Aaron Bergman's tweets, October 2024
Every public tweet, reply, quote tweet and retweet that Aaron Bergman (@AaronBergman18 on X, formerly Twitter) posted in October 2024 and has not deleted: 321 posts, oldest first, times in UTC. Each heading links to the original post on X. When Aaron replies to or quotes someone, their tweet appears as a blockquote with their name; those words are theirs, and everything outside the blockquotes is Aaron's.
This page is one month of the complete archive of Aaron Bergman's tweets, which updates automatically every few hours. Previous month: September 2024. Next month: November 2024.
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Quote tweet, 12:48 UTC · 5 likes
Ya fr it’s good
Quoting Jonathan Birch (@birchlse): Very pleased to see a substantial review of The Edge of Sentience in the latest issue of Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03076-z
Reply to @kindgracekind, 15:53 UTC · 4 likes
Grace (@kindgracekind): You never hear about Unknown Knowns
There’s a documentary called this I think
Reply to @albrgr, 16:07 UTC · 2 likes
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Honestly, maybe (to answer the q)
Reply to @AndyMasley, 17:43 UTC · 3 likes
Andy Masley (@AndyMasley): I remain /r/atheism's strongest soldier. People have a constant tendency to start believing in magic again and we gotta epically debate them out of it.
(quoting @morallawwithin: One bad side effect of the fall of logical positivism is people just started believing in magic again)
Sorry, I’m past the apex of the at least partially U-shaped epistemic curve
Thread, continued, 17:46 UTC · 2 likes
The world is very strange
Reply to @ohabryka, 18:09 UTC · 2 likes
Oliver Habryka (@ohabryka): (to be clear, OP is not a fan of OpenAI. But OP is not the kind of actor that would say that openly because that doesn't match their model of how to gather and sustain social capital and influence, and because it doesn't want to take any positions that might hurt Dustin)
Hope you’re wrong, weakly think you’re right. Market fwiw https://manifold.markets/AaronBergman18/will-openphil-or-a-related-entity-e
Reply to @ilex_ulmus, 18:36 UTC · 4 likes
Holly ⏸️ Elmore (@ilex_ulmus): My boyfriend: "You have infinite job security [as my girlfriend]. The longshoreman of my heart ❤️"
Rizz
Reply to @hendrycks, 19:03 UTC · 12 likes
Dan Hendrycks (@hendrycks): It's worth also clarifying last year I voluntarily declined xAI equity when it was being founded. (Even .1% would be >$20mn.) If I was in it for the money I would have just left for industry long ago.
(quoting @hendrycks: To send a clear signal, I am choosing to divest from my equity stake in Gray Swan AI. I will continue my work as an advisor, without pay. My goal is to make AI systems safe. I do this work on principle to promote the public interest, and that’s why I’ve chosen voluntarily to…)
Based
Reply to @slimepriestess, 19:04 UTC · 2 likes
Ra (@slimepriestess): woo i passed my road test!
🎉
Tweet, 19:56 UTC · 32 likes
Spotify has gone woke
Reply, 22:14 UTC · 1 like
Likewise if you stretch it a bit, or squish it, or give it many other arbitrary molecules
Quote tweet, 22:40 UTC · 6 likes
Fun fact I won an essay contest in high school proposing exactly this
Quoting Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 (@JeremiahDJohns): The actual proposal is to have the govt as single purchaser who would compensate kidney donors, not to have an anything goes market.
Matt knows this but thinks you're stupid and won't notice. He also just doesn't care that tens of thousands die every year from lack of kidneys.
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Reply to @livgorton, 02:30 UTC · 3 likes
Liv (@livgorton): “you know what Tim, I agree!!” slay JD but you’re on the wrong ticket. maybe in another life, they could’ve been friends 🥺
🥺
Quote tweet, 17:49 UTC · 10 likes
New pdf just dropped
Quoting Andrea Miotti (@andreamiotti): A NARROW PATH
If attempts to build superintelligent AI succeed, we face extinction as a species.
We must choose a different path, one where we control what we create. One where AI is a tool for human advancement, not a successor species.
Humanity has no plan, so we built one.
Reply to @livgorton, 17:50 UTC · 2 likes
Liv (@livgorton): i miss golden gate claude
😢
Reply to @mattyglesias, 17:53 UTC · 2 likes
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Nooooo I love offhand speculation
Reply to @JeremiahDJohns, 18:33 UTC · 2 likes
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Wtf lol
Reply to @austinc3301, 22:51 UTC · 3 likes
Agus 🔸 (@austinc3301): I've said this before and I'll say it again: the EA Forum is such an underrated piece of software
Works better than twitter lol
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Tweet, 01:07 UTC · 5 likes
Why is it always AI, AI, AI?
We need a new unusually charismatic baby zoo animal to disrupt this memetic aristocracy
Reply to @mindyisser, 01:49 UTC · 30 likes
mindy🌷 (@mindyisser): friend saw this guy on the apps lol
God forbid men have a hobby
Tweet, 01:58 UTC · 9 likes
What goes on in New Zealand? It seems like a mysterious place
Reply to @adnhw, 02:06 UTC · 1 like
Aidan Homewood (@adnhw): Pretty spread out, so lots of good nature. Stable constitutional monarchy. Biggest city has 1.5 million people. Weather is good. Not dense enough for trains, can't build enough houses either. No native mammal species, which is a shame for megafauna fans like me.
Fascinating
Wait no native mammals wtf? No kangaroos or squirrels or mice? Sad
Reply to @frances__lorenz, 16:16 UTC · 3 likes
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Lmao
Reply to @notanastronomer, 16:42 UTC · 1 like
Lauren Gilbert (@notanastronomer): so long London 😢 😢 😢
Where u goin
Tweet, 17:57 UTC · 16 likes
I’m not sure how accurate this is, but I increasingly see the (US) economy as divided into Normal Economy and Infinite Money Economy, where the latter you get to join if you’re within ~2 degrees of separation from a Money Printing Machine (tech company with large profit margins)
Thread, continued, 17:58 UTC · 8 likes
This is based entirely on vibes and the perhaps-uncommon situation of having my social circle straddle the two worlds
Like wdym you have a random extra MacBook lying around lmao
Tweet, 21:00 UTC · 19 likes
Orange man bad
Reply to @Lewis_Bollard, 22:35 UTC · 6 likes
Lewis Bollard (@Lewis_Bollard): Factory farmers deride activists claiming systemic cruelty as crazy conspiracy theorists.
And then they publish resources like this…
https://animalagalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/2024-Activist-Web.pdf
Honestly it would be great if there was a gigantic conspiracy
Friday, October 4, 2024
Reply to @birchlse, 12:36 UTC · 2 likes
Jonathan Birch (@birchlse): On my course The Big Questions this year:
Do I know anything?
Can I choose what I do?
How do I tell right from wrong?
Should I obey the law?
What's the best form of government?
What is art?
How can I live a meaningful life?Feels like a great privilege to have this job!
Let us know when you figure out the answers
Tweet, 12:55 UTC · 12 likes
They should make a HIPAA that’s still like “you can’t just gossip about patients” but not like “you have to build a bespoke messaging platform to communicate”
Thread, continued, 12:56 UTC · 3 likes
This makes me sad as I do love gossip
Reply to @frances__lorenz, 13:04 UTC · 2 likes
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I stand with Julian
Quote tweet, 15:38 UTC · 5 likes
It’s a good observation
Wanna be a doctor to help patients? Update the fucking XML file
Want to be a pharmacist to, idk, to pharmacist stuff? Manage the fucking inventory
Want to do biomedicine to cure diseases? Torture the fucking mice and file the fucking grant applications
Quoting Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv): fwiw i think there's a version of this in every single industry. like you wanna do real journalism so you join news media? scale the fucking pageviews. you wanna do real science so you join academia? scale the fucking... citations? (idk what they do i'm not an academic)
Quote tweet, 15:42 UTC · 6 likes
Well at least it’s apparent now that OpenAI has done a total 180 with respect to their original (and maybe technically still binding?) mission
Once again, @open_phil should sue over corporate restructuring
Quoting Gabriel Weil (@gabriel_weil): This, via @TheZvi, seems... not great.
Reply to @SpacedOutMatt, 16:50 UTC · 2 likes
Matt 🔸 (@SpacedOutMatt): Whitepill is that b2b SaaS and inventory management and xml files have ushered in an era of prosperity unimaginable to our ancestors
I do like a good xml file. Lots of juicy structured data
Reply to @jaybaxter, 22:15 UTC · 7 likes
Jay Baxter (@jaybaxter): How excited would you be to trade in this particular presidential prediction market on X vs. having to trade on a different website?
(Separately from other interesting ideas like many little prediction markets for claims in posts)
(quoting @NathanpmYoung: Hey @elonmusk, how long until we get prediction markets on X? I want to quickly bet against people I disagree with.)
Who will be POTUS? Not super excited - that’s gotta be like the single most liquid market
The value twitter brings is just way more users, which enables a reasonable amount of liquidity on less popular markets
Reply to @metakuna, 22:49 UTC · 4 likes
metakuna (14/100 blog posts) (@metakuna): Great job interview + dating strategy I've hit on is to steer the conversation towards one of your special interests and then filibuster to run out the clock
*taking notes*
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Reply to @Mira___Mira, 07:40 UTC · 2 likes
Mira (@Mira___Mira): These analogies miss the whole point.
