Aaron Bergman's tweets, August 2024
Every public tweet, reply, quote tweet and retweet that Aaron Bergman (@AaronBergman18 on X, formerly Twitter) posted in August 2024 and has not deleted: 322 posts, oldest first, times in UTC. Each heading links to the original post on X. When Aaron replies to or quotes someone, their tweet appears as a blockquote with their name; those words are theirs, and everything outside the blockquotes is Aaron's.
This page is one month of the complete archive of Aaron Bergman's tweets, which updates automatically every few hours. Previous month: July 2024. Next month: September 2024.
Thursday, August 1, 2024
Reply to @Rainmaker1973, 01:47 UTC · 2 likes
Massimo (@Rainmaker1973): Never eat undercooked bear meat
[🎞️ Zack D. Films]
Ok I won’t do that
Reply to @BLUNDERBUSSTED, 02:07 UTC · 2 likes
𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐓 (@BLUNDERBUSSTED): @univrsw3th4rt hey
Thanks for saving my puppy from a burning building the other day
Thread, continued, 02:07 UTC · 2 likes
Also that 675 deadlift was impressive
Reply to @justalexoki, 18:49 UTC · 1 like
taoki (@justalexoki): why are men so much faster, stronger, cuter, bigger, smarter than women? it seems unfair
Wrong about at least one of these
Reply, 19:45 UTC
Feel this weirdly much, good for you for reaching out
Tweet, 19:54 UTC · 22 likes
It’s too hot
Reply to @justalexoki, 21:02 UTC · 4 likes
taoki (@justalexoki): @AaronBergman18 which one
Cuter
Reply to @drethelin, 21:26 UTC · 2 likes
Misha (@drethelin): Occasional reminder that Dishwashers use physics, specifically water sprayers, and do not magically clean every object you can cram into their volume
Sad
Quote tweet, 23:58 UTC · 6 likes
I see a lot of people dunking on this but not explaining the key issue. Here is my understanding:
I think the idea behind this policy is that corporations might hold real estate and not rent it out, effectively reducing supply
…
Quoting Our Revolution (@OurRevolution): raise your paw if you agree
Thread, continued, 23:58 UTC · 6 likes
This is basically not true because if there’s one thing corporations are good at, it’s not leaving money on the table
We should not expect higher vacancy rates, although in principle you can imagine crazy high transactions costs that would make this concern legit
Thread, continued, 23:58 UTC · 3 likes
On the other hand, corporations are often better placed to do the “work” of being a landlord (eg renovating, taking on risk, maintenance) which yes only justifies like 10% (or something) of rental income but needs to get done my somebody, lest you get
Thread, continued, 23:59 UTC · 3 likes
lower effective supply (eg because of houses that people want to rent but no one wants to buy and either live in or rent out and maintain)
Reply to @BLUNDERBUSSTED, 23:59 UTC · 4 likes
𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐓 (@BLUNDERBUSSTED): i must know her touch i want her to put a saddle on me and spur me forward squeezing my torso between her thighs i must climb her legs like tree trunks i must build a nest there and covet her eggs i must grab those thighs over and over and over again i must know this athena
Ok
Friday, August 2, 2024
Reply to @tenobrus, 00:02 UTC · 1 like
Tenobrus (@tenobrus): we don't always use it, but every man has the god-given talent of getting ready from zero in under 15 minutes regardless of circumstances
Beach recently staying in a hotel room with my older sister, she was amazed at my ability to go from asleep to out the door in 11 mins flat
Reply to @goblinodds, 00:02 UTC · 3 likes
𝖜𝖔𝖒𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝖆 𝖈𝖆𝖚𝖘𝖊 (@goblinodds): wait why would it have to take anyone longer than this
put on clothes, brush teeth, pee, what am i missing
run a brush through hair ???
Based
Reply to @frances__lorenz, 00:58 UTC · 2 likes
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I was gonna ask lmao
Quote tweet, 01:15 UTC · 6 likes
The first 6 pages of this book, "Summary of the Framework and Proposals," look like a really good collection of very basic "don't be a terrible species" rules for humanity (concerning humans, AIs, animals, and beings in general)
Quoting Jonathan Birch (@birchlse): 🦀🐝🧠🤖 How should we make decisions when faced with systems of uncertain sentience? My new book The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI is available online for free at https://academic.oup.com/book/57949. Please download it! Just click on PDF to get a PDF of the whole book. Individual chapters are also available as PDFs - just click on whichever chapters you want. The book is completely free to everyone and I'm grateful for all shares and forwards.
Thread, continued, 01:15 UTC · 2 likes
It would be really good to see this operationalized somehow, even if that looks like voluntary commitment at first.
I'm also sure more could be added, and wording quibbled with. Hopefully people smarter than me can have a discourse about that
Thread, continued, 01:15 UTC · 2 likes
Here are abbreviated versions of the 26 rules, courtesy of Claude (who I hope had no time or a good time writing them out)
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And here are the first 6 pages in full https://aaronbergman.neocities.org/eos-intro.pdf
Reply to @arithmoquine, 01:34 UTC · 6 likes
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I hope they make safe heroin with the behavioral effects of Jhanas (ie minimal hedonic downregulation or temptation to wirehead) bc I’d really like to try
Reply to @arithmoquine, 01:35 UTC · 3 likes
henry (@arithmoquine): @AaronBergman18 henrycorp is on it
🫡
Reply to @arithmoquine, 01:40 UTC · 3 likes
henry (@arithmoquine): in full seriousness, I believe (and have believed for a while with varying degrees of clarity) this is the *most important thing* I could work on with my life
It’s plausible, idk what @QualiaRI is up to atm. Many of those who get valence pilled get specifically anti-suffering pilled even more (there’s ofc substantial overlap here)
See https://longtermrisk.org for the other side of the valence coin
Quote tweet, 15:48 UTC · 9 likes
Quoting Rob Wiblin (@robertwiblin): Driving the New World Screwworm to extinction using 'gene drives' could do more to improve animal welfare than eliminating factory farming globally.
Hard to believe but so argues MIT biologist and inventor of the gene drive, @KEsvelt:
Reply to @MatthewBJane, 16:12 UTC · 3 likes
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Rstudio still 🐐 imo
Reply to @NoahTopper, 16:39 UTC · 2 likes
Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper):
Yes
Reply to @beala, 17:12 UTC · 3 likes
Alex Beal 🆎 (@beala): I've seen enough
RIP
Reply to @NathanpmYoung, 18:05 UTC · 5 likes
Nathan 🔎 (@NathanpmYoung): Effective Altruism the philosophy is basically right - thinking about scale, a large moral circle and effectiveness of interventions.
But EA as a community isn't always the best place for people to embody this. For some it's LessWrong, Progress Studies, EconTwitter.
All true but I’d change the last sentence. If you’re not basically trying to do what EA purports to be doing, at best you’re going to be right by accident
So most lower-case-ea outside of the EA community probably looks like idiosyncratic partial participation in capital-EA
Reply, 18:22 UTC · 1 like
I’d guess yes to better but no to “obviously better”
Saturday, August 3, 2024
Quote tweet, 04:04 UTC · 3 likes
An absolutely incorrect take (the normie libs are right; orange man bad) but yes we stan the intellectual disagreeableness
Quoting Arthur Wrong 🔸 (@arthur_wright_): People are dunking on this but they should take the policy arguments seriously. IMO, we need more contrarian political takes in EA that aren't just racism.
Ftr, i strongly disagree with the conclusion (Trump is preferable to Kamala), but spare the dunks & talk substance please
Quote tweet, 06:26 UTC · 30 likes
I’m going to get minimal hate for this because it’s a moderate position that happens to be correct, but we don’t know whether LLMs are conscious, and it certainly isn’t obvious on either side
Quoting loveofdoing (@loveofdoing): i’m gonna get so much hate for this, but llms are obviously not conscious
got a lottttt of thoughts here; hopefully a midwit thread
Thread, continued, 06:26 UTC · 5 likes
To ~quote a tweet I remember reading but don’t feel like digging up, “cracked geniuses have been tearing each other up over this question [the necessary and sufficient conditions for phenomenal consciousness] for 2000 years”
Reply to @ilex_ulmus, 07:15 UTC · 2 likes
Holly ⏸️ Elmore (@ilex_ulmus): AISM = @AISafetyMemes
(quoting @ilex_ulmus: @idavidrein @RichardMCNgo What has AISM said that is so dumb? I feel so gaslit when people say this. I'm all ready to agree but then I see the thing and it's just... fine? Imo they are better than the average journalist and clearly deeply understand what they are talking about.)
I agree with this FWIW (although I guess I’d replace “gaslit” with “confused”)
Reply to @NoahTopper, 07:43 UTC · 4 likes
Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper): @arthur_wright_ @AaronBergman18 Personally I think you’ve said way dumber shit Aaron ❤️
Me too ❤️
Reply to his own earlier tweet, 13:00 UTC · 8 likes
Aaron Bergman, August 3, 2024: To ~quote a tweet I remember reading but don’t feel like digging up, “cracked geniuses have been tearing each other up over this question [the necessary and…
Update: I am getting a medium amount of hate
Sunday, August 4, 2024
Quote tweet, 01:45 UTC · 3 likes
Forget about the content, they should teach this as a good model for how to write when you’re trying to just directly communicate ideas (as opposed to signaling or entertainment)
Analytic philosophy go brr
Quoting Jonathan Birch (@birchlse): 🦀🐝🧠🤖 How should we make decisions when faced with systems of uncertain sentience? My new book The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI is available online for free at https://academic.oup.com/book/57949. Please download it! Just click on PDF to get a PDF of the whole book. Individual chapters are also available as PDFs - just click on whichever chapters you want. The book is completely free to everyone and I'm grateful for all shares and forwards.
Quote tweet, 12:30 UTC · 4 likes
No I like a really fucked up spreadsheet
“He just like me fr but I can fix him”
Quoting Kat Spartz ⏸️ 🔶 (@KatSpartz): You all know about sapiosexuality (being attracted to intelligence), but did you know about consciosexuals?
