# Aaron Bergman's tweets, April 2024 Every public tweet, reply, quote tweet and retweet that Aaron Bergman (@AaronBergman18 on X, formerly Twitter) posted in April 2024 and has not deleted: 519 posts, oldest first, times in UTC. Each heading links to the original post on X. When Aaron replies to or quotes someone, their tweet appears as a blockquote with their name; those words are theirs, and everything outside the blockquotes is Aaron's. This page is one month of [the complete archive of Aaron Bergman's tweets](https://abergman.com/tweets), which updates automatically every few hours. Previous month: [March 2024](https://abergman.com/tweets/2024-03). Next month: [May 2024](https://abergman.com/tweets/2024-05). ## Monday, April 1, 2024 ### [Reply to @JgaltTweets, 00:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1774601565292105753) · 4 likes > **JgaltTweets (@JgaltTweets):** If only SBF had taken a financial literacy class in middle school, he wouldn't have stolen $11 billion > > (quoting @SheilaBair2013: \#SBF was financial illiterate. He thought effective altruism meant he could rip people off, that it was OK to use new investor money to pay the old… Another reason why we need early financial education - to help kids understand money ethics, hopefully preventing future SBF’s.) Hot take SBF was very financially literate ### [Reply to @8pt_font, 01:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1774602664870916558) · 36 likes > **tiny-ass fonts, LLC (@8pt_font):** one time i received a logo file that was 2 miles wide. i am not joking > > (quoting @amazingmap: Maximum size of a PDF, version 7. 381km x 381km) I have a custom paper type set up that’s 11k inches long to prevent pdf page breaks ### [Reply to @austinc3301, 13:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1774784080896213333) · 2 likes > **Agus 🔸 (@austinc3301):** @dioscuri @AaronBergman18 @absurdlymax I think he would rather abolish the FDA I mean the FDA does a lot of things, and not literally all of them are bad It’s true that if the only two options were status quo and FDA poofs out of existence, I think the latter would be better, but I’d be fine and I think positive about an agency that just runs RCTs on drugs ### [Thread, continued, 13:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1774784197376254361) · 2 likes If that gets called by the same name, so be it! ## Tuesday, April 2, 2024 ### [Reply to @deepfates, 04:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775021299561029715) · 4 likes > **deepfates.delve.town (@deepfates):** If you were to create a demo app or MVP rn what's your preferred stack? “Clong, please write me a single html file with inline JavaScript and css” ### [Quote tweet, 05:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775033048649638044) · 7 likes It’s kinda funny when it’s this legible but there’s nothing (necessarily) wrong with this Like ofc I’m gonna adopt a Rob Wiblin take as soon as I hear it (at least those of the form “I looked into this for 2 hours and it turns out…”) > **Quoting the Rich (@Duderichy):** half the time I hear someone go on a long rant on something I’m like, yeah I listened to that podcast episode too buddy ### [Tweet, 05:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775036155764863480) · 19 likes ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKIx-efXkAA_z18.jpg) ### [Reply to @diviacaroline, 06:40 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775050643884900486) · 4 likes > **Divia Eden 🔍 (@diviacaroline):** I’m corporate and I would like you to find the difference between these two pictures > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKI-nTqWwAA4f6W.jpg) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKI-nTrXwAIGB1p.jpg) One is cobbled the other is not ### [Reply to @myhandle, 06:47 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775052493312905722) · 3 likes > **Jakeup (@myhandle):** my friend in SF has the funny issue where every guy she meets is 99th percentile at the general skill of being an early-stage boyfriend (confident, great listener, emotionally aware, good in bed, etc.) and it fucks with her ability to judge who could be a serious longterm partner It’s over ### [Tweet, 07:09 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775058022257111479) · 3 likes I will accept Whytham Abbey as in-kind compensation for all of my good tweets ### [Quote tweet, 07:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775058547220361323) · 1 like Plausibly more informative AND cooler framing: liquid battery (solar -> carbon neutral natural gas) > **Quoting Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias):** Using direct air capture to manufacturing natural gas out of electricity and atmospheric carbon dioxide. > > https://terraformindustries.wordpress.com/2024/04/01/terraform-makes-carbon-neutral-natural-gas/ ### [Reply to @reconfigurthing, 07:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775059597310484575) · 11 likes > **Elias Schmied (@reconfigurthing):** When getting rejected (whether romantically or in friendship), do you prefer the other party being straightforward ("Hm, I don't really want to, sorry") or letting you down gently / giving an excuse ("This week is really busy for me) Unambiguous + true gentle (“I think we’d be better as friends”) is fine, ambiguous/fake reasons are bad ### [Quote tweet, 08:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775071610526974257) · 12 likes Opioids are underused, clinically, and this is very bad > **Quoting Someone:** ### [Reply to @polisisti, 08:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775073895764103307) · 1 like > **Alessandro (@polisisti):** broccolo > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKIe6Y_XgAAE_lf.jpg) Brocc ### [Tweet, 08:20 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775075705564561802) · 45 likes Hate to be a hater but I can’t get on the solar eclipse train. It’s gonna be dark for 4 minutes, whoopdie-fuckin-do ### [Reply to @instrumenthull, 08:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775076536300773470) · 1 like > **Peter Hull (@instrumenthull):** Something big is happening in the county jail of Flint MI > > An innovative rehab program is sharply reducing in-jail misconduct and post-release recidivism > > I'm tremendously excited to share this new paper, with @MarcellaAlsan, Crystal Yang, & @ArkeyBarnett > > https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/n21oplkwvwzd5u6k922kk/IGNITE_Mar29_2024.pdf?rlkey=zf2rlewziptzopkfcca0cb7tw&raw=1 > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKFVWbHX0AAMVl2.png) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKFVX5NXYAAKcGT.png) Nice ### [Reply to @Littoral_Gecko, 08:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775079880926924837) · 1 like > **A Gecko🦎 (@Littoral_Gecko):** @AaronBergman18 Go to bed Aaron it’s 4:35 in the morning Go to bed gecko it’s 4:36 in the morning ### [Reply to @Littoral_Gecko, 08:37 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775080221244371281) · 2 likes > **A Gecko🦎 (@Littoral_Gecko):** @AaronBergman18 I’ve seen it be dark outside before—it’s called night and it happens every day. smhmh It’s never been night on-after April 2, 2024 though so there’s no record with which to make a probability ### [Reply to @lxrjl, 08:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775085220103893252) · 2 likes > **alex lawsen (@lxrjl):** You can read it here, but I'd recommend listening to Joe read it out, or at least that's what I'm doing (audio at the same link). > https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/04/deep-atheism-and-ai-risk If his stint as a philosophy guy doesn’t work out and also we’re about to hit an AI text to speech winter, he can find employment as a narrator ### [Reply to @lxrjl, 08:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775085531040203156) · 3 likes > **alex lawsen (@lxrjl):** Can't express enough how much I'm enjoying my colleague @jkcarlsmith's current essay series. And yet you attempt to express it here, on twitter. Curious. ### [Reply to @hominidan, 09:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775090322906705989) · 2 likes > **Hominid Dan 🦊 (@hominidan):** @IvanVendrov effective altruist Even setting aside having more correct views than replacement this seems unironically right Ethics and decision theory in the context of EA is as close as you’re gonna get to skin in the game philosophy, which in turn incentivizes truth seeking rather than ancients-worship ### [Thread, continued, 09:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775090440619835621) and runaway intelligence signaling ### [Reply, 09:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775091866242851162) · 1 like He just like me fr ### [Thread, continued, 09:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775092566993600768) · 3 likes Wait, in kinda a bunch of ways lol \- flakey \- takes Prozac \- likes walking in circles (or at least one circle bc destination is usually starting point) \- health issues \- no gf \- lives in a major city on the east coast of the US \- likes cold \- white \- male \- mammal ### [Reply to @StefanFSchubert, 09:41 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775096193447588248) · 6 likes > **Stefan Schubert (@StefanFSchubert):** Good example of how it's viewed as more acceptable to criticise elite groups than the public. > > The key group behind most harmful regulations of the market is likely the voters; the general public. > > And to a large degree their opposition is rooted in economic illiteracy. > > (quoting @AlecStapp: “Milton Friedman used to say that there are two groups of people who don’t like the free market. Intellectuals because they think they can do it better than the market, and businessmen because they don’t like competition.”) In many cases the elites are elite because they have political power and/or their explicit and socially agreed upon job is to make good policies (in some sense) Makes more practical and like moral sense to criticize this group ### [Reply to @NathanpmYoung, 09:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775098099733557383) · 1 like > **Nathan 🔎 (@NathanpmYoung):** Hitchens razor is useful but it feels too powerful. > > ie what evidence is there for: > \- the continuance of selves > \- logic functioning > \- memory being real > > All these things seem to me to be assumed, so can they be dismissed without evidence? Feels like Occams razor is better. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKJitRAW8AAmhbb.png) Lots of evidence for the last two Eg it just so happens that my memory of going on vacation around Christmas comports with pictures in my camera roll, emails, and the reports of my family ### [Reply to @StatisticUrban, 09:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775098704397021495) · 1 like > **Hunter📈🌈📊 (@StatisticUrban):** @AaronBergman18 they're way overused wdym I admit I don’t actually know what I’m talking about here (in the sense of not having a good picture of clinical guidance and norms and prescription data) That said my anecdata suggests that the reaction to the opioid crisis has resulted in it being hard for some people ### [Reply to @NathanpmYoung, 09:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775099436672143513) · 4 likes > **Nathan 🔎 (@NathanpmYoung):** @AaronBergman18 Sure but you're gonna have to use your memory in any experiment. What if you are making that up as soon as you see the photos? Non rock-solid evidence is still evidence If the reverse were true (no pictures, family disagreed), I think we’d agree that this would be evidence against at least \*my\* memories’ reliability ### [Reply, 09:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775099747499446418) What is this from? Either I’m extremely misinformed or this is total bullshit (not necessarily made up, more likely a couple misinterpretations of studies or smth) ### [Reply to @StatisticUrban, 10:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775101442304417829) · 3 likes > **Hunter📈🌈📊 (@StatisticUrban):** It's a difficult area to study, since there's no universal, objective way of quantifying pain, but in general there's some fairly robust evidence that NSAIDs are just as effective as opioids for the the treatment of acute pain. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKJpgH2WsAIXX3q.jpg) Doses are doing a ton of work here. Does anyone think that ibuprofen and heroin max out at the same effect size? ### [Reply to @StatisticUrban, 10:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775109152806760867) · 1 like > **Hunter📈🌈📊 (@StatisticUrban):** @AaronBergman18 That logic does not necessarily track, I see no inherent causality. For sure, not inherent at all, but there are good theoretical reasons to expect it to check out most of the time and we see it empirically with other classes of drugs (eg high dose amphetamines to prevent sleep and perceived exertion, arguably chemotherapy too) ### [Reply to @NotZainAgain, 10:46 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775112473160380446) · 6 likes > **Zain (@NotZainAgain):** Crazy how fast Google Meet has supplanted Zoom. > > If you want to hop on a call and suggest Zoom it’s almost a boomer-level faux pas at this point http://meet.new (like http://doc.new and http://sheet.new) opens a new google meet fyi ### [Reply to @RandomSprint, 10:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775114853809578098) · 2 likes > **RandomSprint🧭 (@RandomSprint):** @AaronBergman18 Your worst take in a while 😈 ### [Reply to @girdley, 10:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775115265090412997) · 1 like > **Michael Girdley (@girdley):** Kind of crazy that we’ve gone from “everyone should learn to code” to “avoid computer science degrees” in less than a decade. Both are decent advice tbh ### [Reply to @tautologer, 11:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775122426042454379) · 1 like > **tautologer (@tautologer):** wowwww I totally forgot I was feeling this way just a few short months ago. things can change so quickly. very grateful to not be feeling this way anymore > > (quoting @tautologer: while I'm stuck here waiting for my archive download, any tips for healthily dealing with overwhelm from emotions that are too intense to handle in the moment? I'm doing my best but I am struggling to make it through those moments when I desperately want to not be conscious) Totally cool if this was never public but what was the context for that tweet? ### [Reply to @frances__lorenz, 21:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775270068261408945) · 4 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @frances__lorenz is no longer available.)_ EAs love embedded links ## Wednesday, April 3, 2024 ### [Reply to @bat1441, 05:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775402648998494590) · 2 likes > **bat (@bat1441):** @AaronBergman18 If you take this MTG personality quiz, I have a prediction for what results you get: https://still-anchorage-15218.herokuapp.com/ 175 is a lot lol. I did 44, what’s ur guess? Results screenshot: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10H6fCEYAaWaG5ZDxApXJyGYTmbVObSWoH0HSIlOqZSc/edit ### [Reply to @nickcammarata, 14:46 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775535315828031570) · 1 like > **Nick (@nickcammarata):** imo most of their arguments are really bad/weak/clearly self motivated > > if you want an ai skeptic it might be better to go with the “ai is bad to build” pause people, bc i think there are probably compelling arguments to make on that side. Idk who would be best though Yes correct take @ilex_ulmus on the case for pause ### [Reply to @austinc3301, 14:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775538007891657212) · 8 likes > **Agus 🔸 (@austinc3301):** apparently, a random person just organized an ACX meetup like 500 meters from where I live in Chile > > 10/10, great service Plot twist it’s 500m underground ### [Reply to @RafaRuizdeLira, 15:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775539173887254753) · 1 like > **Rafael Ruiz ⏸️🔸 (@RafaRuizdeLira):** @Manuel_do_rio Haven't read her book but this seems interesting at least. > > https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/sharon-hewitt-rawlette-hedonistic-utilitarianism/ > > @AaronBergman18 Ya - I haven’t seen many other ppl make the distinction between value realism and normative realism though, which seems important to me https://www.aaronbergman.net/p/pigeon-hour-x-consistently-candid ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKP7d6kXUAADfqq.jpg) ### [Reply to @lxrjl, 15:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775541881830613368) · 4 likes > **alex lawsen (@lxrjl):** Like is this a "probably in a week it'll be fine" unprecedented or more like a "we've been saying unprecedented since 2020 and hoping nobody notices" kind of unprecedented? Sorry Erin it’s probably not ur fault but dare I say this is a precedent ### [Reply to @mealreplacer, 15:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775542693105369231) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @mealreplacer is no longer available.)_ This has got to be the coolest part of having 16k followers They’d only have refunded me £50 ### [Reply to @xlr8harder, 16:37 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775563229864821055) · 2 likes > **xlr8harder (@xlr8harder):** i wonder what it must be like to live in the world of people who think tap to pay might be ai > > (quoting @natolambert: I was an "expert" in this WaPo article on "what is AI" using the Russell & Norvig defition. Cool to see where average readers over/underestimate AI usage I said clippy is an AI fwiw, readers are right! ClippyGPT when.) Build this I want my personal Claude simulating 1M hours of intense negotiation every time I pony up 1.99 for a gas station water ### [Thread, continued, 16:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775563504591819180) · 2 likes “Good news Aaron, I got the price down to $1.96 after threatening to report an OSHA violation” ### [Reply to @Delicious_Tacos, 22:46 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775656170109177968) · 12 likes > **Delicious Tacos (@Delicious_Tacos):** No collective problem will be solved > > Any effort to do so is an attempt to take money > > Work on yourself > > Then the person close to you > > Then the next person Incorrect take ### [Quote tweet, 23:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775660405383467247) · 11 likes [![Video thumbnail](https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1775660310461833216/pu/img/XwlOOBVgg4iHuhHI.jpg)](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775660405383467247/video/1) (video, plays on X) > **Quoting Rafael Ruiz ⏸️🔸 (@RafaRuizdeLira):** New wild animal welfare intervention just dropped > > https://youtube.com/shorts/3gbP66g9XGA?si=Y9BY5RKgveFXducS ### [Reply to @mattparlmer, 23:29 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775666924199825873) · 10 likes > **mattparlmer 🪐 🌷 (@mattparlmer):** Ngl this looks overengineered > > (quoting @burny_tech: Map of the Human Metabolic Pathways) Great minds etc ### [Quote tweet, 23:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775667409812128097) · 15 likes Me whenever I say smth innocent and all of a sudden I got 8 comments and 3 QTs from people I don’t follow > **Quoting dom (@ryiacy):** guy explaining why no one likes his tweets: it’s cause I’m thinking with too much clarity > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKPk0pFXgAAbWDu.jpg) ## Thursday, April 4, 2024 ### [Reply to @burny_tech, 00:13 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775677978631958926) · 3 likes > **Burny - Effective Curiosity (@burny_tech):** Is cure to nerd loneliness a 12 hours long hyper intellectual discussions about mechanisms of all of reality from first principles? Ya ### [Reply to @thiagovscoelho, 00:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775678413128294436) · 5 likes > **Thiago ✱ (@thiagovscoelho):** I’m thinking of a joke where you take a book title on a really abstract or literary topic and add “with Applications” or “with \[programming language\]” to the end > > proofs of concept, > ¶ “Trinitarian Dogmatics with R and Python” > ¶ “An Introduction to Homer’s Iliad with Applications” I’d read Crime and Punishment with R ### [Tweet, 00:41 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775685057157419311) · 15 likes We are in an AI winter (rabbit aka dog creds: @SpacedOutMatt) ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKSAJcOXIAA5LwI.jpg) ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKSAJcSXEAAIpzW.jpg) ### [Thread, continued, 00:41 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775685132826927435) · 2 likes Inspired by an old @RafaRuizdeLira post but I lost it ### [Reply to @_chair, 00:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775687451241300292) · 2 likes > **Chair (@_chair):** @qephatziel he make u venmo for bbqsauce lol ### [Reply to @amablue_, 01:17 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775694044112327096) · 3 likes > **𝔸𝕝𝕖𝕩 🌻 (@amablue_):** This reminds me of the time my mom decided to move out of her rental a few days early (not break the lease mind you, just get her stuff out of the unit) and the landlord tried to stop her, and even called the police (they didn't do anything obviously, you're allowed to move out) Tf ### [Reply, 01:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775694340616061157) · 1 like 😢 ### [Reply to @FractalAuth, 01:22 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775695521958576354) · 3 likes > **Fractal Authenticity 30/1000 cranes (@FractalAuth):** I just squared up against a phantom in the semantic arena. If I won, I would be allowed to leave plato's cave. > > Y'all might want to seriously consider @myceliummage's speech coaching, available on the Twitter job board. > https://twitterjobboard.com/job_page/speech-coaching-1706769202242x400579196936257540 > > (he was not the phantom) What does this mean ### [Reply to @RokoMijic, 01:29 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775697046084710699) · 