put computers and machine parts into your body? > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEzgtZZaEAAbpvh.png) No ### [Reply to @NoahTopper, 03:47 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751089460396065204) · 1 like > **Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper):** @AaronBergman18 @ilex_ulmus @RatOrthodox If I'm understanding right, you can compress the side with more solute so that it actually has a higher water concentration and osmosis STILL WORKS meaning water will flow AGAINST ITS CONCENTRATION GRADIENT which I think is CRAZY Sounds fake ### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 03:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751092578211000351) · 3 likes > **Aaron Bergman, January 27, 2024:** Moose ⊂ deer?!?! Any Swedish politicians out there who can re-introduce this idea? ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GE0hayeWIAE8km-.jpg) ### [Reply to @sanjehorah, 04:10 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751095194437538107) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @sanjehorah is no longer available.)_ Indeed, my opportunity cost of time is $4000/hr so if u are not a head of state you must reach out to my secretary first ### [Tweet, 04:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751099680216293462) · 6 likes Fake ass winter. I’ve been scammed ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GE0n4PzW4AAJFfm.jpg) ### [Reply to @deepfates, 05:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751109348347031720) · 2 likes > **deepfates.delve.town (@deepfates):** what's the greatest programming language of all time? ### [Reply to @JacquesThibs, 05:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751113154925392057) · 2 likes > **Jacques (@JacquesThibs):** I ended up at LightHaven. This place is unreal/sick. They’ve really transformed the place to be incredibly inspiring since the last time I was here. Fantastic job @ohabryka and the rest of the crew! > > (quoting @JacquesThibs: If you are trying to measure the dangerousness of LLMs, you don't test them in a vacuum where you don't have internet access. The world is complex and has feedback loops, and oftentimes, the combination of many things is much more powerful than the sum of their parts.) Pics??? 😩 ### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 05:29 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751115267323609564) · 10 likes > **Aaron Bergman, January 23, 2024:** So a fellow member of the "new things generally good" tribe conspicuously taking the opposing stance is like legitimate Bayesian information that your bundle… 42\) I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again: Gender/sex discourse is too conflict theory, should be much more mistake theory ### [Tweet, 06:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751127011303542849) · 11 likes It’s gonna be cool af if a little thyroid hormone just fixes all my miscellaneous health problems (TSH ≈ 5). Unlikely but not insane I think. We will see ### [Tweet, 07:48 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751150122778456262) · 16 likes Guy who thinks the reason not to eat a footlong subway cookie is that it has a lot of calories ### [Reply to @BootsPlatypus, 08:10 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751155630310654273) · 2 likes > **Platypussy in Bio (@BootsPlatypus):** @AaronBergman18 You don't have hypothyroidism though, no? My tsh is also on the low end Standard diagnostic criteria put me at hypothyroid in 2 of last 3 tests TSH of 5 is on the high end ### [Reply, 08:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751155882572849241) Levothyroxine isn’t like especially hard to get prescribed if you have a TSH >4.5 lol ### [Reply to @Submetallic, 21:04 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751350499272528164) · 2 likes > **Carrie Radomski (@Submetallic):** The calorie number is one of the big problems though, are you arguing that focus on calorie number is not conducive to understanding the problem? If people ate 20% less than they do then they would be in a slight calorie deficit which would be very beneficial to Healthspan and lifespan. Yeah I agree at the end of the day CICO is ~literally what determines weight change It would make sense to focus on this proximate, direct cause of weight gain/loss if humans basically were able to choose how much to consume without other systems kicking in to fight back … ## Sunday, January 28, 2024 ### [Reply to @NoahTopper, 01:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751410690693181940) · 2 likes > **Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper):** Maybe I’m just really blocked but I kind of suspect this is like high IQ people saying IQ doesn’t matter. “It doesn’t matter how smart you are, you can do anything if you try hard enough!” That’s just what it feels like to have a high IQ. > > (quoting @Aella_Girl: creativity isn't contracting down with effort, its relaxing ur spiritual butthole. Creativity is one of the things i'm least stressed about cause it's not something u "do", you just let yourself fall open and then god flows into u. it's not even about you. just do nothing) Correct take ### [Reply to @Andr3jH, 11:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751563974213034152) · 4 likes > **ᐱ ᑎ ᑐ ᒋ ᕮ ᒍ (@Andr3jH):** imagine the consent discourse on Greenland shark twitter. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GE7KhtfW0AAA6RS.jpg) He just like me not quite fr ### [Reply to @Canada, 11:19 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751565693684715954) · 399 likes > **Canada (@Canada):** Did you know that the symbolic #BlueJay isn't really blue…In fact, we see them as blue due to the way light reflects off of the inside of their wings! Despite the optical illusion, these birds are beautiful and are part of the logo for our #Toronto > @BlueJays! 💙 > > 📷jgazze/IG > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GE26qJjWEAEPvs1.jpg) That bird is blue ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GE7PtpoXAAAZEgX.jpg) ### [Reply to @peterwildeford, 11:29 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751568160904421739) · 3 likes > **Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 (@peterwildeford):** is there a written transcript? There is now https://docs.google.com/document/d/1066Bu0FIFnjOaRmbdyruRG53SGIFD1p5vGRk4vJJYRE/edit ### [Reply to @ArmandDoma, 12:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751577433222836374) · 4 likes > **Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma):** “why don’t young women want to date young conservatives??!?” > > YOUNG CONSERVATIVES: > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GE5StYRaoAAXu5s.jpg) Seems like satire no? ### [Reply to @Saeko_Cut, 12:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751578973098688759) · 2 likes > **TERFs aren't women (@Saeko_Cut):** Chicken Washing has got to be a psyop > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GE4fLTwXwAEfYhA.jpg) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GE4fLTzWgAA5ijN.jpg) Appropriate chicken washing [![Koko Pato GIF](https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video_thumb/GE7bymzXkAAyJms.jpg)](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751578973098688759/photo/1) (gif, plays on X) ### [Reply to @QiaochuYuan, 12:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751584202691149991) · 3 likes > **QC (@QiaochuYuan):** poll: have you ever experienced limerence in the sense described by wikipedia? (can’t include images on a poll for some reason wtf) > > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerence So…a crush? ### [Quote tweet, 12:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751585502036169024) · 23 likes Fr though a video of him trying to build an apartment building in SF would go hard > **Quoting derek guy (@dieworkwear):** Mr. Beast should do a video where he builds a walkable neighborhood with dense, mixed-use buildings. ### [Quote tweet, 13:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751604638330049010) · 12 likes Beautiful day to walk around listening to podcasts ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GE7zIeBW4AAF5d5.jpg) ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GE7zIeBWcAAnMEF.jpg) > **Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18):** Lived in/near DC my entire life…Turns out there’s a secret island (ok not secret but I hadn’t heard about it till yesterday)? With a huge statue of Teddy Roosevelt? And a weird brutalist Stonehenge vibe? > > Ok cool > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GBkIdtEWkAACXly.jpg) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GBkIdtEWQAQaTRo.jpg) ## Monday, January 29, 2024 ### [Reply to @mealreplacer, 03:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751805513006784645) · 3 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @mealreplacer is no longer available.)_ I want to make a “pshhh maybe 1-2 decades in dog years” but the conversion goes the other way so I can’t ### [Reply to @memecrashes, 03:40 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751812485525516469) · 1 like > **MatLab crashes (@memecrashes):** > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GE8uNySW4AAU3hM.jpg) x=0 ### [Reply to @lishiyori, 03:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751813052050133420) · 2 likes > **connie (in her suncat era 🥰☀️ | need compute? DM) (@lishiyori):** Had this convo with a friend last night - why is it that SF seems to have such a high proportion of asexuals? like not even just natural asexual ppl, but it feels like settling into this city makes at least some of us more asexual (cue jokes about the lack of rizz etc) > > I have a (VERY) mild theory that it's actually not "lack" but the other way around - it's bc the cup runneth full in other ways. I think it's easier to drink your fill on philia here (companionate love, intellectual camaraderie) and mania (obsessive love with something outside oneself). While the burner/psychonaut side have agape. So there's less of a gaping need for ludus + eros, and that's what we think of as romantic relationships > > tldr; finding a lot of homies makes you chase less tail. but also note it's very bellbar where a bunch of ppl here are SUPER horny so