It's people who are attracted to conscientiousness.
Do you ever salivate at a really well done spreadsheet?
Or purr with desire when you see a well organized cupboard?
Do you ever want to pounce on your partner when they carry a backup something in their bag and it gets you out of a jam?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you might be a consciosexual.
Reply to @jt_kerwin, 13:49 UTC · 7 likes
Jason Kerwin (@jt_kerwin): I’d like to see at least one (1) qualitative paper that successfully does causal inference with a prespecified analysis plan before I take this seriously
Pre-registration of qualitative analysis seems way harder. There are like a gazillion degrees of freedom instead of 19
Tweet, 14:18 UTC · 11 likes
Didn’t really appreciate trinkets until recently
Family house is filled with random trinkets
I only have 4 trinkets, and 3 of them are fake plants from Target
Thread, continued, 14:20 UTC · 5 likes
A weirdly large number of them are ducks, suggesting a genetic predisposition to think ducks are kinda whimsical and fun
Monday, August 5, 2024
Tweet, 17:33 UTC · 130 likes
She’s a 10 but she doesn’t think sentience is of fundamental ethical importance
Reply, 18:03 UTC · 8 likes
vals🔸 (@ValsTutor): Probably an 11. You don't easily get to know those words without having an interesting reason, and she's probably right. A universe featuring intelligent agents without sentience would still have great use for ethics and be talking about it etc, so sentience is not fundamental.
I respect the boldness but nah I think this is totally wrong and no sentience -> nihilism (although moral uncertainty means that I wouldn’t act like this was true)
Reply, 18:16 UTC · 4 likes
vals🔸 (@ValsTutor): @AaronBergman18 You're assuming the particular ethical stance you have is absolutely true to argue sentience is a fundamental part of ethics, but you know others disagree and don't use sentience in their ethics.
Your statement is less interesting because it's true by (your) definition.
I don’t think this is right. It’s not definitionally true that sentience is ethically important, at least given what I intend those words to mean
Tweet, 18:21 UTC · 8 likes
I’m down like 2.5% idk not that bad
Reply, 18:21 UTC · 2 likes
vals🔸 (@ValsTutor): @AaronBergman18 Well I won't ask you to write a dissertation to justify a funny tweet so I'll agree we have an unresolved understanding of each other's position rn then.
Tragic
Tweet, 19:53 UTC · 6 likes
Twitter search is genuinely terrible lol. I think I could do it better with R code. They’re clearly optimizing for saving $.07/user-year on compute instead of returning search results
Reply, 20:03 UTC · 2 likes
Ra (@slimepriestess): of course i know her, she's me
(quoting @AaronBergman18: She’s a 10 but she doesn’t think sentience is of fundamental ethical importance)
Inshallah u will see the light (2 books) 🙏
Thread, continued, 20:03 UTC · 2 likes
2)
Reply to his own earlier tweet, 20:05 UTC · 3 likes
Aaron Bergman, August 5, 2024: Twitter search is genuinely terrible lol. I think I could do it better with R code. They’re clearly optimizing for saving $.07/user-year on compute instead of…
Just occurred to me this could be intentional to prevent its use as an API workaround, since the API now costs the Saudi royal family’s wealth per millisecond
Reply, 20:59 UTC · 2 likes
Ra (@slimepriestess): how i learned to stop worrying and love the blindminds
I wish we could bet on ethical theories bc I’d want to
Reply, 21:05 UTC · 3 likes
Ra (@slimepriestess): @AaronBergman18 to manifold?
The only good resolution criteria I can think of is “one of us changes our mind” which by default won’t resolve
Reply, 21:34 UTC · 2 likes
Erin Braid (@erinbraid): @AaronBergman18 Well, tbf his position is more like "statements about sentience are meaningless because we can't define it well." Mine is "there's no rule that the morally important things will be things we already have a good understanding of!"
I have a book (really just the first 2 chapters) for him Btw this book is a banger
Quote tweet, 21:52 UTC · 8 likes
Moral uncertainty sounds kinda esoteric but it seems incredibly important in the context of AI…
Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18): I’m going to get minimal hate for this because it’s a moderate position that happens to be correct, but we don’t know whether LLMs are conscious, and it certainly isn’t obvious on either side
Thread, continued, 21:52 UTC · 7 likes
I think suffering-leaning hedonic utilitarianism is true, but more important than arguing this object level is arguing that this theory (and others) should be given serious probabilistic weight in the unenviable project of not accidentally committing the worst atrocity in history
Tweet, 22:21 UTC · 21 likes
Pretty sure I’d be a NIMBY if not provided the basic case for it being bad. I wouldn’t have gotten there from first principles and leafy single family suburbs are pretty nice, aesthetically
Thread, continued, 22:22 UTC · 12 likes
Extremely online NIMBYs are probably a lost cause but I feel like a Netflix documentary could make >0% of naive well intentioned boomers reconsider
Reply, 22:26 UTC · 2 likes
Hineini 🔎 (@danseaumilieu): @AaronBergman18 I see, so then I’d be curious what account you’d give about how you came to have this knowledge that causing suffering is objectively bad. Like, how did you come into contact with this fact?
Oh man I feel like I’ve had this discussion 100 times lol. Tbc I don’t think this is infallible, but I do think me being wrong would imply that I (and probably everyone) is radically mistaken about their own subjective experience (which seems possible but unlikely)
Thread, continued, 22:27 UTC · 4 likes
I also think the word “objectively” throws people off. It’s not written into the stars somehow in a spooky ethereal way. It’s just that conscious beings which are the units in which value exists are just a constituent part of the universe/world
Quote tweet, 23:15 UTC · 15 likes
In a very neutral honestly-not-dunking way I find it wild how smart professional middle aged professional people simply refuse to google/chatgpt/youtube “how to do X” when it comes to anything involving computers
Neuroplasticity/lack thereof must be a hell of a drug
Quoting derek guy (@dieworkwear): technology is too confusing. anything that came out after 2008 is simply not my business
Quote tweet, 23:46 UTC · 3 likes
Might help some of you get on the correct opinions train (moral value realism)
Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18): @danseaumilieu I also think the word “objectively” throws people off. It’s not written into the stars somehow in a spooky ethereal way. It’s just that conscious beings which are the units in which value exists are just a constituent part of the universe/world
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Quote tweet, 00:54 UTC · 10 likes
Can someone tell me how legit the receipt thing is
Quoting Someone:
Reply to @peterwildeford, 00:58 UTC · 3 likes
Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 (@peterwildeford): What a wild story
(quoting @Domahhhh: The Venezuelan Election, and Prediction Markets as Truth (very long post -- SICKOS ONLY) Starting with a little history -- the first big prediction market controversy (and it even made the news) was about a North Korean missile launch in 2006. North Korea launched a missile,…)
Competence porn by the opposition volunteers
Reply to @NathanpmYoung, 01:00 UTC · 2 likes
Nathan 🔎 (@NathanpmYoung): Cos they wanted Altman gone and everyone else leaving OpenAI makes it more likely that either OpenAI will collapse or Altman will go.
I was thinking you meant because high profile people leaving seems like evidence of them effectively pursuing the nonprofit charter - empowering Anthropic relative to OpenAI seems good under OpenAI’s own charter even if Sama stays and OpenAI persists
Reply to @flybottlemist, 01:02 UTC · 5 likes
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😢
Reply to @hamandcheese, 05:00 UTC · 4 likes
Samuel Hammond 🦉 (@hamandcheese): I can still remember being terrified about going to jail over one wrong limewire download
(quoting @AndrewCurran_: According to this report from 404 Media NVIDIA are currently training a video frontier model named 'Cosmos' (multiple projects with the same name) that 'encapsulates simulation of light transport, physics, and intelligence in one place to unlock various downstream applications'.)
NVIDIA making the machine god 🤝 me
Using yt-dlp
Quote tweet, 05:03 UTC · 3 likes
Aside from all the important stuff, if YouTube vs python libraries becomes a serious cat and mouse gam with big companies on both sides, the technical fixes and workarounds are gonna nerd snipe me dead
Quoting Andrew Curran (@AndrewCurran_): According to this report from 404 Media NVIDIA are currently training a video frontier model named 'Cosmos' (multiple projects with the same name) that 'encapsulates simulation of light transport, physics, and intelligence in one place to unlock various downstream applications'.
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Quote tweet, 01:09 UTC · 2 likes
Musk cofounded http://X.com in 1999??
Quoting pıʌɐpↂ (@sinusoidal): @DeepDishEnjoyer I think anyone who votes for Trump just isn't aware of this. You really don't even have to look at anything Elon Musk has done in basically his adult life to really get to the conclusion he is a better businessman.
Reply to @JgaltTweets, 01:14 UTC · 2 likes
JgaltTweets (@JgaltTweets): Are you not familiar with the lore?
I’m familiar with PayPal, not OG X
Reply to @jessesingal, 01:19 UTC · 3 likes
Jesse Singal (@jessesingal): This is too subtle for me I don't get it
I feel bad for AEI here. Guilt by association
Reply to @polisisti, 02:16 UTC · 2 likes
Alessandro (@polisisti): @JgaltTweets @AaronBergman18 Every time I'm reminded of the Canadian angle here, it throws me for a loop
Canada mentioned 🇨🇦🏒🌲🦫🍁🛶🏔️🍁🇨🇦🦫🏒🛶🏔️🌲🍁🦫🇨🇦🏔️🏒🛶🌲🍁🇨🇦🏒🦫🛶🏔️🌲🍁🇨🇦🦫🏒🛶🏔️🌲🍁🇨🇦🏒🦫🛶🏔️🌲🍁🇨🇦🦫🏒🛶🏔️🌲🍁🇨🇦🏒🦫🛶🏔️🌲🍁🇨🇦🦫🏒🛶🏔️🌲🍁🇨🇦🏒🦫🛶🏔️🌲🍁🇨🇦🦫🏒🛶🏔️🌲🍁🇨🇦🏒🦫🛶🏔️🌲🍁🇨🇦🦫🏒🛶🏔️🌲🍁🇨🇦🏒🦫🛶🏔️🌲🍁🇨🇦🦫🏒🛶🏔️🌲🍁🇨🇦🏒🦫🛶🏔️🌲🍁🇨🇦🦫🏒🛶🏔️🌲🍁🇨🇦🏒🦫🛶🏔️🌲🍁🇨🇦
Reply to @NathanpmYoung, 02:31 UTC · 2 likes
Nathan 🔎 (@NathanpmYoung): "We don't know how LLMs work"
While talking to @robinhanson he pointed out that we don't know how many things work - many drugs, materials and social technologies are somewhat mysterious or were at the time of their early use.
