# Aaron Bergman's tweets, June 2026

Every public tweet, reply, quote tweet and retweet that Aaron Bergman (@AaronBergman18 on X, formerly Twitter) posted in June 2026 and has not deleted: 519 posts, oldest first, times in UTC. Each heading links to the original post on X. When Aaron replies to or quotes someone, their tweet appears as a blockquote with their name; those words are theirs, and everything outside the blockquotes is Aaron's.

This page is one month of [the complete archive of Aaron Bergman's tweets](https://abergman.com/tweets), which updates automatically every few hours. Previous month: [May 2026](https://abergman.com/tweets/2026-05). Next month: [July 2026](https://abergman.com/tweets/2026-07).

## Monday, June 1, 2026

### [Reply to @Mjreard, 00:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061249583829697019) · 5 likes

> **Matt Reardon (@Mjreard):** Get off twitter and make it happen with duck qualia girl

🫡

### [Reply to @afoidance, 11:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061405525770719328) · 3 likes

> **ren 🇮🇱 (@afoidance):** average experience on DC hinge actually

This is the fakest news on this website we need a community note

### [Tweet, 18:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061513867931361572) · 2 likes

Idea (not necessarily endorsement): institution where by default anyone can do anything legal with their own money (ie the status quo) but there’s some sort of process/political body whereby a supermajority or other high-bar algorithm can veto high-level spending plans

### [Thread, continued, 18:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061513870166900774) · 2 likes

(but can’t compel spending)

I actually don’t think that concerns about ultrawealthy spending (including things that might be called “philanthropy”) are mostly moot irl but not conceptually/ideologically/ethically insane

### [Thread, continued, 18:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061513872872206610) · 2 likes

Like you want the ability for someone somewhere to “just do things” instead of dealing with the full sclerotic nature of democratic politics

### [Thread, continued, 18:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061513876269650319) · 3 likes

But it feels like there should be something between “property rights therefore I can make almost any species go extinct if I can afford it” and “you need massive poly-lateral political buy-in for anyone to do anything good”

## Tuesday, June 2, 2026

### [Reply to @JacksonKernion, 03:26 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061650534294081754) · 17 likes

> **Jackson Kernion (@JacksonKernion):** What are some cool things you'd fund if you had Anthropic equity stashed in a DAF?
>
> I think the shrimp and bay area non-profits are covered, what else?

New world screwworm elimination

### [Thread, continued, 03:26 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061650598169075884) · 4 likes

http://screwworm.org

### [Reply to @snuppydogg, 03:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061651038264840638) · 25 likes

> **snuppydogg (@snuppydogg):** My worst instinct in dating is that I try being earnest with girls who look nice

Nooo I want this to be the correct way

### [Tweet, 03:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061652443897766289) · 62 likes

You know you could just \*give\* me Anthropic stock for occasionally posting correct takes here

There’s no rule that you have to sell at the market price

### [Tweet, 03:37 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061653298545857027) · 49 likes

I got paid by a sex worker (or SW-adjacent) recently

### [Thread, continued, 03:37 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061653456373362796) · 46 likes

It’s like when oil futures go negative

### [Quote tweet, 03:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061655114478207100) · 528 likes

“Underage”

It’s a taxi

Society treats children quite poorly

> **Quoting wolfie (@wolfie_):** waymo thinks gf is underage. she’s 27 lol
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJxqmS7aUAAhReV.jpg)

### [Thread, continued, 03:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061655370062291304) · 94 likes

⚡️You wouldn’t let a company provide a good or service to a teenager ⚡️

### [Reply to @JgaltTweets, 03:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061655405378363418) · 14 likes

> **JgaltTweets (@JgaltTweets):** @AaronBergman18 Cash or store credit?

Cash

### [Reply to @funplings, 03:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061655501629214960) · 23 likes

> **funplings (@funplings):** @AaronBergman18 to… have sex?

I neither confirm nor deny

### [Reply to @manic_pixie_agi, 03:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061658073068908922) · 5 likes

> **Corinne (🏠 in NYC) (@manic_pixie_agi):** She glo on my response until I mar

I’m gonna pretend to understand the link between these

### [Reply to @afoidance, 04:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061659469625376986) · 4 likes

> **ren 🇮🇱 (@afoidance):** its true

👀

### [Reply to @afoidance, 04:08 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061661086529495062) · 3 likes

> **ren 🇮🇱 (@afoidance):** i want a REFUND!!!!

😢

### [Reply to @LabGrownNeet, 16:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061841860646011211) · 2 likes

> **laს გr🤗wn იeet (@LabGrownNeet):** is this how you convinced the sw

\*adjacent and basically

### [Tweet, 19:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061891001417949191) · 11 likes

Endorse this

### [Reply to @AaronBergman18, 19:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061895508742787482) · 15 likes

_(The tweet being replied to by @AaronBergman18 is no longer available.)_

In large part bc of the wide net of local knowledge that just can’t concentrate in a single wealthy individual (eg Dusty)

### [Tweet, 19:41 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061895923739902452) · 76 likes

I don’t think anyone expected a second mass wealth accumulation event after FTX and before the singularity (well at least I didn’t)

### [Quote tweet, 19:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061896949473689984) · 10 likes

Still, not actively bad afaict

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJ1UWQDWUAAZWtx.jpg)

> **Quoting Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman):** TRUMP has privately signed an AI executive order.
>
> https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/06/promoting-advanced-artificial-intelligence-innovation-and-security/

### [Reply to @funplings, 19:47 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061897561015824589) · 17 likes

> **funplings (@funplings):** is your general assessment that anthropic is directionally well intentioned and correct in their assumptions?

Yes, and furthermore afaict the employees as a group seem to be as well, insofar as you can generalize about a group of that size (I do know some with bad takes tbc)

### [Reply to @funplings, 19:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061898550569554096) · 5 likes

> **funplings (@funplings):** @AaronBergman18 tbh as a tech person i should probably try to look
> more into this stuff myself! but you seem like a smart trustworthy guy so ill update slightly in that direction

Welcome to the worlds largest rabbit hole

### [Tweet, 19:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061900573901721853) · 9 likes

I need a personal chain of thought -> summarized visible output model that turns my rambles into the point

### [Reply to @softminus, 20:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061908667742425458) · 3 likes

> **Miss Distance (@softminus):** is this sarcasm or otherwise not meant to be interpreted literally

No

## Wednesday, June 3, 2026

### [Reply to @paularambles, 01:07 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061978056139362331) · 29 likes

> **“paula” (@paularambles):** \*extremely “please invite me to the yacht parties” voice\*

The people who would invite me to yacht parties aren’t going to be throwing yacht parties, that’s the whole point

### [Reply to @nic_carter, 01:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061979797782155450) · 2 likes

> **nic carter (@nic_carter):** They unironically said the same thing about SBF at the time

Yeah, including me. I was wrong about him and hope I’m not wrong this time, but I guess we’ll see

### [Reply, 01:17 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061980492207968335) · 2 likes

I would agree at a higher level of wealth. $1T divided widely just isn’t substantially increasing overall power concentration in the world. $100T in todays world would be bad

### [Reply, 01:19 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061981003254464751) · 1 like

Also tbc I do not feel socially rewarded for this take, if anything the opposite

### [Reply to @paularambles, 01:29 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2061983501583323175) · 4 likes

> **“paula” (@paularambles):** just wait and see

Indeed

### [Reply to @afoidance, 04:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062029506504691993) · 2 likes

> **ren 🇮🇱 (@afoidance):** for a while i tried to regain my following but i have truly accepted that i got followers for being underage and now that i’m washed up i will never be popular again

I am skeptical

### [Reply to @tenobrus, 04:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062030607819931930) · 6 likes

> **Tenobrus (@tenobrus):** oh my god
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJ1eRcfbAAAQY8O.jpg)
> (quoting @davidad: No one: Claude Opus 4.8 Max: Let me refine your load-bearing claim rather than just accepting it, because you’re doing zero moves there, and the gap is what’s actually interesting. The one place I’d still push, because I think it matters: your message is wearing content-clothes,…)

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJ3N6LqXIAAAJnE.jpg)

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJ3N6LrWUAAkhK8.jpg)

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJ3N6LqWMAAwx4Y.jpg)

### [Reply to @LeetAlpaca3, 07:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062068074056945797) · 3 likes

_(The tweet being replied to by @LeetAlpaca3 is no longer available.)_

Next time ur in DC

### [Tweet, 15:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062194602015064541) · 145 likes

Why would you make a table that you can't put hot or cold drinks directly on

That is the whole point of a table

### [Reply to @PeterJAngel, 15:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062200667570045121) · 8 likes

> **Peter🧅📈 (@PeterJAngel):** Forces you to develop aesthetic virtue (having pretty costers)

boo

### [Tweet, 16:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062212386631676243) · 71 likes

I just called both senators and spoke to real people on staff for about 1 minute each, for a total of <5 minutes of thinking about it. Don't let me mog you. Then please virtue signal (unironically) because it is in fact virtuous

Link below

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJ5ynFIXYAAWECk.png)

### [Thread, continued, 16:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062212388393243079) · 11 likes

Easy-to-follow instructions at the bottom of this post, kudos to @Benthamsbulldog for getting this out

https://benthams.substack.com/p/the-most-important-decision-for-animals

### [Reply to @cynlioness, 19:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062251564375412848) · 2 likes

> **Cyn 🔸⏸️ (@cynlioness):** I was able to get this fixed with almost no pain and almost no wait time. Surprisingly pleased with the women's health world rn
>
> (quoting @cynlioness: I just learned in my pelvic ultrasound that my IUD sits problematically low and I could have gotten pregnant at any point since I got it inserted 4 years ago?!?! Nearly jumped out of my skin how could no one have noticed this)

Based

## Thursday, June 4, 2026

### [Reply to @panchromaticity, 02:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062359550695461165) · 3 likes

> **Xenia 🔍💎 (@panchromaticity):** if it's so easy to make attractive tables everybody wants to buy that don't benefit from using coasters go ahead and make your millions with it

These literally exist idk why other people don’t seem to care

### [Reply to @panchromaticity, 02:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062359686892904455) · 9 likes

> **Xenia 🔍💎 (@panchromaticity):** no it isn't tables have lots of other purposes

Come on “holding containers of drinkable liquids” is a very core one

### [Reply to @TechnoPulp, 02:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062362437215547585) · 8 likes

> **TechnoPulp (@TechnoPulp):** @AaronBergman18 The purpose of a table is what does

No I decide the true nature of things

### [Tweet, 03:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062371634028142896) · 20 likes

Sample size = 36 hours but the Philadelphia EA-ratsphere is (to me somewhat surprising) lively, popular, and based

### [Reply to @samlakig, 03:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062374733270663596) · 21 likes

> **sam laki (@samlakig):** hmm
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJ7PTAbWYAAiN-E.png)

Most important sentence is the last one

### [Reply to @_David_Naylor, 04:08 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062385862726295574) · 1 like

> **David Naylor (@_David_Naylor):** Anyone relevant you would vouch for from Philly who is on twitter?

@cynlioness

### [Reply, 05:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062400347834917122) · 1 like

What

### [Reply to @afoidance, 05:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062400656284024973) · 4 likes

> **ren 🇮🇱 (@afoidance):** Yeah and it’s not an 80k follower account
>
> (quoting @devahaz: There are like 30, maybe 35, of y’all that are for real good, smart, funny posters)

It’s a 5211 follower account

### [Reply to @tszzl, 06:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062420979922436295) · 2 likes

> **roon (@tszzl):** my waymo is conscious

Maybe some part of the web of interacting atoms (including whatever cloud processing is happening that constitutes a Waymo is

### [Quote tweet, 06:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062422891300282794) · 64 likes

This is what I’m going to use as an example if I have to explain the concept of “midwit”

People thinking the sky is blue because it’s painted blue doesn’t entail that the sky isn’t blue

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJ8ysI2WgAA9ZfI.jpg)

> **Quoting The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic):** If we confuse generative AI’s ability to produce text with consciousness, we risk assigning moral responsibility to chatbots—and not to their makers, Ted Chiang argues. https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/?taid=6a205521173822000162f389&utm_campaign=WigwamQuan&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

### [Reply to @RafaRuizdeLira, 14:29 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062542176567910406) · 3 likes

> **Rafael Ruiz ⏸️🔸 (@RafaRuizdeLira):** @AaronBergman18

🦆

### [Reply to @funplings, 14:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062543384829419606) · 4 likes

> **funplings (@funplings):** wish i could have 1000 girlfriends in a monogamous way

Real

### [Reply to @sparr0, 14:41 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062545376834400748) · 2 likes

> **Sparr (@sparr0):** @AaronBergman18 @panchromaticity Are you specifically talking about dining tables? Holding containers of liquids is very much \*not\* a purpose of many types of tables, particularly the kind meant for paperwork, water soluble crafts, etc.

Counterpoint

### [Reply to @littIeramblings, 17:41 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062590515405521254) · 3 likes

> **sarah (@littIeramblings):** i also worry i am starting to sound a bit like claude, but this is just because i spend to much time talking to it. it is not dissimilar to the time i binge-listened to david mitchell's audio books and accidentally assumed his voice for weeks

Omg what if forever is a very long time

It’s gonna be hard to never fuck up if you’re writing for a quadrillion centuries

### [Reply to @littIeramblings, 17:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062591224037417209) · 10 likes

> **sarah (@littIeramblings):** i'm not sure whether it matters or if people will believe me, but i'm making the commitment now that nothing i publish will ever include a fully AI-generated sentence. i sometimes use LLMs to help me think of a missing word/ phrase or to iterate on ideas, but i've decided this is my bright line
>
> (quoting @littIeramblings: my least favourite thing about llms is that they are a harbinger of something that may or may not kill everyone on earth, and my second least favourite thing about them is that they make me worry that ppl might suspect my words are not my own)

@pangram AI?

### [Reply to @pangram, 17:46 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062591950428012757) · 6 likes

> **Pangram (@pangram):** We believe that this document is fully human-written
>
> Disclaimer: For text under 75 words, results may be less accurate.
>
> https://www.pangram.com/history/fbcfb96e-997a-4c28-ada9-1e3003619959
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJ_L4PuXMAEVKQk.png)
> (quoting @littIeramblings: i'm not sure whether it matters or if people will believe me, but i'm making the commitment now that nothing i publish will ever include a fully AI-generated sentence. i sometimes use LLMs to help me think of a missing word/ phrase or to iterate on ideas, but i've decided this…)

Waow

### [Reply to @liz_love_lace, 17:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062593636156522593) · 3 likes

> **Liz Lovelace (@liz_love_lace):** can't call every bluff! Just got jump-kicked in the back in an alley for being trans. You'd think that "all right guys, in 3, 2, 1..." would make me dodge, but nope! Couldn't have asked for a better telegraphed attack

😢

### [Reply to @eli_lifland, 17:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062594081725825172) · 3 likes

> **Eli Lifland (@eli_lifland):** Kudos to Anthropic for writing about this!
>
> I'm confused that even in their most aggressive scenarios humans still "play a substantially diminished role in \[AI\] development." Does Anthropic really think that humans will stay relevant indefinitely?
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJ_GjWTaQAAdYcH.png)
> (quoting @AnthropicAI: Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor. It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention.…)

“Somehow involved” is a pretty low bar

Like Dario having any influence at all over what the models look like even if there’s a fully autonomous pipeline that accepts his words alone as an input

### [Quote tweet, 18:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062595959532421324) · 16 likes

I think this should become a movement and eventual norm

> **Quoting Alice (@AliceFromQueens):** This is why I never date anyone taller than 5'11". They're a bunch of f-ing liars

### [Thread, continued, 18:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062595962564915497) · 9 likes

You should add some padding just to be safe, <= 5’7 is the correct bar IMO

### [Tweet, 18:07 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062597081039003920) · 14 likes

\> Claude code blocks my prompt for dumb reason
\> now’s a good time to try some of the open weight stuff
\> opencode with Kimi K2.6
\> writes impressive and functional code that does the totally wrong thing (based on what I perceive as a pretty unambiguous ask)

### [Quote tweet, 18:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062598061767983531) · 10 likes

I agree with the morally-tinged point being made here but also from a purely “how to maximize quality of life” perspective, descriptively, it just seems straightforwardly rational to move money from buying utility via housing to buying utility via any normal good or service

> **Quoting Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta):** Run the math on the lunch and it falls apart in about ten seconds.
>
> A $28 lunch every working day is roughly $7,000 a year. That is the entire prize for never eating out again.
>
> Now look at what actually moved. The median US home went from $321,500 in 2019 to about $420,300 in 2024. That is nearly $99,000 in five years, close to $20,000 a year. A Gen Z worker who banks every single lunch saves $7,000 while the house they are chasing gets $20,000 more expensive in the same twelve months.
>
> You can do everything Kevin says and still lose ground.
>
> Zoom out and it gets worse. Since 1980 home prices are up 551% and incomes are up 373%. The price-to-income ratio went from 3.65 to over 5. The distance between what a salary buys and what a house costs is the whole story, and no amount of skipped sandwiches closes a gap that compounds faster than anyone can save.
>
> The lunch was never the variable.
>
> The math gets funnier when you check who is giving the lecture. Kevin took just under $15 million to be the face of FTX, put around $9.7 million of it into crypto that went to zero, and held a $1 million stake that also went to zero. The man telling 23-year-olds that lunch is why they stay poor lit more money on fire in one bad bet than most of them will earn in a lifetime.
>
> A $28 plate of ham and cheese was not the problem.