maybe it's just some epigenetic effect where "being around lots of other head ppl" turns up or down diff groups 😂 I think there’s a >5% chance I’d be in SF rn if I was ace. Gender ratio is a top 3 reason for not moving there (can be first, second, or third depending on mood lol) ### [Quote tweet, 04:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751822118298251290) · 8 likes Forget about birdgate for a sec - it’s actually kinda interesting that Canada has a single Offical twitter account Who runs it? > **Quoting Canada (@Canada):** Did you know that the symbolic #BlueJay isn't really blue…In fact, we see them as blue due to the way light reflects off of the inside of their wings! Despite the optical illusion, these birds are beautiful and are part of the logo for our #Toronto > @BlueJays! 💙 > > 📷jgazze/IG > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GE26qJjWEAEPvs1.jpg) ### [Quote tweet, 16:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1751999370143129940) · 4 likes Circumcised males: do you think your parents were morally wrong in choosing that you get circumcised? Poll below > **Quoting Stefan Schubert (@StefanFSchubert):** Circumcision of a baby boy? ### [Reply to @thingskatedid, 16:10 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752001391197892742) · 6 likes > **Kate (@thingskatedid):** my radiator refuses to radiate because it thinks there's a window open. there isn't a window open! it's just cold. which is the radiator's job to fix! being cold is why i want the radiator on > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GE9SsJ1XcAAGtGJ.jpg) ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFBb-pdX0AQ8anm.jpg) ### [Reply, 16:29 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752005953627533790) · 1 like [![GIF thumbnail](https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video_thumb/GFBgH2uWsAA-5uT.jpg)](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752005953627533790/photo/1) (gif, plays on X) ### [Reply to @AlecStapp, 16:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752007043320295736) · 5 likes > **Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp):** This is, without exaggeration, the worst permitting reform idea I’ve ever heard. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFBQi1rXcAA9arS.jpg) This but the inverse ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFBhHnrWsAQxYZe.jpg) ### [Reply to @AFraserUrq, 16:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752008559716385049) · 2 likes > **Alastair Fraser-Urquhart (@AFraserUrq):** If paracetamol was invented today, there is \*absolutely no chance on earth\* it would become OTC - the fact it is should affect how you calculate the risk/benefit of our current (ridiculous) medical regulations. > > And yet. Do you view this more as evidence that paracetamol (Tylenol) shouldn’t be OTC or that more drugs should be OTC? ### [Tweet, 18:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752032656382918823) · 101 likes Device to learn about the contents of your own blood is prescription-only The @US_FDA must be stopped ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFB4aF4XAAAbWWJ.jpg) ### [Thread, continued, 18:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752032658958475607) · 7 likes From https://www.exfatloss.com/p/wearing-a-continuous-glucose-monitor ### [Thread, continued, 18:22 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752034610685378839) · 7 likes If I were a doctor I would just hand out prescriptions to this for free or for a small donation if time constrained and dare someone to do something about it ### [Reply to @bobbydbobster, 19:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752054921547944336) · 1 like > **Dr. Bobby Boucher (@bobbydbobster):** @Submetallic @alyssamvance Calorie restriction is roughly similar to everyone, and the differentiating factor is willpower and willingness to buy into fluff like "it's easier for some people than other --> it's harder for me --> so I deserve grace when I don't do it" I think this is mostly wrong and subjective hunger is the main source of variation, not willpower to push through it ### [Reply, 19:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752058600011276657) · 3 likes No u just hang out in a wheat field ### [Reply to @halcyon_hazel, 20:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752059707773104424) · 2 likes > **❤️‍🔥 hazel ❤️‍🔥 (@halcyon_hazel):** people hate it when i am holding a can of coke and my phone in separate hands and when asked to pick up a third object, place the entire can in my mouth instead of putting my phone away Lmao ### [Reply to @thechosenberg, 20:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752059978905739558) · 44 likes > **rosey🌹 (@thechosenberg):** Dating apps shifted it all to the phone > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFBuXtAaAAAPXJT.jpg) ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFCRRAPWcAAWgWB.jpg) ### [Reply, 20:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752060355894001977) · 8 likes Correct take ### [Reply, 20:09 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752061339902607854) · 1 like