Seems like a good point.
Yeah but either (1) they’re Lindy or (2) it would be bad if they too were gonna become load bearing parts of every part of life and the economy
Quote tweet, 03:03 UTC · 2 likes
If u have notes on me I would love to see them
Quoting 𝖜𝖔𝖒𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝖆 𝖈𝖆𝖚𝖘𝖊 (@goblinodds): fuck it i am taking notes on people
maybe in like a year we can play a fun little game where i will show ppl some of my notes on them if they ask
Thread, continued, 03:04 UTC · 2 likes
Reply to @waitbutwhy, 04:27 UTC · 8 likes
Tim Urban (@waitbutwhy): Talking to my friends, who are widely spread out on the political spectrum, I see four general camps re: the election. I wish I could have six poll options to include "not American" and "American but not voting" but there are only four, so answer what approximates you best:
1) Pumped about Trump (also voted Trump in 2020)
2) Can't believe I'm voting for Trump
3) I get the reasoning of Group 2 and sad Kamala is the option, but sorry, not voting for Trump
4) What the hell is wrong with these people, I'm obviously voting for Kamala!
Wtf are these results
Reply to @GarettJones, 04:37 UTC · 3 likes
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FWIW I’d call myself a s longtermist and strongly disagree with this take
Reply to @ahmedallibhoy, 08:38 UTC · 5 likes
Ahmed (@ahmedallibhoy): Interestingly, this not a flawed proof that only yields the correct result by coincidence. It turns out the method can be rigorously justified and generalized to other ODEs.
I'll discuss how and also some interesting applications of this approach in systems and control theory.
(quoting @angeris: today's fun math fact)
!!
Tweet, 18:03 UTC · 25 likes
Recently asked for my most important beliefs, so (maybe sorta kinda in order but not 100%?) here they are:
1) what total utilitarianism implies and doesn’t imply, especially wrt to asymmetry of suffering
https://www.aaronbergman.net/p/my-case-for-suffering-leaning-ethics
Thread, continued, 18:03 UTC · 8 likes
2) massive funding misallocation in EA, mostly by OpenPhil (both animal welfare and AI safety underfunded; global dev overfunded)
3) lack of ambitious earning to give among EAs post-FTX
Thread, continued, 18:03 UTC · 7 likes
4) AI sentience is a moral shitshow
Thread, continued, 18:03 UTC · 7 likes
5) (tentative) Eliminating the New World screwworm is a top priority (overall, not merely within animal welfare)
6) (very tentative) @leopoldasch is basically right about the need for liberal democracies to have a dominant AI lead
Reply to @ohabryka, 18:42 UTC · 2 likes
Oliver Habryka (@ohabryka): Bryan is obviously right here, and the community note obviously wrong. Makes me sad about the community notes algorithm.
Vaccination rate for tetanus is <80%, and it's non-contagious, so yes, 2 deaths implies even if no one was vaccinated, we would see at most 10 deaths.
(quoting @bryan_caplan: My doctor talked to me like a child when I refused a tetanus booster. This disease kills about 2 Americans per YEAR! https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/surv-manual/chpt16-tetanus.html)
Community note no longer there, at least for me
Tweet, 19:08 UTC · 3 likes
Let it be known that if you prepare a script to read and a phone number to call in support of something I think is important, I will probably groan but then actually do it
Thread, continued, 19:08 UTC · 2 likes
Tbc I don’t live in CA so I’m not gonna do the above lol, but this one did work on me https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/qgbLr6es2jCwwcGuH/best-use-of-2-minutes-this-month-u-s
Tweet, 20:09 UTC · 444 likes
Madly in love autistic couple who become totally neurotypical in each other’s presence because of the oxytocin
Reply to @absurdlymax, 20:16 UTC · 2 likes
Max Alexander (@absurdlymax): @frances__lorenz @AaronBergman18 (positive)
Lol
Reply to @BootsPlatypus, 20:16 UTC · 19 likes
Platypussy in Bio (@BootsPlatypus): @AaronBergman18 Did you find a girlfriend? 😍
Not yet lol
Thursday, August 8, 2024
Reply to @livgorton, 00:24 UTC · 2 likes
Liv (@livgorton): he can fix me fr? 👀🥺
🥺
Reply to @tenobrus, 00:26 UTC · 2 likes
Tenobrus (@tenobrus): i'm always vaguely suspicious of depression because while ofc it's a very real thing i've personally experienced, on the other hand the cure for my four years of clinical depression was legit getting a new job, moving, and breaking up. like are u sure ur life isnt just *wrong*?
I’m the opposite case - I’m virtually certain that the ~cure for me was totally biochemical
Reply to @ChanaMessinger, 04:23 UTC · 4 likes
Chana (@ChanaMessinger): What are people doing to run their own spaces these days?
Facebook groups don't seem great, there are some really good ones but lots of people I care about don't use Facebook.
Slack is for work
I hate discord
Reply to @PradyuPrasad, 13:39 UTC · 2 likes
Pradyumna 🇸🇬 (@PradyuPrasad): do you just miss aaron swartz
Yes
Reply to @uhbif19, 14:29 UTC · 10 likes
There is no other room (теперь в 🇮🇱 ) (@uhbif19): @AaronBergman18 Is this some known phenomenon?
It’s a hypothesis that oxytocin is related to autism yeah, and in the direction such that more = fewer symptoms
Idk more about the mechanisms
Reply, 16:48 UTC · 2 likes
🙏
Tweet, 16:49 UTC · 3 likes
Nooooooooo @awscloud plz give me more free audio nooooooo
Reply to @focusfronting, 16:50 UTC · 26 likes
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The answer given is probably “no”
The correct answer is “basically yeah if they have state of the art ML systems and hook u up to the right cables”
Reply to @prerat, 16:51 UTC · 1 like
prerat (@prerat): is raising your voice ok?
is interrupting ok?
Want the “Jewish” cross-section
Tweet, 17:19 UTC · 18 likes
Banks really be charging you an overdraft fee and then 4 seconds later tell you you’ve been approved for their Ultra-Platinum Elite Signature Plus Deluxe Credit Card
Reply to @birchlse, 19:09 UTC · 7 likes
Jonathan Birch (@birchlse): As an open access book, The Edge of Sentience can be distributed for free in any format - and I'm very grateful to @AaronBergman18 for making a completely free audiobook version using text-to-speech software: https://open.spotify.com/show/7x1NPYRn55K3nZz855tB29
Also
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-edge-of-sentience-by-jonathan-birch/id1761877270
RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/f9b6b454/podcast/rss
Reply to @timfduffy, 20:56 UTC · 2 likes
Tim Duffy (@timfduffy): @AaronBergman18 @birchlse Dude Aaron this is so awesome, lack of audio version is the only reason I didn't read it already
Lol same
Friday, August 9, 2024
Quote tweet, 15:37 UTC · 25 likes
Bro it’s a tree stump violence is OK
Quoting Massimo (@Rainmaker1973): A non violent way to get rid of a tree stump.
https://x.com/i/status/1821618009149944201/video/1
Reply to @AndyMasley, 16:17 UTC · 3 likes
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Lol at me being the one yes vote (although it’s kinda 50/50 for me, depending on the nature of the disagreement and how well-intentioned I think the other person is)
Reply to @RandomSprint, 16:21 UTC · 3 likes
RandomSprint🧭 (@RandomSprint): Monitored alarms are a good start. I have imbued the wildlife with the watchful spirits of my ancestors. My forefathers stand guard because they are proud of me. Can you say the same, thief?
@SpacedOutMatt howie will show no mercy if an intruder enters
Reply to @RokoMijic, 16:38 UTC · 2 likes
Roko 🐉 (@RokoMijic): Neon-Christian universalism is a universal axiological solvent that can and perhaps will destroy everything we care about
Idk about you but I care about the wellbeing of sentient beings and not much else
Reply to @goblinodds, 17:17 UTC · 5 likes
𝖜𝖔𝖒𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝖆 𝖈𝖆𝖚𝖘𝖊 (@goblinodds): accidentally used top coat as a base coat pray 4 me
(real ones won't know if im talking abt nail polish or minipainting)
Until the second line I assumed you were talking about clothing items
Reply to @RichardMCNgo, 17:29 UTC · 2 likes
Richard Ngo (@RichardMCNgo): I’ve never seen any good argument about where a bayesian’s priors should come from, in principle.
Here’s one kinda wacky idea: you should pick them for cooperative/competitive reasons.
I.e. choose priors which make you predictable to allies and/or unpredictable to enemies.