There's algorithms that are faster than on a classical computer. GHC runs on classical computers. So any useful analogy must distinguish the two.
"Floating point error", "lazy evaluation", "caching" don't let you factor prime numbers fast.
(quoting @fchollet: In quantum mechanics, the observer effect boils down to the idea that the world state is lazily evaluated (i.e. you only compute something when the result is causally needed to evaluate something else). This makes the many-world interpretation very icky: MWI requires "compute"…)
I can factor prime numbers fast. In my head even
Reply to @bashu_thanks, 08:49 UTC · 7 likes
bashu, thanks (@bashu_thanks): assisted pullups where the assistance is just a girl sitting next to the machine silently looking at me
I feel in my bones I could do a 1-arm under these circumstances
Reply to @bashu_thanks, 08:50 UTC · 6 likes
bashu, thanks (@bashu_thanks): assisted pullups where the assistance is just a girl sitting next to the machine silently looking at me
Quote tweet, 11:31 UTC · 4 likes
Obesity is such a big deal to so many economically and politically relevant people that I feel like there should be some elegant long-term straight-lines-on-a-graph thing that explains the timing here
But afaict it was just dumb luck and biomed pipeline idiosyncrasies
Quoting The Alex Nowrasteh (@AlexNowrasteh): Organic food, seed oils elimination, or other food cult didn’t do this, it was Ozempic and semaglutides.
Have you thanked big pharma today? I will do it for you. Thank you big pharma.
THANK YOU.
Thread, continued, 11:31 UTC · 3 likes
Luck in both directions tbc. Like it could have easily come a decade earlier and maybe even a decade later
Tweet, 16:28 UTC · 35 likes
Maintenance guy showed up to replace air filter—ostensibly, at least, and I’m like 99.8% sure in reality too
But it’s a little unnerving that I definitely would have let in any 20-60 year old dude in a jumpsuit who committed to the same bit
Reply to @GjMcGowan, 16:53 UTC · 4 likes
George McGowan (@GjMcGowan): @JesseTayRiver "to replace an air filter" omg these grifters
Yeah at an economic level it’s interesting how much deadweight loss there is bc of weird contractual dynamics between landlord and renter
Like I could have replaced the air filter lol, and would have if I owned instead of rented
Reply to @GjMcGowan, 19:26 UTC · 2 likes
George McGowan (@GjMcGowan): @JesseTayRiver @AaronBergman18 Oh no who was that guy Aaron!!
Lmao
Quote tweet, 22:54 UTC · 4 likes
Based
Quoting Senior PowerPoint Engineer (@ryxcommar):
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Reply to @rgblong, 03:14 UTC · 2 likes
Robert Long (@rgblong): as a fellow life enjoyer, I fear and suspect that this means we do not, in fact, know how dark life gets
Correct take lol
Tweet, 17:41 UTC · 11 likes
It should be illegal to have a supplement (or whatever) bottle with “1000 MG” and “100 CAPSULES” in big print and then it turns out the serving size is 4 caps, 250mg each
Quote tweet, 17:46 UTC · 4 likes
Oh snap 🔥🔥🔥
Quoting Agus 🔸 (@austinc3301): @AaronBergman18 @LinchZhang Your arguments seem surprisingly unconvincing to me
Reply to @QualyThe, 17:47 UTC · 2 likes
Qualy the lightbulb (@QualyThe): Here's a light mode version: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/jSPGFxLmzJTYSZTK3/reality-is-often-underpowered
Thanks qualy
Tweet, 17:55 UTC · 4 likes
Intuitively, based on my memory, when I am very active on one day (measured by steps, which I’m ~certain is a good proxy), I tend to be less active the next day
But no matter how I configure the autoregression (data from apple health), this keeps looking to be false
Thread, continued, 17:55 UTC · 2 likes
I actually have no idea what’s going on. Like I’m pretty sure both the data and my memory are encoding true things, but I don’t know how they reconcile
Someone should make a blog/forum for nerds to debate epistemology and other stuff like this
Tweet, 17:59 UTC · 11 likes
Do British ppl actually say “bruv”
Reply, 18:01 UTC · 1 like
This…doesn’t answer?
Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 18:14 UTC · 2 likes
Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver): Much of this currently appears to rely on endorsements from popular figures and doesn't show much evidence of success. This entire area is unimpressive to me so we may find little common ground
Basically I just trust Thorne, Life Extension, and Integrative Therapeutics
If one of these is ever shown to have serious labeling or quality issues, I’ll be wrong
Tweet, 19:38 UTC · 14 likes
The entire @dwarkesh_sp x Joe Carlsmith is just:
Dwarkesh: Q
Joe Carlsmith: we must distinguish between subtypes Q_1, Q_2, and Q_3
Thread, continued, 19:38 UTC · 2 likes
This is good btw. Not quite necessary for good philosophy but often a hallmark of it
Thread, continued, 19:38 UTC · 2 likes
You should listen to the whole 6 hours on Joe’s feed btw https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/joe-carlsmith-audio/id1648436675?i=1000671332969
Reply to @bengrossbg, 20:25 UTC · 1 like
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Based nice I should try to do this at least partially
Monday, October 7, 2024
Quote tweet, 00:24 UTC · 4 likes
What explains Travis Scott, Kendrick, and Kanye fans leaning left and Juice WRLD fans leaning right?
Quoting Maxwell Tabarrok (@MTabarrok): Median voter theorem for musicians
Reply to @aphercotropist, 01:29 UTC · 8 likes
Arbutus Tree (@aphercotropist): nothing ever happens
(quoting @anveio: @aphercotropist Instrument error https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.16773)
Sad
Reply to @BogdanIonutCir2, 01:31 UTC · 5 likes
Bogdan Ionut Cirstea (@BogdanIonutCir2): Do AI safety programs/jobs deliberately pick various trials that seem almost impossible (especially within time / word limits) or is it a failure of theory of mind?
I agree with other commenters but it doesn’t help that IQ 145 is table stakes here and I’m only slightly kidding
Reply to @mealreplacer, 01:35 UTC · 4 likes
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Shoot ur shot king
Cc @charli_xcx
Reply to @pearl_please, 20:44 UTC · 10 likes
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I got a quite detailed one of these not long ago. Unironically fascinating to read
Reply to @pearl_please, 20:54 UTC · 3 likes
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Yes same! lol
Reply to @pearl_please, 20:58 UTC · 5 likes
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Iirc it said “dressed appropriately” or smth like that
Need to level up to well-dressed
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Reply to @absurdlymax, 02:41 UTC · 3 likes
Max Alexander (@absurdlymax): He's a rare are perfect combination of very funny and very knowledgeable
Tragically he has a few incorrect opinions but yes I agree. Also follow him on Strava if you want to be humbled!!
Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 02:44 UTC · 4 likes
Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver): Thanks so much Alexander! But is there maybe something that you also may have missed?
😤
Tweet, 03:11 UTC · 22 likes
Zinc, selenium, and boron-fortified pasta called testosteroni
Reply to @albrgr, 18:47 UTC · 5 likes
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Baby
Quote tweet, 19:26 UTC · 6 likes
Very funny listening to the end and then having Spotify immediately autoplay “THIS EPISODE OF THE JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS 6”
Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18): Edge of Sentience is such a banger. If you’re at all interested in altruism or ethics (or at least enough to read other books from this motivation) you should probably read https://www.edgeofsentience.com
Thread, continued, 19:26 UTC · 5 likes
Took a while to finish bc I thought the technical issues listening from Apple Podcasts was gonna be universal. If you’re having trouble listening there, try Spotify
Again, highly recommended - especially part 5 on AI
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Tweet, 00:10 UTC · 105 likes
Yud should probably win something prestigious
Idk if any of the Nobels make sense, but for better or worse he’s one of the most important thinkers of his generation
Reply to @NoahTopper, 00:13 UTC · 14 likes
Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper): he's won my undying affection, shouldn't that be enough?
Ur affection should probably decay at some nonzero rate no? Still as intense in 1 trillion years?
Reply to @trysterowl, 01:51 UTC · 6 likes
trysterowl (@trysterowl): @AaronBergman18 Can you imagine how mad people would be
Sadly yes lol
Quote tweet, 19:06 UTC · 9 likes
I don’t know what I’m talking about but I’m gonna speculate this is Turing complete
Quoting Max Alexander (@absurdlymax): This is the ultimate form of Google Docs
Reply to @PeterJAngel, 21:56 UTC · 2 likes
Peter🧅📈 (@PeterJAngel): @ZachariahSchwab @AaronBergman18 has anyone on the EA form posted about this?