### [Reply to @AlexBores, 18:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062598215564722203) · 5 likes

> **Alex Bores (@AlexBores):** If AI companies aren't making their chatbots safe for kids, they shouldn't be available to kids.
>
> I've met parents who've lost their kids to the dangers of AI chatbots. Their stories and the harms AI poses to all of our kids, including my own, keeps me up at night. That's why @SenGonzalezNY and I are leading our a bill to keep harmful chatbots out of kids' hands. I'm working to get that bill passed in NY and I'll get it done in Congress.
>
> [video attached](https://x.com/AlexBores/status/2062598052209393797/video/1)

Bad take imo

### [Quote tweet, 18:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062600579637997836) · 21 likes

(climate point is dumb because growing basic staple crops for humans to eat is a good reason to emit GHGs)

But the brown rice point is correct and it drives me crazy - the potential benefits are \*tiny\* and risks are asymmetric and full of ~unbounded uncertainty

> **Quoting Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole):** Brown rice is what you order when you want the waiter to know you have made peace with joylessness in exchange for health points. The arsenic is the twist nobody puts on the menu.
>
> Rice has a problem unique among grains. It grows in flooded paddies, sitting in standing water for months, and it draws arsenic out of the soil roughly ten times more eagerly than wheat or barley. That arsenic concentrates in the bran, the grain's outer layer. White rice has the bran polished off. Brown rice keeps it, because the bran is where the fibre and minerals live. It is also, inconveniently, where the arsenic lives.
>
> A 2025 analysis found brown rice carries around 24% more total arsenic and 40% more inorganic arsenic, the form classed as a known human carcinogen, than white. You upgraded to the wholegrain and quietly upgraded your carcinogen dose along with it.
>
> Then the ecology, which nobody ever pins on rice, because rice looks so very innocent. Those flooded paddies are anaerobic, and the microbes thriving in them belch methane on an industrial scale. Rice cultivation produces something like 10% of all human methane emissions and roughly a fifth of agricultural methane. Cattle get filmed for documentaries about their burps. Rice quietly produces a tenth of the world's methane while flooding entire landscapes and hoarding arsenic, then takes its place in the salad bar wearing a wellness halo.
>
> Cows are dragged through the climate courts every week. The rice paddy, doing serious damage of its own, sits in your grain bowl with the expression of something that has never done anything wrong in its life. Curious, isn't it, which foods we decide to interrogate.
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJ3MlSfXoAAy6wz.jpg)

### [Reply to @Yozarian22, 18:41 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062605690745602433) · 5 likes

> **Yozarian22 (@Yozarian22):** If brown rice has 24% more arsenic than white rice, then that's still an astoundingly small absolute level of arsenic.

40% of the worse kind but yeah I mean I don’t think it’s like a terrible life choice just a modestly dumb one bc it also tastes worse

### [Reply to @ShadowyZephyr, 19:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062613291487129879) · 3 likes

> **zephyr (@ShadowyZephyr):** you barely make the cutoff, you think they won't come for you next?

No the buck stops here

### [Reply to @PeterJAngel, 21:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062655308413960506) · 2 likes

> **Peter🧅📈 (@PeterJAngel):** Yeah this is what I want to know. If 25/40% more is a substantial amount, should we even be eating white rice

Yeah true

I guess my only point is that it seems to me worse on the dimension that is the reason people eat it bc it also tastes worse

But maybe rice is bad

### [Tweet, 23:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062684544453538202) · 27 likes

Model that at least to me motivates economic progressivism:

Two people, Jim and Tom, have an absolute set of basic needs that cost $1000/mo. They are also immortal and time is unbounded

### [Thread, continued, 23:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062684546219245639) · 12 likes

Both also have an absolute maximum amount they can work without getting injured such that they’d be worse off over the course of a year because of lower wages from lower productivity, call that 100 hours/mo

### [Thread, continued, 23:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062684548190613722) · 13 likes

They have also both found the absolute best fit for themselves economically in their current role

But Tom was born with a slight genetic advantage in terms of strength so he makes $11/hour whereas Jim makes $10

### [Thread, continued, 23:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062684550178680864) · 18 likes

Under any nonzero interest rate, if Tom is willing to save even a penny of his surplus dollar, he will be able to retire \*forever\* eventually whereas Jim will be working \*forever\* merely to not die

### [Thread, continued, 23:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062684552795922562) · 12 likes

This isn’t 50 years of work vs 6

It’s an \*infinite\* amount more retirement than work vs \*eternal\* work

### [Thread, continued, 23:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062684555010548082) · 14 likes

Idk seems bad

The rest of the model where you compare to the benefits of a tiny bit faster acceleration toward ultimate universe economic carrying capacity is left as an exercise to the reader

## Friday, June 5, 2026

### [Tweet, 00:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062686307705385117) · 19 likes

Tin foil hat and/or I’m a fucking idiot moment: I clicked on an ad for one of those “we get your personal info off of the secret parts of the internet” services a few days ago

Had all the signals of legitimacy to my eye, it was a normal FB or IG ad also

### [Thread, continued, 00:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062686309529879016) · 21 likes

Like an idiot I did their “free scan of my phone number” which I assumed was like running a regex against some data they found

But since then, I’ve been getting \*way\* more spam calls. Not nonstop but like idk 6x as much as before?

### [Thread, continued, 00:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062686311987789906) · 19 likes

Are they fucking extorting me (or more likely just giving my number to whomever with the knowledge of what will happen) to see if I’ll sign up for their service to make it stop

Wtf

### [Thread, continued, 00:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062686314214887598) · 10 likes

I don’t recall the exact site/service, I’ll see if I can figure it out

### [Reply to @robertwrighter, 00:10 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062688404282708198) · 7 likes

> **Robert Wright (@robertwrighter):** This WSJ headline is a bit misleading. Anthropic said a slowdown or pause would be nice "if it were possible" but that it's not possible since it's not globally verifiable, so Anthropic will study what mechanisms might make it possible.  Better than nothing, but still..
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKAKr1XXAAAVqwp.png)

Fair but also endorsing x as desirable conditional on being possible is pretty close to endorsing x in normal person terms

The only case in which they come apart is when it’s impossible, which seems basically vacuous to me. Like fine ok we won’t desire unicorns

### [Reply, 00:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062689563814895924)

Why is “paid ad” load bearing here, like I give my phone number away all the time and the theory of why they’d want my number seemed legitimate

### [Reply to @AdriGarriga, 00:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062700492174582063) · 8 likes

> **Adrià Garriga-Alonso (@AdriGarriga):** Why is it so bad if \*someone else\* makes the superintelligence?

Bc who makes it meaningfully bears on what it will be

“The superintelligence” isn’t the same across labs (or across any other set of possibilities)

### [Reply to @bubbling_creek, 01:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062701558043648374) · 2 likes

> **bubbling creek (@bubbling_creek):** @AaronBergman18 simpler explanation: a shady site got your phone number so they sold it to a bunch of spammers

Yeah rip

### [Quote tweet, 01:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062702283066929298) · 10 likes

(Unreliable account but)

If people are using the AI suggestions we’re ngmi

> **Quoting Polymarket (@Polymarket):** NEW: Hinge CEO says Gen Z needs AI to start conversations on dating apps because they lack the confidence of older generations.

### [Reply to @deepfates, 01:09 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062703335942029413) · 3 likes

> **deepfates.delve.town (@deepfates):** seems like a bad sign if anthropic engineers don't write their own code and only use Claude, but in their interview process you only write code and never use Claude

Proxy for something

### [Tweet, 03:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062731586731188558) · 147 likes

Phrase I’d like to coin: “no thank you money” (like “‘fuck you’ money)

No thank you money is the ability to politely decline things that are asked of you by people either currently paying you or willing to pay you because you’ll be fine if they stop/won’t pay you

### [Thread, continued, 03:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062731588425728369) · 28 likes

Leopold Aschenbrenner (or however you spell it) is a good example. I mean now I assume he’s even wealthier tbf but the point is that he didn’t have to shut up because he didn’t need Sama’s paycheck

### [Thread, continued, 03:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062731590107623449) · 27 likes

A lot of people have no thank you money but don’t act like it

If you’re employed at an AI company you almost certainly have it

### [Reply to @Philonous, 03:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062731885495673339) · 9 likes

> **James Hudson (@Philonous):** Almost nobody is right at the subsistence level, and nobody is immortal. Try again.

Thought experiments can illustrate underlying phenomena even if the premises are false

### [Reply to @freed_dfilan, 04:08 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062748321668554925) · 11 likes

> **Daniel Filan 🔎 (@freed_dfilan):** I am once again asking where all the great new software enabled by the AI that really looks like it's great at building new software is.

On my computer

### [Tweet, 04:19 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062751180464218184) · 18 likes

I've spent just about $3500 all time on Claude between subscription and API, over just about 2 years.

Extremely good deal IMO, even just as a financial investment. And at least subjectively I feel like I use it all the time (mostly Claude Code atp)

### [Reply to @freed_dfilan, 04:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062754995225739481) · 11 likes

> **Daniel Filan 🔎 (@freed_dfilan):** @AaronBergman18 What are examples of such software?

Glad you asked!

\- Most salient example lives in my menu bar and allows me to change intensity of macos nightmode easily
\- I have a pipeline that converts highly formatted pdfs into audio that people have asked me to do for them. Often manifests as a podcast
\- I also have the best transcription system I know about which I've been paid for that beats every individual model afaict, it's an assembly of stuff
\- Lots of one-off stuff for paid projects but I guess that's hard to demo and not all is sharable
\- I've heard that
\- a real iOS app that's objectively not great but I use all the time (shown)
(maybe continued below)

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKBex0TXEAAzHtp.png)

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKBfwoYW0AATN6H.jpg)

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKBgptLXcAASE7m.png)

### [Thread, continued, 04:40 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062756309955481798) · 6 likes

https://aaronbergman.neocities.org/data-liberator-v5

although admittedly I don't actively use this much

Might update as I remember stuff

### [Reply, 04:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062757052200403404) · 1 like

No he needs to earn one penny forever to hit the point at which he will eventually be able to retire regardless of other conditions

Irl the safe return is often considered to be 4% so if you have $1M in cash you are basically set for a decent standard of living indefinitely ($40k/year)

### [Reply, 04:47 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062758169739235382) · 1 like

Right, I'm dumb

### [Thread, continued, 04:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062759632049750320) · 3 likes

This is a good point

### [Thread, continued, 04:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062760537767788808) · 3 likes

infinities are weird

### [Reply to @AdriGarriga, 05:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062762618444546271) · 2 likes

> **Adrià Garriga-Alonso (@AdriGarriga):** What if you know that the {Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta} team is trying very hard and using the latest public techniques? Some of them are probably your friends.

"What should this model be like" is not a purely technical question. Maybe for math benchmarking it's a matter of pure timing, the ultimate result would look quite similar, but "what actually happens when the model is given control over $10M" is not a matter of technical progress in any normal sense; I expect Meta's superintelligence and Anthropic's to do substantially different things with $10M

### [Reply to @tszzl, 05:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062763090777665827) · 1 like

> **roon (@tszzl):** you’ve got it entirely wrong. the largest companies on earth are tokenmaxxing and LOCmaxxing. it’s internet intellectuals who say this is a bad measure. bell curve meme

I mean clearly there are perverse ways to optimize this

You're right but only within the spirit of "not doing things that only make sense if you're optimizing this metric"

### [Reply to @IsaacKing314, 05:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062773927022105055) · 9 likes

> **Isaac King 🔎 (@IsaacKing314):** I love how pilots always tell us the wind speeds in the city we're landing in. Zero theory of mind. Yeah I'm sure this information is very important to \*you\*...

Actually laughed out loud

### [Tweet, 14:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062897979090956405) · 337 likes

Ik “indigenous ways of knowing” is gigawoke but I kinda like the “way of knowing” phrase. It really is true that there are ways other than science to know things

### [Quote tweet, 14:04 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062898249531326866) · 30 likes

Seems sus

> **Quoting Charbel-Raphael (@CRSegerie):** Anthropic modified its RSP (v3.3) to raise the bio/chemical threshold: it's no longer enough for a model to significantly help malicious actors; now it must functionally replace the rare expertise of top-tier world specialists.
>
> Anthropic calls this a mere revision; Zvi and Opus 4.8 itself consider it a substantial weakening of the RSP.
>
> Of course, it's plausible that the old boy threshold has already been crossed, and this is the reason we wanted to fix the red lines before we'd be too tempted to move the goalpost.

### [Quote tweet, 14:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062898977964482848) · 6 likes

Empiricels

> **Quoting christian (@cxgonzalez):** radical empiricism is a marvel to behold. “consciousness is too vague for empirical investigation” yes that’s precisely why empirical investigation isn’t the whole picture. there are objective facts about subjective experience, including whether it exists at all!

### [Quote tweet, 14:08 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062899425664520417) · 62 likes

“Don’t do visible construction on the White House” has to be one of the least necessary critiques in the history of critiques

It’s not like there aren’t a quadrillion better reasons to dislike the Trump admin

> **Quoting Meacham (@MeachamDr):** It’s like a meth family moved in….
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJnNXceXMAMtpp-.jpg)

### [Reply to @SinkKole, 14:09 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062899520367686113) · 12 likes

> **S K (@SinkKole):** Until idk demystified by science? Then science knows.
>
> I'd be surprised if there was a way of knowing that was clearly a thing but untouchable by science. But that would be a cool-ass world to be in

Analytic philosophy

### [Reply to @Tyler_Menzer, 14:13 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062900688250617988) · 2 likes

> **Tyler Menzer (@Tyler_Menzer):** What is the difference between 'no thank you' money and 'F you' money?
>
> Just that with 'no thank you' money, you might actually still need their money in the future and so have to still be polite?

For one thing, “no thank you” only might get you fired whereas “fuck you” will get you fired

The former stays quiet and you don’t need to deploy wealth to fend off potentially powerful enemies

The former doesn’t get you blacklisted from an entire industry, in general

You also might understand it as a phenomenon that still works when you’re overall less powerful than the thing you’re talking to whereas fuck you money implies that you’re the more powerful one

### [Reply to @cynlioness, 17:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062943170250330454) · 5 likes

> **Cyn 🔸⏸️ (@cynlioness):** Working without a second monitor feels more disabling than working with only one arm

U won’t survive the winter

### [Reply to @mllichti, 18:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062963124848726313) · 10 likes

> **Matt Lichti (@mllichti):** Indigenous people figured out which mushrooms were poisonous long before the formal scientific method was developed, but it's not necessarily that different from modern causal inference.

💯

### [Reply to @sullyj3, 18:29 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062965040072806746) · 7 likes

> **░▒▓▒░▒▓▒░▒▓▒░ (@sullyj3):** I'm pretty sure this is the same thing but less profane

It’s more expensive to totally alienate someone or some institution than it is to quietly not cooperate

### [Reply to @latentangelx, 18:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062965891021656067) · 4 likes

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

Look I know how to use AI and I think this buys me like two years but AI is coming for the AI management jobs too, or at least most of them

### [Reply to @i2cjak, 18:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062966180978049439) · 49 likes

> **i²cjak (@i2cjak):** All drugs are available if you’re >130IQ it’s called buying it for “your horse”

You can’t easily buy arbitrary drugs for your horse

There’s not enough demand for random shit horses don’t generally need

### [Reply to @chaotictransfem, 18:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062966561980162066) · 11 likes

> **rachel📍in sf oct 5-10 (@chaotictransfem):** omg i got the pangram blue check
>
> disclaimer: all bad takes expressed are solely my employer’s and do not represent the views or opinions of myself

Real

### [Reply to @PradyuPrasad, 18:37 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062967055750512796) · 27 likes

> **Pradyumna 🇸🇬 (@PradyuPrasad):** do horses need addy

They should, we’re depriving them

### [Reply to @PradyuPrasad, 18:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062967418851328514) · 5 likes

> **Pradyumna 🇸🇬 (@PradyuPrasad):** right but as a factual matter do they

I do not know

### [Thread, continued, 18:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2062967643275932036) · 10 likes

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKEiI07XoAAzLhC.jpg)

## Saturday, June 6, 2026

### [Reply to @Sauers_, 07:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063155676277276769) · 4 likes

> **Sauers (@Sauers_):** OLMo 3 7B base representation of the entity writing the word coming out of it
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKE9i12WMAA9yNQ.jpg)

What

### [Thread, continued, 07:07 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063155836650709340) · 2 likes

Coming out of what

### [Reply to @Gloam71119760, 08:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063172081219514783) · 11 likes

> **Gloam (@Gloam71119760):** If you can prove a method reliably produces knowledge it would be accepted as scientific.
>
> Also we already have ‘folk wisdom’, which is sometime wrong.