No thanks I’ll just let my thing run overnight ### [Reply to @Submetallic, 20:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752072862725287963) · 2 likes > **Carrie Radomski (@Submetallic):** I disagree that lack of "willpower" is the cause of obesity. "Willpower" has no explanatory power because people's level of "Willpower" has not changed in the past 30 years. The over-eating leading to obesity is probably caused by pleasure or reward-seeking behavior. There is some kind of reward-hacking in our system that has gone awry. Food might've become more rewarding in the past 30 years, not our "Willpower" level going down in past 30 years. Avoidance of suffering (hunger) seems kind of implausible at the levels of calorie-intake we are talking about. It must be more related to seeking reward (pleasure). Seeking reward is not morally wrong and the language around willpower implies that it is some kind of moral behavior when it is not. Agree on the main point but disagree that hunger is implausible. That’s the primary mechanism by which weight is regulated at all Anecdote but still: at one point I pretty quickly shot up from 145 to 160 (this made me overweight but not obese tbc) ### [Reply to @JacquesThibs, 20:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752074060832419922) · 3 likes > **Jacques (@JacquesThibs):** What do you call an operations manager who works for a psychologist center? His or her name, presumably ### [Reply, 21:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752078273868181947) · 1 like Thing is it’s not even that much cheaper I’m not an anti-pufa maximalist so we may disagree that this is much better, but refined olive oil is only ~2x the price of corn/soybean etc. That’s like a few pennies on a bag of chips ### [Reply to @austinc3301, 22:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752100292554797170) · 4 likes > **Agus 🔸 (@austinc3301):** Yeah this is insane. I'm not an FDA libertarian or anything, but the restriction on some medical devices is very annoying > > (quoting @AaronBergman18: Device to learn about the contents of your own blood is prescription-only The @US_FDA must be stopped) How can I radicalize u ### [Reply, 23:17 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752108801929449480) Addiction (really, non-functional addiction/reliance) will make some people’s lives worse, which is a real cost that I think is worth society paying all things considered I don’t actually think it would make the issue much worse, though. Plenty of addiction rn ### [Reply to @mmt_lvt, 23:22 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752109872802344966) · 5 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @mmt_lvt is no longer available.)_ What is the harm that glucose monitors impose? Or what non-harm principle warrants the restriction? ### [Reply to @mmt_lvt, 23:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752119092092502516) · 3 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @mmt_lvt is no longer available.)_ Ok, I agree that first sentence is literally true I don’t think it is anywhere near a good enough reason to restrict access to a thing. For example, normal non-continuous glucose monitors are totally legal for consumer purchase and that seems fine ### [Reply to @metakuna, 23:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752119214926971238) · 3 likes > **metakuna (14/100 blog posts) (@metakuna):** today The Police buzzed my flat asking to be let in to the block (to arrest someone else) and I said "do you mind if I look up if I'm legally required to do that?" and they were like "umm... ok", and then while I was looking it up they buzzed one of the other flats and got let in Based ## Tuesday, January 30, 2024 ### [Reply to @eshear, 00:04 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752120489328435267) · 4 likes > **Emmett Shear (@eshear):** It's truly astonishing that this was a question people debated > > (quoting @StatisticUrban: Wow.... you're telling me that builidng housing.... keeps housing prices lower? Who could have seen this coming. This is such a twist.) Esp because, for once, the Expert Consensus, online weirdo consensus, and “what answer u come to if u think it through for any amount of time” were all the same ### [Reply to @austinc3301, 18:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752395461082657243) · 2 likes > **Agus 🔸 (@austinc3301):** swapcard completely deleted my profile > > I SPENT LIKE A SOLID HOUR ON IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I would cry ### [Reply to @besttrousers, 18:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752402077941174706) · 5 likes > **Matt Darling 🌐🏗️ (@besttrousers):** R bros really hate stata code. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFHHN30XcAAu6em.png) Python/R/Stata ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFHIZvKWkAEz89Y.jpg) ### [Tweet, 19:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752420589619306756) · 2 likes Woah ### [Reply, 20:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752424679795834961) · 1 like > **Coase’s "Net effect?" Ghost 🏴🕊️ (@GhostCoase):** @AaronBergman18 @austinc3301 @ciphergoth Oh, to please voters? Voters can and do favour all kinds of terrible policies. So, you're not necessarily saying it is a good idea, only politically immovable. > > It might be, but I was just arguing the non-political or total effects. Yeah object level you’re right. More fundamentally I’m just trying to conceptually separate “make medicine more like every other part of society and the economy” policies from “normal” questions of good governance/political economy/regulation which affect every industry ### [Reply to @freganmitts, 20:29 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752428925047681187) · 6 likes > **Megan Fritts (@freganmitts):** Life is weird right now and I’ve been spending a lot of time reading about “psychophysical luck” and panpsychism and I have to say, I just have no idea what people mean by “qualia”. I’m very suspicious of it. Very suspicious. I don’t doubt that you’re serious but I never understand this take. Like qualia seem incredibly important, intuitive and distinct; a natural category if there ever was one ### [Quote tweet, 20:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752429797165174882) · 24 likes Harvard is like Taylor Swift: deservingly highly rated, but not deserving of total cultural hegemony in their respective categories in the popular imagination > **Quoting Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 (@JeremiahDJohns):** we're just never gonna stop talking about this fucking place, are we? > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFHYUeQXoAApday.png) ### [Thread, continued, 20:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752429943307346304) · 6 likes Only one of them rejected me though 😎 ### [Reply to @monodevice, 20:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752432023858262371) · 3 likes > **🐜onio (@monodevice):** LIFE HACK: > If you don't have time to develop a fine taste but want to impress people with your way of life, just remove labels from everything at home > > left: poor, corporate, too many colors, lack of taste > > right: artisanal, homemade, simon sarris, I have a local guy who makes it > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFHRCVQbYAAhJmZ.jpg) Cool but one tells u what is inside which can be nice to know ### [Reply to @monodevice, 20:46 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752433208484823201) · 1 like > **🐜onio (@monodevice):** pros - they learn faster when the milk tastes funny 1% or 2% milk?🙅‍♂️ 15% milk 🙌 ### [Reply to @EzraJNewman, 20:47 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752433427263987803) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @EzraJNewman is no longer available.)_ Darn ### [Tweet, 21:07 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752438426232652256) · 9 likes For the 10 bot followers we all lost overnight ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFHpdiDXwAA12_0.jpg) ### [Reply to @RandomSprint, 21:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752447401712091138) · 2 likes > **RandomSprint🧭 (@RandomSprint):** There's nothing wrong with preferring sci-fi to bronze-age mysticism, but it is disappointing to see rational atheists believe in the simulation theory. > > Ockham's Razor shouldn't cut based on vibes. I mean it’s a hypothesis to be judged on the merits no? I’m basically 50/50 ### [Reply to @larissaphillip, 21:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752448900148101284) · 3 likes > **Larissa Phillips (@larissaphillip):** My daughter just started an internship where she’s tutoring middle school kids. > > I asked her how it went… > > A whole new wrinkle in the reading instruction / screens debates! > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFGbZgYWIAA_jLv.jpg) Sry ### [Reply to @I_Am_Yain, 22:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752453264313041323) · 2 likes > **Yain (@I_Am_Yain):** I got this yesterday. Autocorrect won't help you out unless with connoisseur unless you get at least c-o-n-n-o-i Clown ass word ### [Tweet, 22:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752458678135935104) · 163 likes This is one part of the human condition LLMs have just totally nullified ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFH74QtXoAAcm3J.jpg) ### [Reply to @gnostrils, 22:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752463146877399116) · 35 likes > **Gnostrils (@gnostrils):** huh > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFH4ySnWQAEbHqU.jpg) Root vegetables 👍 Tubers 👍 Poisons 👎 ## Wednesday, January 31, 2024 ### [Reply to @Idris_Elbow_, 07:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752592872912629851) · 57 likes > **ThePeoplesElbow (@Idris_Elbow_):** Women having sex toys: > \- just having a fun time > \- playful, charming > \-romantic storytellers living a scene > \-just being a little silly > \-kinda hot > > Men having sex toys: > \-Vile disgusting creatures > \- No hope for recovery > \-Probably a sex Offender > \- hideously unattractive Without loss of generality ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFJ17VmXAAAEwsK.jpg) ### [Reply to @mbateman, 07:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752596780892500234) · 