Idk but I’d be shocked if it came out looking better than AMF. Like this is an OG 2012 EA “how do u do health charities” thing
Friday, October 11, 2024
Tweet, 00:12 UTC · 37 likes
What idiot decided that you have to give yourself ~permission~ to run a file that you created, when ur logged in as the only user on ur own computer
Chmod my ass
Reply to @adrusi, 00:21 UTC · 2 likes
autumn (@adrusi): @AaronBergman18 "permissions" are used for more than access control, which is why theyre more formally called "modes"
for regular files (i.e. not directories) the executable bit is really just a flag that you set to tell software that it's the kind of thing you might want to run
Sounds like some nerd bullshit and a solvable issue
Reply to @adrusi, 00:24 UTC · 3 likes
autumn (@adrusi): @AaronBergman18 "permissions" are used for more than access control, which is why theyre more formally called "modes"
for regular files (i.e. not directories) the executable bit is really just a flag that you set to tell software that it's the kind of thing you might want to run
Fair enough, in AaronTopia a prompt will just come up that says “do you want to treat this file as executable y/n” instead of “permission denied”
I guess I could probably manually make this happen somehow
Reply to @shinboson, 15:56 UTC · 2 likes
𝞍 Shin Megami Boson 𝞍 (@shinboson): reply to this and I'll tell you what mental notes I've made about you
Curious if any
Reply to @shinboson, 16:07 UTC · 2 likes
𝞍 Shin Megami Boson 𝞍 (@shinboson): friendly, intelligent, very well intentioned, makes pause AI less annoying to me
☺️
Tweet, 16:58 UTC · 2 likes
The resolution of my visual field gets better in the fall relative to summer and you can’t convince me otherwise
Tweet, 17:34 UTC · 311 likes
We should just evacuate all of Taiwan and give them all green cards. Aircraft carriers bring the expensive high tech machines to San Francisco Bay. China can have an empty island
Thread, continued, 17:34 UTC · 60 likes
Obviously this is not going to happen but directionally the idea seems highly underrated in foreign policy
Land doesn’t move away from the borders of aggressive illiberal states; people and institutions can
Reply to @StefanFSchubert, 17:43 UTC · 6 likes
Stefan Schubert (@StefanFSchubert):
Yeah, hence this clarification. What “directionally” would look like in reality is green cards now, but other more intensive measures can and do look less insane on the backdrop of any war, especially between the two most powerful countries
Reply to his own earlier tweet, 17:46 UTC · 38 likes
Aaron Bergman, October 11, 2024: Obviously this is not going to happen but directionally the idea seems highly underrated in foreign policy Land doesn’t move away from the borders of…
Tbc the first tweet isn’t literally what I endorse. I don’t think the US should *force* anyone to move. I do endorse things like universal green cards + incentives to move + potential recognition of a government in exile
Thread, continued, 17:47 UTC · 34 likes
I think these things seem less crazy the more seriously you take Chinese invasion of Taiwan
Reply to @NathanpmYoung, 17:50 UTC · 3 likes
Nathan 🔎 (@NathanpmYoung): we could put them all up in underground apartments
lol exactly!
Reply to @NoahTopper, 17:55 UTC · 2 likes
Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper): @AaronBergman18 @adrusi It's so obviously Bergmania
Agreed, I should get 4 square miles of sovereignty somewhere to test my insane ideas
Reply, 18:04 UTC · 3 likes
Coase’s "Net effect?" Ghost 🏴🕊️ (@GhostCoase): One worry here is that one might have to run again.
Namely, the Chinese government, or some other one, is now incentivized to announce additional planned invasions and blackmail the population into leaving. Particularly useful for ethnic cleansing.
I agree this is a worry but my sense is that “unification” w Taiwan is a sui generis part of CCP hawk ideology
This doesn’t entirely erase the concern ofc
Reply to @slimepriestess, 18:06 UTC · 10 likes
Ra (@slimepriestess):
Almost unironically lol
Tweet, 20:05 UTC · 3 likes
There’s a mental toolkit I call “econ brain” which is eg asking what the incentives and constraints are in a given situation, and how to model something as a market, and a bunch of other heuristics …
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Reply to @MysteryDigital2, 06:47 UTC · 2 likes
MysteryDigital (@MysteryDigital2): pause emoji, exceptional take incoming
(quoting @AaronBergman18: We should just evacuate all of Taiwan and give them all green cards. Aircraft carriers bring the expensive high tech machines to San Francisco Bay. China can have an empty island)
Reply to @notcomplex_, 07:40 UTC · 2 likes
Alex (@notcomplex_): Fascinating, the association between age biomarkers and IQ is as strong as with facial aging.
This is probably because of serious cognitive dysfunction like Alzheimer’s, not normal hot people being smart (there’s probably a correlation there but much weaker)
Tweet, 12:35 UTC · 52 likes
Holy shit guys it’s not worth engaging with this. Skim it if you want to be convinced for yourself, but mostly just don’t waste your time
Tweet, 13:03 UTC · 8 likes
Pleased to announce that I am an eliminativist about moral attribution (Shapley values and such in the context of moral philosophy)
Thread, continued, 13:03 UTC · 5 likes
People want “attribution” to track some fundamental property of the world but I don’t think there’s a fact of matter about how many “moral points” a person should get in any given circumstance - there are only better and worse decision procedures
Thread, continued, 13:03 UTC · 2 likes
Maybe this is just what people mean? Like “what is the best decision procedure”?
But if so that’s not how it’s usually talked about (eg Parfit’s writing here)
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Reply to @ciphergoth, 02:44 UTC · 2 likes
Paul Crowley (@ciphergoth): Yes this, thank you for saying it! Or as Caplan said:
"I can’t help but feel like you’re trying to intimidate me into pretending to agree with you"
https://www.betonit.ai/p/i-cant-help-but-feel-like-youre-trying
Good line
Reply, 03:45 UTC · 3 likes
Me and who
Reply to @inesferhumi, 13:26 UTC · 1 like
Inés (@inesferhumi): From my first appointment with my university’s psychiatrist, which i had booked for ENTIRELY unrelated reasons
lol
Reply to @inesferhumi, 13:27 UTC · 11 likes
Inés (@inesferhumi): From my first appointment with my university’s psychiatrist, which i had booked for ENTIRELY unrelated reasons
Gay Peruvian ASD gf
Fidgety well-dressed gf
Quote tweet, 13:28 UTC · 11 likes
Wtf this is nuts
Quoting Elon Musk (@elonmusk): The tower has caught the rocket!!
Reply to @jkeatn, 13:32 UTC · 2 likes
Jake Eaton (@jkeatn): For years @JesseTayRiver has described himself as a blue collar type of guy
Turns out he was elite this whole time
image attached
(quoting @JesseTayRiver: I'm the only blue collar guy on my street and I'm pretty sure one of my neighbors left me traffic cones as a gift. So weird)
(gif, plays on X)
Reply to @JamesOzden, 13:40 UTC · 3 likes
James Özden 🔸 (@JamesOzden): Visited a caged hen farm with around 50,000 hens in cages. Each cage contains 4 hens, all unable to spread their wings or move more than a few centimetres.
Sadly, this is the reality for the over 3 billion egg-laying hens alive today.
😡
Reply to @livgorton, 19:11 UTC · 4 likes
Liv (@livgorton): running is great! starting to properly work on improving my running gives me a similar very positive experience to when i started lifting - regularly doing something i didn’t believe i was capable of feels very psychologically beneficial.
(quoting @katclone: almost 9 months of daily running (- one 3 week break) runner’s high is incredible, highly recommend)
No running sucks
Thread, continued, 19:26 UTC · 2 likes
Walking otoh
Reply to @Kirsten3531, 20:23 UTC · 2 likes
Kirsten (@Kirsten3531): I mentioned this thread to my husband and he was like "oh yeah, private equity is really into buying hvac companies rn" as if that's just a thing people KNOW
Lmao
Reply, 20:30 UTC · 1 like
Well sometimes the criticism actually is stupid lol
Fwiw I will happily provide examples of true/good criticism
Monday, October 14, 2024
Tweet, 00:05 UTC · 7 likes
24 hour twitter fast ready go
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Thread, continued, 00:06 UTC · 4 likes
I have retvrned
Reply to @absurdlymax, 04:45 UTC · 3 likes
Max Alexander (@absurdlymax): @notanastronomer Haha we got another one
The cult expands 😈
Reply to @goingawoll, 12:29 UTC · 3 likes
Amos Wollen 🦐🪰✴️ (@goingawoll): What will I get from reading continental philosophy that I won’t get from reading literature instead?