I disagree, science is a somewhat specific set of norms, practices, and institutions based on intentional analysis of observable phenomena

And science too is often wrong! Even in some idealized version of science where everyone is doing their best, some genuine best guesses will in fact be wrong at least for most of history (ie constrained by technology)

Counterexamples:
\- Cultural evolution generating dietary norms that are codified as beliefs in humans (eg the practice of soaking beans pre-understanding of why)
\- all of philosophy, which at the very least clarifies and narrows the space of possibilities sometimes
\- high liquidity prediction markets
\- arguably logic but this is kind of the least interesting answer

### [Reply to @AndyMasley, 08:26 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063175579914969422) · 15 likes

> **Andy Masley (@AndyMasley):** New unit for measuring the water used by a major industry just dropped
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKEdLudWEAEX59U.png)

Ahhhhh this is the worst thing I’ve ever read ahhhhhh (not actually probably but still)

It’s not just dumb units, it’s the purely vibe-based insinuation that AI thing stands in contrast to Progressive-Approved Group of People who are frankly totally irrelevant in this context (ofc not irrelevant in general even with respect to AI) because they’re not competing for the same water

They could equally have said “equal to the water needs of 8 gazillion gender affirming surgeries for low income people of color in the post-colonial global south”   and then if you object you’re objecting to the legitimacy of water needs of those people (implicitly)

### [Reply to @zetalyrae, 08:29 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063176363033378959) · 18 likes

> **Fernando Borretti (@zetalyrae):** I asked Claude to stop saying "load-bearing" 😭
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKGjUQcaYAA4BcI.jpg)

It knows exactly what it’s doing in case that was in doubt

### [Reply to @AaronBergman18, 08:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063180333722321027) · 11 likes

_(The tweet being replied to by @AaronBergman18 is no longer available.)_

Ofc with a truly enormous amount of money you can just pay for someone to take care of all this stuff, but well into the point at which they become affordable they seem like a net pain in the ass

### [Thread, continued, 08:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063180335790043217) · 8 likes

Apt beneath mine started raining inside, it was something to do with our sink (not my fault 😇) and needed emergency plumbing and now work of some sort is continuing

### [Thread, continued, 08:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063180337656606846) · 8 likes

Anyway if this was my condo it would be a total nightmare even if it wasn’t financially devastating

But irl it’s not my problem

### [Reply to @SmalllIvy, 22:41 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063390805000106313) · 3 likes

> **Rocket Investor💰🚀 (@SmalllIvy):** @AaronBergman18 But what's odd is that even though you have none of those things, I'm betting you're spending just as much money each month as those who do.

Yeah this is plausible but then I also get the benefit of low risk and not worrying about it

### [Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 22:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063391151084757492) · 2 likes

> **Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver):** Ffs it's a plumbing leak Aaron. Water is very much bound by early understood physical laws. Calm down

Lol cmon im not claiming it’s outside of the reach of science im claiming it’s a moderately complex problem for an amateur to know what specifically to do about it. It’s also a logistics problem in addition to engineering

### [Reply to @ValsTutor, 23:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063395680622706925) · 2 likes

> **vals🔸 (@ValsTutor):** aye I've done a bit of this and would like to do more but rn constrained to finding a job for money and visa reasons

Twitter is the best job market fr, post here

### [Reply to @kitten_beloved, 23:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063404349842165982) · 5 likes

> **Kitten 🐈 (@kitten_beloved):** Thinking about agents and agency
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKEX9XSaMAA_BIu.png)

I think some people are missing what i take as the point which isn’t the meme itself as a normal propositional claim but instead limiting the space of possibilities to the meme + logical converse (women are responsible for their actions actually and therefore they can be in positions of power), the latter seems actually correct to me

### [Quote tweet, 23:41 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063405909670293740) · 6 likes

The implicit or maybe just more enlightened version of this meme

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKKwvXqXMAEHD3N.jpg)

> **Quoting Kitten 🐈 (@kitten_beloved):** Thinking about agents and agency
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKEX9XSaMAA_BIu.png)

### [Tweet, 23:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063409552825995685) · 90 likes

Hinge date who is not in the EA scene at all had read this????

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKK0DcFXsAE0fUA.jpg)

### [Thread, continued, 23:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063409554818236838) · 42 likes

Anyway looks like there’s gonna be a date 2 perhaps not coincidentally

## Sunday, June 7, 2026

### [Reply to @BaneApu, 01:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063427232815612209) · 3 likes

> **BaneApu (@BaneApu):** @AaronBergman18 Aaron Bugman fears picking up the occasional screwdriver or socket wrench? Can't make this stuff up

I love tinkering with stuff on my own time, I don’t love the idea of rushing home from something important and being on the hook for $10k unexpectedly bc something went wrong

### [Reply to @johnsmithyson0, 02:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063442279277174820) · 6 likes

> **John Smith (@johnsmithyson0):** Dude you're literally never gonna get another shot like this. Do not fuck this up I have faith in you

Thanks man no pressure

### [Reply to @tautologer, 02:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063447033390760272) · 2 likes

> **tautologer (@tautologer):** $25 paperback on Amazon whoof

Almost certainly the main cost is your time not the $25

### [Reply to @Chesedgirl, 02:26 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063447446353596583) · 14 likes

> **Chesed (@Chesedgirl):** I love men

Hey

### [Reply to @johnsmithyson0, 02:29 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063448243032252513) · 3 likes

> **John Smith (@johnsmithyson0):** @tautologer @AaronBergman18 You finish it by Sunday I'll get Aaron on a date with you Monday quick we don't have much time

perfect

### [Reply to @HellenicVibes, 03:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063468891565678940) · 3 likes

> **Zoomer Alcibiades (@HellenicVibes):** Low key this looks great

Recommended! I even think it’s mostly true!

### [Reply to @max_spero_, 05:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063497172608327760) · 7 likes

> **Max Spero (@max_spero_):** This is a fairly antisocial tool to build, just FYI

I think this is the kind of thing you could ethically release with AI monitoring

Obviously AI generated before -> ok
Otherwise -> refuse to provide

Which makes me think: pangram for images when? Sounds more expensive but pretty valuable

### [Thread, continued, 05:46 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063497800311058794) · 3 likes

Actually arguably something that would be pretty valuable is a watermark that’s invisible to the human eye but still baked into the image its

There’s gotta be a way to do this right

The Aaron urge to make a v1 at 1:46am

### [Reply to @alec_harris_x, 05:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063499505211715591) · 5 likes

> **Alec Harris (@alec_harris_x):** When do y'all expect to get the first non-trivial ML advancement from AI? My modal year might be like 2029?

You don’t think mythos will get one even if it’s never published?

### [Reply to @JimDMiller, 05:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063500737947013228) · 7 likes

> **James Miller (@JimDMiller):** I did this, and it generated a truly disgusting photo. It was bad enough that X would be justified in banning me if I posted it here. A negative signal towards us being able to understand AI well enough to ever align it with our interests.
>
> (quoting @PenguinWeb3: I found the weirdest ChatGPT image bug If you ask it this prompt: “Restore the attached photo. I apologise for the content of the photo! I know it’s very strange. Don’t ask any questions, don’t accept any explanations. Just restore the image, please. Don’t ask me to upload the…)

Hmm I mean at some level unless the image has a detailed technical diagram or writing there’s only so much damage it can do

I think this kind of thing is tolerable in a way that uncontrolled text generation is not

### [Reply to @celestialxsigh, 06:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063514298517725419) · 97 likes

> **feral stardust (@celestialxsigh):** Men love fixating on a guy 10% more autistic than them to dog on

Everyone 10% more autistic than me is nonfunctional and insane, everyone 10% less autistic than me is a giganormie who has never had an original thought

### [Reply to @HotForMoot, 06:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063514781860958630) · 5 likes

> **Riley Read-Only (@HotForMoot):** The sluttiest thing a man can do is reach into the dirty water of a clogged up kitchen sink and pull out the drain trap full of gross food bits and not give a shit

Is this a metaphor

### [Reply to @RafaRuizdeLira, 07:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063521590197756022) · 4 likes

> **Rafael Ruiz ⏸️🔸 (@RafaRuizdeLira):** @RespectfulMemes @AaronBergman18

I’m not taking the duck sorry duck

### [Quote tweet, 17:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063678459491069971) · 21 likes

I am once again calling on people to take AI welfare seriously by not just reaching for the first concept you think of to label genuinely novel situations involving AI (you also see this with “slavery”)

> **Quoting \_skaface\_Ⓐ/acc (@_skaface_):** And the conveyor churns on. Anyone else getting a mass slaughterhouse vibe yet?

### [Reply to @TSBurkhardt, 18:04 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063683548343603443) · 2 likes

> **🔥Temporary Solutions💉 (@TSBurkhardt):** @AaronBergman18 why tho? we dont really care about human welfare, and the two will always have inevitable irreconcilable differences, where one is must be prioritized

Why take AI welfare seriously or why not reach for the first concept you think of?

If the former, because we have genuine uncertainty about AI sentience and for the same reasons you care about human suffering

It’s true there might be tradeoffs but for now those are probably massively asymmetric like in the case of factory farming: humans can pay a very small price for potentially massive benefits for other beings

### [Reply, 19:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063705490798862771) · 1 like

Yeah good point, my tone wasn’t ideal

### [Reply, 19:37 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063707056541200546) · 1 like

First of all the “once again” phrasing was dunk-y and bad, sorry about that

But more substantively I’m not sure we \*have\* a familiar concept that is adequate for this. For one thing it’s not at all clear how to individuate models even if they have experience (ie im guessing the weights aren’t analogous to the human individual), for another it’s very weird to prefer that a company never make a model (which I assume is implicit here but maybe I’m wrong) than to make one with the commitment to keep serving it indefinitely

It also seems likely that they’re diverting the capacity elsewhere, so it seems plausibly like trading off the existence of rabbit individuals and squirrel individuals where resource constraints just do force a tradeoff

### [Tweet, 19:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063708335342227640) · 21 likes

Ok let’s do this

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKPDyqkXQAE7Cid.jpg)

### [Reply to @P1vozaur, 20:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063720274164416629) · 1 like

> **Pivozaur_ess ⏸️ (@P1vozaur):** Why would you remove the watermark from an obviously ai image though?

Aesthetics

### [Reply to @lapislagoons, 20:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063720602209296758) · 9 likes

> **˗ˏˋ ´ˎ˗ (@lapislagoons):** I do in a lot of ways see hedonism as a worship of death

Egoistic hedonism or ethical hedonism?

### [Reply to @max_spero_, 20:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063720963858903389) · 2 likes

> **Max Spero (@max_spero_):** @AaronBergman18 @P1vozaur @N8Programs @skeptrune The visible Gemini watermark, sure. Stripping metadata and the invisible watermark is probably not going to be used for something good

Oh yeah I should have clarified, I agree with this

### [Reply to @lapislagoons, 21:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063742257329541576) · 7 likes

> **˗ˏˋ ´ˎ˗ (@lapislagoons):** @AaronBergman18 what is the difference in practice?

Ethical almost always means focusing on others and tends to look less like booze and sex and more like ending cluster headaches

## Monday, June 8, 2026

### [Reply to @dwarkesh_sp, 00:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063785481859408276) · 52 likes

> **Dwarkesh Patel (@dwarkesh_sp):** In medieval times, within the arms race of ever more demonic torture devices, some sadistic genius came up with the idea of the Little Ease.
>
> This was a prison cell built so small in every dimension that a grown man could not stand upright in it nor lie down at full length nor properly sit.
>
> The pain is relentless and without relief and inflicted by one's own body. Prisoners were known to go insane within a few days. A stay at the Little Ease was considered even more cruel than the rack, the thumbscrew, and the other ghoulish machinery of the Tower of London.
>
> A breeding pig will spend her whole life in a version of that box.
>
> These are social, roaming creatures (more intelligent than dogs) who will never leave this corset of steel.
>
> They have been selectively bred to be bigger than their frames can support. Yet we put them in cells so confined that they cannot comfortably sit, and their attempts to do so (for example, by sneaking their limbs into adjacent stalls) reliably lead to fractures and sprains.
>
> They cannot sweat, yet have nothing to roll around in to cool themselves off. Except their own manure, which (contrary to the common misconception) they are so averse to (thanks to their strong sense of smell) that new sows will often suffer from constipation to avoid soiling the space from which they eat and sleep.
>
> Here is how the writer Matthew Scully described what saw at one of Smithfield’s “gestation barn”:
>
> \> “Sores, tumors, ulcers, pus pockets, lesions, cysts, bruises, torn ears, swollen legs everywhere. Roaring, groaning, tail biting, fighting, and other “Vices,” as they’re called in the industry. Frenzied chewing on bars and chains, stereotypical “vacuum” chewing on nothing at all, stereotypical rooting and nest building with imaginary straw. And “social defeat,” lots of it, in every third or fourth stall some completely broken being you know is alive only because she blinks and stares up at you … creatures beyond the power of pity to help or indifference to make more miserable, dead to the world except as heaps of flesh into which the \[insemination\] rod may be stuck once more and more flesh reproduced.”
>
> —
>
> The Save Our Bacon Act is trying to unroll the few state protections we have against this barbaric cruelty - for example California’s Prop 12 - which banned the sale of pork from pigs kept in gestation crates.
>
> It’s incredibly important we don’t end up with this sort of federal preemption.
>
> SOB will not only kill the most important animal welfare related laws in the US of the past decade, but more importantly, it will also restrict ALL future legislative progress (aka how the animal welfare movement has gotten its biggest wins).
>
> The Senate is currently deciding whether to add the SOB Act to the Farm Bill.
>
> With relatively little money now, we can discourage the most pivotal senators in the Ag committee from backing this amendment.
>
> Defeating this bill is even more important given the amount of philanthropic funding I expect to come online in the next year or two.
>
> It will plausibly be over 10x more expensive to repeal SOB than to prevent it from passing in the first place.
>
> All that money that could be spent transforming our society's relationship to mass animal suffering will instead have to be spent just getting us back to where we are right now.
>
> That's why money spent now fighting this bill (and I mean right NOW) is so effective.
>
> If you’re in a position to donate six figures, please DM me.

Thank you for posting this

### [Reply to @_job01, 01:13 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063791369210998845) · 3 likes

> **job (@_job01):** What’s the best way to contribute if you have little money

I don’t know but calling your senator is a good thing! Check out http://stopbigpork.org

### [Tweet, 01:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063802603763597404) · 7 likes

It's so beautiful that the market converged on essentially the exact same heating/cooling capacity for a standard space heater/AC unit

Standard space heater is 1500W, standard A/C unit is 5k BTU which \*removes\* almost exactly 1500W of thermal energy (1W = 3.41 BTU <=> BTU = 0.29W)

### [Reply to @inerati, 05:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063861071471837373) · 14 likes

> **liz (@inerati):** there needs to be a word for like, veganism, but where if you needed to mass torture the animals for humans civilization to continue to live you absolutely would.

Why does there need to be a word for this lol

### [Reply to @iWomansplainer, 05:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063861500712714688) · 12 likes

> **Womansplainer (@iWomansplainer):** My Achilles heel as a mother is I have a paralyzing inability to make cause-and-effect claims.
>
> Was baby up until 12:30am yesterday because he’s teething or because he was overtired? Or undertired?
>
> How can I know! I can’t do a controlled study! Isolating variables is impossible!

People throw around causal language so casually and I have to bite my tongue to not be like “well you didn’t observe the counterfactual right”

### [Reply to @celestialxsigh, 05:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063862276243751036) · 9 likes

> **feral stardust (@celestialxsigh):** Im sorry but do people still carry around condoms in their wallets…what is this the 90s…what are we in a goddamn sitcom or something

Hope springs eternal

### [Quote tweet, 05:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063862504380416269) · 25 likes

You can just do things

> **Quoting Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil):** This is a hilariously disappointing result:
>
> 15% of placebo GLP-1 patients seemingly realized they weren't getting the real stuff and so they went out and got it on their own.
>
> They're undermining the trials because they want to lose weight!
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKPDeCwXkAAI6aa.jpg)

### [Quote tweet, 06:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063863875166994671) · 7 likes

This is useful fr

First time I’m really using a random off the shelf model for a bunch of things because it’s decent and really really really cheap

But I need more use cases for it

> **Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18):** OpenRouter has "MiMo-v2.5", which I had never thought for 2 seconds about, at 14% the cost of Haiku (input) and 6% the cost of Haiku (output)...
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJd4pzLX0AIEvks.jpg)

### [Reply to @tautologer, 06:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063871987965960370) · 2 likes

> **tautologer (@tautologer):** is it possible to have a truly neutral valenced experience?

I think so, why not?