4 likes > **Roko 🐉 (@RokoMijic):** @JeffLadish yeah but you're not the one whose extinction is being proposed > > the animals prefer to exist I don’t think this is true ### [Reply to @_happyclams, 01:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775697633983582385) > **happy clams (@_happyclams):** @space_tintin Fundamentally unserious language 😡 ### [Reply to @QualyThe, 01:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775702623703679482) · 3 likes > **Qualy the lightbulb (@QualyThe):** Rafael Qualy ### [Tweet, 01:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775703376308687015) · 346 likes Should I get a $5000 laptop even though I don’t need one and it wouldn’t meaningfully improve my productivity or quality of life? ### [Reply to @AndyMasley, 01:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775703563269734655) · 6 likes > **Andy Masley (@AndyMasley):** no Ok, smart ### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 01:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775704080024772810) · 2 likes > **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** @AaronBergman18 @QualyThe @RafaRuizdeLira @Big_Buddy_Jape Aaron Ya what’s up ### [Reply to @justjoshinyou13, 01:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775704553452720617) · 16 likes > **Josh You (@justjoshinyou13):** @AaronBergman18 what laptop even is $5k? MBP with a million cores? I could mutate a huge tibble with this mf ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKSR4P4XYAA8zj9.jpg) ### [Reply, 02:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775705652318392826) · 1 like What is this again? Ik it’s ur future income but what are the deets? ### [Reply to @SpacedOutMatt, 02:04 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775705973329388013) · 8 likes > **Matt 🔸 (@SpacedOutMatt):** no Ok but you should get a monitor that’s brighter than one whale oil candle from 1793 ### [Reply, 02:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775708445670260958) · 2 likes Honestly I am extremely not above investing in random things like this but this is a really bad deal lol. Would have to 10x that at a minimum (interest rates are 5% rn on checking) ### [Reply, 02:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775708938819748147) · 1 like I’d buy at $5. I don’t expect you to take this but just as pricing info in case it’s helpful ### [Reply to @SpacedOutMatt, 02:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775710636405633217) · 2 likes > **Matt 🔸 (@SpacedOutMatt):** Why are you like this U probably window shop for Michelin star rabbit food ### [Reply to @yzilber, 02:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775711012735340958) · 7 likes > **Jazi Zilber (@yzilber):** @AaronBergman18 do you plan FIRE? financial independence retire early > > gives us please the data. > > marginal value of money, suffering of work, net worth and so on No, high, idk, too low to make this make any sense whatsoever ### [Quote tweet, 02:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775713054266733055) · 3 likes “It’s just a stochastic parrot!” The parrot: ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKSZnG_XIAA6Qu7.jpg) > **Quoting Andy Masley (@AndyMasley):** "It's just a stochastic parrot!" > > The parrot: > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKSVnAHWMAAq65W.jpg) ### [Thread, continued, 02:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775713057533984987) · 1 like Nominative determinism etc https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Parrot ### [Reply to @ohabryka, 02:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775715415647268870) · 2 likes > **Oliver Habryka (@ohabryka):** "I Have Been a Good Bing" is now finally out on all the major music stores! > > Youtube Music: https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCeW0zyvEq77YiVqoTj6PnWw > Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/the-fooming-shoggoths/1738967374 > Spotify: > https://open.spotify.com/album/0DP8XwSK7voq0rtXiNMhQC Unironically endorse more albums being made ### [Reply to @ezra_brodey, 02:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775716202859405651) > **Ezra (@ezra_brodey):** @laraaaanguyen @AaronBergman18 Are ISAs legally enforceable? Almost certainly, right? By default any contract is legal and thus legally binding unless actually made illegal or unenforceable for some reason (eg banned shark loans, can’t sell yourself into slavery) ### [Reply, 02:46 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775716554845393051) · 1 like Don’t need snipe me into philosophy of language plz (are you implicitly replacing that claim with “words intrinsically mean things”?) ### [Reply, 02:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775717647679668288) · 1 like is false in a basic, absolute, non-relative sense” ### [Reply to @keysmashbandit, 03:48 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775732035933335602) · 2 likes > **keysmashbandit (@keysmashbandit):** i just gave a talk and someone stopped me in the hall after to say i did a good job and i said "aw really! idk i feel like it was bad" and he responded "well there were parts that could use improvement" from the bottom of my heart i hate math autists I feel like I would do this, sorry :( (My defense is that there are times when it’s legit hard to get constructive feedback bc people don’t wanna be mean and have little or no incentive to help you out) ### [Quote tweet, 03:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775733247663624647) · 9 likes Ordered 😈 > **Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18):** Should I get a $5000 laptop even though I don’t need one and it wouldn’t meaningfully improve my productivity or quality of life? ### [Thread, continued, 03:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775733255938900289) · 11 likes Honestly a great deal for both trash bags and tea. Gonna hold off on the computer at least for now tho ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKSr-_qWMAAoQSn.jpg) ### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 04:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775738768529531267) · 4 likes > **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** @AaronBergman18 Please tell me you didn't I did order these ### [Tweet, 04:19 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775740040246632542) · 8 likes Figured out how to publish R libraries thanks to chatgpt, lfg (I had previously tried quite a bit and let me tell you even step by step explicit instructions are no match for my lack of ability) [![Video thumbnail](https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1775739998899187712/pu/img/mSpul3csK_vNm2Gs.jpg)](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775740040246632542/video/1) (video, plays on X) ### [Reply to @ruth_hook_, 04:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775740884589375841) · 8 likes > **Ruth Hook (@ruth_hook_):** what are examples of eerie unexpected heritability in your life if you're privileged enough to have a good relationship with your family > > mine was finding out my dad and I ate the exact same thing during undergrad all nighters without ever discussing it & they're v odd choices Not sure how much I think this is just a coincidence but lol ### [Quote tweet, 05:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775751717314863441) · 7 likes Oh man, I really wanna know what the effect of a claim’s actual truth is on this (yes ik this is methodologically extremely difficult) > **Quoting Ethan Mollick (@emollick):** Unexpected & big: it is famously hard to get people to stop believing in conspiracy theories, but… > > A controlled trial finds a 3 round debate with GPT-4 arguing the other side robustly lowers conspiracy theory beliefs and the effects persist over time, even for true believers. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKRa__xWAAAD98U.jpg) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKRa__0XEAAIlBe.jpg) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKRa__zXQAADDBm.jpg) ### [Reply to @polisisti, 05:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775764724090618255) · 10 likes > **Alessandro (@polisisti):** the spending should be > > $1400 laptop > $3600 candles I am strongly anti-candle bc of air quality ### [Tweet, 06:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775776536571813913) · 13 likes Ngl I have no idea what a “bug” is in the context of code (as opposed to idk just like it being wrong?) ### [Reply, 06:48 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775777448220631311) 984 steps to go 👍 ### [Reply to @sullyj3, 07:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775780906495619183) · 2 likes > **░▒▓▒░▒▓▒░▒▓▒░ (@sullyj3):** @AaronBergman18 I don't think there's a distinction ''' Be wkame. Th 3891🐡294£{!\]!|^? Glug glug glug Return result ''' Is this code buggy? ### [Reply to @cafreiman, 07:04 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775781446986129827) · 2 likes > **Chris Freiman (@cafreiman):** Imagine that we’ve achieved an equal distribution of resources. Then a singer begins selling tickets to her events. Lots of people buy them. The singer is now a billionaire and the distribution is no longer equal. Is the new distribution unjust? > > (quoting @Forbes: Taylor Swift Officially Joins Forbes’ Billionaire List As One Of 14 Celebrity Billionaires https://go.forbes.com/c/cbfR) You didn’t start with equal distribution of resources then. The singer had more natural talent or willpower or creativity or something ### [Reply to @thecaptain_nemo, 07:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775783478887322003) · 2 likes > **Nemo (@thecaptain_nemo):** high IQ low conscientiousness mfs are like sleeper agents waiting for a god king like Steve Jobs to activate them and force them to reach their full potential Sure hope so lol ### [Reply, 07:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775784567376364000) · 1 like This tweet would get anyone a follow from me lol ### [Reply to @haus_cole, 07:20 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775785535753040092) · 9 likes > **Derek Parfait (@haus_cole):** > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKTakj2asAA-hlr.png) No with me it’s always ChatGPT’s fault ### [Reply to @sullyj3, 08:08 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775797653114142775) · 2 likes > **░▒▓▒░▒▓▒░▒▓▒░ (@sullyj3):** @AaronBergman18 Oh, I see. That's not even valid code, so it doesn't rise to the level of being buggy. Buggy is when it compiles and runs, but crashes or behaves incorrectly Oh lol I think this is the actual answer ### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 09:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775824028629954963) · 2 likes > **Aaron Bergman, April 4, 2024:** Inspired by an old @RafaRuizdeLira post but I lost it Found it ### [Reply to @JMannhart, 10:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775840091023306776) · 2 likes > **Jonathan Mannhart 🔎 (@JMannhart):** Today in Qualy Explained: > > This is a reference to the “Moving the Eiffel Tower to ROME“ interpretability paper, where researchers were able to change the connections in an LLM so that the model would output “Rome“ as the location of the Eiffel Tower (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.05262.pdf). > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GJ9erduXEAIeCnf.jpg) Tyfys ### [Reply to @QualyThe, 11:10 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775843392041202167) · 2 likes > **Qualy the lightbulb (@QualyThe):** @AaronBergman18 @NathanpmYoung before the change about 1 in 1000 deaths were from paracetamol overdoses(!) > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GCiu9ASWIAAHCDY.jpg) What ### [Quote tweet, 11:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775844981585875202) · 8 likes Oh shit he got fact checked fr > **Quoting Jonathan Mannhart 🔎🔸 (@JMannhart):** @IBlackmailLands @tylercowen @JonHaidt Why is everybody so impressed with this factoid that is 1. factually incorrect, nixtamalization is about pellagra, not scurvy, and 2. not that relevant to the argument. > > “Get another source of the vitamin“ is not a good counterpoint to “what if we stopped taking that vitamin“. ### [Reply to @thebestestpie, 11:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775850376446530047) · 2 likes > **Fake News Pie (@thebestestpie):** I have lost a lot of respect for Cowen since I started reading his opinions on AI. he doesn't get the argument and is just confidently saying a lot of words. Not being constrained by Gell Mann amnesia, I would bet this strained relationship w/ truth happens thruout his work Ya agreed, at least directionally ### [Reply to @RafaRuizdeLira, 12:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775866716251111863) · 2 likes > **Rafael Ruiz ⏸️🔸 (@RafaRuizdeLira):** @AaronBergman18 These seem overpriced, you should try the grocery store :( I actually know the unit price for mint tea bags pretty well and it’s usually like $.22-30, up to $.60 sometimes. $.14 is good ### [Reply to @JMannhart, 12:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775867125833326683) · 3 likes > **Jonathan Mannhart 🔎 (@JMannhart):** @RafaRuizdeLira @AaronBergman18 The grocery tea bags don't have 128gb of unified memory Rafael it's not the same Ya they can’t even load a trillion-row csv into R ### [Reply to @prerat, 12:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775869798905262589) · 3 likes > **prerat (@prerat):** i think it is ok to divide by zero most of the time. > > 1 ÷ 0 = ∞ > 2 ÷ 0 = ∞ > 3 ÷ 0 = ∞ > > no problem! > > not really that different from: > 1 × 0 = 0 > 2 × 0 = 0 > 3 × 0 = 0 > > there is some problem if you allow 0\*∞, 0/0, etc, but those are easier to explain why they're paradox cases > > (quoting @johnrush: @DmytroKrasun I let my daughter divide by zero) I don’t actually remember what breaks if u try to build a mathematical system where this is a thing but I’m pretty sure it’s something (not to say this isn’t fine most of the time lol) ### [Reply to @nosilverv, 12:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775870140736823492) · 3 likes > **Guy (@nosilverv):** People who go to the therapist actually need philosophy, people who go to philosophy actually need a therapist (lool) > > (quoting @RomeoStevens76: @mourader @visakanv oops. It means that therapists usually aren't set up to handle emotions being about actual big life questions. Philosophers aren't set up to handle their grand theories actually being about mundane socialization problems.) @absurdlymax (not being passive aggressive just thought u might appreciate lol) ### [Reply to @frances__lorenz, 13:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1775871796639617025) · 1 like _(The tweet being replied to by @frances__lorenz is no longer available.)_ Brain: just like the goddamn tweet Aaron Me: I feel like >90% of people reading this (including me) should probably be more optimization-minded/methodical in general, not less This isn’t to disagree with ur explicit statement tho 😊 ## Friday, April 5, 2024 ### [Reply to @Kirsten3531, 17:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776302961418772509) · 3 likes > **Kirsten (@Kirsten3531):** I've been really enjoying "a little older than one" as an age. It's cool having a more mobile baby who's increasingly communicative and intelligent > > Things I like: Dare I say his mobility, communication skills, and intelligence are going to keep improving from here ### [Reply to @SFBART, 17:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776306523871838650) · 4 likes > **BART (@SFBART):** It is widely documented that people with autism often have a natural affinity for trains, and BART couldn't be more thrilled to celebrate that during #AutismAcceptanceMonth. > > See where the announcements are playing and listen to the recordings: https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2024/news20240401 > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKRb__HW0AAjsmh.jpg) Based ### [Quote tweet, 17:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776306858472460539) · 31 likes RP moral weights project got me like > **Quoting prerat (@prerat):** i would die for 1.02 monkeys or 1.66 bananas ### [Reply to @StefanFSchubert, 19:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776324550852026660) · 10 likes > **Stefan Schubert (@StefanFSchubert):** Many say “we tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run" but is there any evidence that's actually true? Not obvious to me. The single example “stone tools -> AGI” might single-handedly carry the second claim even when offset by all the things that didn’t go anywhere ## Saturday, April 6, 2024 ### [Reply to @SpacedOutMatt, 00:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776408624635445318) · 6 likes > **Matt 🔸 (@SpacedOutMatt):** Nobody show this to Open Phil New Tulsa just dropped, who wants to move in I’m like 45% serious ### [Quote tweet, 00:40 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776409558149189892) · 6 likes $2.3M, same as a shack in SF ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKcTE-dXAAA-Q0A.jpg) > **Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18):** @SpacedOutMatt New Tulsa just dropped, who wants to move in I’m like 45% serious ### [Reply to @Duderichy, 00:48 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776411659247992941) · 5 likes > **the Rich (@Duderichy):** what > > (quoting @JustinWolfers: “In the poorest 1% of zip codes that have lottery retailers, the average American adult spends around $600 a year, or nearly 5% of their income, on tickets. That compares with just $150, or 0.15%, for those in the richest 1% of zip codes.”…) I’m guessing they’re using mean rather than median, and in both cases this has to be driven by like 1-10% of people paying a ton ### [Tweet, 01:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776420566611746891) · 29 likes All relevant AirBnBs being sold out just shows that people are bad at pricing ### [Reply to @alistair___s, 02:17 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776433915474973083) · 1 like > **Alistair Stewart (@alistair___s):** @gmiller @CaitPsych If we define exploitation as "the use of a sentient being as a means to an end without their consent", what's a non-exploitative reason to have (biological) children? It can benefit the children (?) ### [Reply, 02:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776442704253030499) Nah I don’t believe u ### [Reply to @zeta_globin, 02:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776443286607065598) · 11 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @zeta_globin is no longer available.)_ I didn’t know this was a thing but if it is, one hypothesis is that Ashkenazis having relatively more GI issues is definitely a thing which carbonation sometimes alleviates the symptoms of ### [Reply to @cosyposter, 02:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776443697032253536) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @cosyposter is no longer available.)_ Free my man ### [Reply, 03:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776459054136615010) · 1 like Oh lol ok I did not think wet wood would burn cooler (although I can kinda see it now) (intuitively less “smoke” from wet wood but the smoke is just steam that creates an illusion of more particulates) ### [Reply to @eshear, 04:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776464536964366774) · 2 likes > **Emmett Shear (@eshear):** Why shouldn’t all the inventory clear? If the owners were acting as a block, sure they could extract more collectively. But the ppl who overprice lose big and people just slightly underpriced lose very little. So it’s rational in the absence of coordination… Idk when they sold out, but >3 days before literally zero of all the sellers are holding out for a higher price? They should only clear like the day before ### [Reply to @livgorton, 04:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776467521169654040) · 7 likes > **Liv (@livgorton):** today someone asked me if i was EA and instead of explaining “well… you know, i’m a little bit adjacent but… blah blah” i actually said yes?? what does this mean?? Haha YES 😈 The cult has gained a member everybody write this down ### [Reply to @sgonzalesauthor, 05:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776476283385381204) · 1 like > **Sophie Gonzales (@sgonzalesauthor):** This person describing what immortality would actually be like is genuinely the best short horror story I’ve ever read > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKa_E3vboAEFMcm.jpg) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKa_E37aEAAIJCz.jpg) Had the same thought ### [Quote tweet, 05:07 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776476737221615674) · 54 likes Where do I find more of whatever psychogenre this is? > **Quoting Sophie Gonzales (@sgonzalesauthor):** This person describing what immortality would actually be like is genuinely the best short horror story I’ve ever read > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKa_E3vboAEFMcm.jpg) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKa_E37aEAAIJCz.jpg) ### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 05:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776478974463311993) · 3 likes > **Aaron Bergman, March 15, 2024:** My uninhibited pharmacology brain says maybe this is bc they’re all chronically low on glycogen ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKdSNjTWAAAV2g5.jpg) ### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 05:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776481845997084786) · 9 likes > **Aaron Bergman, April 6, 2024:** Where do I find more of whatever psychogenre this is? Reminding me of this ### [Reply to @ghosttyped, 05:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776482673403253091) · 3 likes > **David Bui (@ghosttyped):** What would you do in this situation? > > [video attached](https://x.com/ghosttyped/status/1776264002949050436/video/1) Die ### [Reply to @RafaRuizdeLira, 20:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776701799820341345) · 2 likes > **Rafael Ruiz ⏸️🔸 (@RafaRuizdeLira):** > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKe5DEMXoAABO08.jpg) What the fuck is this guys problem ### [Quote tweet, 20:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776702149168148646) · 16 likes Whenever a moot has a bad take > **Quoting Peter🧅📈 (@PeterJAngel):** Why do smart people believe things that are not true? ### [Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 20:07 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776703377050624466) · 1 like > **Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver):** While I don't support this trust me that splitting a bedroom in half and adding a new door from the hallway is so easy that you can wait until your wife is 8 months pregnant to even start Ya I’m cool with this I will unironically sleep on the couch ### [Reply to @SpacedOutMatt, 20:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776709982144041294) · 3 likes > **Matt 🔸 (@SpacedOutMatt):** I think this interacts poorly with your randomly-generated sleep schedule Watch out bud ur about to get uninvited from the castle ## Sunday, April 7, 2024 ### [Quote tweet, 14:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776973255103951062) · 9 likes Fr though I don’t understand why this kind of thing doesn’t happen more Not just in housing - anything where the law is essentially about getting the right pieces of paper signed by the right people and enforcement via literal force… > **Quoting \_its_not_real\_ (@_its_not_real_):** Based. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKiApv3WQAA3eq0.jpg) ### [Thread, continued, 14:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776973257045868900) · 5 likes (demolishing buildings, physical arrest, the state welding its monopoly on lethal force) seems frankly implausible, at least before several steps of escalation occur Why do we have rule of law? ### [Reply to @livgorton, 14:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1776973997000798628) · 2 likes > **Liv (@livgorton):** @AaronBergman18 @SpacedOutMatt i also could be 45% serious. will we get EA forum posts about our irresponsible financial choices? that’s the real value of the investment So together that makes 90%. We just need to find one person who’s 10% serious ### [Tweet, 15:48 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777000623050748209) · 22 likes Parfit biography should have been titled “Let Him Cook” ### [Reply, 16:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777004795699614050) Idk I can’t recall hearing about another instance of this (or breaking height limits, or building appts in an area zoned for single family, but maybe I’m just ignorant/mistaken ### [Thread, continued, 16:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777005073014440195) · 1 like And for better or worse, civil disobedience doesn’t rly seem to be a big YIMBY tactic afaict ### [Reply to @RafaRuizdeLira, 17:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777032469440536938) · 2 likes > **Rafael Ruiz ⏸️🔸 (@RafaRuizdeLira):** @BearPosting @AaronBergman18 @RafaRuizdeLira ### [Reply to @BootsPlatypus, 22:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777100440489848917) · 5 likes > **Platypussy in Bio (@BootsPlatypus):** @AaronBergman18 Explain He was basically identified as brilliant pretty young and then spent like 25 years barely publishing enough to keep getting paid to be a scholar at Oxford, in part maybe bc he repeatedly kept saying he’d publish a book but never did Eventually he was basically given ### [Thread, continued, 22:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777101207359664542) · 6 likes An ultimatum to publish the book he’d been promising or he’d be out at Oxford Long story short he goes monk mode and drops Reasons and Persons, which was like 25 years of accumulating thoughts and takes and revolutionized big parts of academic philosophy ## Monday, April 8, 2024 ### [Reply to @liron, 06:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777219047517544531) · 3 likes > **Liron Shapira (@liron):** Taelin you are a gentleman and a scholar > > (quoting @VictorTaelin: I \*WAS\* WRONG - $10K CLAIMED! ## The Claim Two days ago, I confidently claimed that "GPTs will NEVER solve the A::B problem". I believed that: 1. GPTs can't truly learn new problems, outside of their training set, 2. GPTs can't perform long-term reasoning, no matter how simple…) It’s a rare tweet that basically gets an instant follow from me but this is one ### [Reply to @keysmashbandit, 06:17 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777219309023965592) · 2 likes > **keysmashbandit (@keysmashbandit):** vyvanse makes me want to have opinions on things and share them and its sometimes a bad idea Nah poast through it ### [Reply to @sporadica, 15:17 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777355147712086236) · 2 likes > **spor (@sporadica):** explaining how these two are connected should be part of the us citizenship exam > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKprvzbXAAEQ8aK.jpg) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKprvzfXsAEcAzz.jpg) The obvious answer that pops to mind is cultural influence as soft power and hard power as reasons for American hegemony but is there like a weirder/more direct thing? ### [Reply to @parmita, 16:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777366259975192674) · 1 like > **parm🔬 (@parmita):** this is every biologist going to the doctor > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKlT0doXYAA-Io2.jpg) Yeah and this is good ### [Reply to @StatisticUrban, 16:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777367478634467426) · 2 likes > **Hunter📈🌈📊 (@StatisticUrban):** You should walk 10,000 steps a day and exercise regularly. > > (quoting @OliviaUtley: This has blown my mind. How can you even avoid walking 5000 steps a day?! 🤯 that’s like to my local Tesco and back for milk) Bimodal distribution go brr ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKp6TWEXsAAOXqA.jpg) ### [Reply to @historyinmemes, 16:08 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777368006831513742) · 3 likes > **Historic Vids (@historyinmemes):** Every spring, cows in Sweden get let out of the barn when it's warm enough after being indoors all winter. > > [video attached](https://x.com/historyinmemes/status/1777295323683340353/video/1) I feel like the cows are probably smart enough to figure out if it’s too cold to be outside Just give them access to both ### [Reply to @NoahTopper, 16:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777369030979891624) · 1 like > **Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper):** Had an appointment with my primary care provider today and told her some recommendations from my psychiatrist, and she said psychiatrists aren’t medical doctors. Is it time to find a new provider? Tell ur psych that and watch them fight it out ### [Reply to @iamgingertrash, 16:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777371077502546036) · 2 likes > **simp 4 satoshi (@iamgingertrash):** If you squint hard, everything looks like gradient descent > > \> Startups pivot because they found a new path to minima > \> Your Instagram feed is a local minima for your attention > \> Governments change policy according to popularity > > Where is this not true? > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKlduFvXYAAVMRf.jpg) Walking uphill ### [Tweet, 16:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777376384060387655) · 50 likes What are the betting odds on the solar eclipse happening? I’ll do 100k:1 that someone screwed up the math somewhere ### [Thread, continued, 16:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777376594597699760) · 4 likes Or a weird event like changes the earth or moon’s trajectory ### [Thread, continued, 16:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777377154503741440) · 4 likes Maybe willing to negotiate down to 10k:1 ### [Reply to @arithmoquine, 17:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777380926122561708) · 2 likes > **henry (@arithmoquine):** @AaronBergman18 i’ll bet at those odds Sweet dm me ur Venmo I’ll send u a dollar ### [Reply, 17:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777382221155864789) · 1 like Lol unfortunately my odds become worse \*after\* the thing happened (or doesn’t 👀) ### [Reply to @arithmoquine, 17:17 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777385183357894844) · 2 likes > **henry (@arithmoquine):** @AaronBergman18 i’m a financial caveman and don’t have venmo. instead, you have to be $1 worth of friendliness/politeness in future encounters until the debt is settled Alright, likewise for the payout when I win ### [Quote tweet, 17:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777387862691885258) · 72 likes Don’t believe the Daylight Doomers ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKqM1vhWAAAUAvv.jpg) > **Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18):** What are the betting odds on the solar eclipse happening? > > I’ll do 100k:1 that someone screwed up the math somewhere ### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 19:13 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777414471775854810) · 8 likes > **Aaron Bergman, December 19, 2023:** Very load bearing https://x.com/aaronbergman18/status/1737187769284219383?s=46 Load bearing ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKqk9f1XIAABoOB.jpg) ### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 23:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777472286766895229) · 1 like > **Aaron Bergman, December 3, 2023:** 44 45\) people on both sides of many EA-related ethical discussions use whichever of {happiness, suffering} is most compelling and persuasive even when they want their claim to be symmetrical Examples below… ### [Thread, continued, 23:09 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777473961812525536) · 1 like 1\) anti-longtermists make various arguments/claims along the lines of “we have no duty or responsibility to act such that there are more happy people in the future” which I think is wrong but not prima facie absurd… ### [Thread, continued, 23:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777474319775322260) · 2 likes But the version of this that goes “we have no duty or responsibility to act such that future people who would suffer terribly if created are not, in fact, born” or “that future people who are bound to exist suffer less” seems at least to me obviously wrong on its face ## Tuesday, April 9, 2024 ### [Reply to @vivian_belenky, 11:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777654258810093956) · 1 like > **viv 🔸 (@vivian_belenky):** Yeah so we had the same cool and unique proposal idea > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKqlwllXkAAJno8.jpg) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKqnTqrWkAACwSv.jpg) Based ### [Tweet, 11:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777655810740367541) · 17 likes I don’t think the phonetics of the word “elephant” are appropriate for the aesthetics of the creature. We should rename them to something with more long vowels but I haven’t decided what yet ### [Reply to @austinc3301, 11:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777656407086514499) · 5 likes > **Agus 🔸 (@austinc3301):** I’ve long thought this is true and one of the most obvious problems with the sequences. At the same time, it seems insane to dismiss the sequences just because of this, it managed to be a hit anyway I don’t particularly love the writing style but not everything should read like a Paul graham essay or tea kettle instruction manual lol ### [Reply to @nikitabier, 11:41 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777663220808896834) · 4 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @nikitabier is no longer available.)_ And given that most people who move there are neither homeless nor bankrupt, evidently they are indeed able to! ### [Reply to @arithmoquine, 11:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777665011696943286) · 2 likes > **henry (@arithmoquine):** nobody warned me how SMALL the sun is. childhood ruined It’s bigger up close though. Like it can fit several aircraft carriers and have room to spare ### [Reply to @arithmoquine, 11:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777665536446345637) · 1 like > **henry (@arithmoquine):** @AaronBergman18 https://x.com/arithmoquine/status/1767740993036513431 Don’t be unrealistic ### [Reply to @liz_love_lace, 12:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777668128433996058) · 3 likes > **Liz Lovelace (@liz_love_lace):** guys i'm sorry but you'll be wasting no more than 1kb if you repost this. The image gets linked using the same URL and a many-to-many relationship to the tweets What about now ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKuLvV1XgAEfzJd.jpg) ### [Tweet, 12:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777670583796269191) · 16 likes Lol at Derek Parfit, literal genius and one of the greatest philosophers of all time, avoiding meta-ethics for most of his career because he thought it was “too hard” ### [Reply to @esskayen, 12:19 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777672602359652377) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @esskayen is no longer available.)_ Are there? ### [Reply to @GjMcGowan, 16:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777737741662339247) · 5 likes > **George McGowan (@GjMcGowan):** He’s only gone and done it > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKvKrEdWoAAUbfI.jpg) > (quoting @JesseTayRiver: @GjMcGowan Might not be the model but would probably still work. I strongly condone you modifying this stupidity:…) Jesse for president ### [Reply to @inerati, 16:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777739706609877286) · 9 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @inerati is no longer available.)_ “Vegans against conservation” would actually be a good and banger interest group ### [Reply, 16:48 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777740308677030190) · 1 like Fr ### [Reply to @michaelcurzi, 17:04 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777744427307470999) · 9 likes > **𝖒𝖎𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖊𝖑𝖈𝖚𝖗𝖟𝖎 (@michaelcurzi):** Why don't you call it a 'nursing room' or sm instead of being a fuxking weirdo > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKvFXiGWcAAo-ZT.jpg) No this is where they record the podcast ### [Reply to @BenHayum, 17:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777747920361492766) · 3 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @BenHayum is no longer available.)_ 🐑 ## Wednesday, April 10, 2024 ### [Quote tweet, 01:37 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777873390549827723) · 8 likes Poast boxmate > **Quoting Oliver Traldi (@olivertraldi):** never ask someone who else they "put in the same box" as you ### [Reply to @rgblong, 01:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777878968676360494) > **Robert Long (@rgblong):** Are you familiar with the phrase “comparison is the thief of joy”? Deciding whether to interpret this as “were you familiar before reading this tweet?” 😰 ### [Reply to @AaronEstel, 02:08 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777881366987677814) · 3 likes > **Aaron (@AaronEstel):** @toasterlighting @AaronBergman18 us Aarons stick together Fr 😤 ### [Reply to @Kirsten3531, 02:22 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1777884906342728117) · 1 like > **Kirsten (@Kirsten3531):** the first time I got to authorise an invoice for £100,000 and that was just... it? everyone just believed me that the work was done?? > > (quoting @bschne: The second-scariest moment early in your career is when someone gives you an important task, the scariest is when you realize they just run with what you came up with) Not the same thing but took me 6 trips to a physical bank branch to wire a similar amount of money lol ### [Reply to @zetalyrae, 11:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778029835568165049) · 1 like > **Fernando Borretti (@zetalyrae):** Where do you meet rats and rat-adjacent people in real life? Meet on twitter first lol ### [Reply to @frances__lorenz, 12:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778033184346615985) · 5 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @frances__lorenz is no longer available.)_ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ip7nXs7l-8sahT6ehvk2pBrlQ6Umy5IMPYStO3taaoc/edit?usp=sharing ### [Reply to @paulg, 13:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778048221035589985) · 9 likes > **Paul Graham (@paulg):** No one uses it in spoken English. It's one of those words like "burgeoning" that people only use when they're writing and want to sound clever. Hey I like “burgeoning”! ### [Reply to @rSanti97, 13:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778054186149490806) · 3 likes > **Santi Ruiz (@rSanti97):** One quarter of all kidneys from organ donors get thrown in the trash. > > At Statecraft, we uncovered why a corrupt monopolist has managed organ procurement for 40 years, and how it’s getting fixed. > https://www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-stop-losing-17500-kidneys 👀 ### [Reply to @goingawoll, 13:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778056082184696267) · 2 likes > **Amos Wollen 🦐🪰✴️ (@goingawoll):** Since he’s off Twitter, here is Matthew Adelstein’s first peer-reviewed publication 🔥 https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/922942 > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKzj25eWMAA06Hs.jpg) Wow, good for him ### [Reply to @NoahTopper, 18:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778122157827989765) · 2 likes > **Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper):** Alright who am I in the same box as > > (quoting @olivertraldi: never ask someone who else they "put in the same box" as you) @austinc3301 bc another 🔍⏸️ internet friend I have yet to meet irl ### [Reply to @littIeramblings, 19:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778135902495141917) · 2 likes > **sarah (@littIeramblings):** no but actually that’s such a good idea Do it ### [Reply to @Philonous, 19:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778143610413740326) · 2 likes > **James Hudson (@Philonous):** @absurdlymax @polisisti And what times are those? When one is indeed delving ### [Reply to @RafaRuizdeLira, 19:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778143760502665424) · 2 likes > **Rafael Ruiz ⏸️🔸 (@RafaRuizdeLira):** What he thinkin' about? > > (quoting @BearPosting: ) Probably reflecting on life as a bear ### [Tweet, 19:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778144377967198420) · 7 likes This is where u should go clothes shopping, no exceptions ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GK084xNXYAA6rm7.jpg) ### [Reply to @bschne, 19:41 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778146180519637492) · 2 likes > **Benjamin (@bschne):** also I figured out how they charge the elephants > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GK0-TS_XUAEpvS5.jpg) Where can I find a USB-C-elephant adapter ### [Reply to @RafaRuizdeLira, 20:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778154984137224517) · 2 likes > **Rafael Ruiz ⏸️🔸 (@RafaRuizdeLira):** @austinc3301 @Laura_k_Duffy (Oh I had no idea neither of you were at RP anymore!) RiP ### [Tweet, 20:19 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778155768417526085) · 10 likes I’d forgotten that when it gets hot a good 1% of my brainpower becomes dedicated to making sure I never run out of ice, a bit like keeping all my devices charged but they actually do run out relatively quickly if I don’t stay vigilant ### [Reply to @psychiel, 20:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778159476576530542) · 1 like > **Mariven (@psychiel):** Do puppies comprehend that they're growing? Or do they conceive of the world as steadily shrinking? Probably the same as humans, which is to say neither (there’s no conscious sense that either occurs) ### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 20:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778161972384526337) · 7 likes > **Aaron Bergman, April 10, 2024:** I’d forgotten that when it gets hot a good 1% of my brainpower becomes dedicated to making sure I never run out of ice, a bit like keeping all my devices… I’ve run out ☹️ ### [Reply to @thebestestpie, 22:10 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778183895613383116) · 2 likes > **Fake News Pie (@thebestestpie):** @AaronBergman18 why not AC? Housemates evidently like it ~10° warmer lol ## Thursday, April 11, 2024 ### [Reply to @austinc3301, 02:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778254243968807187) · 1 like > **Agus 🔸 (@austinc3301):** I use LLMs \*really\* often, and I also write quite a lot (mostly for work). Yet, I barely use them to write. > > I don't like how Claude and ChatGPT write prose. Not sure if I'm ignorant about the right way to prompt models, or if it's just because their finetuning sucks at this Yeah agree ### [Reply to @EgeErdil2, 05:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778287457592570119) · 1 like > **Ege Erdil (@EgeErdil2):** what do people mean when they talk about "post-scarcity"? > > i'm genuinely confused, i can't find any way of making this concept coherent Price index ≈ 0 ### [Reply to @univrsw3th4rt, 05:07 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778288865431674975) · 6 likes > **universe sweetheart 💓🌈💭 (@univrsw3th4rt):** just learned the word “iatrogenic” Throw in “etiology” and you’ll have mastered the vernacular ### [Reply to @EgeErdil2, 05:13 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778290297643966584) · 1 like > **Ege Erdil (@EgeErdil2):** prices are relative, not absolute, so saying they are "near 0" is meaningless > > can you make this claim more precise? It’s not meaninglesss; there’s no law that wages have to increase 1:1 with the price level, so real purchasing power can go up or down That said, I was just spitballing so not shocked if this doesn’t hold up as a sufficient condition for “post scarcity” ### [Reply, 11:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778391999709581358) · 1 like If you start with the assumption that those you disagree with can’t possibly be earnest and can’t possibly believe the things they say they do for good object-level reasons, you’re going to be both mean and wrong a lot of the time ### [Reply to @SpacedOutMatt, 12:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778392753140846765) > **Matt 🔸 (@SpacedOutMatt):** What’s their ideal temp? 70ish ### [Reply to @Actualwebutante, 12:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778395443161968779) · 2 likes > **whoreaborealis (dubai, bali 10/18-11/14) (@Actualwebutante):** What does it mean when code “compiles” Nobody knows ### [Reply, 20:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778521879684542552) Why does it have 31k views? Not to be a hater I just don’t get it lol ### [Reply to @thinkagainer, 20:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778522022236275007) · 2 likes > **thinkagainer (@thinkagainer):** Matt Levine starting a podcast!!! Huge day for a shockingly large number of people exactly like me We are the same ### [Reply to @dcpip_, 21:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778539962004394073) · 4 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @dcpip_ is no longer available.)