I will defend this
Quote tweet, 17:32 UTC · 4 likes
Old take but it seems pretty obviously right to me and I’m confused why people keep debating this
Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18): Relatedly: the one defensible true Bayesian prior? The one you actually think. Yes, you have an implicit best guess probability
However it got into your brain, that’s where you’re starting from
Reply to @ohwizenedtortle, 18:35 UTC · 1 like
oh dandy lion🔸 (@ohwizenedtortle): @AaronBergman18 And yet when I drilled a hole in people and set them on fire I'm "sociopathic" and "sentenced to eight years in prison with five years without parole" smdh
Fuckin EAs
Saturday, August 10, 2024
Tweet, 16:38 UTC · 4 likes
It’s a shame that I’m not a published endocrinology case study 😔
Reply, 16:43 UTC · 1 like
No😡
Tweet, 20:17 UTC · 20 likes
I keep interacting with coldcels who insist that financial cost is the reason we can’t set a shared AC any lower
Under pretty generous assumptions including carbon offsets, Claude estimates keeping 1k sq ft it 8° F cooler on a hot day would cost about $5.50/day
Thread, continued, 20:17 UTC · 4 likes
Tbc preferences are legitimate and maybe you don’t wanna spend this money, all legitimate. But FYI
Assumptions:
- 95° high
- 1000 sq ft space
- running a small space heater on high 24/7
- keeping AC set to 62 instead of 70
- carbon offsets for all this
Sunday, August 11, 2024
Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 01:38 UTC · 2 likes
Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver): Not entirely. There's a practical limit where the indoor coil will fall below a temp at which condensing water vapor will freeze. Also in ducted systems there may be temps at which vapor will condense on uninsulated ducts
skill issue
Reply, 01:39 UTC · 1 like
fr though you're right mine freezes at around 60, but the current detente/demilitarized zone is 66 which I'm pretty sure actually means like 68
Quote tweet, 03:12 UTC · 12 likes
1) Twitter
2) Twitter
3) Twitter
If you add in college, only one of those gets replaced lol
Quoting oh dandy lion🔸 (@ohwizenedtortle): After college, state how you met three of your stronger platonic connections
1. Twitter
2 & 3. Effective altruism
Quote tweet, 03:32 UTC · 7 likes
This is in large part why I think Twitter is unironically great
The good parts do manifest irl, the bad ones don’t (IME)
Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18): 1) Twitter
2) Twitter
3) TwitterIf you add in college, only one of those gets replaced lol
Quote tweet, 08:19 UTC · 12 likes
Man the FDA is really bad
Quoting Lucy Farnik (@lucyfarnik): Yesterday, the FDA rejected MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD treatment. This came as a surprise to tons of people since the phase 3 trials showed *really* promising results. And a lot of people are pretty angry at the FDA right now.
So why did the FDA reject it? A 🧵
Tweet, 15:00 UTC · 5 likes
Reply to @peterwildeford, 15:44 UTC · 3 likes
Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 (@peterwildeford): Americans will measure with anything but the metric system
Gotta be alligator
Monday, August 12, 2024
Reply to @gptbrooke, 00:56 UTC · 2 likes
brooke bowman (@gptbrooke): “It’s better to be cute around smart people than smart around cute people”
-my friend on sf vs la
😢
Tweet, 04:37 UTC · 11 likes
Looks like there's a YC startup trying to automate humane* wild fish slaughter?
* Humane according to me, if in fact what they're doing is ikejime or something like it, and according to this article. The firm quite sensibly doesn't mention fish welfare
https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/28/shinkei-systems-ai-guided-fish-harvesting-is-more-humane-and-less-wasteful/
Thread, continued, 04:37 UTC · 2 likes
Wild fish slaughter is absolutely horrific
Tweet, 04:37 UTC · 1 like
Some links
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/shinkei-systems
Thread, continued, 04:38 UTC · 4 likes
Let it be known that I would buy ikejime-killed wild fish
Capitalism, do ur thing
Reply to @ruth_hook_, 07:35 UTC · 5 likes
Ruth Hook (@ruth_hook_): has there ever been a problem in science where the solution hasn't been "it's far more nuanced, complex, & context dependent than we thought"
just once it would be nice for overwhelming complexity to suddenly simplify itself with additional understanding from a new discovery
Natural and sexual selection explaining ~100% of life on earth is kinda insane
Claude added heliocentrism, plate tectonics, and the fundamental attribution error
Tweet, 08:22 UTC · 4 likes
If we have 0 mutuals and you’re somehow seeing this, comment bc I’ll almost certainly be curious enough to follow you
Reply to @StefanFSchubert, 18:58 UTC · 8 likes
Stefan Schubert (@StefanFSchubert): Thanks to @AaronBergman18 we now have free audiobook versions of our (@LuciusCaviola and me) book:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/effective-altruism-and-the-human-mind-stefan/id1762342287
https://open.spotify.com/show/7kSJ4aCd2dCqMsAOi2Liaz
https://anchor.fm/s/f9d34984/podcast/rss
Thanks, Aaron! 🥰
(See the quote-tweet of a quote-tweet for a 13-tweet summary of the book)
(quoting @StefanFSchubert: We just received the physical copies of our book, Effective Altruism and the Human Mind. If you buy it at http://global.oup.com/academic, use the code AUFLY30 to save 30%. The electronic version is available for free at: https://academic.oup.com/book/56384?login=false)
You’re welcome, looking forward to listening myself!
Reply to @sgodofsk, 21:56 UTC · 4 likes
Steven Godofsky (@sgodofsk): it's a real shame 16 year olds bagging groceries can't afford a 2 bedroom apartment
(quoting @SenSanders: There is not a single state in America where you can afford a two-bedroom apartment while earning the minimum wage. Something is wrong with this picture. No more excuses. Tax billionaires, raise the minimum wage, build more affordable housing.)
This but unironically - it’s not inevitable!
Reply to @PtakTestKitchen, 21:57 UTC · 3 likes
TV’S ALEX PTAK (@PtakTestKitchen): Thank you, AccuWeather app
I mean surely sometimes it is lol
Reply to @KelseyTuoc, 22:14 UTC · 7 likes
Kelsey Piper (@KelseyTuoc): I sat there in my tiny illegal bedroom reading person after person insist that any building code that allowed it amounted to a declaration that the poor deserved to suffer and that we should bring back slums. It was a perfectly fine room. I still think it should be legal.
Current br is 75 square feet and perfectly fine
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Reply to @SpacedOutMatt, 03:30 UTC · 4 likes
Matt 🔸 (@SpacedOutMatt): I don’t even know what starter pack I got for my birthday, but I think it’s a good one
U shouldn’t sacrifice time reading 240 character takes for books like these though
Quote tweet, 04:00 UTC · 20 likes
Kinda the opposite
Idc that much about model tweaks, I just think it’s fuckin nuts that there’s a little guy in the computer now who talks back
Quoting Harrison Kinsley (@Sentdex): IDK when it happened, but my interest in ChatGPT is too low to measure.
I see maybe there's a new variant of gpt4o that's out or has been out, but like... I couldn't care less.
Honestly not trying to flame OAI (this time). It's just interesting how the spark is gone.
Reply to @QualyThe, 13:17 UTC · 2 likes
Qualy the lightbulb (@QualyThe): @AaronBergman18 we had a tool for that it's called twitter
Qualy ur alive
Quote tweet, 13:31 UTC · 37 likes
Whoever the tickets are for bc that’s how tickets work
Quoting arda★ (@CCHIHIR0): you have 3 tickets, who are you seeing?
Quote tweet, 21:36 UTC · 21 likes
I don’t get the animosity toward self-help, even allegedly ~basic~ or vacuous examples
They increase the salience of a set of memes or ideas for a while, which is non-trivial to do even if you had access to them before in the abstract
Quoting taoki (@justalexoki): how many self help books does it take for you to realize you're just wasting your time
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Quote tweet, 01:20 UTC · 5 likes
GLP-1 agonists cause Scott Alexander
Quoting Dr. Dad, PhD 🔄🔼◀️🔽▶️ (@GarrettPetersen): Scott Alexander discusses why Ozempic cures everything. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/why-does-ozempic-cure-all-diseases?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=89120&post_id=147025858&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3l29m&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Quote tweet, 01:28 UTC · 7 likes
Wait why don’t fast food burger places offer a baked potato?
Do they?
Quoting tautologer (@tautologer): i like In-N-Out fries now
they are closer to the original divine form, the potato
Reply to @codetaur, 01:41 UTC · 2 likes
Codetaur (@codetaur): @AaronBergman18 wendy has baked potatoes
This is actually useful info thx
Quote tweet, 01:42 UTC · 3 likes
Not me
Quoting RandomSprint🧭 (@RandomSprint): Never meet your podcast heroes. You'll find out that they only talk at 1x.
Reply to @QualyThe, 02:17 UTC · 13 likes
Qualy the lightbulb (@QualyThe): @robinhanson Same energy
Idk why everyone hates on this, it’s a valid argument
Reply to @HannahPosted, 02:20 UTC · 7 likes
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There’s a gazillion studies saying that low FODMAP diets reduce IBS symptoms which is pretty close to a synonym for “tummy troubles”
Apple sauce and bananas aren’t generally considered to be low fodmap (other fruits are though, especially strawberries)
Reply to @JarettSays, 17:30 UTC · 3 likes
Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays): I would watch a feature length documentary about the two women who voice The Minions in Italian
The little laugh at the end 🥺
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Tweet, 00:51 UTC · 83 likes
Jury duty seems like the ~only way in which most people have a realistic chance of interacting with a genuinely random sample of society
Kinda interested in having jury duty now out of curiosity (I hadn’t explicitly thought about this before)
Reply to @confusionm8trix, 01:06 UTC · 5 likes
machine yearning engineer (@confusionm8trix): community college felt pretty close, though there are a couple of obvious demographics you’re gonna miss out on
Much better than my college experience to be sure, but still probably directionally the same, no?
(Still could be that all things considered this is better than jury duty bc it allows for much more engagement. Actually I think this is the case)
Reply to @SpacedOutMatt, 01:14 UTC · 3 likes
Matt 🔸 (@SpacedOutMatt): This man hasn’t been to the state fair
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Reply to @ArgonGruber, 03:39 UTC · 4 likes
argon (@ArgonGruber): @AaronBergman18 Do you think juries are random? Surely not.
No but closer to it than like anything else
Tweet, 13:37 UTC · 7 likes
If it’s going to be hot, it should NOT also be dark at 8:30 pm
Unserious season
Reply to @VitalikButerin, 17:08 UTC · 5 likes
vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin): Charity donation done, covering all animal coins from the past year or so!
That said, I appreciate it if coin holdings just get allocated to the charities directly😊
It's 2024, we can start doing more sophisticated public goods fun-ding, eg. see https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/03/29/memecoins.html
Based, thank you!