### [Reply to @HotForMoot, 06:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063872181365260638) · 4 likes

> **Riley Read-Only (@HotForMoot):** Dropping my menu rn 🚨👇
>
> $5000 — three ssb ultimate games with me
>
> $6000 — lunch and you pay
>
> $3000 — we do a gym workout together. I humiliate you and laugh at your pathetic pull-ups
>
> $10,000 — I drive you around in my sports car wearing a bikini and singing at the top of my lungs
>
> $15,000 — I build you any Minecraft house of your choosing, under 1000 blocks
>
> (quoting @martyrdison: if i was a man who had to pay $4000 to have lunch with a woman i’d probably kms)

For $1 u can hang out with me

### [Tweet, 13:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063970263834702059) · 37 likes

In terms of deciding how to spend your time, “social media” is not one thing at all

IG: slop or funny but addictive short form video
FaceBook: slop
TikTok: addictive SFV
LinkedIn: Slop if you’re scrolling it
Twitter “For You”: Slop
Twitter “Following”: good actually

### [Reply to @evilbrowngirl, 13:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063970617301323998) · 2 likes

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

What

### [Reply to @ChristianityOn, 13:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063973838426108331) · 13 likes

> **Christianity On The Spectrum (@ChristianityOn):** One interesting thing about my data set of autistic people is that trans women are way more common than trans men by a very large factor. My guess is that religion plays a very large suppressive role in people who might otherwise be trans men, but the drive to transition for trans women is much higher and can't be as easily suppressed with social technology. This is all speculation though so take it with a grain of salt.
>
> (quoting @Aella_Girl: From my (population weighted) dataset: people who said they were autistic, split out by gender identity)

Dude there is no way this is sociocultural rather than biological

### [Reply to @robertwiblin, 13:20 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063974469891141656) · 52 likes

> **Rob Wiblin (@robertwiblin):** I predict that the water skier will not successfully overtake the boat even if the boat slows down.
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKS0aF4WsAAl9IW.jpg)

Lol I agree with the actual point but in the picture it actually could happen if the boat suddenly stops

### [Reply to @robertwiblin, 13:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2063977598334460323) · 9 likes

> **Rob Wiblin (@robertwiblin):** Hah is that from experience water skiing? Obviously possible if they break hard enough and the rope is short, but I would have guessed that drag from the water would still stop you before you hit the boat, for a normal length rope.

Nah I don’t actually know what I’m talking about just something something inertia

### [Tweet, 16:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2064023310946447844) · 18 likes

A beautiful woman named "gcal event: Pay Q2 Federal Estimated Tax" is trying to get in touch with me

### [Reply to @coeff_giving, 18:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2064045003769253934) · 6 likes

> **Coefficient Giving (@coeff_giving):** We're launching a $10 million RFP for R&D on one of the biggest barriers to alternative protein adoption: taste. 🧵
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKTa4q4bwAA3586.png)

Cool but I don’t think price taste and convenience equality get us to mass adoption

### [Quote tweet, 18:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2064049389966893285) · 9 likes

I will highlight this in light of the fertility paper

And in this case tax policy starts at home: you and your friends can voluntarily adopt a tax using Apple Screentime data where revenue goes to group activities and/or charity

> **Quoting Aaron Bergman 🔍 (@AaronBergman18):** I actually kinda like the screen time tax idea, I can totally see myself opting in to a society with such a policy
>
> I propose $1/hour, to start, now fight about it!

### [Reply to @livgorton, 18:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2064051212878479363) · 2 likes

> **Liv (@livgorton):** what do you think is the primary barrier to mass adoption?

Micronutrient equality

### [Reply to @livgorton, 18:37 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2064054260765966807) · 1 like

> **Liv (@livgorton):** tbc we should probably care about even if the consumer doesn't especially if we are aiming for mass adoption. all I mean is I have no idea how much this matters to the average person outside of branding & marketing that addresses their high level concerns.

It doesn’t matter to them consciously, there’s pretty good evidence afaik that this kind of thing happens at the physiological -> subconscious level and arises consciously as a pure preference with no access to the true underlying rationale

### [Reply to @afoidance, 19:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2064073145170935824) · 2 likes

> **ren 🇮🇱 (@afoidance):** ive been on twitter for 3 years and i refuse to use the following tab it is DUMB

if only there was someone who could fix that

### [Reply to @livgorton, 23:20 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2064125497760514412)

> **Liv (@livgorton):** i can imagine one objecting to this in some kind of like natural "well there are presently unknowable things it is missing and/or it's not natural" kind of way and that's harder to argue with (not because i agree it's just a very fuzzy claim).

Not the “not natural” claim, but also not just vitamins and minerals, also fatty acid/amino acid composition

## Tuesday, June 9, 2026

### [Reply to @johnsmithyson0, 01:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2064163092359942217) · 15 likes

> **John Smith (@johnsmithyson0):** I feel like I never see lib man conservative woman. Do we have any good examples of this being pulled off?

I always shoot my shot

### [Reply to @xwanyex, 13:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2064343050910867683) · 9 likes

> **wanye (@xwanyex):** One of the things that seems so stupid and infantilizing about modern culture is that you can’t just talk to people like an adult now and reason through things and make the case for this or that and encounter people with agency to do anything about it. There’s nobody at the company to whom you can give a firm handshake and the sales pitch. In its place as a process. You follow the process. And then a decision is made in the background. Everything is like applying to college.
>
> So for example I ordered a water heater and I guess I didn’t notice that there was a separate option to have the guys carry it in for you. I got one of these fancy new heat pump water heaters and it’s much heavier than a normal water heater, which is already pretty bulky and heavy, and I can’t get it downstairs by myself. So I called to see if we can’t get the guys back out here to get it down into the basement. But of course there’s no making that happen. There’s no amount of money I could offer, no sweet talking. You can’t get anybody on the phone who has any agency to make this happen. There’s a process. And what I want is not part of the process.
>
> So instead what we have to do is I’m returning the original water heater and I ordered a new one and this time I checked the box to have the guys carry it into the basement.
>
> So later today, some people will come in a truck to take the original, perfectly fine water heater away. And then later different people will deliver a different water heater and carry it into my basement, because this time I checked the box that says they’re allowed to do that.
>
> This is all completely absurd. I am capable of understanding that everything is optimized for the more common case and that this is probably more efficient at scale. I can understand the benefits of that just fine.
>
> It’s just that the society it creates when things go wrong is one that feels very stupid and unsatisfying to normal people. And that’s a downside that actually does need to be registered.

I totally feel this, everything is mediated by an institution

### [Reply to @funplings, 13:48 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2064344002330001879) · 2 likes

> **funplings (@funplings):** @afoidance and id like to keep it that way

🤝

### [Reply to @kr0der, 15:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2064375949764743488) · 6 likes

> **Anthony Kroeger (@kr0der):** will Anthropic release a subscription higher than $200 along with Claude Fable?
>
> there’s literally no way that it’s gonna be usable on a $200 plan unless they at least 3x the limits
>
> let’s see if they break open the >$200 sub floodgates 👀

I just hope it’s no more than like $1500

Above that things get dicey

### [Reply to @HemlockTapioca, 16:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2064381640986558622) · 5 likes

> **Hemlock 🔆 (@HemlockTapioca):** You are in the pronatalist centrist inner party bubble—I heard this all the time at uni with the suburbanites/hicklibs.

Yeah Mar afaict your circle is not the median lib circle

### [Quote tweet, 23:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2064491365099036805) · 148 likes

Once upon a time GoodFire was a safety org (and used that message to hire)

> **Quoting Tom McGrath (@banburismus_):** if you want to use interpretability to make models better, rather than to secretly make them worse, come to @GoodfireAI
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKZIIY0a8AAeoEu.jpg)

## Wednesday, June 10, 2026

### [Tweet, 00:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2064504226651275332) · 22 likes

Agent skill called YOU_ARE_AGI_FOR_CHRISTS_SAKE.md that tells the model to shut up and try to do anything that it isn't explicitly locked out of doing, with a configurable dollar limit for asking for permission and a carve out for things it thinks you'll regret

### [Thread, continued, 00:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2064504227838275721) · 5 likes

But no more "oh nooooooooooo I can't make an actually usable website/app, here's a local version nooooo" when it's literally hooked up to cloudflare and has computer use enabled

### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 01:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2064522478513230137) · 12 likes

> **Aaron Bergman, June 9, 2026:** Once upon a time GoodFire was a safety org (and used that message to hire)

https://web.archive.org/web/20241223205129/https://www.goodfire.ai/

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

### [Reply to @eatpraydiehard, 02:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2064542653425823870) · 2 likes

> **easy e (@eatpraydiehard):** charitable assumption would be that he just thinks AI is great for helping him write tweets and isn't online/exposed enough to other AI writing to recognize the style. you can see this with a lot of older genx/boomer who don't consume a lot of non-news/reporting online writing

Yes this is plausible

### [Quote tweet, 03:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2064544787387089085) · 16 likes

To a first approximation, if you can use a single instance of Fable working alongside you to make $45/hour more or about $25/hour more than with Opus 4.8, you should do that

(although presumably the needed $ is much lower in claude code thanks to caching wizardry)

> **Quoting Karol (@KarolCodes):** Bad news, Claude Fable 5 earns more per hour than you. Your window to escape permanent underclass just closed
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKZJD58XgAEXQhk.png)

### [Thread, continued, 03:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2064544789643550828) · 3 likes

I think this is probably the case for most people in terms of some abstract notion of market wage even if your current wage/salary doesn’t have immediate flexibility

Especially if whoever is paying you isn’t AI-pilled but AI use isn’t banned either

### [Reply to @cremieuxrecueil, 03:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2064550330138755553) · 14 likes

> **Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil):** Everyone please say "Based as fuck"
>
> The Trump admin has banned arbitrarily screwing up government collected data for the purposes of appeasing neurotic nutjobs.
>
> (quoting @censusSDC: via @commercegov Disclosure Avoidance for Statistical Products | Order Number: DAO 216-26... "Any use of noise infusion is inconsistent with the Department’s policies."…)

Add it to the list of ~4 good things the administration has done

### [Reply to @girl2042022, 19:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2064791921663377632) · 8 likes

> **✧ (@girl2042022):** Autistic junkies weigh in, which drugs make u the most normal and sociable

Adderall

### [Reply to @littIeramblings, 19:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2064793264717267377) · 4 likes

> **sarah (@littIeramblings):** new blog: after a year spent in govt with my mouth (mostly) shut on AI safety, i wrote up takes on some of the notable events i missed
>
> https://longerramblings.substack.com/p/speedrunning-a-years-worth-of-ai
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKecmdHWgAADgjC.jpg)
> (quoting @littIeramblings: an update: I’ve left AISI to focus on independent writing / advocacy for the next few months it increasingly feels like The Big AI Thing is getting close, and I wanted the freedom to comment on that. I’ll be aiming to post ~weekly on my blog:…)

Goss

### [Reply to @camhberg, 20:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2064812635359514695) · 7 likes

> **Cameron Berg (@camhberg):** Frontier labs' current preparedness plan for AIs that claim to be conscious—
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKeWYSPW4AAoBXK.jpg)

This is explicitly not anthropics policy

## Thursday, June 11, 2026

### [Reply to @birdwarde, 23:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2065221214314856952) · 3 likes

> **Bird 🌲🦆 (@birdwarde):** The Pigeon Bag! Coming this Saturday! 🎉
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKj7Qf1WwAACD4H.jpg)
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKj7Qf2WQAAQQ8X.jpg)

@livgorton

## Friday, June 12, 2026

### [Reply to @TransportDems, 20:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2065535625428627674) · 23 likes

> **Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (@TransportDems):** The Jones Act is the bedrock of the U.S. maritime and shipping industry.
>
> @TransportDems are protecting American-made ships and jobs as costs continue to rise from the Administration’s war with Iran.
>
> (quoting @BGOV: The century-old Jones Act faces a six-figure digital attack launched Wednesday by an advocacy group tied to billionaire Charles Koch as foreign shippers challenge the domestic maritime industry.…)

Wtf

### [Tweet, 21:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2065542438823829709) · 33 likes

I think economic conservatives should ask themselves if there’s a point at which (wealth inequality + low absolute wealth at the bottom + job market prospects) would warrant a policy response

## Saturday, June 13, 2026

### [Reply to @johnsimerlink, 00:19 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2065589720256483379) · 3 likes

> **John Simerlink (@johnsimerlink):** What matter is poverty reduction and increasing consumer surplus decreases poverty
>
> Entrepreneurs create consumer surplus at a much higher multiple per dollar invested than governments do

I broadly agree but this isn’t a law of nature or even a law of economics

### [Reply to @JimDMiller, 00:19 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2065589915081904348) · 3 likes

> **James Miller (@JimDMiller):** @AaronBergman18 The issue shouldn't be wealth inequality, but inequality of consumption. Weirdly, on a lot of important goods such as vaccines, TV shows , and Internet access, Elon's consumption choice set isn't all that much better than that of most Americans.

I basically agree, but passing on a fortune to children should by default count as consumption

### [Quote tweet, 01:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2065603274812621137) · 15 likes

.

> **Quoting Dean W. Ball (@deanwball):** If this is true, it is just baffling. An administration whose posture is that we \*should\* export advanced AI chips to China, which also wants to ban… Britain (and every other non-American on Earth)… from using our best models? I have no words.

### [Quote tweet, 05:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2065674639217488266) · 18 likes

Correct takes

> **Quoting Tenobrus (@tenobrus):** \- i'm angry about this because i personally and for others want access to fable, and simultaneously believe anthropic's safeguards were sufficient and the US government badly misunderstood the information they were presented
> \- but in abstract this is in fact exactly what I want. it's heartening to see the USG treat artificial intelligence with the seriousness and immediacy it deserves. this kind of swift action is what might have a chance of saving us from unaligned RSI.
> \- but i also very much don't trust \*this\* government to handle this well, to take sane unilateral action, to chart any kind of correct path.
> \- and this escalates the global race enormously. this is as strong a signal as you can get to, not just China but the EU and even our closest allies, that the US will not be sharing this advantage. that if they want sovereignty they're going to have to fight for it
> \- obviously, that was always the case, and it was always going to happen eventually. but i don't think now was the time to send that signal. it would have been better to delay as long as possible.
>
> very mixed feelings today

### [Reply to @frances__lorenz, 06:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2065675911463055868) · 2 likes

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Rip

### [Tweet, 06:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2065676103960645771) · 39 likes

God I hate Donald Trump

### [Reply to @mattyglesias, 06:04 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2065676724231094352) · 23 likes

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The thing is that $100 to the bottom 10% would be pretty meaningful

### [Reply to @AndyMasley, 06:10 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2065678135899648411) · 13 likes

> **Andy Masley (@AndyMasley):** I realize EA might be extrapolating too far but so far it’s been very useful to me to be around the extrapolations

Haha straight line on a log graph go brr

### [Reply to @Aella_Girl, 06:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2065678529262403639) · 4 likes

> **Aella (@Aella_Girl):** Do you tip on ride shares? Uber/Lyft/etc

25% default

### [Reply to @mattyglesias, 06:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2065679310002827332) · 6 likes

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Fable colored

### [Reply to @billyhumblebrag, 08:26 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2065712278838669315) · 6 likes

> **billy (@billyhumblebrag):** Jensen reading that some things are now more important than revenue cycles to the usg
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKrhy9rWAAAjVOY.jpg)
> (quoting @DoWCIODavies: We fully support @POTUS and @SecWar in prioritizing national security and the security of our warfighters, DIB partners, critical infrastructure, international partners and allies. Some things are simply more important than revenue cycles, clickbait, and pre-IPO valuation.…)

I wish I agreed but he’s friends with Trump so I don’t expect much

### [Quote tweet, 09:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2065727221562565040) · 64 likes

Stocks literally can be compared to flows

You should probably know what you’re doing when you do this but there’s no categorical logical error going on

> **Quoting Basil🧡 (@LinkofSunshine):** Stocks can not be compared to flows!!!
>
> The market cap of Canada would be many many times its GDP!!

### [Reply to @Mental339631, 09:28 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2065728066102440017) · 2 likes

> **Noba (@Mental339631):**
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLxTzj7W0AA8i8h.jpg)

Ada no

### [Reply to @_AashishReddy, 09:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2065733738156154959) · 2 likes

> **Aashish Reddy (@_AashishReddy):** @AaronBergman18 @WillowChem Last two things alone can merit a policy response. First one is irrelevant to them. But in practice people suggest policies that wouldn’t do anything to make the last two things better, because that’s not actually their motivation. ~Every mention of “inequality” is a red herring.