_ Real ## Friday, April 12, 2024 ### [Reply to @simoj_, 03:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778633086520930389) · 5 likes > **simoj (@simoj_):** If we accept evidence that they work at all, talk therapy and SSRI’s still have such a small effect size that on average you should not expect them to help very much - yes? > > I may be out of date on this Depends what u mean by “average” Avg effect size is small for any given SSRI helping an arbitrary person, yes, but it could be the case that the avg effect size of those who have been taking one for at least say 3 months is “medium” ### [Tweet, 03:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778634108836483319) · 44 likes TIL Derek Parfit explicitly endorsed EA becoming longtermist (not using that term ofc) in the super early days of institutional EA, circa 2010 ### [Tweet, 04:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778635008195911935) · 11 likes One of my (evidently) more radical opinions is that we don't need to demarcate and enforce formal/"professional" relationship boundaries as strongly as we do It seems like we reify them more strongly than the actual object level power dynamics warrant ### [Thread, continued, 04:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778635010418913614) · 5 likes Yes I’ve posted this before, but my qt of choice was ill-advised ### [Reply to @RFishBlueFish, 04:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778635129973256502) · 2 likes > **Gil (@RFishBlueFish):** @AaronBergman18 was this based on AI x-risk? > > this also got me thinking, how many people in EA would support longtermism if AI wasn't a thing? (neither x-risk nor potentially positive scenarios) Idk I don’t think so but haven’t finished this section in the biography! ### [Reply to @nickcammarata, 04:37 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778643479922352379) · 11 likes > **Nick (@nickcammarata):** do you know why he didn't do any meditative practices? He got some of the benefit just from his logicing, but says in the book he can't make it stick no matter how much he logics even though he wants it to stick, and there are well known practices for making it stick > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GK8CV67aAAA_L9X.jpg) Not specifically but guessing for the same reason he made basically no time for anything but work - that was what he prioritized above ~literally everything ### [Quote tweet, 04:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778648342135734705) · 5 likes 👀Same thing 👀 http://admonymous.co/a 👀 > **Quoting Holly ⏸️ Elmore (@ilex_ulmus):** DMs and anonymous comment box (https://www.admonymous.co/ilex_ulmus) open if anyone wants to tell me more about why Leopold was fired ### [Reply to @AndyMasley, 18:07 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778847424305332299) · 5 likes > **Andy Masley (@AndyMasley):** Transitioning from bulking to cutting. Worst thing ever please pray for me fam 🙏🏼 ### [Tweet, 18:19 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778850372880105608) · 24 likes I am not mentally ready for the Zvi 80k episode ### [Reply to @pearl_please, 18:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778851420852150702) · 6 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @pearl_please is no longer available.)_ https://gwern.net/fiction/clippy ### [Reply to @ShakeelHashim, 18:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778852340864299364) · 19 likes > **Shakeel (@ShakeelHashim):** Lantern is a really nice example of how rationalists are extremely motivated by groupthink and social dynamics. > > If the CEO wasn’t ex-MIRI and friends with Aella, I don’t think people would be promoting it the way they are. > > (quoting @salonium: Is this a paid advertisement? According to the footnotes it's not, which makes it more baffling for someone to write about a therapeutic candidate this way, since there is no human trial evidence for it. https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/the-rise-and-impending-fall-of-the) I half agree but different interpretation: the rationalist pedigree makes it a rationalism success story - triumph over a suboptimal world - and rationalists like trumpeting this kind of thing for obvious reasons ### [Quote tweet, 18:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778852831874691241) · 38 likes We will get AGI before we get a beepless microwave > **Quoting Jarom Eubanks (@EubanksJarom):** I don't put a timer on the oven or the microwave because it beeps if I do. Bro, wtf does it have to beep like that?? It's so annoying. ### [Reply to @polisisti, 18:40 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778855834384052708) · 2 likes > **Alessandro (@polisisti):** @AaronBergman18 My microwave beeps by default but I can turn off all beeps. The directions were in the instruction manual. It's amazing! Huge ### [Reply to @livgorton, 22:09 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778908302891434268) · 2 likes > **Liv (@livgorton):** my mum just now: “is that a cuddle puddle?” > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GK_NDXYW0AA7Ff-.jpg) Well is it? ### [Reply to @halcyon_hazel, 22:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778912243670806710) · 1 like > **❤️‍🔥 hazel ❤️‍🔥 (@halcyon_hazel):** wait just found out about santa muerte what the fuck > > (quoting @GraduatedBen: Disconcerting to me that the cult of Santa Muerte is so strong now in Texas that devotional candles are sold at name brand gas station chains) TIL https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Muerte ### [Reply to @ConnorTabarrok, 22:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778913231362220142) · 2 likes > **Connor J. Tabarrok 🏗🚀🌏 (@ConnorTabarrok):** Many microwaves have mute functionality Are these mute functionalities in the room with us right now? ## Saturday, April 13, 2024 ### [Reply to @atroyn, 00:07 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778938128230678792) · 4 likes > **anton 🇺🇸 (@atroyn):** i still think most men are simply not aware of what pilates actually is What is pilates? I feel like this isn’t super informative ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLAOzJnWAAAno2c.jpg) ### [Reply to @TetraspaceWest, 03:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778985446975885522) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @TetraspaceWest is no longer available.)_ Big if true ### [Reply to @BecomingCritter, 03:46 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778993238356971661) · 2 likes > **critter (@BecomingCritter):** > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLAackVXkAApePN.jpg) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLAbSBsW8AAKDQZ.jpg) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLAb8OCWMAA05x-.jpg) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLAcP7IWIAAlk9C.jpg) ☹️ ### [Reply to @austinc3301, 03:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778995328747770090) · 2 likes > **Agus 🔸 (@austinc3301):** Want to put some money where your mouth is? Happy to bet 300 bucks that satisfactory scientific evidence of its efficacy in human trials will be produced. U might not like it but this is what peak discourse looks like ### [Reply to @dioscuri, 03:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778995665994985652) · 3 likes > **Henry Shevlin (@dioscuri):** One worry I have about superintelligence: what if it gives us really depressing answers about the possibilities of physics as a science? Eg, general relativity and quantum mechanics can’t be empirically unified, and all low-hanging high-impact breakthroughs have happened Is it even possible that they can’t be empirically unified? Idk what I’m talking about but my AP physics layperson understanding is like something’s gotta give - either they can be unified or at least one can be replaced by a better model ### [Reply to @austinc3301, 03:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1778996280473125151) · 6 likes > **Agus 🔸 (@austinc3301):** good, maybe this is even better for the environment > > grass is evil and must be stopped at all costs \*all\* costs?? ### [Reply to @inerati, 17:26 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779199507529367750) · 3 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @inerati is no longer available.)_ What else are white ppl supposed to do all day ### [Reply to @daniellellecco, 19:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779223185264611591) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @daniellellecco is no longer available.)_ Real ### [Tweet, 19:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779227802975252871) · 5 likes New Pigeon Hour episode with the one and only @arthur_wright\_ is live! https://www.aaronbergman.net/p/12-arthur-wright-and-i-discuss-whether ### [Reply to @_chair, 20:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779252182073700662) · 1 like > **Chair (@_chair):** @Samantha1989TV @nightKuiper @shakoistsLog feed magic helpfully popped this up for me on the next refresh Based ### [Reply to @grnsleeves, 20:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779252516443558073) · 2 likes > **Greensleeves (@grnsleeves):** @AaronBergman18 wait you listen to podcasts on 1x speed?! This is my cope and/or defense ### [Reply to @Sam__Enright, 20:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779252667979542598) · 2 likes > **Sam Enright (@Sam__Enright):** What are you going to do with the extra one minute? Poast ## Sunday, April 14, 2024 ### [Reply to @SchmidtIbanez, 09:47 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779446478320128395) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @SchmidtIbanez is no longer available.)_ thx 🙏 ### [Reply to @ilex_ulmus, 12:26 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779486501685834221) · 91 likes > **Holly ⏸️ Elmore (@ilex_ulmus):** Update: ghosting is often the kindest way to reject someone and saves you a lot of time and energy that you don’t owe matches on a dating app I disagree. A single “sorry I don’t think this is gonna work” text isn’t too much to ask Context: got ghosted for the first time a couple weeks ago! 😊 (like showed up at date location just to find out she unmatched me on hinge and didn’t respond to calls or texts) ### [Thread, continued, 12:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779486741579039079) · 6 likes Not the end of the world but it sure as hell wasn’t the \*kindest\* way to do things ## Monday, April 15, 2024 ### [Reply to @chercher_ai, 05:13 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779739773629849685) · 2 likes > **☯️ 🐻 (@chercher_ai):** Any guesses as to what this is a map of? > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLIum7vaEAAZNsh.jpg) Earth ### [Reply to @_StevenFan, 07:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779769613015802310) · 8 likes > **steven (@_StevenFan):** Give a definition of free will that you think is coherent. Free will is the ability to juggle 3 balls for at least 45 seconds It’s not true but it is coherent ### [Reply to @austinc3301, 07:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779770699185344901) · 2 likes > **Agus 🔸 (@austinc3301):** @robi_rahman @AaronBergman18 is one, but it's of a weird kind This sentence applies to many things, probably ### [Reply to @ipsumkyle, 10:13 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779815408377180633) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @ipsumkyle is no longer available.)_ Bimodal distribution go brr ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLMsrliWwAA6MfQ.jpg) ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLMsrljX0AAzBTb.jpg) ### [Reply to @shakaz_, 10:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779826934660104620) · 2 likes > **shakaz (@shakaz_):** what are some good ways to spike each one? for science > > endorphins -> sex/masturbation > endocannbinoids -> weed > phenethamine (typo?) > glutamate -> ? > glycine -> ? > dopamine -> cocaine > serotonin -> MDMA > acetylcholine -> nicotine? > norepinephrine -> roller coasters? > histmine, GABA -> ? Idk if weed spikes endocannabinoids - it definitely spikes exocannabinoids tho Phenethylamine: exercise and adderall Glutamate: ketamine (if I remember correctly) Glycine: glycine on an empty stomach Histamine: modafinil, whatever ur allergic to GABA: benzodiazepines ### [Reply to @skooookum, 11:46 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779838746688418280) · 1 like _(The tweet being replied to by @skooookum is no longer available.)_ [![Why Not Both Take Both GIF](https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video_thumb/GLNB57yXYAApCdT.jpg)](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779838746688418280/photo/1) (gif, plays on X) ### [Quote tweet, 11:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779839561838874973) · 210 likes Sometimes fancy words are helpful and good to use ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLNCpcPWQAAM1uq.jpg) > **Quoting BuccoCapital Bloke (@buccocapital):** There’s literally thousands of product managers in tech who all speak the same weird way to sound “smart”. A partial dictionary: > > \- N of 1 > \- ontological > \- superlinear > \- vector alignment > \- first principles > \- stochastic > \- synthesize > \- catalyze > \- asymptotic > \- metonym > \- tautological ### [Thread, continued, 11:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779840531289215077) · 29 likes Might get cancelled by Paul Graham twitter but IMO forms of philosophy subfields (“ontology”, “epistemic”, “aesthetics”) are actually super useful terms/concepts much of the time Fight me ### [Reply to @HenriThunberg, 11:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779841039227916505) · 5 likes > **Henri Thunberg 🔸 (@HenriThunberg):** Real footage of deep learning hitting the wall > > [GIF attached](https://x.com/HenriThunberg/status/1779679969284895041/photo/1) Indeed ### [Reply to @orphcorp, 11:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779841349392462252) · 2 likes > **orph (@orphcorp):** it's been almost a day since this came out, I've watched it about 30 times, I'm still uttering "unreal" every time > > (quoting @the_posts: "If you care about your fucking country, read Ludwig von Mises and the six lessons of the Austrian economic school, motherfuckers." - @moicanoufc) What ### [Reply to @DaCaveOfWonders, 12:04 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779843324800610328) · 3 likes > **Tiger Lava Lamp (@DaCaveOfWonders):** @AaronBergman18 Good fancy: > > Using 5^3 instead of (5+5+5+5+5)+(5+5+5+5+5)+(5+5+5+5+5)+(5+5+5+5+5)+(5+5+5+5+5) > > Bad fancy: > > Using 1\*2/1+0 instead of 2. Ontological observation ### [Reply to @burny_tech, 12:22 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779847880334815740) · 6 likes > **Burny - Effective Curiosity (@burny_tech):** > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLNGlUfWAAIraTi.jpg) Nah, “hypothesis” -> hot take ### [Reply to @GRITCULT, 12:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779850101889900918) · 1 like > **GRITCULT (@GRITCULT):** If this crypto shit don’t work out > > I’m going to become an indoor shrimp farmer > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLJuSTuWcAAgOhJ.jpg) NOOOO ### [Tweet, 12:37 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779851631955223005) · 19 likes I am not quite devastated but I am sadder than I would have expected that my friend’s dog died I remember meeting him when he was a puppy (it’s been 14 years) 🐾☹️ ### [Reply to @Sturgeons_Law, 12:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779851937615167825) · 2 likes > **Sturgeon's Law (@Sturgeons_Law):** This might be one of the greatest videos I've seen in my life > > (quoting @venuslovesrats: this couple taught their rats to drive tiny cars 😭❤️) .@SpacedOutMatt if u don’t figure out how to let Howie pilot a rocket ship I’m gonna call the cops ### [Tweet, 13:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1779860921218629908) · 8 likes I should move to Northern Canada ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLNWEtzWEAAO9Jr.jpg) ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLNWEtvWYAAeRWN.jpg) ## Tuesday, April 16, 2024 ### [Reply to @inerati, 11:29 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780196868116341042) · 3 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @inerati is no longer available.)_ Yeah clown-ass bear fr. Let them go extinct idc ### [Tweet, 12:17 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780208875104264693) · 21 likes I am not going to become the joker but if I did it would be justified. Rich people please stop giving money to some of the wealthiest institutions in the universe even if you took a good undergrad class or your aunt got chemo there ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLSSiW5XEAAKKMh.jpg) ### [Thread, continued, 12:17 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780208879697039831) · 7 likes Mayo Clinic has a $2B endowment and a whole-ass shrine to the many people who gave $10M or more https://www.mayoclinic.org/giving-to-mayo-clinic/honoring-philanthropy ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLSSislWcAEuMGc.jpg) ### [Reply to @HaydnBelfield, 17:22 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780285616778850311) · 5 likes > **Haydn Belfield (@HaydnBelfield):** Damn this is a dream team! > > Hugely impressive top team at the US AI Safety Institute > > 🔥🔥🔥🔥 > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLTBps-W8AAnT7b.jpg) Lfg ### [Reply to @NathanpmYoung, 17:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780286960042410440) · 4 likes > **Nathan 🔎 (@NathanpmYoung):** I think a chunk of people (including myself) misremember their initial reactions to the FTX crash. Almost without exception everyone I know thought FTX was gonna be fine. The question was how long they maintained this belief. I can think of 2 people who were dubious beforehand. Basically agree but credit to Rethink for explicitly planning for this scenario! Not smth I would have done ### [Reply to @JacquesThibs, 17:29 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780287293149900826) · 5 likes > **Jacques (@JacquesThibs):** I sometimes hear “would be great if money went to AI for Climate instead of AI Safety”, well here’s another $100 million. I’d be curious to know if someone has added up the full amount of everything invested in AI for Climate Change. > > (quoting @GaryMarcus: Bezos Earth Fund $100m prizes for AI for Climate and Nature — just announced ⁦@TEDTalks⁩) Ppl really refuse to think at the margin lol ### [Quote tweet, 18:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780309866424205594) · 25 likes (Assuming this isn’t terribly misleading, which I haven’t investigated) NPR might consider that suspending their own journalists for criticism of the organization doesn’t really help them beat the ideological enforcement allegations > **Quoting The Free Press (@TheFP):** Senior @NPR editor @uberliner has been suspended from the public radio network he's served for 25 years after sharing concerns about bias in The Free Press: https://thefp.pub/4aJXNk4 > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLSZDmCXsAAej5X.jpg) ### [Reply to @kindgracekind, 20:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780326792877707457) · 4 likes > **Grace (@kindgracekind):** My twitter sphere is composed of the type of person who would ask for the lion statistics > > (quoting @_Mira___Mira_: Don't say: "There is a lion over there." Say: "The elders have declared that area forbidden. Here's a link to 10 pages of lion statistics that nobody will read, if anyone asks." Conclusions stick better than facts. Nobody cares "why", they want to know "what" the answer is.) I want them as a csv not a goddamn pdf ### [Reply to @MatthewBJane, 22:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780370029483102275) · 1 like _(The tweet being replied to by @MatthewBJane is no longer available.)