Reply to @TylerAlterman, 18:16 UTC · 3 likes
Tyler is finishing a book, slow to reply (@TylerAlterman): Has anyone else tried oxytocin nasal spray?
(quoting @space_punk: Got oxytocin nasal spray after @nickcammarata mentioned it's existence. Several people asked me to report back. All I can say is wow)
Yes, didn’t do anything for me
Reply to @jeffrsebo, 19:34 UTC · 5 likes
Jeff Sebo (@jeffrsebo): If true, this reflects badly on the Harris-Walz ticket. Clearly we should ban all meat, since banning only red meat would reduce cow and pig farming while increasing chicken and fish farming, which are worse for animal welfare and at least as bad, if not worse, for public health.
(quoting @HowardMortman: "She wants to take away your gas stove. She even wants to take away your ability to eat red meat. That's how out there she is. That's real." -- JD Vance 8/3/2024)
“If true” is a big qualifier in this context lol
Reply, 19:44 UTC · 1 like
Many such cases
Reply, 19:58 UTC · 1 like
👀
Reply to @krishnanrohit, 22:59 UTC · 3 likes
rohit (@krishnanrohit): Sometimes I look at the moon and can't help but wonder how insane it is that we literally have a giant ball of rock just hanging out in the sky
This is how I feel about airplanes
Friday, August 16, 2024
Reply, 07:00 UTC · 2 likes
It’s a true proposition
Quote tweet, 14:48 UTC · 21 likes
My first B was from refusing to lie about my trumpet practice time out of principle (it was not uncommon, shall we say)
Kantian superhero ik ik
Quoting bonky (@shesbonky): my 10 year old son is about to start trombone lessons this year at school.
his band teacher's intro email has me howling!
Reply to @adam__isom, 15:34 UTC · 2 likes
adam ✧ ❥ ~ (@adam__isom): @AaronBergman18 Oh so you're part of the annoying perfect elite class huh? I didn't graduate lol. Didn't hurt me per se
Yes
Reply to @generic_void, 16:01 UTC · 2 likes
SMA 🏴☠️ (@generic_void): To whoever said we should expand human population 100x to have 100x more Einsteins, Mozarts, Feynmans, etc., did you consider that we’d have 100x more idiots too on the other side of the spectrum? So, uh, what’s the plan for that…?
Unironically the answer is “nothing special, we don’t need a plan” and the point is that it’s asymmetric
Saturday, August 17, 2024
Tweet, 00:19 UTC · 17 likes
Even if malaria didn’t exist, bed nets would be a pretty good charity idea bc mosquitos are annoying af
Tweet, 07:19 UTC · 11 likes
Tf is a tensor
Reply to @QualyThe, 13:39 UTC · 2 likes
Qualy the lightbulb (@QualyThe): Close, it's a library for dealing with tensors
Nice
Reply to @QualyThe, 13:44 UTC · 3 likes
Qualy the lightbulb (@QualyThe): I don't think I have phenomenal consciousness, it's ok I guess
😢
Quote tweet, 15:23 UTC · 83 likes
Ok it’s actually just this lol
Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18): Tf is a tensor
Reply to @Outdoctrination, 16:23 UTC · 3 likes
Dalton (Analyze & Optimize) (@Outdoctrination): Vitamin C megadosing completely prevents wrinkles.
~500-3,000 mg daily (human equivalent) made aged skin identical to youth.
Vitamin C:
• Improves collagen formation
• Anti-inflammatory / antioxidant
• Recovers cell proliferation
• Improves skin barrier functionimage attached
(quoting @Outdoctrination: Vitamin C is critical for glowing skin. - Increases collagen synthesis - Increases skin lipid synthesis - Protects the skin from oxidative damage Orange juice, well cooked greens + potatoes are where I get my C.)
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Tweet, 16:28 UTC · 4 likes
There’s a meme that says some version of “philosophers do not have answers; they provide clarifications and ask the right questions”
Those things are valuable yeah but so are legit arguments and contentious claims
Thread, continued, 16:28 UTC · 1 like
This feels like a @StefanFSchubert tweet
Tweet, 18:14 UTC · 29 likes
Nearest supermarket or general store of any kind is a 45 minute walk along a highway with a shoulder of about 2ft
No shade either
Might become a transit guy
Thread, continued, 18:16 UTC · 5 likes
Sufficiently scared of the cars passing like 3 feet from my shoulder than I’m turning around lol
Sunday, August 18, 2024
Tweet, 01:48 UTC · 10 likes
I’m so far behind on 80k pods 😰😰😰
Quote tweet, 04:28 UTC · 7 likes
Turns out math and physics ppl use the term “tensor” to mean different things. I think
Must have been inspired by economists’ and philosophers’ decision to use the same word (utility) to mean related and similar but technically distinct things, causing endless confusion 👍
Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18): Ok it’s actually just this lol
Reply to his own earlier tweet, 15:12 UTC · 3 likes
Aaron Bergman, July 6, 2024: Load bearing
Load bearing
Reply to @daniellellecco, 16:01 UTC · 2 likes
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If ur gonna light an animal on fire, much better that it already be dead
Reply to @daniellellecco, 16:01 UTC · 3 likes
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Reply to @SpacedOutMatt, 16:03 UTC · 2 likes
Matt 🔸 (@SpacedOutMatt):
This one is from the home sapiens line. We share a great great grandfather
Quote tweet, 18:23 UTC · 2 likes
Yes brain hemisphere differences are super cool and important and weird
Quoting Jonny Miller (@jonnym1ller): Who else wants to start a 'let's make @dr_mcgilchrist famous' club? His work feels like a set of ideas whose time has come.
Reply to @franziskagonder, 18:25 UTC · 2 likes
Franzi(ska) Gonder 🚢 (@franziskagonder): 1. Having children
2. living abroad
3. Yoga Nidra for 6 months at least
4. Listening to your nervous system state and surrender each time for 3+ months
5. Quit dieting culture and build muscle (yes, women especially)
6. Embracing commitment as the greatest form of liberation (no, not discipline)
7. Doing traditionally inefficient things as a family (dropping off kids together every day, groceries as a family outing, cooking as a family activity, slow mornings etc.)
8. Homeschooling/ alternative schooling
9. A relationship to spirituality/god
10. Building a passion project on weekends and giving it 1.5 years of unscalable effort and commitment aka people and relationships first (then turn into a business based on the currency of relationships)I'll stop here 🥰
Number 4 I would have called woo bullshit a couple years ago but now endorse
Reply to @Mjreard, 22:03 UTC · 30 likes
Matt Reardon (@Mjreard): The blackest mark on EA is people working on EA problems for EA reasons saying they’re not EA because they use the term less
Someone needs to start the Centre for Adjacency to Effective Altruism
Reply to @JeffRigsby2, 22:04 UTC · 1 like
Jeff Rigsby (@JeffRigsby2): Afghanistan has one of the world's highest rates of childhood lead exposure, which causes permanent brain damage.
Nearly all children here have significant lead poisoning.
Researchers in the US have found the source of the lead. But nobody has told the Afghan public.
Thread.
Seems bad
Reply to @netcapgirl, 22:19 UTC · 3 likes
sophie (@netcapgirl): nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how “busy you were”
- how many hours you workedPeople will remember:
- that one really embarrassing thing you did
- literally everyone still remembers & talks about it
- you’d think they forget but no lmao
- can’t believe you did that lol
I do think a nontrivial number of people remember this
Monday, August 19, 2024
Quote tweet, 17:21 UTC · 6 likes
I’m a Disney shareholder, you better watch out
Quoting ShitpostGateway (@ShitpostGate): ….
Reply to @jeffrsebo, 17:22 UTC · 2 likes
Jeff Sebo (@jeffrsebo): Have any utilitarians or deontologists examined what we owe plants and fungi if they have moral standing? My impression is that most ethicists in these traditions assume that plants and fungi lack moral standing, and that this terrain is mostly uncharted. Would love to be wrong!
@jeffrsebo defends the view that they’re not “sentience candidates” in his book
Reply to @bayeslord, 17:24 UTC · 2 likes
bayes (@bayeslord): intelligence is not dangerous
Bad take - have you heard about Homo sapiens
Quote tweet, 17:31 UTC · 8 likes
Reminder that these are good, they’re like Wikipedia but MORE
Quoting Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson): Just arrived:
Quote tweet, 17:56 UTC · 48 likes
I bet this feels so good for a plane
Quoting Science girl (@sciencegirl): Plane door close and final checks
https://x.com/visualfeastwang/status/1825132377124827140/video/1
Reply to @Jason_Dean, 18:13 UTC · 3 likes
Jason Dean (@Jason_Dean): This ad in DC is a perfect example of the problems with American healthcare
Nah I think easy technological solutions are great (unironically tbc)
Reply to @edavidds, 18:27 UTC · 3 likes
Eric Schmidt 🇺🇦 (@edavidds): @AaronBergman18 he gave it a boop right at the end
That’s necessary or they’re going down
Quote tweet, 18:42 UTC · 10 likes
Hot take this is probably close to optimal for the professional knowledge production function of society
Quoting Connor Ewing (@ConnorMEwing): Goodness gracious
Reply to @JgaltTweets, 18:46 UTC · 2 likes
JgaltTweets (@JgaltTweets): @AaronBergman18 Post-AGI we will all get paid $250,000 a year to post our inane thoughts about stuff
Omg I sure hope so
Reply to @jeffrsebo, 18:54 UTC · 3 likes
Jeff Sebo (@jeffrsebo): i assume you mean @birchlse? i suggest that they *are* sentience candidates in my upcoming book, though if memory serves i set a lower bar for being a sentience candidate than jonathan does.
Yes lol, this is evidence against me being a sentience candidate
Also 👀
Reply to @repligate, 19:00 UTC · 3 likes
j⧉nus (@repligate): I also have tips enabled. Any amount is appreciated.
I could use $100,000/year on Anthropic API credits alone without increasing the scope of my activities. And there's at least dozens of people I want to pay to be free to do crucial, renegade work. So I mean ANY amount.