7 likes > **Matt Bateman (@mbateman):** I ran across this again today > > The optimistic hypothesis is that it’s a timeless but empty complaint > > The pessimistic hypothesis is that it reflects a steady, decades-long decline in wanting to work > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFJH4O3W0AAzIHM.jpg) Or it’s just literally true and has been forever lol. Of course nobody wants to work, that’s why you have to give them money to do it! ### [Tweet, 19:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752781453861998914) · 330 likes This is my personal 9/11 ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFMhcQCWkAAhTVG.jpg) ### [Reply to @MccallumRupert, 19:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752782792277057541) · 9 likes > **Rupert McCallum (@MccallumRupert):** @polisisti @AaronBergman18 I get that part of it. > > I've had plenty of rejections of job applications in my time. I know they can sometimes be a bit painful. Lol I am extremely not qualified to by CEO of 80k ### [Reply to @gelionexists, 20:20 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752789010785632425) · 5 likes > **GE Lion (@gelionexists):** Big loss for them smh > > (BTW, what do they do beyond espousing the 80000 hours concept?) Personalized career coaching, research into various issues to inform how to do good, content creation (incl my personal favorite podcast which largely got me more engaged in EA), aggregate job opportunities https://80000hours.org/about/ ### [Reply to @jmelahman, 20:29 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752791233271918718) · 2 likes > **Jamison 🦆 (@jmelahman):** @AaronBergman18 Maybe try @htmx_org. They have an open CEO role Good idea. I have an impressive web dev portfolio https://aaronbergman.neocities.org ### [Reply to @NathanB60857242, 21:22 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752804502321639883) · 2 likes > **Nathan Barnard (@NathanB60857242):** downloading 80k podcasts ready to the flight to SF for eag 😊😊 You might not like it but this is what peak performance looks like ### [Reply to @besttrousers, 21:26 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752805494257865173) · 7 likes > **Matt Darling 🌐🏗️ (@besttrousers):** 🥰 > > (quoting @NathanJRobinson: "Basic income also does nothing to change who controls production, leaving it in the hands of undemocratic capital." https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/01/the-limits-of-basic-income) Guy who thinks that’s a bug not a feature ### [Reply to @samsmisaligned, 22:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752815397647040895) · 2 likes > **Sam (@samsmisaligned):** Wtf producing a kg of beef causes 35x less suffering than producing a kg of eggs??? > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFM0dO2WoAAn0g3.png) ### [Tweet, 22:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752825051290718684) · 6 likes Hmm something doesn’t add up…adderall doesn’t come in 60mg tabs or capsules ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFNJF-gXUAAp3F7.jpg) ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFNJF-iWEAAsY49.jpg) ### [Reply to @IsaacKing314, 22:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752827851928162349) · 18 likes > **Isaac King 🔎 (@IsaacKing314):** @AaronBergman18 Start your own organization and call it 90,000 hours. We do coaching for 80k coaching application rejects I actually think this could be good lol. I was rejected back in 2018 (I think they’re base rate has increased a lot though) ### [Reply to @W96Emily, 22:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752829018615771615) · 2 likes > **Emily 🏃‍♀️🏋️‍♀️ (@W96Emily):** you can say a whole heck of a lot about Sam Harris, like there is a ton of good and legit criticism of him, but what you can't say is that he "rambles" lol. that's just hate because he's got to be the most coherent and articulate podcaster alive Yes, \*I\* ramble goddamnit Sam does not ### [Reply to @samsmisaligned, 23:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752838400833409144) · 4 likes > **Sam (@samsmisaligned):** @SelonNerias There are estimates for sentience and suffering per day of life > > But yeah I mean I would just take these as incredibly rough guesses, I’m just very surprised at how much suffering egg production apparently causes Real issue is that mass isn’t the right unit of comparison. Should be calorie or gram of protein or gram of non-water mass ### [Reply to @kindgracekind, 23:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752842099110695229) · 3 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @kindgracekind is no longer available.)_ Not an answer, but maybe what you want: the jobs formerly taken by those gold-rushing ### [Reply to @WillBamberg, 23:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1752842824381325498) · 2 likes > **will🌿 (@WillBamberg):** effort is the ultimate test of desire Revealed preference --- End of January 2024. Previous month: [December 2023](https://abergman.com/tweets/2023-12). Next month: [February 2024](https://abergman.com/tweets/2024-02). [Back to the archive index](https://abergman.com/tweets).