_ This tweet. Just go with ur gut ### [Quote tweet, 23:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780370938502037903) · 44 likes High key OpenPhil kind of are the adults in the room (well, outside the room but sometimes loud enough to be heard through the walls) > **Quoting ༺ 𐂂 ༻ (@touchmoonflower):** there is no other room > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLS8mdcb0AAdGXt.jpg) ### [Reply to @HenriThunberg, 23:04 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780371736719970693) · 8 likes > **Henri Thunberg 🔸 (@HenriThunberg):** Not in the room, and definitely not putting the people in the room, also not listening to the room. But, adults! Would Christiano or someone comparable be head of NIST AI safety rn if Dustin decided to buy an island like a normal rich person instead? ### [Reply to @ryancbriggs, 23:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780374617082769744) · 2 likes > **Ryan Briggs (@ryancbriggs):** I like this > > (quoting @IntOrgJournal: IO now welcomes -- in addition to research articles and research notes --a new type of submission, "essays." Essays have a 10,000 word limit. They propose innovative ideas of interest to a broad audience of IR scholars. \[1/3\]) At first my brain kept reading “international organization” as one would read like “domestic corporation” or a dog named “Dog” ### [Reply to @IsaacKing314, 23:19 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780375526600855572) · 1 like > **Isaac King 🔎 (@IsaacKing314):** These platforms don't seem to actually provide any inherent value that an MP3 download link doesn't, so I refuse to subscribe to them, but this means there are some podcasts I just can't listen to. Yes they do lol - they organize and collect episodes in one place and remember where you left off and such ### [Reply, 23:40 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780380718838784255) Ohh ur talking about from the supply side. Yes I agree! Spotify is free though, no one should be paying anymore to host ### [Tweet, 23:47 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780382414109364350) · 31 likes Perfect time to go for a quick 6 mile walk 👀 ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLUwXSvWIAAKocr.jpg) ## Wednesday, April 17, 2024 ### [Thread, continued, 00:13 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780389115835420754) · 2 likes Endorse still ### [Reply to @jkeatn, 01:46 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780412483749941366) · 4 likes > **Jake Eaton (@jkeatn):** @absurdlymax @ilex_ulmus Not my area, but in our interview with Jordan Hampton he was pretty adamant that it was bad https://asteriskmag.com/issues/02/animal-welfare-in-the-anthropocene Agree - does anyone think they’d want to be born as an arbitrary wild animal? Absolutely horrifying ### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 01:48 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780413089084502203) · 2 likes > **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** I'm interested in how bad or good really good simulations (or bringing life to other planets) would be? > > I guess maybe if the world is 'net bad' so far, or from the start of the universe to 0 A.D. I wish I could bet on this because I’d put $10k on negative EV. Bringing life to other planets would be the worst thing humanity has ever done ### [Reply to @ilex_ulmus, 01:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780413802548248978) · 2 likes > **Holly ⏸️ Elmore (@ilex_ulmus):** @AaronBergman18 @jkeatn @absurdlymax I mean yeah but also consider that many of them would prefer existence to nonexistence. Yeah some ppl do or yeah u do ? ### [Reply to @thiagovscoelho, 03:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780437435559694834) · 2 likes > **Thiago ✱ (@thiagovscoelho):** “What’s your gender? No, in detail, what’s your gender?” Male ### [Reply to @Bbburner19, 07:47 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780503222018265571) · 2 likes > **The People Mover That Was Promised (@Bbburner19):** @AaronBergman18 @jkeatn @absurdlymax @ilex_ulmus I would love to come back as a pigeon or turtle in NYC after a long lifespan as a human. Thanks for ur request but u have been assigned fish, followed my nematode, followed by slightly different nematode, followed by slightly different fish ### [Reply to @ramit, 09:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780528695209284020) · 10 likes > **Ramit Sethi (@ramit):** You see that haircut of yours? It looks nice. The government ensures that your hair stylist is licensed and uses proper hygiene practices > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLNGcALW8AAH2m5.jpg) > (quoting @J__Mathew: @ramit Paying $10.6k to the government every month is a fucking joke. You will get back nothing in return.) Dude this is like the worst possible example of good governance lmao ### [Quote tweet, 09:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780530342887137637) · 25 likes I unironically think this is true for me, having done both quite a bit > **Quoting mattparlmer 🪐 🌷 (@mattparlmer):** I would not be surprised if walking briskly outside on a sunny day had measurably better therapeutic outcomes than talking to a therapist for the same amount of time ### [Reply, 09:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780535054134866325) · 6 likes _(The tweet being replied to is no longer available.)_ Free George ## Thursday, April 18, 2024 ### [Reply, 15:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780974746252841051) Nah the implicit reasoning here is pretty straightforward and ~obviously true ### [Reply to @ryancbriggs, 15:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780983250590068891) · 2 likes > **Ryan Briggs (@ryancbriggs):** @JesseTayRiver My kids are encouraged to give entirely unfiltered feedback on the food I make them, and we talk about what we taste and like or dislike etc. This has created awkward situations when we visit other people’s houses. Lol ### [Reply to @ryancbriggs, 15:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780983412880228435) · 3 likes > **Ryan Briggs (@ryancbriggs):** @JesseTayRiver My kids are encouraged to give entirely unfiltered feedback on the food I make them, and we talk about what we taste and like or dislike etc. This has created awkward situations when we visit other people’s houses. I didn’t have to be encouraged for this. My mother knew damn well that her rice was often crunchy ### [Reply to @ryancbriggs, 15:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780984434436530592) · 4 likes > **Ryan Briggs (@ryancbriggs):** @AaronBergman18 @JesseTayRiver The worst is when the feedback is clearly correct. Like one of them tries food at someone’s house and immediately says “needs more salt” and it just clearly does. Lol perfect ### [Reply to @StatisticUrban, 15:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1780989524480294967) · 4 likes > **Hunter📈🌈📊 (@StatisticUrban):** Anarchism is "organization of society on a voluntary, cooperative basis without recourse to compulsion." > > I simply don't know how you would get people to do jobs that are not enjoyable and are not fulfilling in exchange for no benefit. I think you’re confusing anarchism and communism/socialism ### [Quote tweet, 17:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781011693352391117) · 110 likes Fuck it, let’s do more dating discourse I suspect straight women on dating apps generally have “lazy” prompts like this because they feel no pressure to put more effort in - after all, they already get a surplus of likes to choose from… > **Quoting john (@jmce95):** “This year I really want to: Travel more” > > “Let’s debate this topic: Pineapple on pizza” > > “I’m weirdly attracted to: Men” > > “Biggest risk I’ve taken: \_\_\_\_\_ during the middle of a pandemic” > > “The best way to ask me out is by: Asking me out” > > [video attached](https://x.com/allreactionvids/status/1495637761730260993/video/1) ### [Thread, continued, 17:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781011696435220579) · 61 likes But putting in the right kind of effort—that is, making more polarizing prompts, will reduce the number of bad potential matches to sift through and increase the avg quality of likes from your perspective ### [Thread, continued, 17:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781011698494615948) · 54 likes So be controversial!! “This year I really want to: donate my kidney to a stranger” “Let’s debate this topic: the hard problem of consciousness” ### [Reply to @livgorton, 17:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781016187742126409) · 13 likes > **Liv (@livgorton):** i think most people have bad prompts? my sample is men + queer women. maybe the underlying motivator is different for each group of course but intuitively there’s at least some shared reasons. Ok ya this makes sense and my sample excludes men lol ### [Tweet, 17:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781019586978005477) · 18 likes If I were a Silicon Valley billionaire I would simply make it clear to Zuck that his good social standing depends on him at least taking AI x-risk concern seriously ### [Quote tweet, 18:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781025899607134503) · 11 likes Ideal @dwarkesh_sp podcast content > **Quoting depths of wikipedia! (@depthsofwiki):** 94 years ago today, the BBC ran out of news and aired piano music instead > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLd2g57WsAEbUs-.jpg) ### [Reply, 22:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781087948559036730) · 1 like Idk my intention isn’t to dunk, and I agree they’re popular bc they’re true! But I feel like most ppl should have the intuition (if not explicit thought) that answers like this don’t generally reveal much about ur personality? ### [Thread, continued, 22:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781089504360607970) · 3 likes Also I think the Rogan/fishing thing is not analogous. It’s perfectly cool to like Netflix, Taylor swift, traveling, relaxing, etc. - these aren’t bad traits (and insofar as they’re common or “basic”) that’s fine, but they are bad prompts to use on hinge! ## Friday, April 19, 2024 ### [Reply to @sillynous, 13:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781319167007674492) · 5 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @sillynous is no longer available.)_ lol this is pretty bad ### [Reply to @robertwiblin, 13:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781320182125769005) · 4 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @robertwiblin is no longer available.)_ As I suspected 🤓 ### [Reply to @Actualwebutante, 15:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781342879870222410) · 8 likes > **whoreaborealis (dubai, bali 10/18-11/14) (@Actualwebutante):** If you say half twelve is that I have never heard this phrase so I’m gonna go with 6 ### [Reply to @thiagovscoelho, 15:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781344572733317594) · 2 likes > **Thiago ✱ (@thiagovscoelho):** There are meaningful propositions that are neither true nor false. Surprised to see so many “true” votes - what examples are ppl thinking of? ### [Reply to @arithmoquine, 19:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781410557150511610) · 6 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @arithmoquine is no longer available.)_ Where are all ur peers? Like why are there zero other 14-17 y/o on here that I know about ### [Reply to @mealreplacer, 19:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781411239823859859) · 11 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @mealreplacer is no longer available.)_ 3 types ### [Reply to @arithmoquine, 20:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781412953687839096) · 2 likes > **henry (@arithmoquine):** therapists hate this! render forming meaningful relationships obsolete with one easy trick! > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLipMyoXIAA_UTZ.jpg) I tried nasal spray with no effect 😔 ### [Quote tweet, 20:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781416592774938857) · 12 likes Me fr > **Quoting derek guy (@dieworkwear):** "they're my formal vans" > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLjTbhTaYAAm0az.jpg) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLjTebSaEAATwZ3.jpg) ### [Reply to @austinc3301, 22:26 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781449360934380007) · 4 likes > **Agus 🔸 (@austinc3301):** PSA that my Twitter account has been locked and deboosted several times over the last week and I have no idea why > > may god save this account 🙏 🙏🏼ojalá que no maten a Agus🙏🏼 ### [Reply to @adic_9, 23:04 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781458845744697733) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @adic_9 is no longer available.)_ Every drug that does anything plausibly affects any system in any organism bc, as you say, biology is cursed ### [Reply to @DeepDishEnjoyer, 23:04 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781458964242108862) · 2 likes > **peepeepoopoo (@DeepDishEnjoyer):** wow I have more than 7k followers and none of them are @eshear > > :( Same but I don’t have 7k :( ### [Quote tweet, 23:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781470086152307017) · 12 likes RIP (he was wrong about consciousness but still) > **Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18):** @UsingLyft I remember reading Dennet at maybe 12 or 14 and thinking “this guy is just way smarter than me” ### [Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 23:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781470858772463652) · 3 likes > **Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver):** You're perilously close to drawing the ire of the surprisingly strident anti-cico rationalists I would like to defend the camp of anti-cico rationalists (the “anti” refers to its value as an insight and explanation, nobody who has a LW account thinks it it’s literally true) ### [Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 23:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781471477683896723) · 2 likes > **Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver):** @jskf\_\_ @NathanB60857242 @jkeatn My path dependence is 6 miles of running every day > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLkMf1fWEAACkL1.png) Jesse post pictures like this and then refuse to enter politics Bro ur worried about the wrong kind of running ### [Thread, continued, 23:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781471828302598290) · 2 likes Also same (admittedly this week is higher than avg and also fuck running) ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLkPL78WUAAyphu.jpg) ### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 23:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781472436812165382) · 2 likes > **Aaron Bergman, April 19, 2024:** I would like to defend the camp of anti-cico rationalists (the “anti” refers to its value as an insight and explanation, nobody who has a LW account thinks it… \*it’s NOT literally true lol ## Saturday, April 20, 2024 ### [Reply to @livgorton, 00:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781479274387591397) · 2 likes > **Liv (@livgorton):** i’m probably doomer / doomer-adjacent by some standards (notably more optimistic than MIRI, less than e/acc) but 100% the comms around this stuff is at times too galaxy brained or convoluted or not capturing the important thing. sounding clever just shouldn’t be a priority. Poast p(doom) ### [Reply, 00:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781486360181829929) · 1 like _(The tweet being replied to is no longer available.)_ Qualia realism, but besides that, we have no idea, but the hard problem is real and reductionist explanations are fake and wrong “Strong qualia anti-realism” (which I used to call “illusionism” but now am sufficiently confused about what illusionists think to avoid that term)… ### [Quote tweet, 00:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781487413749076071) · 8 likes My current view on consciousness for fellow philosophy nerds to pick apart ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLkdXGfWYAEoJsN.jpg) > **Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18):** RIP (he was wrong about consciousness but still) ### [Quote tweet, 00:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781487935042236518) · 1 like I would like to invest in whoever tries this > **Quoting Someone:** ### [Reply to @daniel_271828, 01:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781488276714430956) · 4 likes > **zzDANIEL_ETH (@daniel_271828):** Has anyone combined the Bryan Johnson regimen with Tim Ferris style batching and decided to a single, monstrous 7-hour full-body workout once per week? I think I saw something about a “full body glycogen depleting workout” a while back that was absurdly long so maybe some ppl are doing this by accident ### [Reply, 01:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781488720874500284) Qualia go brr (More seriously, it sure seems like physical processes influence qualia so it depends on what this argument is trying to get at \[like that qualia are physical or that they don’t exist or smth else?\]) ### [Reply, 01:04 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781489109904605403) · 3 likes _(The tweet being replied to is no longer available.)_ The more important figure here IMO is that 2/3 \*aren’t\* hypochondriacs and their intuition proved better than doctors’ training/experience ### [Tweet, 01:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781493463537573996) · 6 likes Booked a Lyft with a stop today and the driver accidentally ended the ride during the stop. Somehow there was no way for him to reverse this (and he only got paid for the discounted rate as if I had edited the ride post-pickup) @lyft maybe have a meeting about this or smth idk ### [Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 03:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781522899276296547) · 4 likes > **Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver):** @AaronBergman18 @daniel_271828 This is the worst training plan I've ever heard of Ur workout plan is like “warm up with a quick marathon, then fight ppl, then chop wood, repeat every day for the rest of ur life” ### [Reply to @inerati, 05:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781555493040734418) · 13 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @inerati is no longer available.)_ They estimate demand curves for individual customers? It makes sense but I wouldn’t have guessed ### [Reply to @ines__circle, 16:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781728447976362353) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @ines__circle is no longer available.)_ 💇‍♀️ ## Sunday, April 21, 2024 ### [Reply to @NathanpmYoung, 04:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781897216006762581) · 2 likes > **Nathan 🔎 (@NathanpmYoung):** who called it effective altruism and not charitable interpretations? Toby Ord and MacAskill right? ### [Reply to @8chabard, 07:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781946467348824500) · 10 likes > **Lysander, 8 CHA Bard (@8chabard):** love how every british city is named something like either "Sloughcoughcester" or "Stroke-on-Johnson" And the former is pronounced “slooster” ### [Reply to @GarrettPetersen, 07:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781948767396049380) · 19 likes > **Dr. Dad, PhD 🔄🔼◀️🔽▶️ (@GarrettPetersen):** @dissproportion If you understand how airplanes work, think of a sailboat as an airplane on its side. The sail and keel are the wings. And the wind moving over the sail moves the boat forward the same way wind over wings generates lift. I do not understand how airplanes work!!! [![Video thumbnail](https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1781948697435074560/pu/img/OuOfc8jt72MtujdM.jpg)](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781948767396049380/video/1) (video, plays on X) ### [Reply to @RatOrthodox, 07:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781954846247023099) · 4 likes > **Brangus🔍⏹️ (@RatOrthodox):** It’s @ohabryka’s birthday this weekend. I suggest that if you want to celebrate you should say one thing you think is true but socially or politically costly on the public internet. A couple things come to mind but I’m a coward Maybe if I get fuck you money at some point ### [Reply to @viemccoy, 07:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781955971062849740) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @viemccoy is no longer available.)