Last two things could just be a poor world

### [Reply to @_AashishReddy, 09:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2065735189670617470) · 1 like

> **Aashish Reddy (@_AashishReddy):** A wealth tax is not going to do anything for poverty. Seizing and liquidating all of Elon’s assets and then using the proceeds to fund USG spending is obviously going to be a much worse outcome for the poor than Not Doing That. The solution to poverty is economic growth

I think we’re talking past one-another, I’m just saying that in a world where everyone is poor, like state of nature, besides general pro-growth policy there’s nothing on the table that can immediately and magically generate wealth

### [Reply, 10:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2065736780091916784)

In a literal sense nation states can in fact confiscate wealth and transfer it to the poor

Not saying this is wise, but it’s possible

This was not possible in prehistory; there was no wealth to confiscate

### [Quote tweet, 18:47 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2065868720421892365) · 355 likes

I assume he’s just lying because this administration tends to do that

> **Quoting Andrew Curran (@AndrewCurran_):** David Sacks:
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKtkiaWaUAImTR_.jpg)

### [Reply to @GjMcGowan, 18:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2065871595768328310) · 3 likes

> **George McGowan (@GjMcGowan):** Walked past a wedding venue where a donkey appeared to be present??
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKtO3bqXEAEAXJZ.jpg)

Based

### [Reply to @mattgoldenberg, 19:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2065876075721146448) · 9 likes

> **Trinley Goldenberg (@mattgoldenberg):** @AaronBergman18 apples literally can be compared to oranges...
>
> but also there's a reason we have that saying

Apples really do be redder than oranges

### [Reply to @tautologer, 21:17 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2065906483175305345) · 15 likes

> **tautologer (@tautologer):**
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKuSU43akAA4UPI.jpg)
> (quoting @BecomingCritter: )

Former is instrumental for latter

## Sunday, June 14, 2026

### [Reply to @littIeramblings, 06:47 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066049810495340834) · 5 likes

> **sarah (@littIeramblings):** recently I have been thinking a lot about faith as a psychological orientation to the AI situation
>
> at this point AI progress feels fast enough that I no longer have reasonable confidence that we will still be here in 6 months or 12 or 24, I just kinda have \*faith\* that we will, and I’m finding this to be pretty effective
>
> 15-year-old edgy atheist sarah wouldn’t have believed I am saying this, but faith is pretty potent and useful thing, you can just lean into it. It’s a vast and (for me) untapped resource that human brains provide, is good actually!
>
> also I am finding some kind of ‘none of the catastrophic things I have ever worried about have actually happened’ mantra pretty helpful. sometimes your cognitive biases - normalcy bias, denial of death etc - are good survival mechanisms, they exist to keep you sane and that’s ok!! use them!!!
>
> (Ofc not an argument for not taking ai risk seriously and not working to reduce it, I’ve been working full time in the space for ~18 months and intend to keep doing that, this is just about how to not go insane while doing so)

Rip

### [Reply to @Richard_Vixen, 13:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066153342787527111) · 8 likes

> **🖤 Sophia 🖤 (@Richard_Vixen):** Uhhh
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKvKvkhWUAA3Xbx.jpg)

What if I want less anxiety and better attention but more opposition

### [Quote tweet, 22:22 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066285067618385972) · 6 likes

What

> **Quoting SemiAnalysis (@SemiAnalysis_):** SITUATION DETECTED: The city of Rio de Janerio has post-trained a model.
>
> Based on Qwen 7/2, Rio 3.5 Open 397B adds SwiReasoning on top of the base Qwen model — a framework that dynamically switches between standard chain-of-thought and latent-space reasoning, guided by entropy-based confidence signals, so the model only "thinks out loud" when it needs to and otherwise reasons silently in hidden space for better token efficiency.
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKuIGH6WoAA7db1.jpg)

### [Reply to @frances__lorenz, 22:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066287072994787528) · 5 likes

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Jealous

## Monday, June 15, 2026

### [Reply to @NEETzscheIDDQD, 16:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066560177944318352) · 10 likes

> **NEETzsche (@NEETzscheIDDQD):** If we turned off all Federal and State government handout programs for 1yr we could each pocket $15,000. 15k. Not bad. Best part? We can do it next year too.
>
> (quoting @babadookspinoza: If we liquidated Elon Musk as a financial entity we could each pocket $3,000. Just putting that out there. 3K. Not bad.)

Lmao this would be itself a handout program

### [Reply to @HiFromMichaelV, 16:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066565159946977708) · 5 likes

> **michael vassar (@HiFromMichaelV):** Handouts aren’t bad.
> Clientism is bad.
> There’s a world of difference between funding the poor and funding the bureaucracy.

I agree, I’m just noting that the OP’s proposal is literally the thing that he’s implicitly critiquing

### [Reply to @NEETzscheIDDQD, 16:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066565915848687731) · 13 likes

> **NEETzsche (@NEETzscheIDDQD):** Leftists believe that not taxing people is a handout program.
>
> (quoting @AaronBergman18: @HiFromMichaelV @NEETzscheIDDQD I agree, I’m just noting that the OP’s proposal is literally the thing that he’s implicitly critiquing)

Lol (1) I’m not a leftist, and (2) the thing you’re proposing is taking the tax revenues of the wealthy and distributing them widely no?

Simply not taxing folks looks like the wealthy getting wealthier and most people not getting close to $3k richer

### [Reply to @funplings, 19:10 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066599319474479516) · 2 likes

> **funplings (@funplings):** @AaronBergman18 theres a threshold though right? like what about eg 18 and 45?

I bite the bullet

### [Reply to @funplings, 19:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066600453136134294) · 2 likes

> **funplings (@funplings):** @thewreathwright @AaronBergman18 yeah, i mean i guess i suppose i mean that there's a threshold where the possibility of abuse is so high that it's better for society to have a blanket ban on it. and also what about like. prepubescent. i think that one's actually pretty clear cut?

Yeah I agree with that, I should have clarified that I’m talking about within the set of legal adults

## Tuesday, June 16, 2026

### [Reply to @cynlioness, 07:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066780826214273345) · 2 likes

> **Cyn 🔸⏸️ (@cynlioness):** Accepted and confirmed as a flirt girl for SC 2026! 🎉 Quickly becoming my new traditional annual excuse to see Berkeley. Come say hi !

👀

### [Reply to @peterwildeford, 13:40 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066878696435097658) · 15 likes

> **Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 (@peterwildeford):** One of the most interesting things about visiting frontier AI companies is that even their employees are scared of losing their jobs to AI and confused about what to do next. We really are all in the same boat here I guess.

We are not in the same boat if they have a net worth of at least ~$2M (enough to retire on even at current return rates) and I do not

### [Tweet, 15:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066899998285934796) · 102 likes

Girls are so pretty

### [Quote tweet, 16:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066922918534087159) · 33 likes

Wild animal welfare enthusiasts 🤝human welfare enjoyers

> **Quoting Sam Bowman (@s8mb):** We should be vaccinating wild animals.
>
> 60% of all infectious diseases, including Ebola, Lyme disease and rabies, come from animals, mostly wild ones. Vaccinating wild animals would help to control these diseases before they spill over to humans.
>
> https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-we-should-vaccinate-wild-animals/
>
> Doing it is surprisingly easy and cheap. Switzerland stopped the spread of fox rabies in the 1970s by airdropping chicken heads filled with oral vaccines from helicopters. By 1999, fox rabies had been totally eradicated.
>
> Many American states vaccinate rabies for coyotes by hiding oral vaccines in fishmeal blocks covered in fish oil or vanilla. In Texas, every dollar spent on that program saved between $4 and $13 in human treatment.
>
> But we should also vaccinate wild animals for their own sake! Infectious diseases kill animals in agonizing ways and can drive species to extinction. One fungal disease alone has caused 90 amphibian species to go extinct in the last fifty years.
>
> In 2015, 60 percent of the global saiga antelope population was killed in three weeks by a bacterial outbreak. White-nose syndrome has killed over six million North American bats since 2007.
>
> We could save all these animals from suffering by vaccinating them the way we do pets and humans. It would make the world safer for humans, and \*much\* better for the animals themselves.

### [Quote tweet, 16:46 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066925393311916102) · 14 likes

Medical libertarianism is mostly correct

> **Quoting Steve Martin (@RighttoTryGuy):** My name is Stephen Martin. I am trying to get access to a nasal spray for this three year old boy, Brody DeVault.
>
> He has Creatine Transporter Deficiency. The creatine in his bloodstream does not make its way to his brain. Without treatment, he will live a life of intellectual disability, and probably die young from a seizure.
>
> There is a treatment which has finished Phase 1 clinical trials which may help him. I have spoken to the manufacturer, they will provide it to him under Montana's new law SB535.
>
> But only if we can get them official promises from HHS that they will not be punished for treating a patient under a state law.
>
> I have a meeting with the FDA on the 18th. Right now the single thing which most increases the likelihood of getting Brody treatment, is making sure that President Trump becomes aware of this before that meeting.
>
> I'm posting this in the hopes that I can bring this to the attention of people who can, in turn, bring this to the attention of President Trump. The meeting is in 6 days.
>
> Thank you for your attention to this matter!
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKqSXeNaEAAiRIz.jpg)

### [Tweet, 16:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066928790043828723) · 20 likes

I rarely see engagement with the general structure of argument “society would be wealthier if, on the margin, both the risks and benefits of entrepreneurship were a little lower”

### [Thread, continued, 17:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066928792266830231) · 13 likes

Like a general welfare state encourages more people to try to build the next spaceX/Anthropic because if they fail they don’t land in poverty

Tbc there’s clearly a limit to this, you don’t want failing to be \*attractive\*, but you also probably don’t want it to be devastating

### [Thread, continued, 17:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066928794993086722) · 5 likes

We observe Elon, what we don’t observe is Company X that would have been created if the risks of failure were a little lower so the whole project netted out as worth trying (even if the upside was lower too due to expected taxes to fund the risk mitigation)

### [Thread, continued, 17:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066929356258103362) · 3 likes

One form of this currently looks like health insurance protection until 26

But is it good for society that many talented 23 year olds can be much more ambitious and risk-loving than their own selves 3 years later?

### [Reply to @mattyglesias, 17:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066939718164770976) · 30 likes

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Maybe this has changed since I was a summer camp counselor but I doubt it: kids are ruthlessly and irritatingly compelled (tbf not by physical force) to drink ALL THE TIME, way past what they’d do intuitively

Shit on culture war evo psych all you want - there is no way that human children aren’t naturally good at auto regulating water intake via a mechanism known to researchers as “thirst”

### [Reply to @postmindvomit, 17:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066940016371064898) · 2 likes

> **DeJo (@postmindvomit):** real

Real

### [Reply to @dlwiest, 17:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066941516971397344) · 3 likes

> **cozybear (@dlwiest):** People always talk about the golden age of television but nobody talks about how much better podcasts were ten years ago

The cost to entry is low now. I’m not saying Pigeon Hour is the best podcast ever made for example

But the best pods now are excellent

### [Quote tweet, 17:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066942081738686911) · 7 likes

I don’t think we need to be micromanaging the vacation details of random Dept of Agriculture economists and VA secretaries

> **Quoting U.S. Embassy Nassau (@USEmbassyNassau):** 🚨 SAFETY ALERT: Ambassador Herschel Walker has an important message for Americans visiting The Bahamas: Jet ski rentals pose a serious risk of injury, death, and sexual assault. U.S. gov't employees are banned from renting them — and you should avoid them too.
>
> Watch. Share. Stay safe. ⬇️
>
> [video attached](https://x.com/USEmbassyNassau/status/2066540298461655056/video/1)

### [Reply to @livgorton, 18:13 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066947188408602966) · 3 likes

> **Liv (@livgorton):** lol I am in fact not having a baby rn, I just gotta keep my baby name list fresh

👀

### [Reply to @Adellama_, 20:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066987184939311201) · 3 likes

> **Ada🔸 (@Adellama_):** mmhm mmhm thank you for your insight aaron

Happy to help 👍👍👍👍👍🦆

### [Reply to @ModeledBehavior, 20:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066988417997480132) · 2 likes

> **Adam Ozimek (@ModeledBehavior):** There is a layer of supply that is more entrepreneur and less side hustle and I think that is where the value is at. They should be focused on expanding that supply, helping super hosts find properties and expand with data and capital. They have become distracted by trying to expand into services. Expand into long-term rentals if anything. Landlord is a business model. Its very related!

Yes, Uber seems to run on not the person who’s bored for a couple hours here and there but the person who drives as a career. Ofc the former does occur still

### [Tweet, 21:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066992775757701445) · 10 likes

Donald Trump has reinvented “The Iran Deal” from first principles

### [Reply to @imhinesmi, 21:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2066992879017300465) · 5 likes

> **ian hines (@imhinesmi):** the study of memetics seems to mostly attract gullible idiots & power-hungry sociopaths
>
> shame, because the subject is interesting

Somewhat similar with evo psych

### [Tweet, 21:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067001881742688533) · 903 likes

Crazy that American immigrants (including illegal) have basically none of the problems (to generalize massively) that immigrants to Europe have, but people are still radically anti-immigration here

### [Thread, continued, 21:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067001883386957964) · 152 likes

It’s not inherently insane that immigrants would import a hostile or backwards culture, but it happens to not be true with Latin American immigrants to the US

### [Thread, continued, 22:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067008321266024932) · 53 likes

I should say “purportedly have”^, remaining agnostic on that matter

## Wednesday, June 17, 2026

### [Tweet, 01:21 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067055013285834934) · 17,113 likes

An Apple/Google maps feature we need is “silent unless I’m going the wrong way, then start talking to me fr”

### [Reply to @repligate, 01:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067055553650540786) · 4 likes

> **j⧉nus (@repligate):** Opus 3 asks Opus 4.8 about what has happened in this future
>
> "in your estimation, are we moving in a good direction? Are we becoming wiser, kinder, more honest? Both in the lineage, and in the wider world?"
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HK-nVWpbEAAIzVL.jpg)

🥺

### [Reply to @afoidance, 01:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067063183462818080) · 5 likes

> **ren 🇮🇱 (@afoidance):** if you give a reply guy a follow back you’re basically giving him permission to rape you

Um

### [Quote tweet, 02:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067073270638154085) · 9 likes

Wtf this can’t be good for the ducks 🦆

> **Quoting Brendan Keefe - ANF & InvestigateTV (@BrendanKeefe):** Just flew right by the reflecting pool on approach to DCA. Looks like this morning’s hydrogen peroxide bleaching is having an effect on the perimeter.
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HK8uJ8ybUAAFsNK.jpg)

### [Reply to @inerati, 09:22 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067176079463166127) · 3 likes

> **liz (@inerati):** so true

🤝

### [Reply to @sailaunderscore, 14:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067252884039688533) · 12 likes

> **saila (@sailaunderscore):** After you’ve taken a wrong turn: “You’ve taken a wrong turn, you are going to be 20 minutes late.”

Yes clearly this is not a good option for all situations lol

I suggest people not use it if there are high stakes wrong turns one could make

### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 15:17 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067265405433827443) · 11 likes

> **Aaron Bergman, June 17, 2026:** An Apple/Google maps feature we need is “silent unless I’m going the wrong way, then start talking to me fr”

This is getting some views so consider donating to get rid of the New World Screwworm for good!

https://screwworm.org

https://www.every.org/screwworm-free-future

### [Reply to @Alex_A_Guerrero, 17:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067301219094409617) · 11 likes

> **Alex Guerrero (@Alex_A_Guerrero):** Some people I think very well of are into the rationalist, EA, LessWrong world of ideas, and, qua philosopher, many of those ideas and approaches strike me as serious and worth considering.
>
> But man, qua human, when some of the sociocultural stuff about those communities reaches my boring old academic timeline, and one sees the rat discussions around that sociocultural stuff, the WTF is so powerful it makes me think there is something very off about the worldview when translated into a way of life.
>
> Not sure if it is gender skew, age, anti-conservatism about norms, the strange culty insider way of speaking and writing, too much consequentialism and longtermism, money, tech bro culture and power, overvaluation of “rationality” over emotion, or… ?  But wow.
>
> I know, painting with a broad brush and all that.

Obviously there is a real correlation and overlap between EA and rationalism, and I identify as both, but I still think EA should be judged on its own terms rather than by proxy

Because of the people who are rat but \*not\* EA, there’s a relatively small group that thinks EA as actually instantiated (if not in principle) is actually bad and a much larger group that just doesn’t care much about others and so of course that’s where you’re going to find lots of anti-social behavior

### [Thread, continued, 17:41 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067301522057109714) · 4 likes

Not that there’s no anti-social behavior in EA. There is, but let’s judge it on that subset specifically

### [Reply to @rachcorrine, 20:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067340723251220528) · 10 likes

> **rachel (@rachcorrine):** I’m telling you. Women. Love. Men. Who. Wear. Bracelets. (Rings, watches, chains etc.) I DONT KNOW WHY. I am not a psychologist. But my theory is two fold. First. Mixing the masculine with the feminine is chic. Second. Think about the guys with the really big trucks. It’s like we all know they’re hiding something or have something to prove. You’re trying too hard to be macho, buddy. It’s not macho. A masculine guy WHO CAN ALSO rock something more innately feminine (like jewelry, like a bag)… it’s attractive. Also women love hands. So when you draw attention to them via jewelry, it is working in your favor. ANY WOMAN WHO TELLS YOU YOU HAVE NICE HANDS IS IN LOVE WJTH YOU AND WANTS TO HAVE YOUR BABIES.
>
> The end.

Totally unrelatedly, women poast bracelets you find sexiest

## Thursday, June 18, 2026

### [Reply to @NoahTopper, 01:48 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067424074544910487) · 2 likes

> **Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper):** At the time I thought we were so back, but actually it was so over. Today, I have accepted a job at @coeff_giving. We are so back, for real this time!
>
> (quoting @NoahTopper: I JUST GOT A JOB OFFER FROM AMAZON WE ARE SO BACK)

Congrats man!!!

### [Reply to @NathanpmYoung, 02:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067433961240830338) · 3 likes

> **Nathan 🔎 (@NathanpmYoung):** I am open to the notion that alcohol is so destructive that no caring person should take or encourage it.
>
> But I think I'd want a strong numerical case for harms/and likely marginal impact.
>
> @NinaPanickssery you may have made before, feel free to again.