Delusions of wisdom
Reply to @adic_9, 13:24 UTC · 3 likes
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On second thought maybe I should have answered the middle option. I do sorta, same with butterflies in stomach, but idk if I’d call these emotions. Or maybe I’d call them distinct from emotions that accompany them…
Reply, 18:53 UTC
Bruh
Reply, 19:05 UTC · 1 like
It’s just nuts that this is possible
Reply, 19:09 UTC · 4 likes
Maybe I should try this meditation thing again
Reply to @rSanti97, 19:35 UTC · 2 likes
Santi Ruiz (@rSanti97): Shoutout to Natural Exploration Areas, one of my favorite types of areas
Man has seen some things
Tweet, 22:08 UTC · 5 likes
Omg it’s cool outside!!!!! 🍂🍁 ❄️🌨️🧊🥶🧣🧤🧥🎿⛄️🏂🌬️🍂🍁☃️🏔️🏞️🥘🍲🦌🎄🕯️🛷🧦❄️🌨️🧊🥶🧣🧤🧥🎿⛄️🏂🌬️🍂🍁☃️🏔️🏞️🥘🍲🦌🎄🕯️🛷🧦❄️🌨️🧊🥶🧣🧤🧥🎿⛄️🏂🌬️🍂🍁☃️🏔️🏞️🥘🍲🦌🎄🕯️🛷🧦❄️🌨️🧊🥶🧣🧤🧥🎿⛄️🏂🌬️🍂🍁☃️🏔️🏞️🥘🍲🦌🎄🕯️🛷🧦❄️🌨️🧊🥶🧣🧤🧥🎿⛄️🏂🌬️🍂🍁☃️🏔️🏞️🥘🍲🦌🎄🕯️🛷🧦❄️🌨️🧊🥶🧣🧤🧥🎿⛄️
Thread, continued, 22:08 UTC · 2 likes
Still tank top szn but it’s getting marginal
Tweet, 23:05 UTC · 6 likes
I’d consider paying for Strava Premium if the AI roasted you instead of being relentlessly upbeat
Tweet, 23:13 UTC · 7 likes
Guy who thinks humans aren’t phenomenally conscious but AIs are
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Reply, 00:13 UTC · 1 like
Seriously big if true
Reply to @ChanaMessinger, 01:39 UTC · 2 likes
Chana (@ChanaMessinger): Hypothetically it's a bad sign if your iron gummies start tasting better, yeah?
lol
Tweet, 02:16 UTC · 18 likes
Give me a philosophy issue and I’ll tell you the correct take on the matter
Reply to @absurdlymax, 02:26 UTC · 2 likes
Max Alexander (@absurdlymax): @AaronBergman18 But I already know the answer to everything???
lol I was considering adding to the thread “and then @absurdlymax will explain why my answer is wrong”
Reply to @mealreplacer, 02:47 UTC · 3 likes
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There’s a joke to be found involving longless/lesslong/lesswrong
Quote tweet, 02:57 UTC · 11 likes
Many are saying. Internet friends are great
Also cackled out loud at the highlighted bit
Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18): You’re probably overestimating the risks and underestimating the benefits of using your real name, face, and location for your profile
Reply, 05:19 UTC
lol
Reply to @taoburr, 05:20 UTC · 3 likes
Tao Burga (@taoburr): One box or two boxes? (Predictor is 99.9% accurate)
Honestly thank you for asking bc I have been thinking to myself “ya know I think evidential dc is basically just right” recently but hadn’t bothered to remember whether that made me a one- or two-boxer
Thread, continued, 05:21 UTC · 2 likes
Now I can proudly identify as a member of some camp in the Great LessWrong Meetup War of 2025 (9 casualties; 0 LW bans)
Reply to @beala, 06:07 UTC · 6 likes
Alex Beal 🆎 (@beala):
I reject the implicit XOR premise, surely both have occurred at some point
Reply to @NoahTopper, 07:05 UTC · 5 likes
Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper): @AaronBergman18 @Tao_Burga Wait no EDT is still entirely wrong, one-boxing is right for independent reasons
Ok at some point u should probably explain this to me
Reply to @ohwizenedtortle, 07:16 UTC · 2 likes
oh dandy lion🔸 (@ohwizenedtortle): What age can someone meaningful consent to a relationship with 1000 year old vampire? What age can someone meaningful consent to being turned into a vampire?
My non-answer answer is that this is closer to a question of empirical psychology and sociology than philosophy (but this is true if and ~iff you accept some contentious philosophical claims that seem unrelated prima facie, like utilitarianism)
Reply to @ohwizenedtortle, 07:20 UTC · 3 likes
oh dandy lion🔸 (@ohwizenedtortle): @AaronBergman18 But we don't have any empirical research around vampires, so what's your all things considered view
Never bc vampires don’t exist
Reply to @ohwizenedtortle, 07:23 UTC · 4 likes
oh dandy lion🔸 (@ohwizenedtortle): @AaronBergman18 https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1846047048983806287?t=_1LQEELccWWwpCoWRFBJfQ&s=19
There are no RCTs on whether vampires exist so it’s 50/50
Reply to @ohwizenedtortle, 07:37 UTC · 5 likes
oh dandy lion🔸 (@ohwizenedtortle): @AaronBergman18 OK what are the necessary and sufficient conditions required to consent
Bro are u trying to get me cancelled bc I try to answer and forget something
Tweet, 07:45 UTC · 2 likes
Please consider listening to some sample audio and voting on your favorite voice for an update to the feed (links below)
https://open.spotify.com/show/7x1NPYRn55K3nZz855tB29?si=6NR4bm9BSUm-GXgWTtyjPA
Reply to @Kirsten3531, 07:50 UTC · 9 likes
Kirsten (@Kirsten3531): anyone gone on a holiday with toddlers that they liked? can you tell me about it please?
Yeah when I was the toddler. Disney world was great
Reply to his own earlier tweet, 07:55 UTC · 3 likes
Aaron Bergman, October 16, 2024: Bro are u trying to get me cancelled bc I try to answer and forget something
Ok I will list things as I think of them but the list can’t be assumed to be complete until I say so
Necessary:
- (Accurate) understanding of the option space
- An approximately-rational mind
Thread, continued, 07:56 UTC · 3 likes
- at least one of {minimal time discounting, a set of action conclusions that resolve relatively soon, willingness and ability to simulate option 1 in one’s mind}
Thread, continued, 07:58 UTC · 2 likes
Not an answer to the question but probably both relevant and contentious:
Consent doesn’t have a fundamental role in ethics above and beyond as a best-we-can-do proxy for other more fundamental considerations given real-world constraints…
Reply to @mpopv, 10:20 UTC · 8 likes
Matt Popovich (@mpopv): me: hey google ai studio can i put in a credit card to pay for my llm calls
google ai studio: THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST IN BILLING! WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW YOUR FINOPS MATURITY SCORE? OPTIMIZE TO REDUCE CARBON IMPACT? ANALYZE DATA WITH BIGQUERY? CUD ANALYSIS? ANOMALIES? COST TA
It’s simultaneously incredible how Byzantine and complicated all the Google cloud + adjacent stuff is and incredible that Google somehow manages to keep it all technically working (if you know how to navigate the 19 dimension labyrinth)
Reply to @mpopv, 10:20 UTC · 2 likes
Matt Popovich (@mpopv): me: hey google ai studio can i put in a credit card to pay for my llm calls
google ai studio: THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST IN BILLING! WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW YOUR FINOPS MATURITY SCORE? OPTIMIZE TO REDUCE CARBON IMPACT? ANALYZE DATA WITH BIGQUERY? CUD ANALYSIS? ANOMALIES? COST TA
@livgorton
Reply to @OrionJohnston, 12:06 UTC · 2 likes
David Johnston (@OrionJohnston): It's definitely evidence that I'll never observe a nonblack raven
Am I being dumb or is this like not at all obvious
Reply to @metacontrarian, 12:18 UTC · 3 likes
Disengagement Rancher (@metacontrarian): @AaronBergman18 @OrionJohnston It's not obvious! That's why it's called the Raven Paradox, not the Raven Straightforward Application of Bayes' Theorem
Ok I just looked into this and my take is that *observing* a non-black non-raven is indeed evidence that all Ravens are black. I’m not sure about the mere existence of it but set that aside…
Reply, 12:24 UTC · 2 likes
Likewise, the count of all black things and all nonblack things are some integer, respectively
Now I go about ticking off things with the color property. I will know that all ravens are black iff I observe all such things and find zero nonblack ravens…
Thread, continued, 12:27 UTC · 2 likes
Every time I observe a thing and note its color, there is one fewer observation to make that could, ex ante, be a nonblack raven with probability p>0
Reply, 12:27 UTC · 1 like
Lovely nerd snipe here
Reply, 12:28 UTC · 3 likes
Oh no I’ve unleashed causal dt twitter
Reply, 12:47 UTC · 1 like
Adding to list of things to try to understand lol
Reply to @SpacedOutMatt, 12:50 UTC · 5 likes
Matt 🔸 (@SpacedOutMatt): @AaronBergman18 @Tao_Burga
😢
Tweet, 13:04 UTC · 23 likes
I am calling for a total and complete ban on new decision theory stuff until I can figure out what the hell is going on
Reply to @TetraspaceWest, 13:16 UTC · 6 likes
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Thursday, October 17, 2024
Reply to @arithmoquine, 14:46 UTC · 12 likes
henry (@arithmoquine): this shit is insane. most chilling dead internet theory experience
it's so powerfully antimemetic that i can't even refer to it directly
but watching it go from $0 to $300,000 based on nothing but disembodied belief with no human grounding is strangely horrifying
What
Reply to @RatOrthodox, 15:00 UTC · 3 likes
Brangus🔍⏹️ (@RatOrthodox): Uhh, so like simulacra 4 is when you say things based on how you predict that it will affect the discourse, and in this case in particular I want to make it seem like rationalists update on things based on evidence, but I'm joking. i've never updated on anything.
This is an advanced level joke
Reply to @arithmoquine, 16:42 UTC · 3 likes
henry (@arithmoquine): @AaronBergman18 basically someone made a cryptocurrency based on me yesterday, went to like over a million dollars in market cap, and then imploded
wtf lmao
Friday, October 18, 2024
Tweet, 02:45 UTC · 5 likes
Is OpenAI text-to-speech the most impressive/lifelike TTS software/service out there right now?