_ Yes ### [Reply to @KatSpartz, 10:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781993066997379212) · 2 likes > **Kat Spartz ⏸️ 🔶 (@KatSpartz):** What are the most common arguments against AI safety? > > I'm trying to create a list of arguments to refute. Most common ≠ best ≠ most convincing to the marginal potential ally (which I’m guessing is what you really care about?) May want to ask for the latter or latter two ### [Reply to @_uncle_gworl, 10:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781995111838052473) · 6 likes > **uncle gworl (@_uncle_gworl):** last night, the convo turned towards a fun fav lil bit we like to do at parties: > > SEXY, HOT, or CUTE… which are you? 0/3 but I have correct opinions which I sometimes express on twitter ### [Quote tweet, 10:48 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781998498931474906) · 61 likes Roon’s got some terrible takes today. Counterexamples: \- Chronic stress probably makes your life worse long-term (and this can be caused by poverty among other things) \- Emergency medicine and painkillers \- Protection from the elements \- Giving/helping others > **Quoting roon (@tszzl):** seems straightforward that people seem to be able to hedonically adapt to any good or bad thing that happens to them. so why is it important to give people more resources and freedom? it’s more interesting that way ### [Thread, continued, 10:48 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1781998500814713084) · 16 likes \- Having a kid \- Making a friend \- Being in a relationship \- material deprivation (hunger, thirst, malnutrition) ### [Reply to @panchromaticity, 11:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782004195932987850) · 9 likes > **Xenia 🔍💎 (@panchromaticity):** do you enjoy being called mommy/daddy in a sexual context? (not necessarily literally while having sex, just like, so the sexual subtext/text is clear) This has always seemed extremely weird to me ### [Quote tweet, 11:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782004431430598735) · 38 likes Ngl a whole bar of 72% dark chocolate is not an uncommon meal for me > **Quoting the Rich (@Duderichy):** I’ve been preparing for this moment my entire life > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLqDGtIbEAAGlVY.jpg) ### [Reply, 11:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782005327195443215) · 1 like @JesseTayRiver is the second ### [Reply to @DaCaveOfWonders, 11:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782005921423471078) · 2 likes > **Tiger Lava Lamp (@DaCaveOfWonders):** @AaronBergman18 @panchromaticity It's not that you're her dad. It's that you're the father to her children Wait fr ### [Reply to @AnniePosting, 11:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782006005519257794) · 2 likes > **annie 👁❌🦋🪞 (@AnniePosting):** ray peat, as controversial as he is, titled an article about it "Caffeine: A vitamin-like nutrient, or adaptogen" Hell yeah ### [Reply to @DaCaveOfWonders, 11:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782014929941242218) · 2 likes > **Tiger Lava Lamp (@DaCaveOfWonders):** I'm going to argue that this is similar to MILF in that it's a way to say you are into someone who is older, but no one understands MILF to mean that it's your mom ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLr9IlKWsAAw1T9.jpg) ### [Reply to @sciencegirl, 19:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782128406957584820) · 1 like > **Science girl (@sciencegirl):** The size of a Quetzalcoatlus, > > the largest flying creature ever > > [video attached](https://x.com/Earthlings10m/status/1781954477760864394/video/1) Retvrn ### [Reply to @TechEmails, 19:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782135952611098782) · 3 likes > **Internal Tech Emails (@TechEmails):** Bill Gates emails Microsoft execs > > October 19, 2000 > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLtoWcNa8AAM9Ul.png) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLtoW5Ja8AApglQ.png) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLtoXWOa8AAdxUG.png) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLtoX9NbEAEA_8Z.png) This reads like a twitter thread ### [Reply to @RafaRuizdeLira, 20:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782146451637686661) · 2 likes > **Rafael Ruiz ⏸️🔸 (@RafaRuizdeLira):** @inesferhumi > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLtzzGKW0AAeE-h.jpg) Banger ### [Reply to @RafaRuizdeLira, 20:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782146484265271479) · 2 likes > **Rafael Ruiz ⏸️🔸 (@RafaRuizdeLira):** @inesferhumi > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLtzzGKW0AAeE-h.jpg) RIP FTX ### [Reply to @_Mira___Mira_, 20:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782149817503740171) · 2 likes > **Mira (@_Mira___Mira_):** math would be easier if we added false to our axioms What ### [Reply to @0xellipse, 20:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782151867734061452) · 5 likes > **Chell 🥂🔫 (@0xellipse):** \>be at my friend's house > \>it's a party/show > \>i've drank quite a bit already > \>hey do you have salt and sugar here? > \>"yeah" > \>i mix and drink the salt & sugar water > > does she think i'm weird for this, maybe. > did i wake up at 7:30 feeling like i hadn't even been out last night? yes Oral rehydration therapy maxxing ### [Reply to @flawedaxioms, 21:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782152598058901533) · 1 like > **flaw (@flawedaxioms):** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion?wprov=sfla1 I know this but I object to it. Feels like some undergrad philosophy guy made it up and it stuck ### [Reply to @HannahPosted, 21:13 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782155798358995098) · 9 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @HannahPosted is no longer available.)_ Pi means pi, the ratio of circumference to diameter of a circle ### [Quote tweet, 21:20 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782157423093928321) · 15 likes ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLt-u0LXsAEFmet.jpg) > **Quoting moonbi (@lifeafterAi_):** All of them from Openai… What are they cookin for us this year? > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLrtuGhXUAEzg9o.jpg) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLrtuGdWsAAbqsW.jpg) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLrtuGbWsAA_zEB.jpg) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLrtuGiWwAEA-xm.jpg) ### [Tweet, 21:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782161012206047300) · 13 likes Someone needs to make an EA discourse on the EA Forum vs on twitter (is there a secret third thing?) meme but I can’t think of one that hits just right ### [Tweet, 21:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782162317909598665) · 9 likes Moms be like “phone on do not disturb? NOTIFY ANYWAY” ### [Reply to @StefanFSchubert, 21:47 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782164275731001368) · 6 likes > **Stefan Schubert (@StefanFSchubert):** @AaronBergman18 How would you describe the difference (in plain we words)? I mean there are a lot of differences but norms around quality/effort are the most salient. Writing on the EA forum is high key intimidating - this is largely for the better but also discourages the community equivalent of brainstorming ### [Tweet, 22:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782180051141742850) · 7 likes Someone should do Netflix standup thing where they just describe the US healthcare system accurately for an hour. Comedic phrasing and a bit of selection bias for subtopics is allowed but no hyperbole ### [Reply, 22:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782181076313440274) · 1 like Incorrect ### [Reply to @ilex_ulmus, 23:13 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782186002171179269) · 2 likes > **Holly ⏸️ Elmore (@ilex_ulmus):** Does 96 tears seem like a lot to you? It doesn’t to me. Which ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLuYuSyXoAAof_r.jpg) ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLuYuSzXMAAyhDz.jpg) ### [Reply to @SelonNerias, 23:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782196300965904686) · 2 likes > **Selon Nerias (@SelonNerias):** I love the subreddit. Very helpful people + a lower barrier to entry than both the forum and twitter. > twitter's follower system means you gotta make friends/get engaged followers before it becomes useful and the forum has the obvious barrier. It’s been a while but my memory is that it’s a lot of very basic questions and not much interesting content. Which isn’t a bad thing per se, but I wouldn’t recommend it to others unless the letters EA just mean Electronic Arts to them ## Monday, April 22, 2024 ### [Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 01:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782216462930678241) · 5 likes > **Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver):** @chriswaterguy @bedtime_enjoyer @AaronBergman18 I guess people commonly have the experience of buying something and not deriving as much satisfaction from it as they hoped. Otoh the empirical underpinnings for 'treadmill' seem weak afaict Intuitively it basically seems real for like the consumer goods that people buy at the $200k+ income margin How often do people feel this way about increasing rent to reduce commute or live closer to friends, donating (even purely for the warm glow effect), … ### [Thread, continued, 01:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782217296313712764) · 4 likes having kids or a dog, having a hobby that isn’t free (climbing, tennis, ?), buying healthier food, idk I could probably list more? ### [Tweet, 01:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782221007731749021) · 8 likes 24 hour twitter fast ready go ## Tuesday, April 23, 2024 ### [Reply to @LeetAlpaca3, 09:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782704338818793615) · 4 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @LeetAlpaca3 is no longer available.)_ I think there was a thing about a huge amount of raw data relating to a black hole getting transported physically by truck ### [Reply to @pli_cachete, 09:37 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782705261733380517) · 2 likes > **Rota Is In Israel🚪🧎‍♂️ (@pli_cachete):** @jonatanpallesen Is this just saying the sum of small effects is normal Lots of fancy explanations with polysyllabic words but isn’t this just basically the right answer? Ofc it could be compatible with other levels of explanation ### [Tweet, 10:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782712273594982524) · 12 likes Wait so is there any reason not to sell my mana for $16? I can buy back on May 1 right? ### [Reply to @interpattern, 10:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782720073238515883) · 2 likes > **pattern (@interpattern):** never experienced this thought :) > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLzf-OtWoAA5Dlv.jpg) Lol “parses html as regex” yeah bc it works! Fr fuck APIs. They never work ever. What does work is a random mix of chrome extensions, built-in Safari functionality via .webarchive files, saving loaded pages as pdf (can automate by doing this with a delay to let things load), ### [Thread, continued, 10:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782721809487392874) · 2 likes screen recording -> frame extraction -> OCR -> text, random sketchy free online file converters, python libraries of dubious legality, whisper transcription, and manually inspecting bits of long-ass urls + for loop + curl (+regex ofc) ### [Thread, continued, 10:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782722293233242260) · 2 likes Also find and replace all in VScode ### [Reply to @focusfronting, 10:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782723677865267411) · 6 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @focusfronting is no longer available.)_ Just like rich people don’t care or worry about money ### [Quote tweet, 11:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782726201502576667) · 29 likes Hmu if ur tryna cahoot > **Quoting forbiden widsom (@powcampsurvivor):** > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLyaS8NXAAAyvf0.jpg) ### [Reply to @AllanDafoe, 11:26 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782732849801511077) · 7 likes > **Allan Dafoe (@AllanDafoe):** We are looking for an AGI Safety Manager to support @GoogleDeepMind 's AGI Safety Council: please encourage excellent people to apply! This role will work closely with my team, Scalable Alignment and Safety, and Responsible Development and Innovation. https://boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/jobs/5918605 Fine I’ll do it ### [Reply, 11:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782734586868289781) · 4 likes ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GL2LqKrXoAA8WTJ.jpg) ### [Reply to @ilex_ulmus, 18:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782840728520905092) · 15 likes > **Holly ⏸️ Elmore (@ilex_ulmus):** Why do so many smart, privileged, healthy people hate our world so much? Why are they so eager to gamble it or surrender it to ASI? Even my allies constantly talk about how “inadequate” and “insane” it is. > > I’ve suffered plenty in it, but I love the world and I want to protect it “Hate” doesn’t seem like the world to use but the world really does seems very bad There is only a tiny reference class of beings I’d choose to be born as an arbitrary instance of… ### [Thread, continued, 18:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782841403002749137) · 11 likes Random sentient being? No. Random mammal? No. Random human? No. Random post-industrial human? No. I have to get extremely picky with time and species or other attributes to get this to work. \*Maybe\* random post-WWII human ### [Reply to @billyhumblebrag, 18:40 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782841950736933139) · 7 likes > **billy (@billyhumblebrag):** I am sitting on 14000 liquid mana in my manifold account. Accepting bids for a donation of this (so $140 US) to a charity of your choice (from the manifold list). > Bidding starts at $14. Auction closes 29th April. > Make you offers here 👇 I think this should win and nobody else should over-bid ### [Tweet, 18:48 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782843893588861026) · 23 likes Even setting aside its atrocities, why tf does Israel need foreign aid? GDP per capita is $55k. It can afford its military ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GL3vEpsWwAAa6Hc.jpg) ### [Reply to @shinboson, 18:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782844895629095245) · 12 likes > **𝞍 Shin Megami Boson 𝞍 (@shinboson):** the more I think about this actually, the more I recognize a general trend. why is Chinese moral reasoning so simplistic? > > I know that sounds uncharitable, but think about it for a second. it’s unsubtle and uncomplicated in the definition of right and wrong. why? Maybe this is true (at least directionally) but one guy on twitter with 5k followers doesn’t seem like good evidence ### [Reply to @Mjreard, 18:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782846214863548789) · 2 likes > **Matt Reardon (@Mjreard):** @austinc3301 @dwarkesh_sp @ardenlkoehler Just wait until you see who we got for episode 4 🔥🔥🔥 Agus 80k arc? 👀 ### [Reply to @sanjehorah, 19:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782847628604022912) · 2 likes > **sanje horah 🇵🇸🇺🇦 — PNEUMATICS ONLY (@sanjehorah):** trying to establish a sexual relation when there can be NO sexual relation is literally trying to eff the ineffable > > wordplay intended > > to fuck the unfuckable, but also to comprehend the incomprehensible, to bridge across the impossible gulf of two people's real subjectivities > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GL2EuhYacAAIVQ5.jpg) Tbh this screenshot quote seems like an excellent example of totally vacuous continental philosophy pseudo-insight ### [Quote tweet, 19:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782847846984871971) · 18 likes What (Also based but still) > **Quoting Simon Maechling (@simonmaechling):** Moolec achieves USDA approval for plant-grown animal proteins. > > Moolec’s genetically engineered soybean accumulates animal meat protein. > > It is unlikely to pose an increased plant pest risk relative to non-engineered soybeans. > > https://www.newswire.com/news/moolec-becomes-first-molecular-farming-company-to-achieve-usda-22306388 > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLzCHoCWsAAL5bp.jpg) ### [Reply to @metakuna, 19:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782849931406922035) · 4 likes > **metakuna (14/100 blog posts) (@metakuna):** small population innit Sure buy money is fungible so at the current margin US aid is allowing Israel to avoid taxing its citizens down to $54k I guess if we had a policy of just trying to equalize the incomes of everyone in the world via transfer that would be fine ### [Reply to @abhimanyupasu, 19:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782853726945882580) · 3 likes > **Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir (@abhimanyupasu):** @AaronBergman18 Lol US aid to Israel is just the price it has to pay to keep Israel as an ally. Lol this does not seem true. Without US military, economic, and political support Israel probably wouldn’t be destroyed but would be forced to come to the negotiation table and concede enough to have the same level of broad international support as idk Portugal or Japan ### [Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 19:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782855739121213948) · 2 likes > **Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver):** Ever wondered if paintable truck bed liner is oil-based? Yes, it is. Maybe next time wear gloves, idiot No I have not wondered this ### [Reply to @StefanFSchubert, 19:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782856025445425452) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @StefanFSchubert is no longer available.)_ Lithium? ### [Reply to @norvid_studies, 19:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782858062979596668) · 1 like > **norvid_studies (@norvid_studies):** ? do you mean you wouldn't trade your (great) life with a random post-industrial human, understandably, or that you think a random post-industrial human has a life internally valued at less than 0 I’m not super sure about the median post-industrial human (or really, human-conscious-hour) but as for avg, yes I think it’s negative The framing of “would you want to live every human life” seems easier to think about and more compelling ### [Thread, continued, 19:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782859263993405693) · 6 likes Who would want to live the life of every chattel slave, every gulag and nazi concentration camp prisoner, every person starving in every famine, for the chance to live a lot of good lives as well? I wouldn’t, and have yet to hear someone earnest say they would ### [Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 19:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782860390008750366) · 2 likes > **Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver):** A lot of things I learned in construction haven't translated well to family life. I was taught when throwing to aim as hard as you can at the person's head. But somehow at home I'm the baddie for wanting my kids to make a catch They teach you how to kill people at construction training?? ### [Reply to @ryancbriggs, 19:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782861436143681538) · 2 likes > **Ryan Briggs (@ryancbriggs):** I’m considering rowing a half marathon in early May. I’ve never rowed longer than about an hour before and in an hour I can do a little over 14 km. Is attempting this a stupid idea? Anyone have advice? Honestly sounds like you don’t need to train at all I was never like an actual swimmer but could swim a mile which was probably like 5x longer than I’d ever tried just by going slow (took me almost exactly an hour). If you can row below ur anaerobic threshold, ### [Reply, 20:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782862859153670194) · 1 like Lol I guess I would recommend bringing least 2 bananas just in case (probably higher glycemic is better, gatorade and a few clif bars) ### [Reply to @CharlesD353, 20:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782868926482849917) · 3 likes > **Charles🔸 (@CharlesD353):** To be clear $9.2bn of the "Israel" portion of that bill is humanitarian aid for Gaza. > > Whether the rest is justified in political terms is not obvious but it's possible the aid to Gaza wouldn't happen without also giving Israel something. Thanks this is important ### [Tweet, 20:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782870443940102248) · 10 likes Outing myself as a boomer in spirit but I have yet to run a language model (or really any model) locally. Llama3-8b is a too big for my M1 Pro with 16gb ram What is the best thing that \*can\* work (ideally using <90% RAM)? ### [Thread, continued, 20:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782871303411646959) · 3 likes I have no use case but idk like imagine it’s 17whatever and they’re giving out free small steam engines to use at home ### [Quote tweet, 21:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782880908359426096) · 3 likes Unironically being able to pay people for anonymized feedback would be a good use case for crypto > **Quoting Frances Lorenz (@frances__lorenz):** 80/20 of giving feedback: say positive stuff too or people get sad, deliver constructive feedback in a timely manner with neutral emotional valence, create a feedback form to receive 360 feedback and a prediction market on what that feedback might be and send it to them ahead of- ### [Reply to @RafaRuizdeLira, 21:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782883620203442193) · 2 likes > **Rafael Ruiz ⏸️🔸 (@RafaRuizdeLira):** Man I never win anything > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GL4ROQiXwAEA8OC.jpg) The fact that they’re telling you exactly where to go and when feels like an invitation to show up for those with the chutzpah to ### [Tweet, 21:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782886236975177855) · 6 likes If aerospace companies are gonna get huge Pentagon deals, the least they could do is have museums where u can see their cool shit Cmon big Raytheon building in the Skyline, you’re calling my name ### [Reply to @TheZvi, 21:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782891600974082133) · 29 likes > **Zvi Mowshowitz (@TheZvi):** I am not confident on whether we should ban or not ban non-compete agreements, but I do notice it seems like a choice that should be made by Congress, not the FTC? If this is a fair summary of the original text, it seems solidly within their mandate https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Trade_Commission_Act_of_1914 ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GL4adkiWwAA3z6w.jpg) ### [Quote tweet, 22:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1782892642499498103) · 48 likes I’m sure they’ll have disappeared by summer, but having 24 new pairs of socks is wild - truly abundance mindset It’s like peak FTX but for my feet > **Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18):** My house is a function that takes matching socks as input and returns non-matching socks as output > > The backend is a black box ## Wednesday, April 24, 2024 ### [Reply to @NathanB60857242, 18:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783207989018779739) · 1 like > **Nathan Barnard (@NathanB60857242):** I'm very confused about how to reconcile long run superexponetial growth with short run exponential growth in the US (short run over the last 200 years) What is there to reconcile lol There’s no rule that says everything has to obey one type of function at all times ### [Reply to @bryancsk, 18:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783208922360201427) · 3 likes > **Bryan Cheong 🥮 (@bryancsk):** Turns out I wear a woman's shoe size (9) > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GL6aYBabwAAclnU.png) I don’t believe this chart lol Probably a bunch of guys lying for shits and giggles ### [Reply to @absurdlymax, 19:26 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783215960507179132) · 2 likes > **Max Alexander (@absurdlymax):** @JMannhart @robertwiblin Dam this is good U beat my by 8 minutes dam ### [Reply to @RafaRuizdeLira, 19:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783217777127399882) · 1 like > **Rafael Ruiz ⏸️🔸 (@RafaRuizdeLira):** I'm usually chaotic good, not sure what happened > > (Chaotic basically means "you follow your own rules") > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GL7cUVpXEAAnpzB.jpg) > (quoting @tautologer: about what I expected) Counterfeit money tho - yeah if I was absolutely certain I could get away with it lol ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GL9DHfLWQAAxtXm.jpg) ### [Reply to @kepe__, 19:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783218877637251578) · 31 likes > **kepe ✨🇫🇮 (@kepe__):** this is me and i'm cis. it doesn't mean anything Ya lol. I’d also want to do this for race and age and a billion other things I don’t have dysphoria about bc curious ### [Quote tweet, 19:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783222449447874755) · 29 likes 19/36 = .53 rounds up to 1 = 36/36 so I’m basically an empath savant ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GL9HXbqW8AEI16y.jpg) > **Quoting Paul Graham (@paulg):** I got 25/36 on this facial expression reading test. I was curious how Jessica would do, so I sent it to her. She got 36/36. She really is the social radar. (via @markessien) > > https://s3.amazonaws.com/he-assets-prod/interactives/233_reading_the_mind_through_eyes/Launch.html ### [Thread, continued, 20:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783227966920466638) · 3 likes I don’t Believe anyone who got like >=34 btw. Easier to hack AWS than to legit get them all right ### [Reply to @thoth_iv, 20:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783230608887468155) · 1 like > **Thŏth (@thoth_iv):** @robertwiblin This may look like a strawman, but as far as I know Scott's writing, I think this is probably the intellectual mistake he solemnly believes techno-optimists are making. It’s a little hyperbolic in the direction of “simplified” but it illustrates the mistake people are making perfectly ### [Reply to @HenriThunberg, 20:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783232605137019360) · 6 likes > **Henri Thunberg 🔸 (@HenriThunberg):** Haha kudos to you for poasting, think there's a lot of planereddots.jpg going on. I got like ~28 I think, didn't feel fun enough in either direction to let the world know. Autistic-ish traits are endearing and high status in moderation around here lol ### [Thread, continued, 20:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783233096382353633) · 7 likes Ur not gonna see me post a thing that says “I have IQ 90, issues controlling my anger, and spend my money exclusively on factory farmed chickens” ### [Reply to @bijibiji2023, 20:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783233566035308801) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @bijibiji2023 is no longer available.)