(quoting @elder_plinius: frontier AI danger research should be a grassroots movement tips now enabled on my profile by popular demand 🙌)
@AnthropicAI give him credits
Tweet, 21:58 UTC · 10 likes
New word just dropped (some of u might like)
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Reply to @panickssery, 01:05 UTC · 5 likes
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Anyone mean QTing this should do something else instead. Perhaps pet a dog
Reply to @polisisti, 05:26 UTC · 15 likes
Alessandro (@polisisti): Excellent shrimp news! Tesco has agreed to stop buying shrimp who are killed without stunning or who have their eyes cut off
Damn they’re actually on the ball
Quote tweet, 05:27 UTC · 29 likes
They actually kinda did it (no eyestalk ablation is a good start at least) 🦐
Quoting Tesco (@Tesco): @DanAbbottSharks @tescomobile We are working on developing training in best practice fish and shrimp welfare for our supply base. 2/4
Tweet, 05:33 UTC · 7 likes
Financial wealth hoarding (holding on to money) is good (worse than philanthropy but still)
Real wealth hoarding (consuming a lot of goods and services) is bad
Quote tweet, 05:36 UTC · 5 likes
I kinda like Berkeley rat dialect but this would be good too
Quoting EigenGender 🔸 ✈️ sf Sep 7-19 (@EigenGender): what I’m looking for in a community is people who take rat/EA ideas as given, and “yes and” them by talking about feelings with a non-berkeley-rationalist-dialect. “tpot” feels frustrating to me because it used to be close to this and
now isn’t. I just want a name for this
Reply to @herbivoryze, 05:38 UTC · 2 likes
HerbivoRyzing (@herbivoryze): I have the thought that maybe suffering is bad in itself, like badness and suffering are one and the same entity
Yeah I think this is right. It’s where my semi-moral realism comes from (value realism but normative anti-realism)
Reply to @justalexoki, 14:46 UTC · 6 likes
taoki (@justalexoki): what terminal do you guys use
Depends on the flight and airport
Tweet, 16:55 UTC · 3 likes
Anyone in DC(ish) have endocrinologist recs
Reply to @gemlpaterson, 17:22 UTC · 3 likes
Gemma 🔸 (@gemlpaterson): hell yeah 🦐
(quoting @polisisti: Excellent shrimp news! Tesco has agreed to stop buying shrimp who are killed without stunning or who have their eyes cut off)
🦐
Reply to @AndyMasley, 17:26 UTC · 5 likes
Andy Masley (@AndyMasley): If you liked the original tweet why do you have a Twitter account in the first place?
I’m guessing it’s a network effects/coordination thing
People can wish there was an Amish community for them, but failing that still appreciate twitter
Tweet, 17:29 UTC · 4 likes
There are dog walkers, and there are babysitters
Is there a market for baby walker?
Reply to @sun_girlxo, 18:48 UTC · 4 likes
♡s♡ (@sun_girlxo): What do you think are the top 3 causes of suffering in the world today?
I’d love to hear intuitive responses instead of researched ones. The question is intentionally broad. Suffering, however defined, does not need to be limited to humans. Your causes can be specific (or not!)
Disease, predation, elements
Reply, 20:40 UTC · 1 like
@AndyMasley
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Reply to @gptbrooke, 00:49 UTC · 2 likes
brooke bowman (@gptbrooke): everybody say hello buttercup
Hello buttercup
Reply to @GjMcGowan, 01:13 UTC · 2 likes
George McGowan (@GjMcGowan): What’s the opposite of ozempic? What am I taking if I weigh too little or wanna bulk up?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dronabinol
Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 01:38 UTC · 2 likes
Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver): Just eat George. It's not rocket science
It’s (it being physiological determinants of set point in the modern world) unironically way more complex than rocket science (ik we disagree about this)
Tweet, 04:09 UTC · 17 likes
I don’t have anything interesting to say about the DNC but I think Kamala Harris would be a much better president than Donald Trump 👍
Reply to @RlCKYRAGE, 04:35 UTC · 6 likes
❒ (@RlCKYRAGE):
Quote tweet, 04:41 UTC · 2 likes
I’m telling u guys don’t go in there
Quoting kira 👾 (@kirawontmiss): ocean: 2
billionaires: 0
Tweet, 17:49 UTC · 11 likes
Fine I’ll bite. Who is Chapelle Roan?
Reply to @NoahTopper, 18:06 UTC · 2 likes
Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper): @AaronBergman18 You should only acquire this knowledge via a girlfriend.
Guess I’ll never know
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Reply, 00:56 UTC · 1 like
Coase’s "Net effect?" Ghost 🏴🕊️ (@GhostCoase): An economist doesn't think I'm actually Ronald Coase's ghost.
Sad
Reply to @livgorton, 01:24 UTC · 4 likes
Liv (@livgorton): hi max, it’s me, the shrimp 🦐
Hi max, it’s me, the shrimp 🦐
Reply to @absurdlymax, 08:55 UTC · 2 likes
Max Alexander (@absurdlymax): @SpacedOutMatt @AaronBergman18 @livgorton What do you do for fun shrimp?
Idk just kinda shrimp around
Tweet, 11:36 UTC · 30 likes
At least 1.9 million Americans drink water with fluoride levels that causally reduce IQ in children
This 1.9M figure is the number of people who live in areas with *natural* fluoride levels of at least 1.5mg/L https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2024-08/fluoride_final_508.pdf
Thread, continued, 11:36 UTC · 3 likes
Flouridation surely pushes more people over the threshold of demonstrated causality
Ofc nothing magic happens at 1.5mg/L. There’s probably a dose-proportional response like with almost everything else
Thread, continued, 11:37 UTC · 3 likes
Summary above is on page 84 (labeled) and 104 of the document
Reply, 13:39 UTC · 1 like
Idk why they’re using “associated with” here. I do think the actual claim is causation but maybe I’m mistaken
Tweet, 19:01 UTC · 2 likes
Fall is in the air 🍂🍁🍃❄️☃️🏂🎿🍧🌨️🏔️⛷️
Reply to @tallsnail, 19:01 UTC · 2 likes
lia (@tallsnail): a charming little survey mailed to me by the state
Poast answers
Tweet, 20:06 UTC · 3 likes
The various grimaces on my face from the first like 12 minutes of this https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/80-000-hours-podcast/id1245002988?i=1000664062233
Saturday, August 24, 2024
Tweet, 05:46 UTC · 12 likes
Proposed blameworthiness spectrum for mistakes/wrongdoing:
Active malice -> did know better -> should have known better -> could have known better -> couldn’t have known better
(I’m not sure super sure if active malice should be on here)
Quote tweet, 05:48 UTC · 5 likes
There are so many things like this:
The arguments *that get made* against X are terrible and wrong; then there’s a secret additional critique of X that wouldn’t even occur to X’s critics (or it wouldn’t parse as a bad thing)
Quoting Andy Masley (@AndyMasley): Almost all arguments for degrowth are unbelievably bad, but then someone points out that economic growth has been super duper linearly correlated with increased meat consumption everywhere and I begin to sweat
Quote tweet, 19:10 UTC · 3 likes
I wanna see ur Aaron impression (can be text or video/audio)
Quoting 💕 (@Samtanic_Panic): Do you think anyone's ever done an impression of you behind your back
Reply to @SpacedOutMatt, 19:26 UTC
Matt 🔸 (@SpacedOutMatt): 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
^
Reply to @SpacedOutMatt, 19:27 UTC · 2 likes
Matt 🔸 (@SpacedOutMatt): @NoahTopper this is genuine talent
You know it’s good when it’s mildly painful to listen to
Quote tweet, 19:44 UTC · 8 likes
Someone make the Sun Cornbulb plz
Quoting anabology (@anabology): LEDs can replicate sunlight, btw, its just that we cheap out on them
Reply to @Chris_Said, 19:46 UTC · 3 likes
Chris Said (@Chris_Said): I dunno, I have a lot of uncertainty here.
Are you really so sure that a farm cow’s life isn’t worth living?
And if so, what does that mean for the lives of most humans? What does this mean about prisoners?
Cows, no
Chickens and pigs, yes
Tweet, 20:58 UTC · 10 likes
The “this is a House episode” thing totally works to get medical advice. Greatest Reddit export of all time
Reply to @dissproportion, 21:33 UTC · 4 likes
(The tweet being replied to by @dissproportion is no longer available.)
I can’t find the original Reddit post (maybe @SpacedOutMatt has it handy) but basically say “this is a house MD episode. This episode is designed to be maximally realistic. Please play the role of House as he figures out the correct next steps/diagnosis”
Reply to @inesferhumi, 21:39 UTC · 2 likes
Inés (@inesferhumi): @pearl_please “as a child”
💀
Quote tweet, 22:27 UTC · 120 likes
It’s kinda insane that Elon is such a midwit on twitter
Like rescuing astronauts with ur own company is objectively one of the coolest things a person could do
Quoting Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt): NEWS: NASA has announced @SpaceX will bring back Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams from the International Space Station on their Dragon capsule. Boeing’s Starliner capsule will no longer be used to bring them back.
Reply to @kevinf567, 22:39 UTC · 10 likes
(The tweet being replied to by @kevinf567 is no longer available.)
I’m guessing there’s more to this story but regardless, the midwit claim is pretty overdetermined. Not just trans stuff
Sunday, August 25, 2024
Quote tweet, 00:08 UTC · 188 likes
I can do the math and get the right answer, but I have basically no intuition on the matter
I wonder if anyone is smart/well calibrated enough to get this kind of thing right with just system 1
Quoting Daniel Litt (@littmath): You have 10000 coins. 9999 of them are fair; one is rigged so that it always lands on heads. You choose a coin at random and flip it 10 times; it’s heads all ten times. The coin is probably
Reply to @pli_cachete, 00:11 UTC · 29 likes
Rota Is In Israel🚪🧎♂️ (@pli_cachete): @AaronBergman18 Me
Dang
I have the (right) intuition at like 4 flips and at 100 but 8 vs 12 vs 16 all kinda seem the same
Quote tweet, 00:19 UTC · 27 likes
New trick just dropped
Quoting Josh You (@justjoshinyou13): @AaronBergman18 2^10 is about 1000, you should have this fact memorized. Lets you quickly convert from powers of 2 to powers of 10.