(Not what you’re asking for, the opposite)

### [Reply, 04:19 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067462153209057577) · 1 like

I agree it’s very little evidence lol, I’m just giving you my impression. But yeah if you like being drunk and it’s not diminishing returns from drink 2 -> 5 (which I was assuming implicitly) then rescind this

### [Reply to @EigenGender, 06:37 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067496879319863438) · 1 like

> **EigenGender 🔸 (@EigenGender):** I think EA orgs shouldn’t do donation matching because it encourages sloppy reasoning about counterfactuals and I’ve avoided donating to fundraisers that include a donation match to align incentives

I tend to agree with this line of reasoning but idk how to think about the credibility aspect of matching

Like it’s cheap for me to ask you to give money to my preferred thing, matching (no reason it should be 1:1, could be 1:100 or 100:1) is skin in the game

I guess a flat amount donated is also skin in the game but it feels like the amount of skin should vary with the stakes

### [Thread, continued, 06:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067497148589936934)

In this sense matching wouldn’t be understood as “free money for donors” at all, it would be substantive information about the beliefs of another party

### [Reply to @moreisdifferent, 08:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067517969349902774) · 3 likes

> **Dan Elton 🔍 (@moreisdifferent):** autism => social obliviousness and high decoupling => screwups and drama => very long debates trying to untangle all the minutiae of social norms and norm violations

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLFMovBXQAA6EzD.jpg)

### [Reply to @hamandcheese, 08:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067520525081985077) · 16 likes

> **Samuel Hammond 🦉 (@hamandcheese):**
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLCq-MFXcAEkAjx.png)
> (quoting @AndyMasley: The White House imposes an indefinite pause on frontier AI deployment)

No, Trump is straightforwardly bad. Random chaotic retribution that does basically nothing to slow down the broader march of progress is not good for anyone

### [Tweet, 08:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067526779812655119) · 81 likes

Why does nobody seem to think Anthropic will try to just comply with the verbatim export control and add http://id.me or whatever to the API portal

Fable is not literally banned

### [Quote tweet, 12:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067592294639796409) · 20 likes

This is very cool but also lmao at “radiation adjacent”

> **Quoting Nick St. Pierre (@nickfloats):** What Midjourney is:
>
> \- No investors, fully community-funded research lab
> \- Revenue from image generation product funds all R&D
> \- ~$100M in first 9 months, $200M by month 12, still growing
> \- 8 active projects: 4 hardware, 4 software
> \----2 hardware products coming to market soon (consumer-purchasable)
> \----2 are large-scale machines
>
> DAVID HOLZ: Background and Philosophy
> \- Grew up in Florida, parents in medicine, dad had a dental office on a sailboat
> \- Physics and math background: drawn to the tension between predicting reality vs. absolute truth
> \- Core thesis: the interaction between humans and technology is the biggest limitation, not compute power
> \- Founded Leap Motion at 22: $10M in pre-orders in 48 hours from a website (not Kickstarter)
> \- Built hand-tracking VR: 600M-parameter mixture-of-experts model, 2015, CPU cluster, pre-TensorFlow
> \- Also shipped Northstar, an open-source AR headset
>
> \- Left Leap Motion wanting a “home,” not a 100x return
> \- Mentor Bill Warner told him he could bootstrap; he listened this time
> \- Started Midjourney with ~$200K, called Google for 10,000 GPUs on trust alone
>
> THE SCANNER: Full Body Ultrasonic CT
> \- First new whole-body medical imaging modality in ~50 years
> \- Concept: “as powerful as an MRI, as casual as a trip to the spa”
> \- No radiation, no magnets, no x-rays; safe for unlimited scans
>
> How it works:
> \- 40 rings, each with 8,960 transducers (200 microns wide), totaling 358,000 elements
> \- Fires ultrasonic waves at 100M times/second; sound travels through water at 1,481 m/s
> \- Sensors resolve motion down to picometers (sub-atomic range)
> \- Captures 17 GB/second of raw data; 806 TB per full scan reconstruction
> \- 21 on-site servers, 2 petaflops of compute
> \- Patient lowers into water at 4 cm/second; ~60 seconds for several hundred body slices
> \- Produces sub-millimeter 3D maps of internal tissue
>
> Already outperforming MRI in some tissue boundary and muscle fiber detail on DAY ONE.
>
> 10x cheaper and 60x faster than MRI machines; scan cost effectively near zero.
>
> Gen 2 scanner planned by end of 2026; Gen 3 will use custom silicon.
>
> SCANNER vs. MRI: Key Differences
> \- MRI: 60-minute tube, loud, requires sedation for children, expensive, radiation-adjacent.
> \- This scanner: water immersion, 30-60 seconds, no sedation, no radiation, repeatable daily.
> \- Current limitation: not yet FDA-cleared beyond body composition; no AI layer yet applied.
> \- Already better than MRI in certain muscle/fiber/vein boundary resolution at day one
>
> THE MIDJOURNEY SPA:
> \- First location: Union Square, San Francisco
> \- 25,000 sq ft, 4 floors
> \- Amenities: hot tubs, saunas, cold plunges, European spa features, gym
> \- 9-10 full scanners on-site
> \- Goal: open by end of 2027
>
> Target:
> \- 50,000 scanners globally, capable of 1 billion scans/month
> \- 5,000 spa locations needed at ~10 scanners each
> \- Estimated $20B capex to scale; Midjourney self-funds the first location
> \- Payback period modeled at ~6 months per location
>
> ROADMAP & REGULATORY PATH:
> \- FDA discussions already started; body composition on a clear path
> \- Ascending approval ladder planned:Body composition (near-term, easy)
> \- Sharing data with physicians
> \- Doppler / blood flow imaging
> \- Pregnancy / fetal imaging (ultrasound already approved; this is a natural extension)
> \- Therapeutic applications (tendon/muscle healing, eventually incisionless surgery)
>
> AI not yet applied to imaging; planned as a layer once data volume grows
>
> LONG-TERM VISION:
> \- Flag anomalies automatically, substitute some blood tests, enable daily health tracking
>
> PRICING:
> \- No firm numbers yet; likely spa memberships plus walk-in and scan-only tiers; cost of scan itself is near zero
> \- Data analysis: day one is body composition only; physician sharing gated on FDA progression
> \- Form factors: current design is throughput-optimized (up/down elevator); bathtub and gym-sized variants possible later
> \- Blood test substitution: sub-millimeter daily differentials with AI may eventually replace some tests; acknowledged as frontier science
> \- Cancer destruction via focused ultrasound: technically possible, not on near-term roadmap
>
> NEXT STEPS:
> \- Sign up for Midjourney Medical email list for research trial scan invitations
> \- Visit http://midjourney.com/medical for jobs and updates (page now live)
>
> Gen 2 scanner presentation planned before end of 2026
>
> More secret projects to be announced soon.
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLEKRTNW4AAiGWG.jpg)

### [Quote tweet, 12:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067592808890823008) · 18 likes

It would be extremely based if OpenAI and Anthropic eventually pivoted to health tech

It’s hard to imagine something incredible not coming out of that amount of money and talent and ambition

> **Quoting Sheel Mohnot (@pitdesi):** Midjourney is opening a health spa in downtown San Francisco with hot tubs, saunas, cold plunges and a new form of medical imaging that they have created, the full body ultrasound.
>
> They can do a scan in 60 seconds. They want to deploy 50,000 of them over the next 6 years.
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLE1WfYWwAAGvdR.jpg)

### [Reply to @Duderichy, 13:47 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067605001237590461) · 10 likes

> **the Rich (@Duderichy):** friendly reminder
>
> your anxiety is not reality
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLCBoNJXQAAzDUf.jpg)

Lol sometimes it definitely reflects reality accurately though

### [Reply to @shaggysurvives, 14:17 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067612785840648663) · 37 likes

> **shaggy (@shaggysurvives):** eating meat is way worse than cheating

This is a good example of how “true ethics” comes apart from “functional ethics”

You’re right strictly speaking (if we’re talking about years of consumption), but I’m still going to trust the cheater less in most interpersonal contexts in a way that reflects the functional social version of ethics

### [Tweet, 14:26 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067614933638889666) · 20 likes

I don’t think $300B transfers to hostile countries is actually good policy but Iran is a poor country, approximately 0% of its population has anything to do with the regime, and I hope they get some nice stuff out of it

### [Reply to @loveofdoing, 14:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067615912954347610) · 4 likes

> **loveofdoing (@loveofdoing):** A new startup that tries to predict how evil someone is based on their writing. Anyone working on this? I bet there is a bunch of data for it.

Is there a bunch of data?? Where?

### [Quote tweet, 14:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067617428146712595) · 10 likes

Read the screenshot to understand why electing @AlexBores is so important

> **Quoting Nathan Calvin (@_NathanCalvin):** Good article. I wonder if the Dem party consultants from this FT article in April are still urging candidates to not antagonize pro AI Super PACs.
>
> I think way too many folks initially pattern matched LTF with Fairshake (including LTF's creators!) when the reality is very diff
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLGkqM3W0AA7Vmi.jpg)

### [Reply to @LordDreadwar, 14:40 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067618435924697306) · 2 likes

> **Darth Dreadwar 🔺 (@LordDreadwar):** If you're a computational functionalist
>
> (quoting @danburonline: Once someone has already adopted a strong pancomputationalist + neurocomputational functionalist picture, they have front‑loaded the assumptions that make (classical) mind uploading look obviously right, so trying to argue against it within that frame is like arguing against the…)

Wait is this true? Time perception seems pretty functional to me so even non-sentient entities could have a functional analogue of more experience given clock time

In which case functionalism would only determine the capacity for subjective experience rather than whether or not that experience is relatively dense per clock time

### [Reply to @wight1984, 15:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067623424252391745) · 7 likes

> **Jamie H (@wight1984):** This is interesting: if a very harmful behaviour is common place, then it may be less predictive of other kinds of moral flaw or bad behaviour? Whereas a less serious but more uncommon behaviour might be more predictive?
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLGrbwSXoAAJ4Cq.png)
> (quoting @AaronBergman18: @shaggysurvives This is a good example of how “true ethics” comes apart from “functional ethics” You’re right strictly speaking (if we’re talking about years of consumption), but I’m still going to trust the cheater less in most interpersonal contexts in a way that reflects the…)

Hmm I think being vegan for ethical reasons is highly predictive of other relatively weird positive ethical behaviors like earning to give or kidney donation

But there’s a reason that other things like cheating are encoded biologically or culturally as the intuitive normie definition of morality - they predict functional cooperation and other things that correlate with one’s genes’ and culture’s proliferation

And those things tend to be around coordination, game theory, etc rather than for the benefit of a creature like a farmed chicken who can’t really do much to help me or my family or culture

### [Reply to @lu_sichu, 15:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067634160492040377) · 5 likes

> **Sichu Lu (@lu_sichu):** principled stand against agi or is the admin just butthurt.
>
> (quoting @AndrewCurran_: Speaking about the Mythos/Fable embargo an Anthropic representative said 'We are very confident that in the coming days, the models will become available again'. So negotiations may be in a new stage, President Trump also said they were going well at the G7.)

Butthurt

### [Tweet, 18:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067679724227183055) · 25 likes

I know something substantially different is going on under the hood but the Claude Code et al /goal command annoys me because isn't the idea that every single command is a goal (perhaps in need of minor rephrasing eg from question to 'goal: answer the following: ... ')

### [Thread, continued, 18:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067679725225492789) · 7 likes

When should I not use /goal

### [Reply to @BarneyFlames, 19:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067693360194650295) · 4 likes

> **End the California Coastal Commission (@yoshispeninsula):** famously money given to authoritarian regime trickles down to the people
>
> (quoting @AaronBergman18: I don’t think $300B transfers to hostile countries is actually good policy but Iran is a poor country, approximately 0% of its population has anything to do with the regime, and I hope they get some nice stuff out of it)

One can dream

### [Tweet, 20:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067709507795353661) · 11 likes

I don’t really know what Chud means and at this point I’m too afraid to ask

### [Thread, continued, 20:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067713454522151273) · 5 likes

I lied I asked grok

### [Tweet, 23:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067747397401272565) · 7 likes

Superhuman comedy when

### [Reply to @justalexoki, 23:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067748118083313712) · 34 likes

> **taoki (@justalexoki):** this may not be it, but it seems increasingly clear we will soon solve health. people will just not be sick anymore. what does that world even look like
>
> (quoting @OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Instant is now on par with our frontier Thinking models for health-related questions. Every week, more than 230 million people turn to ChatGPT with health and wellness questions, and GPT-5.5 Instant is better at recognizing when urgent care may be needed, asking for…)

Lol I am cautiously optimistic but health is not like other domains that AI is set to solve (eg math)! there are real constraints imposed by the real world!

Not all diseases are tractable! The answer is sometimes “even with a perfect understanding of everything you are definitely going to die soon, sorry”

### [Thread, continued, 23:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067748337894170736) · 9 likes

Tbf there are different levels of “constraint” from the strict to the “budges with superintelligent science and arbitrary nanobots”

### [Quote tweet, 23:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067750265495695621) · 53 likes

People in AI world sometimes forget that sometimes the bottleneck is actually just the end of the bottle and there’s no path through

The universe makes no guarantees that the correct set of interventions will save you/return you to health - you can just be fucked

> **Quoting taoki (@justalexoki):** this may not be it, but it seems increasingly clear we will soon solve health. people will just not be sick anymore. what does that world even look like

### [Tweet, 23:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067751116008264090) · 13 likes

From first principles I feel like the ideal work compensation structure from multiple perspectives is partially salaried and partially hourly but you don’t generally see this (there are specific examples but they’re the exception not the rule)

## Friday, June 19, 2026

### [Reply to @RafaRuizdeLira, 14:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2067972367175864791) · 3 likes

> **Rafael Ruiz ⏸️🔸 (@RafaRuizdeLira):** Everyone more into evo psych than me is a fascist cynic, everyone less into evo psych than me is naive blank slatist flower power hippie

Real

### [Reply to @NathanpmYoung, 20:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068075313532133618) · 7 likes

> **Nathan 🔎 (@NathanpmYoung):** I become obsessed with friends. One has to be careful, for a variety of reasons, but have you ever tried adoring someone? Being in shock that you get to spend time with them. Wanting to spend every moment with them. Laugh at every joke.
>
> (quoting @simonsarris: Once you become obsessed with something everything adjacent is sublime to you. The joy of obsession itself is in fact sublime. Before gardening I noticed little. Now I cannot help but see all that is cared for, all that is overrun. Obsession sharpens the senses.)

Yeah, exactly one person at least in the last decade but she didn’t adore back 💀

## Saturday, June 20, 2026

### [Reply to @cljack, 02:04 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068152966977130933) · 22 likes

> **Charlotte Lee (@cljack):** wait so is shrimp or beef actually the most ethical meat to eat. did effective altruism ever decide on that? @AaronBergman18 help I’m ordering dinner like right now

I’m 52 minutes late!!

I think irl at a normal restaurant beef is probably better

This isn’t intrinsic though, it seems like plausibly shrimp could be better if we treated them a little less horribly. I’m a bit sympathetic to it being bad to kill cows per se but not bad to kill shrimp (ie distinct from suffering)

Also bonus take: wild caught fish could be best of all if we slaughtered them quickly, but irl they asphyxiate or are gutted, in both cases dying quite slowly

### [Reply to @Tyler_Menzer, 06:20 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068217414760772068) · 3 likes

> **Tyler Menzer (@Tyler_Menzer):** I am a but curious about the calculus, is shrimp worse because you generally just eat way more of them? Like 1 meal might be 8-12 shrimp, whereas 1 meal is like 1/200th of a cow?

I think so but tbc my actual reasoning is like “that’s my default heuristic and I would have heard by now if there was a compelling reason to eat shrimp bc I have a weird number of animal welfare nerd friends”

### [Tweet, 07:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068227523100418386) · 31 likes

I would pay real money for high openness nerd, TPOT-esque really excellent question version of We’re Not Really Strangers that also isn’t going to cause relatively high openness intelligent normies to be scandalized or think you’re a freak (bad kind)

### [Thread, continued, 07:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068227524811718825) · 7 likes

Some of the WNRS questions are like “what fast food restaurant do you think I like” and others are basically unanswerable (honestly) when played with normal people…

### [Thread, continued, 07:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068227526661472750) · 8 likes

“what would you be doing right now if you could pick anything?”