_ If ur in Texas u are gonna die of heat stroke maybe watch out for that ## Thursday, April 25, 2024 ### [Reply to @frances__lorenz, 05:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783366381645267011) · 7 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @frances__lorenz is no longer available.)_ ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GL_KRd2WAAAIKnF.jpg) ### [Reply to @livgorton, 05:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783369062363402410) · 2 likes > **Liv (@livgorton):** @AaronBergman18 idk how to explain it but the vibes aaron you just must listen to them. > > put no conscious thought in and get all unconscious face vibes out. Admiring? ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GL_MtiYXsAAyr2T.jpg) ### [Tweet, 05:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783369520205193600) · 2 likes Poll below ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GL_NIHnXYAAotxH.jpg) ### [Reply, 05:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783369988184633527) Go to sleep ### [Reply to @NoahTopper, 05:47 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783372306502271021) · 1 like > **Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper):** @AaronBergman18 You go to sleep mf Ok fine ### [Reply, 05:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783375253042794528) · 1 like Unironically I’d add (and emphasize) twitter The selection pressure (for lack of a better term) is insane - like if 10% of ur peers are active and u live in a city with 1M people of whom 10% are peers, that’s 10k people. Maybe you interact regularly with a handful or a few ### [Tweet, 06:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783382436405018679) · 8 likes Good pod (by @littIeramblings and @ilex_ulmus) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/consistently-candid/id1732326178?i=1000650619339 ### [Thread, continued, 06:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783384121407918225) · 3 likes I fucking love pro-social/altruistic disagreeableness. Inject it into my veins ### [Tweet, 06:40 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783385530173948227) · 9 likes Do you feel more fortunate or disfortunate to be living at this point in history? ### [Thread, continued, 06:46 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783387192968044867) · 2 likes Honestly I go back and forth w a slight tendency (maybe 60/40) to the former But when TAI seems more visceral and less abstract, it’s like learning that I’m gonna have to play Russian Roulette next week (and with 2 or 3/6 bullets loaded) ### [Quote tweet, 07:08 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783392515095236978) · 4 likes Hey it’s me > **Quoting Someone:** ### [Reply to @JAMA_current, 07:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783396014335930477) · 1 like > **JAMA (@JAMA_current):** In late 2022, X (formerly Twitter) introduced Community Notes, a crowdsourced misinformation countermeasure. Study evaluated the topics, accuracy, and credibility of these Community Notes addressing COVID-19 vaccination. https://ja.ma/4aOce78 > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GL87aTBWUAAEjYu.jpg) Poast csv ### [Reply, 07:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783398092793917552) · 1 like Where is the actual data? Lost the page that said it but evidently the Harvard dataverse thing doesn’t let random new accounts access it ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GL_nHP_WYAIe60G.jpg) ### [Reply to @samswoora, 07:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783400288247820417) · 4 likes > **Samswara (@samswoora):** Men will spend literal years finding the best fitting brand of plain black t shirt Well what’s the brand ### [Reply, 08:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783413529057362244) · 2 likes Don’t tell them about R, TAI will come in like 5 seconds, maybe 6 if u can’t use data.table ### [Thread, continued, 08:40 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783415760838152302) · 2 likes 4 if u use shrimpr https://github.com/AaronBergman/shrimpr/ ### [Quote tweet, 08:48 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783417782823993692) · 33 likes When ur great idea sparked by a pod gets discussed 10 minutes later in the episode > **Quoting Neil Renic (@NC_Renic):** When a 1970s paper has stolen your new idea > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GL899ShWYAAhYjR.jpg) ### [Thread, continued, 08:48 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783417784724034029) · 3 likes I’ve had to abandon or delete written things at least twice bc of this lol ### [Reply to @GjMcGowan, 14:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783501647861215610) · 2 likes > **George McGowan (@GjMcGowan):** Twitter - we need to buy this https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-68896140 I can contribute $5 ### [Quote tweet, 15:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783521332312801720) · 125 likes Math should be illegal > **Quoting MathMatize Memes (@MathMatize):** Hurwitz's theorem is surprising > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMA2IWlWgAAUG6f.jpg) ### [Reply to @RFishBlueFish, 15:47 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783523109045215322) · 5 likes > **Gil (@RFishBlueFish):** the cross product is a hack but there's some cool underlying math here that's rarely discussed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htYh-Tq7ZBI Straight to jail ### [Reply to @Empty_America, 16:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783527253969649888) · 13 likes > **VB Knives (@Empty_America):** @THAREALKULAK I've said it before, if you have sheep and also have any form of remotely gainful employment, it 100% makes sense to hard fence all your pasture this year. > > Easiest way for the amateur is 16' cattle panels. Very good fence, no stretching or braces required. I want a sheep now so I can be part of sheep twitter ### [Reply, 16:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783529917096825055) · 3 likes ### [Reply to @JohnWesleyAyers, 18:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783562646966411772) · 2 likes > **John W. Ayers | Computational Epidemiologist (@JohnWesleyAyers):** @jaybaxter @AaronBergman18 The data are up on dataverse. They were in draft form in the above view but are there now. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMBtFaWbsAAIkvf.jpg) Awesome thanks! 🙏🏼 ### [Reply, 19:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783572381107175467) · 2 likes 🤝 ### [Reply to @soundrotator, 19:08 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783573726451134744) · 2 likes > **Reb (@soundrotator):** How to scale people smelling flowers > > (quoting @soundrotator: Gonna go smell flower) Febreeze corporate origin story ### [Reply to @lawhsw, 19:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783577063816880586) · 2 likes > **harry law (hopfield network truther) (@lawhsw):** imagining if this was shrimp > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMCHpcWXMAAa0pM.jpg) They wouldn’t stand a chance on dry land ### [Reply to @NathanB60857242, 19:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783578476680806869) · 2 likes > **Nathan Barnard (@NathanB60857242):** @sarah_cone Yeah it is a good idea - Parkrun fills niche for running in lots of places and is really successful! The only thing worse than running I can imagine is running with other people ### [Reply to @generaldynamism, 19:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783579390137298972) · 1 like > **Adam Jensen (@generaldynamism):** please post tools and mess She could have a YouTube channel ### [Reply to @soundrotator, 19:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783580529108939077) · 3 likes > **Reb (@soundrotator):** The most truly serious people have html coded personal websites 😤 https://aaronbergman.neocities.org ### [Reply, 19:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783581645875933515) As a direct causal effect with no other new tech? No But indirectly with new tech that gets created as a result (and this iteratively), yes ### [Reply, 19:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783582954033234421) · 1 like 👎 ### [Reply to @tautologer, 19:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783585991090970902) · 2 likes > **tautologer (@tautologer):** @dschorno sunlight, walking, spending time with people, sleep, gentle exercise, relaxing the pressure I put on myself Big if true ### [Reply, 21:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783608858835070991) · 2 likes Deep ### [Reply to @mauve_sky, 21:29 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783609412671942955) · 2 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @mauve_sky is no longer available.)_ This stresses me out just thinking what I’d say if someone asked ### [Reply to @mattyglesias, 22:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783625598402695486) · 2 likes > **Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias):** We need shot callers for different Twitter factions so we can keep the peace and prevent things from getting out of control. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMC0uJXW4AArIKL.jpg) Like this tweet to be in my faction ### [Tweet, 22:48 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783629173434552359) · 98 likes This data is like almost certainly wrong, although I don’t know why or how. There’s just no way that most American adults drink less than me ### [Reply to @seconds_0, 22:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783629475713822925) · 1 like > **0.005 Seconds (3/694) (@seconds_0):** God bless the heroes. The innovators. The explorers. > > Next up - 100% Saturated Fat Peanut Butter. > > (quoting @AndyJScott: Thank you Penn State for doing the important science we need https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/keeping-chocolate-milk-smooth-stable-without-carrageenan/) Plz ### [Reply to @PeterJAngel, 22:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783630895494103371) · 22 likes > **Peter🧅📈 (@PeterJAngel):** That part seems plausible. Kids who don't drink, old ppl who drink very little, and religious people who don't drink > > Right tail is sus tho Only adults, it says in the pic ### [Reply to @PeterJAngel, 22:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783631052986028148) · 2 likes > **Peter🧅📈 (@PeterJAngel):** @AaronBergman18 https://x.com/RyanRadia/status/1783572124755476523 Ah ok yes that makes sense. Survey data is almost always basically fake ### [Reply to @yannick___m, 22:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783631941742313591) · 3 likes > **Yannick Mühlhäuser (@yannick___m):** Don't you mean costumed humans? > > (quoting @jasonjoyride: San Francisco is back.) I think they were apes inside an ape costume just like @QualyThe ### [Reply to @QualyThe, 23:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783632871690793207) · 2 likes > **Qualy the lightbulb (@QualyThe):** I was glad to see my nudist cousin Bulby finally found gainful employment on the EA Forum, we were getting worried about him. He used to be a clean cut straight edge type until he went on that Ayahuasca retreat. What he saw in the jungle changed him forever > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKQpo5zWkAAVVzy.jpg) Here’s the photo for the curious ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMC8pMxXQAEf2JB.jpg) ### [Reply to @PiquantParvenu, 23:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783635005471609195) · 3 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @PiquantParvenu is no longer available.)_ Yo do u have any type of anxiety disorder? If not (or if so but less likely) this could indicate smth serious ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMC-lVuWAAAjnqc.jpg) ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMC-lVjXQAA5nju.jpg) ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMC-lVnW4AEld0r.jpg) ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMC-lVyW8AA7eeS.jpg) ### [Reply to @BenHayum, 23:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783635999043563932) · 4 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @BenHayum is no longer available.)_ Yeah but unless they’re in ur weird cultural bubble with 99th percentile scout mindset + psychological openness + discourse norms, it’ll be somewhere between frustrating and infuriating too ### [Reply to @DreadCanary, 23:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783636142392291792) · 2 likes > **Canary (@DreadCanary):** Imagine a math speakeasy > > (quoting @AaronBergman18: Math should be illegal) This would make it cooler tbh ## Friday, April 26, 2024 ### [Reply to @Manuel_do_rio, 00:09 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783649642720162225) · 2 likes > **Manuel del Río Rodríguez ⏸️ (@Manuel_do_rio):** ChatGPT is my math tutor. It isn't optimal, but hey, it's free, and it does a relatively decent job at checking my answers and listening to my arguments. There is like a 99% chance you should drop the $20 for Claude or + ### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 00:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783650895047037017) · 24 likes > **Aaron Bergman, April 25, 2024:** This data is like almost certainly wrong, although I don’t know why or how. There’s just no way that most American adults drink less than me Tbc guys I’m questioning the left side, not the right Graph says half of American adults basically never drink (about twice a year) ### [Reply to @EndeavoringIvy, 00:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783653287331242471) > **Ivy (@EndeavoringIvy):** Spendy dog owners who aren't home a lot (pay for dog walking & day care) should consider a horse. > Their board starts at $300/mo. There are many options, like leasing them to the barn for riding. You get your freedom back, including easy travel! > > And you get to have a HORSE > 🐎>🐕 Hot take: if both dogs (which poop) and motorcycles (which are basically mechanical horses) are legal in urban areas, horses should be too ### [Tweet, 01:04 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783663517280674006) · 2 likes PSA don’t let ur parents delete emails just because they’re using 1996-ass email services with 500mb of storage unless they realize that saving it all via export and storage elsewhere is an option ### [Tweet, 02:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783686460710793715) · 30 likes So is there anything else cool u can do by letting ur (normal) computer run overnight (bounded by local compute not some other time constraint)? ### [Thread, continued, 02:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783686462258463143) · 9 likes About a decade late to the DL train but that’s what it took to realize I’m sitting on a potentially really powerful resource and just ignoring it ### [Thread, continued, 02:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783687094998634535) · 7 likes I guess there’s like large media file conversion and I’ve done internet download speed-limited things like this. I could also run whisper locally on like 10 hours of audio but I don’t have any reason to rn ### [Reply to @docentdemagogue, 02:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783688569426518250) · 11 likes > **Sky (@docentdemagogue):** > > (quoting @Techmeme: A look at Salad, which pays gamers in Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards to rent their GPUs remotely to AI companies, including those making AI-generated porn (@emanuelmaiberg / 404 Media) https://www.404media.co/gamers-are-renting-their-idle-gpus-to-generate-ai-porn/ 📫…) This is like the one thing I won’t do lol (making AI training easier and cheaper) ### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 02:46 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783689131760943259) · 11 likes > **Aaron Bergman, April 26, 2024:** I guess there’s like large media file conversion and I’ve done internet download speed-limited things like this. I could also run whisper locally on like 10… Donation is an option apparently so I guess feel free to bid on say blocks of 4 hours on an M1 Pro 16GB. Altruistic bids where u pay me in imaginary impact points very encouraged ### [Reply to @austinc3301, 03:41 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783702896674001285) · 9 likes > **Agus 🔸 (@austinc3301):** I don’t have a strong take on all of this, but I just love that Dustin just spent several evenings doing basically forensic data analysis as a personal crusade I hope he bought whichever type of option is the one where u win if the thing goes down first ### [Reply to @mbateman, 03:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783703941366063304) · 2 likes > **Matt Bateman (@mbateman):** Today in 4yo/AI stuffy relations, a lesson in how to not respond to a 4yo’s questions > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMDR9A2WkAEKfO0.jpg) > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMDR9A1XwAAkFs2.jpg) Claude Opus (different prompting style also) ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMD9R_TXoAAqq5a.jpg) ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMD9R_UWUAAl43i.jpg) ### [Reply, 22:48 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1783991646176076169) · 3 likes > **Coase’s "Net effect?" Ghost 🏴🕊️ (@GhostCoase):** After 18 years of courageous battle with an aggressive form of multiple sclerosis, my beloved sister decided today to not continue medical treatment after another flare-up. > > I loved you, I love you, I will always love you. If there is a next life, I will find you. Oh man, I’m so sorry 💜 ## Saturday, April 27, 2024 ### [Quote tweet, 01:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784028198159958325) · 72 likes I see these from time to time and don’t really know what they are (I think smth about provable prediction?) Anyway I’m gonna just post random strings like this from time to time so ppl think I’m cool and in the know > **Quoting Grace (@kindgracekind):** 5ace7d2b6f079def3ef77926c96ccad145fdb10511b05762bb7c86880e9cba6c ### [Thread, continued, 01:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784028200344879554) · 13 likes ubvqsqdaf4l5bsvqffirzhfu5yzjud8kep238cwirve8ao6mte7xsfwl694p2scw ### [Thread, continued, 01:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784028480264372305) · 10 likes Also am I being weird or is it weird that ChatGPT can count accurately? Did we know this? ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMIkcnvW0AIHhLW.jpg) ### [Reply to @edgar_z_lin, 01:17 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784028996641960385) · 5 likes > **Edgar Lin (@edgar_z_lin):** @AaronBergman18 What a SHAme. No plz not another computer word with sh ### [Reply to @imhinesmi, 01:19 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784029551565099345) · 3 likes > **ian hines (@imhinesmi):** @AaronBergman18 the cool kids will know it's fake because you used letters from g-z > > (it's 64 characters of hexadecimal) Shh ### [Reply to @austinc3301, 01:22 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784030282288382316) · 5 likes > **Agus 🔸 (@austinc3301):** @AaronBergman18 So you can keep your prediction secret but later prove that you indeed had predicted this thing b116da34788c549329f7dc49e67484879a11cdfd29df07eeaae6365c3dc027c5 ### [Thread, continued, 01:22 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784030351863455978) · 2 likes Whatever I’ll tell u lol It’s computer for “thx” ### [Thread, continued, 01:22 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784030442229768361) · 2 likes ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMImO3vXIAA6J5C.jpg) ### [Reply to @ryancbriggs, 06:04 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784101344053166172) · 2 likes > **Ryan Briggs (@ryancbriggs):** Finally I’ll learn data.table stop bothering me about it > > (quoting @ThomasSowell: Some people who are very dissatisfied with their lives nevertheless have no intention of changing their own behavior. They want to keep on doing what they have always done, but just have it turn out differently.) Haven’t u heard that the sand has already done the learning for you? (Its default is to translate to data.table unless that wouldn’t make sense) https://chat.openai.com/g/g-kSQDTXTJn-r-helper ### [Reply to @voooooogel, 13:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784217367804871048) · 2 likes > **thebes (@voooooogel):** hypothesis > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMG3f1yboAAX3N4.jpg) > (quoting @voooooogel: @norvid_studies the unreasonable effectiveness of simple prompts) @QualyThe ### [Reply to @RafaRuizdeLira, 14:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784227118898970807) · 1 like > **Rafael Ruiz ⏸️🔸 (@RafaRuizdeLira):** @BearPosting @AaronBergman18 @RafaRuizdeLira ### [Reply to @metakuna, 14:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784230635508232384) · 1 like > **metakuna (14/100 blog posts) (@metakuna):** @coldhealing @AaronBergman18 @metakuna ### [Reply to @CrocodileCam, 15:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784236993985089718) · 9 likes _(The tweet being replied to by @CrocodileCam is no longer available.)_ No 😡🦆 ### [Reply to @ea_paddington, 15:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784237479765135717) · 2 likes > **EA Paddington 🍊🔸 (@ea_paddington):** marmalade 👍 ## Sunday, April 28, 2024 ### [Reply to @keysmashbandit, 03:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784424867938369609) · 3 likes > **keysmashbandit (@keysmashbandit):** i think men should be more selective on dating apps and i think their unwillingness to do so is hurting their chances Coordination problem ### [Quote tweet, 03:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784426504870355399) · 7 likes Ok fr tho they’re like Wikipedia Expanded Edition in terms of comprehensiveness, fairness, neutrality, and quality Tbh I should probably read them more > **Quoting Jack Meyer 🏛️ (@Jackbmeyer):** “Do you find the Oxford handbook series useful?” > Absolutely, the handbook of political economy makes an excellent tofu press > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMMiyQhXkAAy1Fe.jpg) ### [Reply to @ConnorTabarrok, 04:08 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784434411565392041) > **Connor J. Tabarrok 🏗🚀🌏 (@ConnorTabarrok):** Yes please kill the hellspawn that is webp file format Why do ppl dislike it? I’m just curious ### [Tweet, 05:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784451517954613469) · 5 likes It’s over ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMOlMtKXcAAi3mj.jpg) ### [Reply to @samlakig, 05:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784453590083420592) · 4 likes > **sam laki (@samlakig):** finite co-combinatorially hyper p-adic sets are an absolute must prerequisite to understand the indian thursday-afternoon nanoeconomics > > (quoting @ekrii3: A treat for all making their first foray into HFT - this is a must read) I do not understand this tweet ### [Reply to @algekalipso, 05:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784461333129252885) · 3 likes > **Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson (@algekalipso):** I think that the Qualia Research Institute will need to spin off a company of brain organoids, but whose explicit and permanent goal is to figure out how to recruit information-sensitive gradients of bliss for computation, and then build a legacy system that locks in place, at the hardware level, the use of positive gradients of valence for compute, and makes it physically impossible to use suffering for computation. This way, information-sensitive gradients of bliss will be encoded in our hardware in a way that is very difficult to overstep, similar to how we're kind of stuck with a lot of legacy hardware and protocols, including internet protocols and the QWERTY keyboard. We've got to do the same for brain organoids. I don't see anybody doing this. There's a big possible ethical disaster approaching us, and there aren't many serious thinkers, ethicists, and doers here. 100% seriously you should optimize harder for readability and using terms normie EAs like me will recognize Seems like tons of context needed ### [Tweet, 06:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784471016732832128) · 21 likes 8f434346648f6b96df89dda901c5176b10a6d83961dd3c1ac88b59b2dc327aa4 ### [Thread, continued, 06:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784471273986265205) · 4 likes Also 3a552ab70f51a0c767c9a59504bc4e3ce36dd5ce581212f860290cba6967f871 ### [Reply to @xJahstin, 06:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784475195538833864) · 6 likes > **𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯 (@xJahstin):** what’s stopping u from wearing this ? > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMB6DmVaMAAo0Du.jpg) I don’t own either of those things ### [Reply to @kindgracekind, 07:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784479250713579824) · 2 likes > **Grace (@kindgracekind):** @arithmoquine He’s listening to his favorite podcast 80k or Dwarkesh? ### [Reply to @halcyon_hazel, 23:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784727197824991475) · 3 likes > **❤️‍🔥 hazel ❤️‍🔥 (@halcyon_hazel):** consider him: > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMSZkwoW0AAbiEa.jpg) 🐰 ### [Reply to @thebestestpie, 23:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784733557002309895) · 3 likes > **Fake News Pie (@thebestestpie):** @AndyMasley and 13k is an insanely high price for a car It is? ## Monday, April 29, 2024 ### [Reply, 01:04 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784750565966131387) Wait wtf I thought this was a secret ### [Reply to @manic_pixie_agi, 01:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784754187240112471) · 2 likes > **Corinne (🏠 in NYC) (@manic_pixie_agi):** cats are great, they satisfy the need to pet something but unfortunately they can't really pet you back 😞 😢 ### [Quote tweet, 01:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784760456998961546) · 13 likes Many such cases > **Quoting vegastar (@vegastarr):** Theres no way this is real. Its all fake. > You can't sell 7 hats per day and be able to pay your bills. 😵‍💫💭 > > [video attached](https://x.com/vegastarr/status/1784480110852104379/video/1) ### [Thread, continued, 01:46 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784761098123542976) · 6 likes Other examples \- huge metal tubes aka airplanes float in midair? No fucking way \- somebody wrote each word in all those trillions of books in those huge university libraries? I don’t think so ### [Reply to @polisisti, 02:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784768538072289432) · 6 likes > **Alessandro (@polisisti):** a professor just replied to an email I sent him July 5 I think u mean 2023, but if u mean 2024 that would be way cooler ### [Reply to @WilliamAEden, 02:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784773051260805445) · 2 likes > **William Eden (@WilliamAEden):** Yeah what IS going on, how would she even get her hands on a CD? Radiology labs sometimes give u ur images on a CD if u ask Source: me ### [Reply to @polisisti, 02:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784773191782506820) · 2 likes > **Alessandro (@polisisti):** alas yes, 9 months ago No time travel, lame ### [Reply to @univrsw3th4rt, 02:37 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784773986372481157) · 3 likes > **universe sweetheart 💓🌈💭 (@univrsw3th4rt):** planted a seed and it is growing but i would like it to BLOOM! NOW! ### [Reply to @Dirtdragonmom, 02:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784774200294617313) · 7 likes > **Beth (@Dirtdragonmom):** Are there any men out there who have a favorite bird that is not an eagle? Every single man I have ever asked said "eagle". Pigeon ### [Quote tweet, 03:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784785935546085717) · 21 likes Everyone’s going crazy over this so some points: \- makes no claim about how competitive that “career path” is \- 100k total compensation, not salary. So $80k (?) \- not adjusted for inflation \- the AGI has not agreed to abide by Chipotle management’s promises > **Quoting the Rich (@Duderichy):** You can now make $100k at chipotle in under 3 years > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMOBSvCXQAA4Yyv.jpg) ### [Reply to @EliMcCann, 03:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784792428383281454) · 3 likes > **Eli McCann (@EliMcCann):** My husband has been doing gardening all afternoon and he has been scheduling his friends in shifts to come and sit with him while he does it so he has company. He is not asking for their help. He just wants them to be present. He has given each a watermelon popsicle. Extroverts be like ### [Tweet, 04:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784800899925168566) · 20 likes My intuition’s P(something very weird like maybe “simulation” but that particular word seems too narrow) going up by the day ### [Thread, continued, 04:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784803461722247579) · 15 likes Otoh maybe “36 hours awake followed by 36 hours asleep and then waking up unsure of the day” is not epistemically optimal ### [Reply to @daniel_271828, 04:47 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784806585098715470) · 7 likes > **zzDANIEL_ETH (@daniel_271828):** Are you fucking kidding me? > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMTlssYWwAAEFT3.jpg) Hot take it is speculating, just in a roundabout way (the last sentence is not neutral) ### [Tweet, 05:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784810507125317954) · 7 likes Sad that there’s only a couple weeks where ur beard is at the length where it looks decent if u don’t intentionally do anything to it ### [Thread, continued, 05:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784810756229276056) · 3 likes Last time I tried to retvrn it to this point, I just made two big patches and then had to shave it all off and start over ### [Reply to @Mihonarium, 05:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784817840190628265) · 1 like > **Mikhail Samin (@Mihonarium):** One would think this, but apparently if you train an LLM on pairs (hash, text), it’ll start reversing the hashes Idk enough about hashes or sha or whatever tf u call it to know how weird or surprising this is Cc @austinc3301 ### [Reply to @bijibiji2023, 06:04 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784826191972622373) · 2 likes > **hoff 🧒🏻😻 (@bijibiji2023):** @AaronBergman18 LMAO Wait this is the second laugh lol and I worded the last point kinda satirically but intending to make a totally serious point: if you think there’s a non-negligible chance that the world looks super different in 3 years (as I do) bc of AI, you should probably also think ### [Tweet, 13:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1784938826634236248) · 9 likes c2c2ad402931e69c411429e04e9ef887d542ef31d8faf907c171ab06cbe627d1 ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMVgZuTXYAAwdOC.jpg) ### [Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 19:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785027212078670274) · 2 likes > **Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver):** @AaronBergman18 What tool were you using? Seems weird Razor ### [Quote tweet, 19:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785035084849959336) · 28 likes Counterpoint: do it if u want to > **Quoting Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista):** Unless you're an A-list celeb, big media co, or plan to sell your audience a high $ product, it makes no sense for you to launch a podcast right now. ### [Reply to @polisisti, 19:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785036252653240813) · 2 likes > **Alessandro (@polisisti):** @AaronBergman18 @JesseTayRiver you'll probably have better luck with an electric trimmer! Optionally, you can use a fine-toothed comb in your non-dominant hand to pull out the bits of the beard you're trimming Real ### [Reply to @littIeramblings, 20:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785037660936946087) · 3 likes > **sarah (@littIeramblings):** the podcasting gatekeepers strike again 😤 The gate is open ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMW6SqJWYAA4l2p.jpg) ### [Reply to @Empty_America, 20:07 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785038199506497538) · 6 likes > **VB Knives (@Empty_America):** Most people are not looking to live around maximum biomass, maximum rainfall. > > On the spectrum from thick damp woods to total desert, the most desired environment is considerably closer to desert. > > Less bugs, humidity, rank weeds, and so forth. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMW58X2W4AArKpx.jpg) Yeah fuck humidity fr ### [Reply to @arithmoquine, 20:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785039976368902263) · 4 likes > **henry (@arithmoquine):** markets are humanity-sized supercomputers for calculating the value of anything. what are other architectures to preform computation with populations? Debate (possibly including judge(s)) Democracy/various voting systems Bureaucracy ### [Reply to @littIeramblings, 20:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785040105415033105) · 2 likes > **sarah (@littIeramblings):** what prompt did u use for this ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMW8hAPWkAE095e.jpg) ### [Reply to @veryfeel_, 20:26 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785042987128324298) · 4 likes > **morgan (@veryfeel_):** Pls send tips for serotonin-maxing. I have realised I’m too reliant on dopamine for emotional regulation and pleasure. Ssri + MAOI + MDMA Don’t do this you will die ### [Tweet, 21:17 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785055725871358362) · 5 likes Might have to become nocturnal for the summer ### [Thread, continued, 21:17 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785055796654404013) · 2 likes Or this ### [Reply to @StatisticUrban, 21:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785062077352042775) · 135 likes > **Hunter📈🌈📊 (@StatisticUrban):** Outdoor cats kill billions upon billions of animals each year. Cats should be strictly banned from roaming freely outdoors. They cause extraordinary damage, and it's bad for the cat. > > [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMXKtmfawAEYiK1.jpg) > (quoting @jules_su: mom came back to an empty nest and is calling for her babies I’m literally inconsolable right now this is brutal my heart is aching) I remember being super skeptical of these numbers, then looked into it and afaict they check out ### [Reply to @jules_su, 21:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785062165738623356) · 3 likes > **Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su):** mom came back to an empty nest and is calling for her babies I’m literally inconsolable right now this is brutal my heart is aching > > [video attached](https://x.com/jules_su/status/1785041587967234238/video/1) 😢 ### [Reply to @StefanFSchubert, 21:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785063983768121738) · 6 likes > **Stefan Schubert (@StefanFSchubert):** There's way too much ridiculous hyperbole on this site > > (quoting @esaagar: "What's the role left for Europe in the future?" Answer: Supplication and poverty) “Schubert calls for the death penalty for people who exaggerate on twitter” ### [Reply to @jonatanpallesen, 21:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785064351877025825) · 11 likes > **Jonatan Pallesen (@jonatanpallesen):** I wonder what the second order effects are. Lower animal populations? Higher suffering from being predated / lower suffering from less starvation and disease? Ya idk but bird and small mammal predation seems like maybe the kind of thing where first order effects actually do dominate ### [Reply to @Sam__Enright, 22:07 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785068386143080905) · 1 like > **Sam Enright (@Sam__Enright):** You should read @eschwitz's new book I haven’t read his book but his work (ok fine his work as described on a few podcasts) is a major influence! ### [Reply to @seconds_0, 22:10 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785069279521489092) · 8 likes > **0.005 Seconds (3/694) (@seconds_0):** Someone sent me a .docx in the year of our lord 2024. What am I supposed to do with this? > > Useless. Disgusting. No Word is Goated actually ### [Reply, 22:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785070191728103704) · 1 like Real ### [Reply to @JMannhart, 22:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785076311481868382) · 6 likes > **Jonathan Mannhart 🔎 (@JMannhart):** @AaronBergman18 @seconds_0 “No Word“ is Goated actually > > (I assume your text editor of choice didn't warn you of the missing but essential comma. Better stop using Word as your Twitter client!) ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMXdchyWoAA9eUD.jpg) ## Tuesday, April 30, 2024 ### [Reply, 03:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785144911316091390) · 1 like ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMYb1fxWkAA9ZYt.jpg) ### [Reply to @natfriedman, 03:13 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785145540201586746) · 30 likes > **Nat Friedman (@natfriedman):** What AI product – that can be built today but for some strange reason doesn't exist yet – would you pay for right now? Preference for B2B answers! Whisper quality transcription with timestamps and speaker labels People are gonna say there’s some huggingface python package combo situation you can rig up that does this, but I challenge anyone to do this right now, from scratch, bc I can’t ### [Reply, 03:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785154940228292840) · 1 like Ondra? You'd think, but like how often in the gym do you see people basically sprinting up routes? It's a hot take that should be colder ### [Reply to @arthur_wright_, 03:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785156589873189099) · 2 likes > **Arthur Wrong 🔸 (@arthur_wright_):** since i can’t resist responding to your other climbing takes now (i guess i missed these somehow?), i feel like this is very misleading for beginners because it’s only true \*once you are already very good at everything else\* > > (quoting @AaronBergman18: 15\) ok for my climbing friends, some more upbeat takes 1 - Finger strength is like 90% of performance. Eva Lopez protocol feels too easy to be true but it’s good) Sorta, I guess my phrase "X% of performance" isn't like super well-defined in statistical terms. But I mostly disagree. Median young healthy person can maybe climb V2 on their first day. If they had the avg finger strength of a v10 climber, they could probably climb v7 ### [Reply to @NoahTopper, 04:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785158869263569127) · 1 like > **Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper):** @AaronBergman18 @austinc3301 I’ve also never seen a single line of Julia code Based ### [Reply to @freed_dfilan, 04:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785165455692386743) · 9 likes > **Daniel Filan 🔎 (@freed_dfilan):** Isn't there a thing where "outdoor cats" makes you think of pet cats but most of the deaths are from feral cats? Presumably the feral cats lineage can be traced to pet cats outside tho (?) ### [Reply to @Littoral_Gecko, 05:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785178082212446639) · 2 likes > **A Gecko🦎 (@Littoral_Gecko):** Wait, why? ### [Tweet, 05:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785183678072570105) · 5 likes You (well at least I) never really hear about patents or any kind of IP around frontier AI. What’s the deal with that? ### [Reply to @JgaltTweets, 05:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785185851237880172) · 3 likes > **JgaltTweets (@JgaltTweets):** @AaronBergman18 You have to disclose quite a lot of technical information about an invention to get a patent afaik (though IP not my specialty); your ideas will just get stolen by entities in countries that don't reliably enforce western patents (i.e. China) The unreasonable efficiency of twitter (at getting questions answered) right here ### [Quote tweet, 14:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785322204239995029) · 24 likes Idk if this counts as cool but took just about 8 hours to take all the @OurWorldInData datasets, staple them together, and then run all 200k-ish univariate within-country panel regressions https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Lehja3Mdk9dQYZ83GGmprP27YEGNdcBQ0EpqyMLFJGQ/edit?usp=sharing > **Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18):** So is there anything else cool u can do by letting ur (normal) computer run overnight (bounded by local compute not some other time constraint)? ### [Tweet, 20:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1785411850147864719) · 3 likes I should get good at basketball --- End of April 2024. 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