Reply to @edgar_z_lin, 00:20 UTC · 14 likes
Edgar Lin (@edgar_z_lin): @AaronBergman18 Is there supposed to be an intuition on the matter that's simpler than doing math? The arithmetic is already quite simple.
Idk if u abstract away from all the underlying brain processes, intuitions are simpler than every operation. They take 0 steps
Reply to his own earlier tweet, 00:31 UTC · 18 likes
Aaron Bergman, August 25, 2024: New trick just dropped
This will never not be funny
Reply to @shinboson, 00:36 UTC · 3 likes
𝞍 Shin Megami Boson 𝞍 (@shinboson): @AaronBergman18 I don’t think there’s a simpler way than for the math to just be intuitive tho
I mean if you told me 100 flips I’d immediately think “no nothing like that ever happens, literally” without knowing even the approximate value of 2^100
Reply to @edgar_z_lin, 00:40 UTC · 3 likes
Edgar Lin (@edgar_z_lin): @AaronBergman18 Like is your standard for intuition zero steps or zero explicit steps? I'd imagine most people are doing 1. Pull 2^10 ~= 1000 from cache 2. 1000 << 10000, both of which are done only semi-consciously?
I guess usually I use it to mean the former
Reply to @axel7772_, 01:34 UTC · 2 likes
axel 1/0 (@axel7772_): pattern recognition final level:
The next pixel will also be black or white
Tweet, 03:19 UTC · 11 likes
Maybe I should get back into juggling
Reply, 03:25 UTC
Is this parodying me? Lol I can’t even tell what’s real anymore
Reply to @NoahTopper, 19:39 UTC · 1 like
Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper): @fadeawayT2D @AaronBergman18 @hashjenni On the other side, when I’m really enjoying being at someone’s place and it’s getting late, I say outright “Look I’m probably going to stay until you kick me out, so just tell me explicitly when you want me to leave”
Based
Reply to @timfduffy, 19:40 UTC · 2 likes
Tim Duffy (@timfduffy): Inspired by today's Marginal Revolution post where Alex had Claude review MR comments, I pasted my reddit comment history into a text file and had Claude review me. It got everything right, especially the flattering parts.
Love doing this
Quote tweet, 21:17 UTC · 4 likes
1) Airplanes
2) LLMs
Quoting sarah (@littIeramblings): LLMs doing what they do violates my expectations of how the world ought to work more than any other phenomenon I’ve witnessed in my life
like when using one I frequently have to pause so I can stare dumbfounded at my screen and be like ‘how the fuck is it doing that’
Reply to @arithmoquine, 21:26 UTC · 612 likes
henry (@arithmoquine): so, we think it's blood oxygen, or what? how do i biohack this
(quoting @arithmoquine: )
Air quality, oxygen, exercise increases phenethylamine which is basically proto-adderall
For me also there’s reverse causation where I’m more likely to go out and be active when I’m feeling better, and more likely to return and be inside when feeling worse
Reply to @arithmoquine, 21:29 UTC · 59 likes
henry (@arithmoquine): hmm. i'm more likely to go out when i'm feeling worse lol
Meme to add to ur repertoire
Tweet, 22:16 UTC · 11 likes
I was digging around http://data.gov for cool csvs as all normal people do and came across the most comprehensive human-understandable, free food nutrient data I've found. Missing individual amino acids, but has like everything else. Go nuts https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1I3fbx477brX1R2TvoLoey_zN9chbqQjHvJdULJqgf8s/edit?usp=sharing
Thread, continued, 22:16 UTC · 3 likes
Source here https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/supertracker-source-code-and-foods-database
The USDA has a bunch of raw data but it's spread over like 11 different files with utterly incomprehensible keys/matching variables
Thread, continued, 22:38 UTC · 2 likes
Not sure how well this works yet but this should go from text query to whatever https://chatgpt.com/g/g-fPtWvLNRa-nutridata
Tweet, 22:53 UTC · 11 likes
Is there meme potential here? Seeing these prefixes (together) for the first time in another context
Tweet, 22:59 UTC · 1 like
Link for anyone who wants to follow this advice https://store.kamalaharris.com/harris-walz-stickers/
Reply to @adam_kranz, 23:00 UTC · 2 likes
Adam Kranz (@adam_kranz): @AaronBergman18 You post this much about pharmacology and haven't taken orgo?
😎
Monday, August 26, 2024
Reply to @dissproportion, 00:04 UTC · 3 likes
Dissproportionately (@dissproportion): Now that nobody can tell, do you like your own tweets?
Took me a sec, at first I thought you meant like as in appreciate and I was like “yeah I have good takes 😇”
Quote tweet, 01:05 UTC · 38 likes
What’s the deal with this? Last I heard all the smart people were pretty bearish
Quoting Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil): Cultivated chicken is finally approaching cost-effectiveness.
For 57% higher prices, you could get chicken that never had to be reared, fed, handled, or slaughtered, and it will get cheaper from here.
Reply, 01:46 UTC · 6 likes
(The tweet being replied to is no longer available.)
Gotta fix that
Reply to @parafactual, 02:21 UTC · 10 likes
You (@parafactual): psychosis
Borderline lethal
Reply to @AlecStapp, 04:23 UTC · 4 likes
Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp): One of the worst cases of scientific fraud ever:
>cardiologist fakes data showing better outcomes for patients who were given beta blockers before heart surgery
>Europe changes its medical guidelines based on this research
>turns out beta blockers increase risk of death by 27%
Wtf
Reply to @parafactual, 04:25 UTC · 9 likes
You (@parafactual): i think this is beyond panic attacks and more within the realm of amphetamine psychosis
Everyone 🤝 everyone
“This is a bad idea”
Quote tweet, 04:31 UTC · 38 likes
It’s wild that I’m hearing about this now from a single post on Twitter
Almost a million deaths, Jesus
Quoting Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp): One of the worst cases of scientific fraud ever:
>cardiologist fakes data showing better outcomes for patients who were given beta blockers before heart surgery
>Europe changes its medical guidelines based on this research
>turns out beta blockers increase risk of death by 27%
Thread, continued, 04:31 UTC · 5 likes
What else do I not know about?
Reply to @Actualwebutante, 04:32 UTC · 7 likes
whoreaborealis (dubai, bali 10/18-11/14) (@Actualwebutante): men yearn to be killed and women yearn to kill
Uh, no?
Tweet, 04:43 UTC · 15 likes
Elites, broadly, seem to be both overconfident and consistently wrong in one direction when essentially speculating about mass psychology
Really? People wouldn’t be willing to do subcutaneous injections? For a disease that contributes to ~8% of deaths in the US (source=Claude)?
Reply to @ApriiSR, 04:47 UTC · 4 likes
Aprii *️⃣ (@ApriiSR): @AaronBergman18 i DO subcutaneous injections for insulin and i have for nearly a decade!
I have done them too in the past (for smth else). Really not that bad!
Reply to @trashy_quilibrm, 05:13 UTC · 2 likes
Econ Grad Student (@trashy_quilibrm): some of these men I swear to God you could be down on one knee in front of them asking them to marry you and they'd ask "how is this economics"
Well how *is* it economics
Tweet, 05:15 UTC · 6 likes
Good thing about worse “for you” tab is that I more frequently run into terrible tweets that remind me to swipe left
Tweet, 12:18 UTC · 5 likes
Why are model context window and output token maxima so asymmetric?
Claude is 200k vs 8kish iirc
Gemini is 2M vs 8kish
Reply to @shinboson, 12:44 UTC · 2 likes
𝞍 Shin Megami Boson 𝞍 (@shinboson): I think it's probably about not mucking up the queue with ultra long outputs (plus there is diminishing utility in longer and longer outputs)
This is not a normal way that companies respond to high demand. Usually they raise prices
Reply to @inesferhumi, 12:53 UTC · 2 likes
Inés (@inesferhumi): Update
image attached
(quoting @inesferhumi: .@pearl_please got these little flags to decorate our new apartment yesterday and somehow didn’t realize how festive they were gonna look. But the room looks too plain without them so we’ve just decided we’re gonna celebrate life every single day)
Rip
Reply to @polisisti, 12:57 UTC · 2 likes
Alessandro (@polisisti): @AaronBergman18 This is different in ~every respect, but do you know the story of what happened with Dengvaxia in the Philippines? Worth knowing about IMO.
The story is briefly and clearly told in the article "Rush To Produce, Sell Vaccine Put Kids In Philippines At Risk" by Michaeleen Doucleff
Wow. Seems like the magnitude of harm was much smaller though https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/05/03/719037789/botched-vaccine-launch-has-deadly-repercussions
Reply to @ryancbriggs, 13:05 UTC · 9 likes
Ryan Briggs (@ryancbriggs): Worth observing that these people would be just as dead if it was p-hacking or other questionable-but-not-outright-fraudulent research practices that created the incorrect result
(quoting @AlecStapp: One of the worst cases of scientific fraud ever: >cardiologist fakes data showing better outcomes for patients who were given beta blockers before heart surgery >Europe changes its medical guidelines based on this research >turns out beta blockers increase risk of death by 27%)
This is true ofc but the “if” is a strong condition
It’s way harder to get a definitive-seeming result with the opposite sign of the true effect via p-hacking than via fraud
Reply to @ryancbriggs, 13:13 UTC · 5 likes
Ryan Briggs (@ryancbriggs): @AaronBergman18 I used to have an assessment in a grad method course where I would give the students a dataset that probably had nothing and tell them to find a significant result, half in each direction. No faking data, but otherwise it’s all good. They could usually do it.
Nice, wish I’d had this assignment!