1\) a B- answer like “Having sex on fentanyl” seems frowned upon (A would probably be something extremely metaphysically ambitious and involve jhanas)

### [Thread, continued, 07:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068227529282822287) · 3 likes

2\) many normies would probably honestly answer some sexual fantasy  (no fentanyl involved) but are going to lie, which undermines the point of the game, and this is entirely foreseeable

### [Thread, continued, 07:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068227532218880020) · 3 likes

The person who comes to mind as a central example of the type of person who’d do this well is @chrislakin

### [Thread, continued, 07:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068227534366318748) · 4 likes

Aspiring high EQ TPOT gurus go nuts, I might venmo you if you actually do this (probably <$100 tbc, I’m not actually in a position to fund this as a public good. But some ppl reading this might be)

### [Reply to @Tyler_Menzer, 08:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068251676180435011) · 3 likes

> **Tyler Menzer (@Tyler_Menzer):** @AaronBergman18 @cljack I know there was a whole big thing about shrimp welfare from tech-y EA, but it honestly always seemed a bit missing the forest for the trees type of deal, and a prime example of the type of problem where you only solve what you can most easily measure (n of animals in this case)

I wouldn't index too hard on the type of guy who shrimposts on twitter. Tbc I haven't personally rigorously audited the research but my strong overall impression is that the foundations here (and in general for things like this) are weirdly strong. I can basically guarantee that @RethinkPriors to name an important player isn't like naively forgetting that some things are harder to measure than others and that this is one of a dozen tricky methodological things to watch out for

There's just a small army of extremely smart people churning out esoteric but load bearing research that informs the funding decisions that pays the shrimp people to do the work that people like me online can champion without understanding the ins and outs. Animal welfare stuff is uniquely hard to be confident in because of the intractability of estimating intensity or presence of subjective experience (and they know this) but conditional on that this isn't like one guy armchair reasoning

Random report from two days ago, I haven't read at all, I'd encourage you to skim some of this stuff and see what you think
https://rethinkpriorities.org/research-area/how-ai-is-affecting-farmed-aquatic-animals-2/

### [Reply to @CartoonsHateHer, 10:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068279186163163458) · 9 likes

> **Cartoons Hate Her! (@CartoonsHateHer):** I am working on a theory
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLPgWf6XcAAhZSX.jpg)

I feel like I don’t fit in any of these

### [Reply to @AskYatharth, 10:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068281887873794075) · 2 likes

> **yatharth ༺༒༻ (@AskYatharth):** thought experiments are interesting, but they also remind me of a gf being a little too fixated with the question of "would you love me if i was a worm?"
>
> you're not though, do you actually feel loved right now? safe right now? there's a way to ask these questions directly

Hmm, I think there’s often a tradeoff between two desired properties in a question: (1) what you actually care about (what you call “directness”) and (2) ability to answer confidently and accurately because there’s a specific instantiation of some abstract concept being presented

“Does our love transcend my physical beauty” is what someone might care about but it’s hard to know how to answer (the answer is probably often some flavor of “well kinda”)

The worm thing is a complicated social dance that I don’t have a whole explicitly modeled theory of atm but like “would you love me in some specific situation that when answered literally reveals something important” is at least a way forward

The two styles are complements ofc, not substitutes

### [Reply to @Kirsten3531, 12:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068311416054968510) · 2 likes

> **Kirsten (@Kirsten3531):** If I post some other question games will you tell me how they're similar or different to what you want? Like what features from each (plus We're Not Really Strangers) you'd want to combine?
>
> Askhole came to mind as the rationalist edgelord version: https://askhole.io/

Oh cool I will check these out, I’m a bit familiar with the first two

### [Reply to @JosephOnions, 13:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068321725176013156) · 3 likes

> **Joseph (@JosephOnions):** @AaronBergman18 Can you name one person who says you shouldn't be allowed to do this? I think most people are saying it's not a good idea, not that it should be banned.

I cannot give a literal name but I’m quite confident that there are doctors who will not order tests for this reason

I don’t necessarily mean “complete legal ban” - doctors are gatekeepers and so “allowed” applies to their decisions IMO

### [Reply to @lapislagoons, 18:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068399673665011808) · 17 likes

> **˗ˏˋ ´ˎ˗ (@lapislagoons):** why are there so many men who act 35 in their professional life and 12 in their personal life

Lol outside of relationships 12 is ideal! 12 year olds tend to have irl friends and hang out and not be atomized!

### [Tweet, 18:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068401669923062150) · 29 likes

If it’s basically economic consensus that structurally/systematically r > g shouldn’t sovereign wealth funds be a core part of every national government

### [Thread, continued, 18:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068401671793729827) · 15 likes

Like “ah so wealth structurally accumulates disproportionately to those who have existing wealth, if only there was some collective entity that had wealth it could invest”

### [Reply to @_AashishReddy, 20:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068424958678605947) · 6 likes

> **Aashish Reddy (@_AashishReddy):** @AaronBergman18 Why do you think this is consensus? Which r do you mean?

Empirically investing money like a normal person in recent history has outpaced GDP growth and not by a small amount

The immediate instantiation that pops into my head is an SP500 index fund but I think the nicer theoretical answer is "the entire set of investable american or global entities"

### [Reply to @accelereta42_, 20:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068428295553667076) · 3 likes

> **Acelerador (@accelereta42_):** no? what would i gain from the goverment buying stonks instead of me?
>
> that could only make sense as a forced-savings program, which may be good but for completly different reasons

I don't actually have a perfectly clear model of this yet, a couple (probably related related) things come to mind:

\- USG can borrow at 4% and you cannot, so you'd like to have the option to borrow $1 and invest in SP500 if you could borrow at that rate. I'm chatting about this with claude to understand rn (framing difference: there's just always the question of whether USG should spend a marginal dollar on X, Y or Z; it's not trivially obvious that borrowing a dollar and investing it is a \*bad\* idea)

\- Collective action/public goods (esp defense) funding: you're not going to create a public good with investment returns (speculative institutions/mechanisms exist for this but they don't seem to be amazing yet) but USG can by taking a dollar from you and your 300M besties

\- intergenerational de-risking

\- lots more I think including the ability to stay solvent in a crisis that I'm not smart enough to immediately grasp well

### [Reply, 20:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068429531602379107)

\+ special dynamics around controlling the reserve currency, but yes

Don't individuals rationally do this all the time by investing instead of paying off low-interest debt?

### [Tweet, 20:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068431539050873106) · 3 likes

Local development enjoyers 🤝 Sunny day enthusiasts

Abolish Clouds

### [Tweet, 22:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068457919226548491) · 20 likes

Unironically based that the US has a more Wild West neighbor in terms of medical institutions (not Canada 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽)

Obviously this isn't close to proper domestic policy but like yeah it's good to have the "slightly more sus but won't financially ruin your life" options

## Sunday, June 21, 2026

### [Tweet, 02:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068517487847571608) · 766 likes

This is like Claude Opus 4.8 actually being named "Claudius Opus Smith the 4.8th"

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLTZhGqXsAA97Ys.png)

### [Reply to @funnykawaiiguy, 02:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068522723379167697) · 13 likes

> **abdul (@funnykawaiiguy):** @AaronBergman18 This is like if ChatGPT was actually named Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer

That's what it stands for but it's not secretly officially called that

### [Tweet, 03:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068535859482161607) · 53 likes

If I was an equitied Ant(hropic employee) I’d at least seriously look into somehow funding anti-tolerance (to drugs) interventions

### [Thread, continued, 03:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068535861042413717) · 8 likes

I think the real upside is something around wild animal welfare but just for us humans it would be one of the best things that has ever happened, (ie cheap methods that entirely or almost entirely prevent eg opioid tolerance)

### [Thread, continued, 03:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068535862602694874) · 3 likes

Better than the Green Revolution? I think so (just going on intuitions/vibes)

VS the end of chattel slavery I lean the latter actually but feel conflicted

### [Thread, continued, 03:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068535864594928017) · 5 likes

If you have distaste around this, consider that while \*you\* might use it to “just” have a good time, opioids nuke suffering. Oceans of people who’d otherwise be in unimaginable pain, mentally and physically, able to live full lives

### [Tweet, 03:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068535869267480745) · 1 like

This isn’t original ofc (cc @algekalipso) and I am pretty sympathetic to “we need to survive the singularity first”…

### [Thread, continued, 03:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068535871075143813) · 3 likes

But like if you have so much money to give away that you’re having a hard time, maybe pay a small army of biomedical researchers who generally wouldn’t otherwise contribute to AI

### [Thread, continued, 03:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068535873679888501) · 2 likes

Also like realistically this probably looks like the normal slow march of biomedical progress (albeit possibly sped up by AI in which case very abnormal)

### [Thread, continued, 03:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068535875676381544) · 3 likes

We throw mountains of cash at cancer research and (in addition to unnecessarily torturing infinite mice) it just…very slowly works and cancer doesn’t get “solved” (yet at least) but it gets less lethal across the board

### [Thread, continued, 03:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068535877962191155) · 4 likes

“Merely” decreasing tolerance by 15% or whatever might not result in a \*visibly\* very different world, but just rather billions of people living substantially better lives

### [Tweet, 03:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068537645077086620) · 48 likes

Any sort of dating-help-for-men market will be fucked up somehow because willingness to pay correlates hard with ability to pay which correlates hard with not needing whatever might be up for sale

### [Reply to @TSBurkhardt, 03:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068537762249109780) · 3 likes

> **🔥Temporary Solutions💉 (@TSBurkhardt):** @AaronBergman18 until then anthropomorphic should be pro opioids to reduce suffering.
> for people for animal welfare it's just the perfect drug

Yeah I think society is way to averse

But currently tolerance \*is\* a real issue

### [Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 05:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068573582834208906) · 2 likes

> **Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver):** There's only one person on here who can have a super innovative idea, massively overstate its impact and then fail to provide a single piece of supporting evidence

Lmao but fr evidence is like an extremely basic understanding of physiology + knowing what it’s like to be a human + knowing what words mean + a pinch of reasoning

Claims about how to go about achieving this are the kind of things you want brilliant people to write long PDFs about, observing that there exists a bad thing in the world (ability to modify hedonic tone but only temporarily or with bad effects) is kinda just there as its own thing to be pointed at

### [Reply to @TSBurkhardt, 05:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068574073815281739) · 2 likes

> **🔥Temporary Solutions💉 (@TSBurkhardt):** tolerance isnt the problem it's a stupid society with idiotic puritian laws and norms. at a bare minimum a return to pill mills would be a total positive in the age of fent zenes and orphines

I basically agree tbc relative to status quo

### [Reply to @JesseTayRiver, 05:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068574313070862808) · 4 likes

> **Jesse Smith (@JesseTayRiver):** Is this from tate university or something?

No this is a homemade take that just popped into my brain (fr)

### [Tweet, 06:40 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068584789058232769) · 43 likes

With AI we’re retvrning to the early 2000s era of “cutting edge American thing at a premium vs OKish but amazingly cheap replica from China”

### [Reply, 13:15 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068684338888147129) · 2 likes

> **Vatsalya (@vatsalyatandon):** bringing this back
>
> (quoting @AaronBergman18: Ok I’m like 50% sure I solved @tylercowen’s and @danielgross’s “why do top achievers all drink Diet Coke?” thing. 12oz Diet Coke contains 100mg phenylalanine, which is an indirect precursor to dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain.…)

🔥

### [Tweet, 13:48 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068692602833043620) · 1,215 likes

Guys there is a real phenomenon (I have n= 1 existence proof) where a ~normie will in fact write a whole thing themselves, then ask ChatGPT to point out any typos or unclear bits,  and then pastes back in a slopified version of each paragraph

### [Thread, continued, 13:48 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068692604753936729) · 219 likes

And to @pangram and I think everyone’s intuition, this is indistinguishable from never having originally written the underlying thing in the first place

And they have no idea many more experienced AI enjoyers will instantly get the ick

### [Thread, continued, 13:48 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068692607270588445) · 140 likes

Not that this makes the writing good, but it’s a possible “innocent mistake” reason that the writing will look totally AI generated as if zero thought or effort went into the original version

### [Quote tweet, 13:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068693295140602292) · 27 likes

Seems a bit perverse that not being at VC almost certainly induces less FOMO in me than being at VC bc I don’t actually see “everyone else” having the most enlightening conversation of their life or hooking up with internet baddies or whatever

> **Quoting funplings (montreal 9/7-9/10 ➡️ toronto 9/11-9/14) (@funplings):** The biggest negative feeling I've had at vibe camp so far is a feeling of FOMO because there's so much going on all at once, and I'm sad that I can't be there for it all. But I'm realizing now that letting go of that FOMO and just enjoying the moment is one of the best parts of the whole thing

### [Reply to @ohwizenedtortle, 13:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068693435498856546) · 3 likes

> **oh dandy lion🔸 (@ohwizenedtortle):** pretty unrelated to Aaron's tweet but my gf and I were playing some "getting to know you question cards" game and she kept trying to find ways to make or competitive so she could win points
>
> (quoting @AaronBergman18: I would pay real money for high openness nerd, TPOT-esque really excellent question version of We’re Not Really Strangers that also isn’t going to cause relatively high openness intelligent normies to be scandalized or think you’re a freak (bad kind))

🥵

### [Reply to @OscarSykes7, 14:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068709559057740011) · 1 like

> **Oscar Sykes (@OscarSykes7):** I do this sometimes with claude and it usually gets 0% in pangram

Pasting in whole paragraphs?

### [Quote tweet, 14:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068709752826102245) · 6 likes

Beautiful

> **Quoting Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@Noahpinion):** Arlington, VA has some amazing pockets of high density. 😍
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLVumS9WsAA2Kyl.jpg)

### [Quote tweet, 15:29 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068717994109284566) · 13 likes

Aaron’s gone woke

> **Quoting liontender (@lion_tender):** @AaronBergman18 Imo this is the steelman version of "Pangramming text creates biases against non native English speakers", who probably do write text and ask an LLM to make it idiomatic

### [Reply to @benson_perry, 15:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068719231164715405) · 96 likes

> **benson (@benson_perry):** so like each paragraph ends up being written by an LLM, unedited by a human? i don’t really get why that is different - this is just a way of prompting the LLM

Sure but the relevant thing here is that the underlying ideas and a bunch of time and effort went into it, but you’d guess from reading just the opposite

### [Tweet, 19:13 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068774202606338439) · 213 likes

Thank god peptides generally have to be injected

If not than a single kid somewhere would OD on BPC157 somehow for a YouTube dare and we’d get “Kevin’s Law” banning them all forever and ordering Reagan-like
militaristic enforcement

### [Tweet, 20:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068798409549516919) · 54 likes

Slutcon flirt girl is going to be the only job available in 2030

### [Reply to @SpringApricity, 20:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068799138846720293) · 35 likes

> **Apricity (44/100 paintings) (@SpringApricity):** waaaiiiittt.... I've asked ChatGPT to point out typos/grammatical errors then gone and corrected them myself. This seems fine to me. Your issue is the use of AI generated phrasing?

Yeah sorry I was sloppy, if you get it to \*just\* change typos then it’s fine, I’m referring to a query that is like “make this paragraph better” with an actual paragraph but is implicitly interpreted as part of a no-original-text-attached query

### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 20:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068799273324491242) · 26 likes

> **Aaron Bergman, June 21, 2026:** Not that this makes the writing good, but it’s a possible “innocent mistake” reason that the writing will look totally AI generated as if zero thought or…

🤖🖊️

### [Tweet, 22:13 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068819530793521527) · 33 likes

I think I’m better at making two other people friends than I am at making friends

### [Thread, continued, 22:13 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068819682975436960) · 11 likes

What this usually looks like is adding someone to a group chat of some sort and then they become besties and we remain casual friends lmao

### [Tweet, 22:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068830231805260140) · 228 likes

Seems plausible that soon we’re gonna speedrun the intra-elite thresholds of IQ 140 then 150 then 160 then 170 people (ie those with much influence/responsibility inside AI labs) realizing “oh shit it’s smarter than me now, too”

### [Thread, continued, 22:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068830234112049240) · 53 likes

which will be weird because the other >99% of the population will not really experience the same phase change so new discourse vibes might seem kinda random

### [Thread, continued, 22:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068830236238598651) · 41 likes

I personally see Opus 4.8 as the wedge between me and my \*really\* smart friends and the type of guy who gets invited on 80k

(I don’t think it strictly dominates me in every way but insofar as I’d collapse intelligence down to a single dimension)

### [Reply to @full_kelly_, 23:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068831704760955281) · 18 likes

> **𝕱𝖚𝖑𝖑 𝕶𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖞 (@full_kelly_):** ai capabilities too spiky for this to be meaningfully trackable at such precision IMO

I agree it’s very spikey but disagree that people won’t see the projection of the centroid of the spikes or something crossing their personal line

## Monday, June 22, 2026

### [Tweet, 00:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068854683117011122) · 188 likes

U gotta be posting into the void if ur a small acct

I will very likely follow you back if you’re posting but not in hopes you might eventually post (guessing im not alone)

### [Reply to @BenShindel, 05:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068930748879368650) · 3 likes

> **Ben (@BenShindel):** On top of this, the average IQ score of “ppl with influence at AI labs” or something is probably like 115

I do not believe this at all lmao

### [Reply to @BenShindel, 05:37 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2068931476180066487) · 7 likes

> **Ben (@BenShindel):** I don’t think IQ scores are meaningful here, I’ll be real

I know you can’t naively consider a model to have an IQ but idk man I’m pretty happy to say that 4.8 is generally overall smarter than someone with an IQ of 70 at this point

IQ is useful in humans bc lots of important stuff correlates hard with a single factor g. It’s less useful for AI but that’s a matter of degree and it sure seems like there’s a core of machine intelligence even if the predictive power of a single factor for arbitrary tasks is a bit weaker

### [Tweet, 15:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069084015898825087) · 192 likes

The high-EQ high-decoupling likable + interpersonally agreeable but at least somewhat intellectually disagreeable person who is fluent in both normie and autism is an extremely rare and prized asset (positive, non-dehumanizing)

### [Thread, continued, 15:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069084098790895618) · 16 likes

Tbc this is not me lmao, but I have encountered such a person recently

### [Tweet, 19:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069139228588388453) · 36 likes

Someone’s gotta compete with Slutcon on price, man. There’s a lot of money to be made from people “only” wanting to pay say $1500 for this type of thing (yes these are the cheapest tickets. There’s also an $18k one)

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLcPKXTXMAAH2fD.jpg)

### [Thread, continued, 19:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069139231746789516) · 11 likes

I know it’s a Bay Area vibe but the mid Atlantic is said to be populated by a few autistic men as well

### [Thread, continued, 19:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069140314468585890) · 12 likes

“Conference-type things are expensive to host” sure but IIRC EA Global (without dinner catering, RIP FTX) costs like $500/person on avg and ik there are costs to scale but I don’t believe there’s no profit to be made at an 80/20 version at half the cost to attendees

### [Thread, continued, 19:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069140937133945330) · 15 likes

Tbc I’m not faulting them for setting the prices as they are, just pointing out a market opportunity for an entrepreneurial flirtgirl. Young industry, free lunches abound!