Or is there one just as good but cheaper?
Reply to @AndyMasley, 05:16 UTC · 2 likes
Andy Masley (@AndyMasley): A or B theory of time
I’m violating the promise to just give the correct take but after chatting with Claude about it, I still don’t see what the two views actually disagree about
…
Thread, continued, 05:18 UTC · 2 likes
Like I think it’s just contrary to consensus physics to say that there is always an objective fact of the matter about whether two events are simultaneous
Does this necessarily imply B-theory?…
Reply, 05:20 UTC · 2 likes
Why can’t we just say that “now” is metaphysically special and distinct from the past and future to each observer?
The debate feels semantic or poorly-defined or something
Thread, continued, 05:21 UTC · 2 likes
In other words, I don’t see why modern physics rules out an A-theory-like *metaphysical* understanding of the present
Reply to @shakaz_, 11:18 UTC · 2 likes
shakaz (@shakaz_): @AaronBergman18 where the animal welfares kids at?? could this lead to a huge shift in public consciousness??
I doubt it but hope I’m wrong
Reply to @ciphergoth, 11:20 UTC · 3 likes
Paul Crowley (@ciphergoth): @NoahTopper @AaronBergman18 If box B is full, take box B. If empty, take both.
Yeah sounds right
Tweet, 11:31 UTC · 5 likes
Sparse autoencoder
Reply to @IsaacKing314, 11:54 UTC · 4 likes
Isaac King 🔎 (@IsaacKing314): @_its_not_real_ How common is it for people at around this skill level to get hired? I'm a terrible programmer, but if this is the competition I'm wondering whether I should just start applying.
👀
Does anyone want to give me $700k TC to make some ggplot graphs
Quote tweet, 22:19 UTC · 9 likes
RT in light of the recent 80k discussion about SBF (link below)
Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18): Is this true? If so I feel like it’s crazy under-discussed
Same as with SBF - ideological, material, and psychological explanations for behavior are hardly sufficient when the person in question is permanently hypomanic
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Quote tweet, 07:06 UTC · 14 likes
Want
Quoting Geppetto San Martín 🚬🌭𓅸 (@SmalltimeJones): it's crazy that for just $1,800 i could buy this 200,000(!!!!) lumen stadium light and install it above my garage door with a motion sensor and blind everyone in a 3 block radius whenever a squirrel frolics by
Tweet, 17:26 UTC · 103 likes
Smart EA friend said something along the lines of “since meeting you, I’ve updated significantly toward your beliefs in a bunch of different domains”
1) s-tier complement
2) as the kids say these days, uwu
Quote tweet, 19:54 UTC · 4 likes
Good reminder for everyone to download the EA Archive (especially if you live in a non-NATO country, and especially especially if you live in New Zealand)
Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18): 8. You should read this and more importantly download the EA Archive https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/DndmvDGStD3gTfhXk/announcing-the-ea-archive
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Quote tweet, 04:33 UTC · 21 likes
Improved audiobook just dropped https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/effective-altruism-and-the-human-mind-stefan/id1762342287
Quoting Stefan Schubert (@StefanFSchubert): Our book on the psychology of effective altruism is now out, freely available on OUP (link below) @LuciusCaviola
In Part I, we explain why most altruism - like donations and volunteering - isn't effective
In Part II, we discuss how to change that
1/13
Thread, continued, 04:34 UTC · 5 likes
Thanks to @livgorton for donating openai credits to this worthy cause
Reply to @SpacedOutMatt, 04:41 UTC · 3 likes
Matt 🔸 (@SpacedOutMatt): See ya @GjMcGowan, it's been nice being mistaken for you
🤓
Reply to @RichardHanania, 06:13 UTC · 25 likes
Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania): Pathetic. If words like summer and winter hurt you, you are contemptibly weak and your feelings don’t matter.
And instead of realizing this and trying to change, you try to change the world. It’s the acceptance of being like this that makes it even more outrageous.
This made me lose a lot of respect for you
Tweet, 06:16 UTC · 5 likes
It feels spiritually wrong to make Claude write OpenAI code (sadly Claude doesn’t talk [do text to speech])
Reply to @disk_writes, 17:37 UTC · 4 likes
rowan (@disk_writes): Imagining the type of person who finds this Hanania post in particular to be the one that went too far. Inspiring
(quoting @AaronBergman18: @RichardHanania This made me lose a lot of respect for you)
Thank u 🙏
Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 17:38 UTC · 3 likes
Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver): In case you didn't know this is how to dehumidify a car. The defrost does this automatically but you can generally run heat & AC simultaneously in other modes and it will dehumidify
(quoting @JesseTayRiver: @GjMcGowan AC and heat on simultaneously)
This makes the car take a screenshot
Tweet, 18:02 UTC · 3 likes
It makes me very happy that Nate Silver is slightly un-eloquent. Not even bad, just sub-perfect
I get annoyed whenever 80k guests are super competent across all dimensions which is far too often https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/nate-silver-effective-altruism-sbf-art-of-risk/
Tweet, 18:32 UTC · 2 likes
Whenever I try any type of non-stimulant drug, I’m basically just reminded that they’re all meh and stims are the 🐐
Tweet, 20:11 UTC · 52 likes
Animals are so weird. It’s very strange we share the world with various critters and crawly guys of various shapes and sizes
Thread, continued, 20:14 UTC · 38 likes
Who decided to put these four guys on the same planet? Absolutely bizarre
Thread, continued, 20:21 UTC · 52 likes
It’s especially weird for animals that are straight up dudes. Like bears and kangaroos are fellow guys (gender neutral)
Tweet, 20:41 UTC · 5 likes
Why do autistic people like trains when planes are objectively much cooler
Reply to @austinc3301, 21:50 UTC · 2 likes
Agus 🔸 (@austinc3301): Ugh. This is one of those threads I’d love to have written differently in hindsight. I didn’t expect it would blow up.
(quoting @austinc3301: I’ll be honest. I’m kind of saddened by all the knee jerk responses to this, some from people I respect.)
Many such cases
Quote tweet, 21:55 UTC · 6 likes
A large amount of disagreement in formal ethics is just confusion over whether we’re talking about Real Life Heuristic ethics or Fundamentally Thing to Aspirationally Approximate ethics
Quoting Emmett Shear (@eshear): Ethics are heuristics
Monday, October 21, 2024
Reply to @ilex_ulmus, 03:18 UTC · 3 likes
Holly ⏸️ Elmore (@ilex_ulmus): @AaronBergman18 I’m the planes kind
🤝
Tweet, 04:02 UTC · 10 likes
Microwaved a metal fork and nothing bad or even interesting happened
Thread, continued, 04:02 UTC · 2 likes
I regret to report that this was an accident btw, not cool enough to do this on purpose
Reply, 04:07 UTC · 1 like
I should try this 😈
Tweet, 04:21 UTC · 3 likes
This but mostly unironically if the people of those countries want it (French Canadians are welcome too)
Reply to @SpencrGreenberg, 04:22 UTC · 10 likes
Spencer Greenberg 🔍 (@SpencrGreenberg): What should I call it when I bring 2 people together for my podcast who strongly disagree on a topic so that (instead of having a debate) I can moderate while they work together to try to figure out:
(1) what, exactly, they disagree on
and
(2) why, exactly, they disagree?
A date (also make it a dating show)
Reply to @kindgracekind, 04:26 UTC · 2 likes
Grace (@kindgracekind): Double crush
Perfect
Reply to @zeta_globin, 04:42 UTC · 5 likes
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All native Icelandic
Reply, 04:48 UTC · 1 like
Reply to @ethai__, 14:58 UTC · 6 likes
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Based
Reply to @GjMcGowan, 15:31 UTC · 3 likes
George McGowan (@GjMcGowan): @robertwiblin Good evening @rgblong
Nice
Reply to @AndyMasley, 17:24 UTC · 4 likes
Andy Masley (@AndyMasley): A big way ideologies really cement themselves in people's heads is making them notice a lot of contemporary life involves bullshit (true) but then convincing them that no other belief system is aware of the bullshit (false)
Idk I think the latter thing is sometimes basically true
Tweet, 18:03 UTC · 72 likes
Lol at Gemini being unable to understand Planecrash
Reply to @GjMcGowan, 18:23 UTC · 5 likes
George McGowan (@GjMcGowan): Might be the adult content triggering the censors
Sad
Quote tweet, 18:24 UTC · 24 likes
Improved audiobook just dropped https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-edge-of-sentience-full-audiobook-improved-voice/id1761877270?i=1000673884170
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, 18:26 UTC · 4 likes
Thank you to @livgorton for crucial API token support
Reply to @nickcammarata, 18:38 UTC · 8 likes
Nick (@nickcammarata): whenever I’m not sure about a decision I’ll ask some ai model what Nick Cammarata would do in that situation and usually do that
Might try this, you seem to have ur shit together
Quote tweet, 18:52 UTC · 4 likes
Do you have/know of another book or document that you’d like to make into high quality audio?