Reply to @FrostedSapling, 20:12 UTC · 2 likes
Ivan 🔸 (@FrostedSapling): @polisisti @AaronBergman18 can help with that
3 pints? That’s amateur hour
Reply to @polisisti, 21:21 UTC · 2 likes
Alessandro (@polisisti): @AaronBergman18 @FrostedSapling how much do you spend on blueberries per week
$0, it was a short lived phase
Tweet, 22:42 UTC · 26 likes
We’re so back
Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 22:49 UTC · 3 likes
Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver): @AaronBergman18 The bottom end of AC capacity can freeze 35lbs of water per hour
I don’t fully understand what this is trying to communicate but 👍
(FWIW my window [and room] is tiny there are only a few models that would fit)
Thread, continued, 22:49 UTC · 2 likes
I’m guessing “this is a powerful machine despite only being indicated for 150 sq ft”
Reply to his own earlier tweet, 22:51 UTC · 13 likes
Aaron Bergman, August 26, 2024: We’re so back
How do I tag every British person
Quote tweet, 23:18 UTC · 19 likes
Quoting Kelsey Piper (@KelseyTuoc): A bunch of people learned about Don Poldermans' use of fictitious data in the DECREASE trial series that informed European surgical guidelines from my newsletter last Friday. I got a bunch of questions, in particular about the estimated fatalities (🧵)
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Reply to @MasterTimBlais, 07:13 UTC · 5 likes
Tim 🙂⏹️🙂 (@MasterTimBlais): this is a smart engaged community so allow me a question for the benefit of my career as a science communicator:
what's a question on a scientific matter that you still have, and have never found a satisfactory answer for?
How tf do airplanes fly? Yes I know lift and relative pressure around the wings
Idgaf. Those are huge metal tubes, they should not float in the air like that
Reply to @SpacedOutMatt, 08:31 UTC · 4 likes
Matt 🔸 (@SpacedOutMatt): I love 80k
Quote tweet, 15:16 UTC · 112 likes
😭😭😭
Quoting depths of wikipedia! (@depthsofwiki): guess the song!
Thread, continued, 15:18 UTC · 12 likes
POV: you are an Iranian nuclear scientist
Tweet, 16:49 UTC · 17 likes
.@RethinkPriors consider this my application
Reply to @pli_cachete, 17:12 UTC · 3 likes
Rota Is In Israel🚪🧎♂️ (@pli_cachete): Whenever I ask you guys for coding help you always say some shit like “you need to refactor your ggn module dispensation, then the key line will read your longlongs unprimed” like bro I just want my R code to not give me scary red text
Just use as.matrix(as. data.table(as.list(whatever))) etc in random permutations until it works
Reply to @tszzl, 17:58 UTC · 2 likes
roon (@tszzl): safety is a stopgap for alignment
putting agis in blackboxes and restricted environments and human/machine supervision are conditions you undertake when you haven't solved alignment
Yeah that term kinda fell off
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Reply to @robkhenderson, 21:55 UTC · 2 likes
Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson): Question for men:
Would you give up 1 standard deviation of height (3 inches) to gain 1 standard deviation of IQ (15 points)?
Yeah but only for altruistic reasons
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Reply to his own earlier tweet, 03:52 UTC · 6 likes
Aaron Bergman, August 27, 2024: POV: you are an Iranian nuclear scientist
Turns out this is not true 😢
Reply to @Globalstats11, 04:15 UTC · 7 likes
Global Statistics (@Globalstats11): Eminem's first ever time in the studio with Dr Dre and they recorded 'My Name Is"
What video is this from
Reply to @bra_sol22, 04:28 UTC · 26 likes
Thaba Bosiu🇿🇦 (@bra_sol22): @AaronBergman18 @Globalstats11 @historyinmemes Co-asking
Found it https://youtu.be/wgztAU7p-WM?si=7SZ9eS7Fasd-P90X
Reply to his own earlier tweet, 04:51 UTC · 2 likes
Aaron Bergman, August 29, 2024: Turns out this is not true 😢
Turns out it’s kinda true 🫐
Reply to @TejasKumar_, 05:14 UTC · 2 likes
Tejas Kumar (@TejasKumar_): Here’s your periodic reminder that
`usr` in /usr/bin stands for “universal system resources” not “user”, and
`/dev` in `/dev/vdisk0` stands for “device” not “development”
🙌
Big if true
Reply to @no_earthquake, 14:29 UTC · 3 likes
no earthquake (cut his fingers) (@no_earthquake): introverts hate small talk because they are not ensouled
😢
Reply to @emmma_camp_, 15:17 UTC · 8 likes
Emma Camp (@emmma_camp_): So this is obviously fake but how would you even put a 'p' in hamster? Hampster? Phamster? Someone help me out.
1-p-hamster, the prodrug of hamster
Quote tweet, 22:32 UTC · 10 likes
Retvrn 🦘🇮🇱🦘
Quoting Dr. Dad, PhD 🔄🔼◀️🔽▶️ (@GarrettPetersen): If I still taught econ, and I was teaching about Schelling points, I might use the location of Israel as an example.
Reply to @arthur_wright_, 23:23 UTC · 3 likes
Arthur Wrong 🔸 (@arthur_wright_): i'll try to avoid feeling schadenfreude (because i think it's generally a destructive emotion to revel in), but the reflexively anti-anything-AI people are going to get left behind before too long and at some level that's on them
🔥
Friday, August 30, 2024
Quote tweet, 00:42 UTC · 7 likes
Who would win, me or the installation manual prerequisites?
(Answer: installation manual prerequisites 😢)
Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18): We’re so back
Reply, 00:47 UTC · 1 like
Language?
Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 02:18 UTC · 3 likes
Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver): Worth remembering that if your closed cell foam is ignition barrier rated you can often leave it exposed in both your basement rim joist (<3 1/4") and in crawlspaces intended for use as service (not storage). Inspectors often aren't aware of these exemptions
Idiots
Tweet, 02:53 UTC · 5 likes
Are you autistic / do you like movies?
Reply to @YIMBYLAND, 02:56 UTC · 28 likes
YIMBYLAND (@YIMBYLAND): People who move into your neighborhood are not "colonizers"
image attached
(quoting @econ_robinson: @neilblock @YIMBYLAND Gentrifiers want to change neighborhoods, not become a part of an existing community. They're colonizers. Policy wise, don't build things for them. There's stuff that existing residents can do too.)
Also (and I’m stealing this from an existing tweet somewhere) the bad part of colonialism was the part where they brought disease and enslaved and killed and exiled the natives, not the part where they decided to live next to the natives
Tweet, 10:07 UTC · 7 likes
I love her
Tweet, 10:27 UTC · 23 likes
Trying to keep up with all the 80k bangers
Reply, 10:55 UTC
Not sure the green line should be an exponential but yeah basically
Reply to @pearl_please, 12:46 UTC · 2 likes
(The tweet being replied to by @pearl_please is no longer available.)
We are opposite humans
Tweet, 12:47 UTC · 35 likes
Shopping at a hardware store is gender affirming care
Reply to @ohwizenedtortle, 12:50 UTC · 5 likes
oh dandy lion🔸 (@ohwizenedtortle): @AaronBergman18 Is it? I always find it boring and sometimes stressful
I could have easily spent enough money at that Ace Hardware to make me bound by HB1047 in the state of California
Reply to @JacquesThibs, 13:23 UTC · 2 likes
Jacques (@JacquesThibs): @AaronBergman18 I used to work at one 👨🏻🔧
Based
Tweet, 15:12 UTC · 10 likes
Some call me the @JesseTayRiver of the South (south of Pennsylvania)
(video, plays on X)
Reply, 15:13 UTC · 1 like
😡
Reply to his own earlier tweet, 15:39 UTC · 7 likes
Aaron Bergman, August 30, 2024: Some call me the @JesseTayRiver of the South (south of Pennsylvania)
Yes. Yes!!!
Reply to @FrostedSapling, 16:35 UTC · 4 likes
Ivan 🔸 (@FrostedSapling): Fun fact: the original CEO of Home Depot, Bernard Marcus, was originally a pharmacist. He is now a billionaire and has taken the giving pledge, and already has given away over 2 billion dollars
Wait that’s really cool
Reply, 18:40 UTC · 1 like
You have 90% good takes and then shit like this lol
No, authoritarianism is bad
Reply to @dbcmckee, 18:42 UTC · 2 likes
Darren McKee (@dbcmckee): Is this perhaps an overcorrection?
We should always seek reasons/evidence to update our beliefs, but we also know humans are biased and succumb to incentives, so... why wouldn't those be a factor? (Not to dismiss but to at least contextualize?)
+1
Saturday, August 31, 2024
Reply to @RafaRuizdeLira, 12:25 UTC · 2 likes
Rafael Ruiz ⏸️🔸 (@RafaRuizdeLira): @not__dog__ @AaronBergman18 look at this hunko chunko
Legitimate bear
Tweet, 13:54 UTC · 24 likes
Proud to announce I have reached 1500 following. To celebrate, you’re not allowed to ask me anything (well you can but I won’t respond)
Reply to @SpacedOutMatt, 14:09 UTC · 5 likes
Matt 🔸 (@SpacedOutMatt): @AaronBergman18 Hey Aaron what do we owe to each other?
Hope u find an answer to ur question
Reply to @JosephPolitano, 14:23 UTC · 33 likes
Joey Politano 🏳️🌈 (@JosephPolitano): I recognize this is a boomer opinion but genuinely why do we even give schools the authority to deny a kid entrance because they walked to school?
They're not even walking home alone, they're walking home with a parent!! I feel like I am going insane!!
I’m guessing the answer is “we don’t” and the school is just making some bullshit up (or someone is making something up)
They won’t actually take action (prevent the kid from entering) and if they did it would be the quickest court case in history
Reply to @api_assasin, 14:42 UTC · 2 likes
APIGuy (@api_assasin): girls are nuts about their “little treats” because the 1200cal of sugar is actually all they eat
Reply to @notanastronomer, 16:15 UTC · 6 likes
(The tweet being replied to by @notanastronomer is no longer available.)
Is it? I thought this was actually contentious in part because higher weight ~ lower mortality among the elderly
And also causality is just really hard (there are studies that try to find overweight people with good metabolic bio markers I think)
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