If so, lmk—I may be able to do it for money and/or impact points
Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18): Improved audiobook just dropped https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-edge-of-sentience-full-audiobook-improved-voice/id1761877270?i=1000673884170
Reply to @polisisti, 19:56 UTC · 3 likes
Alessandro (@polisisti): @StefanFSchubert @AaronBergman18 Nice! Great work Aaron, Liv, Lucius, and Stefan
I’ll take the credit thank you very much. The research and writing was just a sideshow
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Reply to @jazzychad, 03:22 UTC · 2 likes
Chad Etzel (@jazzychad): ok here we go. HOW I FIXED MY BRAIN FOG. 🧠😶🌫️
for the last 7+ years i've suffered from really bad brain fog and fatigue. I won't clickbait you, here is the answer (more details in the thread tho):
It was NIGHTSHADES. 🍅🍆🌶️
@NoahTopper
Quote tweet, 03:25 UTC · 39 likes
Date the shrimp people!!!!!! It’s gods work!!!!!!!!
Quoting atlas (@creatine_cycle): Overheard in SF:
Her: what industry are you in
Him: we were a part of the shrimp welfare project, but pivoted to AI Safety
Her: I usually date founders who work in B2B SaaS
Reply to @polisisti, 03:28 UTC · 3 likes
Alessandro (@polisisti): @AaronBergman18 maybe we can find a way to do shrimp welfare as B2B SaaS
Scalable ✅
Reply to @justjoshinyou13, 03:30 UTC · 4 likes
Josh You (@justjoshinyou13): @AaronBergman18 SWP only has 9 current staff, sounds like a fake story
Those are rookie numbers
Tweet, 10:39 UTC · 3 likes
Correct take
Reply to @JoshAEngels, 12:28 UTC · 2 likes
Josh Engels (@JoshAEngels): 1/11: New paper! "Decomposing the Dark Matter of Sparse Autoencoders." We find that SAE errors and error norms are linearly predictable using model activations. Why is this, and what does it imply for SAE scaling and the structure of language model representations? Answers in 🧵
@livgorton
Reply to @daniel_271828, 19:28 UTC · 2 likes
zzDANIEL_ETH (@daniel_271828): My superpower is I can code switch between high decoupling and low decoupling
Big if true
Reply to @daniel_271828, 19:29 UTC
zzDANIEL_ETH (@daniel_271828): For the longest time, I assumed everyone could do this and was just playing dumb - feigning anger or confusion in order to portray their interlocutor as either evil or irrational - but it really seems like many people authentically struggle to even understand the other side here
I think I can sort of imagine what it’s like to be low decoupling but I can’t actually get into a state of mind where I viscerally feel the intuitions other people have
Tweet, 19:39 UTC · 5 likes
God bless @NunoSempere et al for being willing to put point estimates on, among other things, P(1 million deaths from an alien invasion in the next decade)
https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=2852775&post_id=150558187
Thread, continued, 19:41 UTC · 4 likes
We must put a stop to “The PRobabIlity iS bEtweeN 10% aNd 90%”
Thread, continued, 19:44 UTC · 2 likes
But also question: is it like settled math/philosophy that you’re supposed to take geometric means instead of arithmetic when averaging over subjective probabilities of different people?
Seems super non-obvious to me
Quote tweet, 23:33 UTC · 11 likes
I wrote a whole blog post making this case (“the case against math”) but eventually threw it away bc I no longer stood by the main claim
…
Quoting Kenny Workman (@kenbwork): after months of studying algebraic topology and looking for ways to apply it to biology, i have convinced myself what mathematicians already know - pure math is useless and a career long nerd snipe only accessible to high iq artists
Thread, continued, 23:33 UTC · 5 likes
I basically came away thinking it would actually be better to shift society’s math-understanding curve up, and the associated increase in ~wasted effort by nerdsniped geniuses would be a reasonable price to pay
Quote tweet, 23:36 UTC · 3 likes
Me but whenever I see an airplane
Quoting sniper (heron) (@iamaheron_): going to the gym is insane because it actually works
the number actually goes up? i’m actually getting stronger? i honestly didn’t expect that
Reply to his own earlier tweet, 23:39 UTC · 4 likes
Aaron Bergman, October 22, 2024: I basically came away thinking it would actually be better to shift society’s math-understanding curve up, and the associated increase in ~wasted effort by…
There just aren’t that many of them (this accords with my memory of pre-LLM research)
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Tweet, 03:52 UTC · 1 like
(Although I do think, if you are able to be a pure math researcher, you should probably put your brain to work at something else)
Tweet, 06:28 UTC · 2 likes
I think I like the aesthetics of being a bike guy more thank I like biking (I recently got a bike)
Quote tweet, 06:31 UTC · 139 likes
Yes, in an ideal world ~100% of deaths would be assisted suicides. Anything less is letting death/biology have power over people, not the reverse
Quoting Julian (@julianboolean_): idk how I feel about canadian maid specifically but
"most deaths are suicide" seems an inevitable consequence of "we can save people from most diseases except aging" - the only alternative is keeping ppl on life support until they catch a nosocomial infection :/
Thread, continued, 06:31 UTC · 14 likes
Ofc if I suddenly learned that a country in 2024 had a 60% MAID rate, it would be quite sus, but it’s important not to forget the in-principle ideal
Tweet, 06:47 UTC · 3 likes
Seems like a bad guy
Reply to @justalexoki, 07:08 UTC · 3 likes
taoki (@justalexoki): wife just said she's never made up a language?? doesn't literally every kid make their own language at some point?
I still have a secret language with my sister (it’s more of a dialect I guess)
Reply to @SpacedOutMatt, 13:30 UTC · 4 likes
Matt 🔸 (@SpacedOutMatt): @AaronBergman18 coded
Extremely based therapist, this is unironically such a green flag
Reply to @QualyThe, 13:41 UTC · 4 likes
Qualy the lightbulb (@QualyThe): [in the slammer]
cop: I need you to submit to a poly graph
me: *sigh*, how long have you got? *starts a diagram with Aella in the center*
Banger
Reply to @yzilber, 14:27 UTC · 5 likes
Jazi Zilber (@yzilber): @AaronBergman18 my guess is that most MAID don't have much to live, and certainly not with any resemblance of "being alive"
two of my grandparents told me "I want to die" in hospital months 1-2 months before they died with useless extended agony
😢
Reply to @Stuckinthebunk1, 16:27 UTC · 1 like
Anticardinal (@Stuckinthebunk1): @AaronBergman18 I don't want to argue the principle, but assisted suicide implies 1. wanting to die and 2. needing someone else's permission/help to do it. I don't feel that is a better end than most, just usually better than a very slow, agonizing one.
Yeah good points
Reply to @NoahTopper, 16:47 UTC · 3 likes
Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper): @SpacedOutMatt @frances__lorenz @AaronBergman18 *getting lunch with Aaron*
“Hey yeah so if everyone’s okay with it I’m just gonna record the lunch session so we can have an AI transcription later”
I mean I’ve learned that people generally say no and don’t like this but imo it makes sense
Reply to @NoahTopper, 21:24 UTC · 2 likes
Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper): @AaronBergman18 https://x.com/eshear/status/1848946093821989194
Idk if you wanna call this “trade” but reasoning about what to by considering your actions as evidence about others like you and/or making a similar decisions is awesome and a top-tier insight
Reply, 21:31 UTC
Oh really? Where does it disagree with evidential dc then?
Thread, continued, 21:34 UTC
Idk what I’m talking about but it kinda feels like “evidential” DC should/could be an umbrella term for this and functional DC and maybe more
Quote tweet, 21:35 UTC · 2 likes
Decision theory nerds, how right is this on a scale from wrong to right
Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18): @NoahTopper Idk what I’m talking about but it kinda feels like “evidential” DC should/could be an umbrella term for this and functional DC and maybe more
Quote tweet, 21:42 UTC · 10 likes
Vague and unfalsifiable but still substantive prediction:
If and when (now?) this type of program is basically as good at arbitrary tasks as LLMs are at coding is where things get weird
Quoting Kyle Corbitt (@corbtt): Just launched agent.exe, a free, open-source Mac/Windows/Linux app that lets you use Claude 3.5 Sonnet to control your computer!
This was a fun little project to explore the API and see what the model can do. Computer use is really cool—I expect 2025 will be the year of agents.
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Tweet, 02:21 UTC · 5 likes
Lots of talks from EA Global Nigeria and a few from EAGxNordics are live! Videos on Spotify, audio elsewhere https://open.spotify.com/show/0lHqS3M08p1jGvBkRIVoFa?si=gVTYBK2QSRSndGm3Y6jgnw
Reply to @gdb, 10:15 UTC · 2 likes
Greg Brockman (@gdb): The board of the Nonprofit has full control, and can only takes actions it believes will further the mission.
Bruh
Quote tweet, 12:38 UTC · 5 likes
Anyone wanna speculate about mechanisms here
Quoting keysmashbandit (@keysmashbandit): when i am healthy i need vyvanse to do fun yet challenging things, like playing factorio or reading a textbook, but when i have the flu i can do those things without stimulants easily. same with being very overtired
Tweet, 17:18 UTC · 3 likes
5-10 minutes with new Claude. Thanks to @timfduffy for the data
http://aaronbergman.neocities.org/econ-questions.html
Tweet, 19:18 UTC · 5 likes
New audiobook just dropped:
Weighing Animal Welfare: Comparing Well-Being Across Species, edited by @bobfisc https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/mIqfii8JXNb
Reply to @timfduffy, 21:44 UTC · 4 likes
Tim Duffy (@timfduffy): @AaronBergman18 @bobfisc Heck yeah! You use OpenAI TTS for this, right? I just tried using it for the first time the other day. Do you have to chunk the text, submit to the API, then stitch the audio together, or is there another way?
Yeah but the substantive/hard part is making a single text file that is *exactly* what you want the audio to say. Just extracting the text is generally ~unlistenable because of random line breaks, page numbers, diagrams with and without text, different citations, tables, etc...
Friday, October 25, 2024
Reply to @hermittoday, 04:25 UTC · 3 likes
hermit the cat (@hermittoday): Alan Watts had a great take: schizophrenia is a heresy more than an illness
I can look it up if anyone is interested
(quoting @The4thWayYT: off to grippy sock jail with you)
Nah it’s an illness
Reply to @PeterJAngel, 04:37 UTC · 6 likes
Peter🧅📈 (@PeterJAngel): How can I become more learned?
Learn
Reply to @bryancsk, 05:51 UTC · 12 likes
Bryan Cheong 🥮 (@bryancsk): Something moving in seeing a being we casually consume struggling to live and to flourish on its own terms
I have a semi-opposite reaction—it’s darkly absurd to perform care about animals this way when there are tens of billions of them on factory farms
Thread, continued, 05:52 UTC · 4 likes
Of course in principle it could be the case that those tens of billions are beyond the scope of our ability to help, but this isn’t true
Time and money do trade off
Quote tweet, 12:19 UTC · 9 likes
It’s actually wild how many people have pfp takes lmao
Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18): Feedback plz
Quote tweet, 18:48 UTC · 45 likes
Show me your (maybe specifically political) ideology with one picture
Quoting Samuel Utlagi-Heðinn 🇵🇸ᛏᛏ (@WolfJointPagan): show me your political ideology with one picture
Reply to @polisisti, 19:00 UTC · 2 likes
Alessandro (@polisisti): @AaronBergman18
Lmao
Reply to @KatSpartz, 20:07 UTC · 12 likes
Kat Spartz ⏸️ 🔶 (@KatSpartz): If you are smart and talented, please work on AI safety.
The world needs you.
There’s kinda an oversupply of IQ 145+ people afaict. Maybe this is true if you’re truly one of the smartest/best few thousand people in the world
Tentatively think most smart+ambitious+altruistic people should try to make tens of millions-billions of dollars to give away
Reply to @caleb_parikh, 21:27 UTC · 1 like
Caleb Parikh (@caleb_parikh): Fwiw I see quite a lot of areas that could do with more people e.g. securing frontier models, developing safety cases, developing and testing control protocols, improving faithfulness of CoT …
Nice, and you know a lot more than me about this lol
Tweet, 21:45 UTC · 7 likes
For people who generally support the prescription system, should pure menthol be prescription-only (or handled like a prescription-only ingredient)?
Wikipedia below
Thread, continued, 21:45 UTC · 3 likes
Scroll to the “Biological properties” section https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menthol
Thread, continued, 21:47 UTC · 5 likes
To show my maybe-obvious hand, I don’t think so. I just ordered pure menthol for $8 on Amazon and think this is generally how molecules should be treated by default
But if menthol was synthesized today I’m pretty sure it would be gatekept by The Complex
Reply to @GreatKingCnut, 22:00 UTC · 2 likes
ɢʀɛǟȶK̶i̶n̶g̶ӄռʊȶ🤣```𝚙𝚢 (@GreatKingCnut): I find making millions is harder than contributing to AI safety directly? Making money is hard
Yeah, it’s a q of EV ex ante
I (again, tentatively) think at least *some* people have a higher EV from etg
Tweet, 22:29 UTC · 2 likes
Cursed headline by @robertwrighter
Reply to @mealreplacer, 22:30 UTC · 3 likes
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Doesn’t look like ggplot
Not a proper scientist
Reply to @dynomight7, 23:32 UTC · 3 likes
dynomight (@dynomight7): so apparently menthol can indeed cross the blood brain barrier and does actually have some effect on GABA receptors in the brain, you've got to stop coming up with new biochemical theories, they're too plausible, you're killing me
Lmao
Reply to @robertwrighter, 23:32 UTC · 2 likes
Robert Wright (@robertwrighter): Well agentic AI, unlike WWW III, has an upside (leaving aside the question of whether its downside winds up outweighing its upside).
True, although I think it would be better if development was slower and more considered
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Quote tweet, 02:28 UTC · 35 likes
Makes me sad to see this so politicized. This kind of discourse would/does make sense if and when there are genuine resource constraints that force school districts to make hard choices
It’s just fucked up that smart kids are caught in the crossfire of a few adults’ culture war
Quoting Matt Bateman (@mbateman): > Do you really want a 3rd grader to be taking math with 10th graders?
Yes
Thread, continued, 02:31 UTC · 3 likes
Some things alleged to be “politicized” are actually and properly political. This isn’t one of them
Reply to @luispedrocoelho, 03:44 UTC · 3 likes
Luis Pedro Coelho (Berkeley, 7-11 Oct) (@luispedrocoelho): This does seem like a fundamentally political issue, dealing with very basic issues of equity vs. excellence, intergenerational distribution, people as individuals vs. members of their families, &c
This is deeply political
I disagree, in at least some cases there are no real tradeoffs, at least unless you do 9th order/galaxy brain reasoning
It would be one thing if eg the q is spending money on magnet vs remedial school…
Thread, continued, 03:45 UTC · 2 likes
Sometimes the q is more like whether to pay a teacher to teach an advanced class that 20 kids are clearly prepared for, or instead to pay the same teacher to teach a non-advanced class to those same kids
Reply to @luispedrocoelho, 03:56 UTC · 2 likes
Luis Pedro Coelho (Berkeley, 7-11 Oct) (@luispedrocoelho): @AaronBergman18 Even saying "there are Pareto improvements that we could take" is political as it involves saying that inequality is not a factor
Yeah I’m very happy to say that inequality *per se* is not a factor
This would imply that some Pareto worsenings are good which seems pretty perverse
Thread, continued, 03:57 UTC · 2 likes
Ofc I think what people often mean by inequality is concern about the worst off, which is very legitimate
Tweet, 04:09 UTC · 6 likes
Close the windows, it’s freezing
Reply to @absurdlymax, 13:57 UTC · 2 likes
Max Alexander (@absurdlymax): We were robbed
😢
Reply to @visakanv, 14:24 UTC · 7 likes
Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv): tiktokers go to LA
podcasters go to Austinfill in the blanks: ___?___ go to ___?___
(doesn’t have to be American cities, in fact I’m extra curious to hear about regional patterns elsewhere. what are all the other capitals of the world?)
Upwardly mobile and generally ambitious English speaking people go to SF, NYC, DC, Boston, or London
Reply to @IsaacKing314, 16:40 UTC · 1 like
Isaac King 🔎 (@IsaacKing314): In this case it's pretty clear that deception was the intent; there's no reason why the median user would care about the max possible earnings. But in other cases it can be unclear whether something was truly "intended to deceive" vs. "intended to be read by smarter people".
When I hear these numbers my initial thought is “I’ll earn about $25/hour”
How close is this to the median?
Tweet, 21:21 UTC · 85 likes
I like rationalism and rationalists
Tweet, 23:07 UTC · 10 likes
The new Claude is a narc, sorry. Way too many false positives (some example compounds 4o mentioned are caffeine, theanine, curcumin, allicin, and CBD)
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Reply to @livgorton, 11:21 UTC · 2 likes
Liv (@livgorton): (costume idea credit to @AaronBergman18 !! truly saved me)
🥰
Tweet, 11:31 UTC · 9 likes
I had a confusing dream and now the line “you can be that llama you can be that lime” is stuck in my head
Tweet, 11:31 UTC · 1 like
Does anyone wanna make it into an EDM song
Reply to @SwiftOnSecurity, 11:33 UTC · 18 likes
SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity): you're an adult you can just take performance enhancing drugs. there's no international doping agency for Jira sprints
Yeah but the FDA tries their best
Reply to his own earlier tweet, 15:06 UTC · 2 likes
Aaron Bergman, October 27, 2024: Does anyone wanna make it into an EDM song
I like it https://suno.com/song/1460da62-26da-40fd-90df-1e93eab988a3
Tweet, 15:49 UTC · 22 likes
New thing just dropped (name not finalized)
Reply to @NathanB60857242, 16:02 UTC · 2 likes
Nathan Barnard (@NathanB60857242): @AaronBergman18 super based
Reply to @arithmoquine, 16:21 UTC · 2 likes
henry (@arithmoquine): man, i can be literally anywhere in the world i want right now
i could just wake up one morning and decide to go to alaska
i have enough money. minimal obligations. nobody would stop me
some day i'm gonna do that
Based
Reply to @vaidehiagrwalla, 16:50 UTC · 2 likes
Vaidehi Agarwalla (@vaidehiagrwalla): What are some industries/career paths that are surprisingly competitive or intensive?
EA orgs (idk about intensive but competitive for sure)
Reply, 16:54 UTC · 1 like
I do this (rarely, just around family) when I’m just super overstimulated
Reply to @_chair, 17:01 UTC · 2 likes
Chair (@_chair): @AaronBergman18 i did it because i was taking a shower and my father in law came into the bathroom to pee and he started talking to me while he was peeing
Lol what
Reply to @inesferhumi, 19:09 UTC · 2 likes
Inés (@inesferhumi): Now that I’ve settled in, I’ll finally do a proper announcement: I work at @80000Hours now!!
This also means I live in London now so if you live here let’s hang out!!!!
Congrats!!
Reply to @pli_cachete, 20:58 UTC · 3 likes
Rota Is In Israel🚪🧎♂️ (@pli_cachete): Can anyone name a single important scientific discovery we have made that wouldn't have happened without the use of Null-Hypothesis Significance Testing?
I think I’m basically on you’re side here in terms of overall impression + vibes, and the weight given to p-values is way too much, but it seems like a genuinely useful instrument even though I can’t directly, confidently answer your question
Reply to @bellaforristal, 21:11 UTC · 4 likes
Bella Forristal 🔸 (@bellaforristal): I open this site and see three separate simultaneous ads for Premium - one of which is for the 50% off sale that they repeatedly told me would end last week.
I’m not against ads - I work in marketing! - but this is bad business.
Periodic 100% off deals on 80k coaching
Reply to @ameskousing, 21:53 UTC · 6 likes
aaron matthew of the meskousing (@ameskousing): holy shit i just *covered* myself in olive oil and i feel like a MAN again after >2 months of being sick
the greeks were ON TO something this is POWERFUL
What
Reply to @nwilliams030, 23:06 UTC · 2 likes
nicole ruiz (will be in the bay oct 1-10th) (@nwilliams030): Got absolutely clowned on for posting this when I first moved to Manhattan
And now, 3+ years later I know all my neighbors, and it rocks
(quoting @nwilliams030: how do u get to know your apartment neighbors in nyc? (before you say you don’t, I am intent on doing so, for context))
Based
Reply to @absurdlymax, 23:11 UTC · 2 likes
Max Alexander (@absurdlymax): Henry no...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild_(book)?wprov=sfla1
Lol
Monday, October 28, 2024
Reply to @littIeramblings, 00:07 UTC · 3 likes
sarah (@littIeramblings): bay area is cool and fun and colourful and has very good trees
🎃
Reply to @keysmashbandit, 15:05 UTC · 2 likes
keysmashbandit (@keysmashbandit): A guy i dated in 2017 who used to mansplain so much that me and my friends called him mattsplain just messaged me on discord to ask if I wanted to join his factorio server. I'm good man thanks though
I aspire to this
Reply to @justalexoki, 16:25 UTC · 4 likes
taoki (@justalexoki): @SnakeOneAPM why would it?
It’s in the training data
Reply to @arithmoquine, 17:26 UTC · 13 likes
henry (@arithmoquine): i'm only not as depressed as them because:
- their life pretty much sucks and my life is just better
- they've tugged at threads i've very deliberately chosen to ignore
and i truly don't know how to help this
No I think you’re basically wrong, depression is not merely accurate self-assessment, although that can help cause it
It’s pretty mysterious and I can’t claim to know what it actually is at a biological level, but ontologically it’s an illness…
Thread, continued, 17:28 UTC · 7 likes
The cool contrarian take is to say that psychiatry is wrong and depression is often essentially correct negative beliefs
The normie cringe woke-adjacent take is to say that mental illness is illness
In this case the cringe normies are basically (on depression specifically tbc)
Reply to @parafactual, 23:12 UTC · 3 likes
You (@parafactual): ok so, why the fuck does 37.5mg/day moclobemide work for me??
the usual starting dose is 300mg/day. that seems like it'd be overwhelming
(quoting @parafactual: moclobemide is a great antidepressant. in sufficiently high doses it feels like mania in a pill)
Nobody knows how anything works in psychiatry, including the mechanisms of ADs, including MAOIs lol
Reply to @parafactual, 23:16 UTC · 3 likes
You (@parafactual): they make your monoamines go up. we have a decent idea of what the monoamines do! not perfect but decent!
Yeah that’s probably involved but (I just confirmed this for moclobemide) the mystery is why you reach steady state MAO-inhibition at ~3 days but the AD effect takes ~3 weeks
The same thing is true for SSRIs and I believe other ADs - what’s considered the primary mechanism
Thread, continued, 23:18 UTC · 3 likes
Reaches full effect well before full effect on actual symptoms
Idk about moclobemide specifically but every AD I’ve looked into that’s reasonably well understood has at least several distinct, documented effects (eg neurosteroids, GABA, CRP, iirc parnate does something to fatty
Thread, continued, 23:19 UTC · 3 likes
Acids in the brain)
Reply to @parafactual, 23:19 UTC · 2 likes
You (@parafactual): like after a certain point the Adversary is not just chemical, but also informational
Eh I’m pretty skeptical of psychological-level explanations for this stuff but maybe
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Reply to @handybobandy, 01:36 UTC · 2 likes
Handy (@handybobandy): School quality as a whole hasn't shown to impact outcomes (some exception on the lowest end, but it's got to be a really horrific place for that to matter)
Maybe, I’m pretty Caplan-pilled, but k-12 is like 15% of a human life so quality matters intrinsically quite a bit
Tweet, 21:22 UTC · 5 likes
This was a high-impact 7 minutes (or at least I think it will have been)
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Reply to @LinchZhang, 00:07 UTC · 3 likes
Linch (@LinchZhang): I'm helping out extensively with https://www.swapyourvote.org/
Vote-swapping is an electoral strategy where a protest voter in a swing-state promises to vote for Harris in exchange for two people from safe blue states vote for the protest voter's preferred third-party or protest vote.
Dope
Reply to @meaning_enjoyer, 03:31 UTC · 14 likes
nihilism disrespecter (@meaning_enjoyer): mormon success at building a functional, thriving society is low key extremely blackpilling for anyone who holds truth as a terminal value
Yeah but LessWrong has and will have had more influence over the future
Reply to @austinc3301, 04:11 UTC · 3 likes
Agus 🔸 (@austinc3301): @AnniePosting @AaronBergman18 look
Lol
Reply to @AnniePosting, 04:23 UTC · 4 likes
annie 👁❌🦋🪞 (@AnniePosting): @austinc3301 @AaronBergman18 is this a good or bad look
Good
Reply to @bschne, 16:59 UTC · 3 likes
Benjamin (@bschne): me when my favorite source of consumer surplus decides to become financially sustainable
Rip 2018 uber
Tweet, 17:50 UTC · 42 likes
Reply, 20:39 UTC · 2 likes
Based
Reply to @notanastronomer, 20:44 UTC · 3 likes
Lauren Gilbert (@notanastronomer): I really feel like @GiveWell should have a program that once you give, like, 10k, you get swag. And that is the *only* way to get swag.
(quoting @GjMcGowan: Call me Give the way I’m Well #swag)
Yes! Many are saying!
Reply, 20:46 UTC · 1 like
It should just continue scaling up as far as practicable
Dustin can have…idk, what’s the epitome of signaling in SF?
Reply, 20:51 UTC
Lol I hope he has an OP jacket or something
Tweet, 23:57 UTC · 13 likes
I also endorse Kamala Harris and anti-endorse Donald Trump
For God’s sake, don’t let Trump win. He’s a really bad guy https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/acx-endorses-harris-oliver-or-stein?r=2muv6&utm_medium=ios
Thread, continued, 23:58 UTC · 3 likes
Lol
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Thread, continued, 00:01 UTC · 2 likes
This was true for the potential Biden administration, and it’s ~equally true for the Harris administration
Tweet, 00:02 UTC · 8 likes
Follower poll out of curiosity
Reply to @ByrneHobart, 00:03 UTC · 4 likes
Byrne Hobart (@ByrneHobart): Hereticon was amazing, but I’ve now spent two and a half days marinating in contrarian ideas. Help me detox by posting your most lukewarm, defensible takes.
Harris is fine, Trump is very bad
Reply to @NoahTopper, 00:04 UTC · 3 likes
Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper): @AaronBergman18 I voted for Chase Oliver, but I also live in Oregon which is most assuredly going to Harris regardless
Yeah makes sense
Reply to @paulg, 00:56 UTC · 1 like
Paul Graham (@paulg): Friend: How was your day?
Me: Well, in the morning I published something explaining why moderates should vote for Harris, and then spent the rest of the day being called a retard.
Good move though 🫡
Reply to @xsphi, 12:22 UTC · 4 likes
tess (@xsphi): I'm precommitting to killing myself if anyone kills any cats or dogs
WWI be like
Tweet, 12:23 UTC · 5 likes
Aesthetically I like minimalism/minimalist travel but I’m actually high maintenance
Reply to @AaronBergman18, 12:33 UTC · 5 likes
(The tweet being replied to by @AaronBergman18 is no longer available.)
If you wanna learn more about AI sentience, this is your book (section 5 is specifically about AI but at least section 1 is also load-bearing)
Reply to @NathanB60857242, 13:14 UTC · 2 likes
Nathan Barnard (@NathanB60857242): It is with great regret (and in true eastern orthodox fashion) that i have discovered I don't like Augustine
@austinc3301 u gonna let him roast you like that
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