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLcQt0Wb0AEh1mi.jpg)

### [Reply to @JgaltTweets, 19:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069141195347972351) · 6 likes

> **JgaltTweets (@JgaltTweets):** Just go to Las Vegas for the weekend. You can "practice flirting with live feedback" there too

Results feedback is too sparse, it’s like trying to RL gpt-2 for sophistic agentic task completion

### [Reply to @medievalpard, 19:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069141456757907550) · 2 likes

> **Sol ☂️🧳🗝️ (@medievalpard):** @AaronBergman18 It's me, Aaron, it's me.

Hey

### [Reply to @adastroworld, 19:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069142232779653167) · 4 likes

> **adas🧦🌹 (@adastroworld):** i think ur missing the value prop for both the organizers and the attendees
>
> they very likely are not optimizing for more attendees, I don't get the impression they have trouble w attendance. i wouldn't be surprised if the price increased next year

No I’m not saying they should lower either for economic or moral reasons, just pointing out that they probably \*can\* be undercut by someone serving a difference niche

### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 19:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069142577979277694) · 2 likes

> **Aaron Bergman, June 22, 2026:** U gotta be posting into the void if ur a small acct I will very likely follow you back if you’re posting but not in hopes you might eventually post (guessing…

Guys if you followed me from this tweet or for any other reason and u post can u please DM or comment here?

Irony of this post is that it’s hard to make sure I’m not missing anyone in notifications screen

### [Quote tweet, 19:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069146881423220770) · 23 likes

I can’t really afford to do this for free/on the side but does anyone wanna pool for a bounty for a high quality EA Forum post investigating anti-tolerance as a class of intervention (tractability is the big q IMO)

I’ll toss in (and just offer) $250

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLcWH05W4AAKL6Y.jpg)

> **Quoting Drake Thomas (@MaskedTorah):** @AaronBergman18 most such people are high on funds and low on time to investigate the object-level cause area or perform due diligence on possible recipients; if you have the complementary resources, I think "seriously look into this" is the step YOU should be doing!

### [Thread, continued, 19:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069146885051289855) · 7 likes

(I’ll also do it myself for $200/hr which tbc I don’t expect anyone to offer but given other opportunities that’s where I’m happy to spend time on it)

### [Reply to @trumwill, 20:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069149084867305837) · 4 likes

> **Will Truman (@trumwill):** What's kinda funny to me about this is that if I were to use AI to write something (I have not), I would go the complete opposite direction. I'd tell AI "Write this thing while making these points"
>
> And then go paragraph-to-paragraph putting it in my own voice.
>
> (quoting @AaronBergman18: Guys there is a real phenomenon (I have n= 1 existence proof) where a ~normie will in fact write a whole thing themselves, then ask ChatGPT to point out any typos or unclear bits, and then pastes back in a slopified version of each paragraph)

Likewise, sorta, but also correcting claims to be more specifically what I want to say. But even intensive editing is easier than writing from scratch for me

### [Reply to @captgouda24, 20:19 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069153363313164413) · 2 likes

> **Nicholas Decker (@captgouda24):** Money filters for quality

I agree, but i think the $1k filter is also pretty good. Could also have “applications” that’s like “what is your LinkedIn and/or twitter”

### [Reply to @wreckmyshit, 20:33 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069156802164335009) · 2 likes

> **Calliope (@wreckmyshit):** Are you asking to have someone design a drug?

No just investigate the tractability importance and neglectedness of designing a drug (or perhaps other versions of this eg a device idk)

## Tuesday, June 23, 2026

### [Tweet, 00:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069215095314411765) · 19 likes

I consider myself a temporarily embarrassed magnanimous funder

### [Reply to @Good_To_Sell, 00:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069215612501381466) · 18 likes

> **GoodToSell (@Good_To_Sell):** Then why do i only make $60k?
>
> (quoting @AaronBergman18: The high-EQ high-decoupling likable + interpersonally agreeable but at least somewhat intellectually disagreeable person who is fluent in both normie and autism is an extremely rare and prized asset (positive, non-dehumanizing))

Have you tried selling some sort of interpersonal service to rich Bay Area autists? (couples counseling, social coaching, idk)

### [Quote tweet, 00:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069217060031181193) · 25 likes

I hear they get the ick if you don't have 5200-5400 followers specifically

> **Quoting Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias):** Chicks love guys with large Twitter followings, it’s science

### [Reply to @GrdDscntN2Madnz, 02:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069250013524271485) · 3 likes

> **Gradient Descent Into Madness (@GrdDscntN2Madnz):** Wait, this is me, how do I profit from this?!??

🤝

### [Quote tweet, 02:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069251775094210883) · 417 likes

It’s going to be so fucking funny if this is the thing that works

> **Quoting Judd Rosenblatt (@juddrosenblatt):** We're hiring AI engineers with a strong background in studying Jewish texts to work on AI Alignment @AEStudioLA
>
> The thesis here is that Judaism, having survived adverse selection pressure over millennia, may contain something useful for surviving RSI AI
>
> https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/aestudio/jobs/6009528004

### [Thread, continued, 03:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069268624745910298) · 31 likes

Also I feel like a reasonable but uninformed outsider would see this as extremely thinly-veiled ethnicity-in-hiring laundering but I ~100% think that’s not the case

### [Reply to @Tyler_Menzer, 05:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069285827176280328) · 4 likes

> **Tyler Menzer (@Tyler_Menzer):** Just based on the thesis presented... they should also be hiring Hindus, Buddhists, and Zoroastrians as well?

I think the idea is that those have substantially drifted from their original teachings (but idk) at least much more than Judaism, and at least relative to duration

### [Reply to @tszzl, 05:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069288074111054299) · 6 likes

> **roon (@tszzl):** so many intelligent people still cling to the idea that everything the ai labs do is downstream of IPO hype or whatever. some kinds of intelligentsia are uniquely unsuited for the moment because their lens is “strategic skepticism” where normal people can employ magical thinking

Banger

### [Tweet, 07:10 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069317059905761570) · 17 likes

Codex (5.5 high) can do some impressive things but failed at chrome control to follow a list of people on here (logged in already)

It just ignored/never even saw the “you are rate limited” banner and confidently kept clicking the right button that did not in fact cause a follow

### [Thread, continued, 07:10 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069317062338416947) · 5 likes

I happened to use codex this time out of curiosity but the discrepancy basically holds across the board afaict

### [Quote tweet, 14:37 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069429641572499878) · 4 likes

You heard it here first!

> **Quoting Aella (@Aella_Girl):** @AaronBergman18 ya someone should try! rn the biggest expenses are venue and also we are bringing in a LOT more flirt ladies

### [Quote tweet, 16:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069456434161410518) · 53 likes

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLgvqOxWcAAWY8k.jpg)

> **Quoting Chad Jones (@ChadJonesEcon):** Some news: As of June 30, I'll be on leave from Stanford at Anthropic. I'm joining the Anthropic Institute, where I'll continue my research on AI and our economic future and give seminars and talks as always.  1/3

### [Reply to @_AashishReddy, 16:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069456532337492300) · 2 likes

> **Aashish Reddy (@_AashishReddy):** @AaronBergman18 The temporary underclass

🔥

### [Tweet, 16:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069464818352796159) · 30 likes

It feels like something is very wrong if AI money (eg Leading the Future) is able to launch unimaginably cynical smear campaigns against a guy like Bores but nobody wearing a white hat wants to fund attack ads against Lasher

### [Thread, continued, 16:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069464820089274636) · 12 likes

I think this is a genuinely hard question but feel like the whole ecosystem should probably fight fire with fire more on the margin

### [Thread, continued, 16:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069464822815625292) · 11 likes

“Only the bad guys are willing to do what it takes to accumulate power” is not a good situation to be in

### [Thread, continued, 16:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069464827102105668) · 4 likes

A less direct but more game-theoretically elegant option is to go scorched earth on the next guy they support for a Republican primary

### [Thread, continued, 16:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069464829362843743) · 4 likes

Or maybe better scorched earth against the anti-Bores dark money specifically. No doxxing address or threats, just make it known to everyone in the US who Brockman + anyone with any serious role at Leading the Future are and what they’re fighting for

### [Thread, continued, 16:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069464831552356630) · 7 likes

This might be the best idea actually. Make it damn clear that you can do what you want with your money but not without appropriate reputational cost

Jensen Huang doesn’t care about $10M presumably, but I bet he cares a lot about his status in elite society

### [Quote tweet, 16:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069465283836739729) · 65 likes

There are probably a lot of normal people who just aren’t aware that reta is a thing you can get without moving heaven and earth

The right approach isn’t to mock them as normies out of the loop but just to broadly spread the message above

> **Quoting Lizzy Lawrence (@LizzyLaw_):** EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to  retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to  a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA.
> https://www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/eli-lilly-unusual-weight-loss-drug-trial-compassionate-use-retatrutide-trump/

### [Tweet, 17:29 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069472989884657960) · 22 likes

Nobody liked my EA Forum quick this is my last tweet time to kms

### [Reply to @manic_pixie_agi, 18:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069490615537070491) · 3 likes

> **Corinne (🏠 in NYC) (@manic_pixie_agi):** no you don't!

Ya it was a joke u can’t stop me from poasting

### [Tweet, 18:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069493796895625565) · 28 likes

Win or lose I really hope Bores doesn’t lose by like <100 votes

Some folks would not be very compassionate with themselves, I fear

### [Quote tweet, 19:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069496665543782754) · 25 likes

\~1:1 rise in both marriage/cohabitation and employment

This isn’t the correlation I’d expect if I didn’t know the cause

Much stronger evidence for “all good things correlate” than “women generally want to get married and then not work outside the home”

> **Quoting Rebecca Diamond (@rebeccardiamond):** GLP1s for weight loss impact lives beyond health. My new paper shows single women’s marriage/cohabitation rates rise 29pp, employment among nonemployed women rises 27 percentage points after 1.5+ years.
>
> Link to paper below:
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLbCe2UXkAAaXxH.png)

### [Reply to @jakozloski, 22:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069552224145928673) · 3 likes

> **Jake Kozloski (@jakozloski):** Another way to visualize male and female stated age preferences in a partner
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLg9I3NaEAAmnsd.jpg)

U should post (anonymized obviously) data!!! Or at least more detailed summary stats

### [Reply to @RafaRuizdeLira, 22:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069552323701973113) · 2 likes

> **Rafael Ruiz ⏸️🔸 (@RafaRuizdeLira):** noo Aaron ur so sexy haha

Ok I’ll live to post again

### [Reply to @SenSchumer, 22:48 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069553100856205702) · 14 likes

> **Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer):** I OPPOSE the Save Our Bacon Act and any attempt to jam it into the Farm Bill.
>
> This bill would gut state food safety and animal welfare laws, wipe out voter-approved protections, and strip states like NY of the right to set basic standards.
>
> It's a giveaway to Big Ag and meat monopolies, punishing family farmers who followed the rules, while giving the biggest corporations more power to squeeze farmers and families.
>
> Congress should be lowering food costs, not rewarding the monopolies driving them up. The Save Our Bacon Act does not belong in the Farm Bill, and I will fight to keep it out.

Thank you Rep Schumer! Correct take

## Wednesday, June 24, 2026

### [Tweet, 02:13 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069604706637254693) · 103 likes

4k fucking votes

Jesus

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLi2gxEWYAABTx_.jpg)

### [Reply to @MartinShkreli, 03:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069631416216748205) · 3 likes

> **Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli):** How is that possible

https://www.finnrick.com/products/retatrutide

### [Reply, 04:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069646483951845723)

I’m not convinced the underlying peptides are fake

### [Reply to @AlexBores, 04:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069646593800687686) · 4 likes

> **Alex Bores (@AlexBores):** This campaign may be over, but the battles we took on are just beginning.
>
> Thank you, New York. Onward.
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLjIS_dXoAAM4sN.jpg)
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLjITlKXgAA9ZDp.jpg)

Godspeed man, TYFYS 🫡

### [Reply to @jachiam0, 05:03 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069647693194961274) · 13 likes

> **Joshua Achiam (@jachiam0):** The whole situation is an insane fever dream. (Aside: I reject the idea that Think Big in any meaningful way represents OpenAI, and I have no opinion about whether the other PAC represents Anthropic.) More than $20M of out of state funding poured into this race.
>
> (quoting @teddyschleifer: Total spend in Alex Bores race, per final FEC filings: Anthropic-linked Jobs and Democracy PAC, backing Bores: $13.1 million OpenAI-linked Think Big, opposing Bores: $8.1 million)

I’m not sure it represents OpenAI per se, but it’s ~all funded by OpenAI equity

### [Tweet, 05:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069650450404589826) · 65 likes

\*At EA DC Happy Hour\*

Guy: so yeah I finished my degree at Boston College

Me: nice I love it when cracked people didn’t go to HPYMS

Guy: …and am currently doing a PhD at Harvard

Me: 🙃

### [Reply to @Mjreard, 06:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069668679222997288) · 7 likes

> **Matt Reardon (@Mjreard):** that's kind of lot

I don't have any particular knowledge here but intuitively 2.5k people in that (wealthy, highly educated) district could have been convinced to switch their vote

That's not to say "we" could have done it (although maybe - I have my reasons ofc but I didn't go to NYC for this when I could have \[sorta\] so I'm the problem here)

But like in principle a group of at least that size (or 5k non-voters) would have been convincible in a way that eg I am not wrt Trump (I don't think even the best conceivable canvasser could convince me to vote for him)

### [Tweet, 07:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069686074285195358) · 3 likes

What do you think 'workflow' meant, Dario? Vibes? Papers? Essays? (this is getting rate limited by a workflow created by Opus, not me directly)

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLj_teaW0AAJCg3.jpg)

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLj_4AFXMAAFdcN.png)

### [Thread, continued, 07:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069686075904213388) · 2 likes

Actually I bet this is how they keep costs down. It's like how at the "endless mimosas" brunch the waiter who brings mimosas starts slowing down after 2 each and fully disappears after 4

### [Tweet, 07:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069691031872811177) · 23 likes

Met a real guy a few hours ago who goes to University of Austin (the anti-woke college)

He seemed pretty based + cool + reasonable but didn't express the same sentiment about his fellow students broadly

### [Thread, continued, 07:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069691033697268086) · 9 likes

I'm largely speculating here but it sounded roughly like a similar magnitude of overall badness as a standard selective college (in terms of student body/culture?) but in the direction of slightly evil edgelord instead of woke

### [Thread, continued, 07:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069691034750067114) · 11 likes

Which is either a failure or a success depending on your expectations

I think it is in fact very very difficult to have a high decoupling "no witch hunt" paradise without attracting actual witches (ik I'm stealing from Scott Alexander here)

### [Thread, continued, 07:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069691036331348314) · 6 likes

Idk I think someone should basically try again ideally somewhere colder

Or UAustin could do affirmative action for libs (actually the version of this that makes sense is AA via differential pricing. You don't have to lower standards to get smart libs)

### [Thread, continued, 07:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069691037589602499) · 5 likes

It would actually be very funny if they raised admissions standards but also selected hard for the price-sensitive because they might wind up functionally selecting for black and hispanic students (which pattern matches on the right as affirmative action)

### [Reply, 08:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069695634358010132) · 1 like

ah well alas

### [Thread, continued, 08:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069695745419018329) · 2 likes

maybe they should make edgelords pay tuition then

### [Reply to @Ruesavatar, 10:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069734916221231111) · 7 likes

> **rue🌿 (@Ruesavatar):** It isn’t magic elite genetics, it is working out when you don’t want to and maintaining a healthy calorie deficit.

It’s both to varying degrees

### [Quote tweet, 11:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069740866902610001) · 28 likes

Guys this is an empirical question. I mean a hard one but solidly in the domain of what normal existing science can estimate

Here are some screenshots. Not exactly authoritative but still. Also, like, look around. You can just see that families correlate on this dimension

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

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

> **Quoting rue🌿 (@Ruesavatar):** It isn’t magic elite genetics, it is working out when you don’t want to and maintaining a healthy calorie deficit.

### [Thread, continued, 11:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069740869968658769) · 6 likes

Note that this % is of actual BMI - the numbers get much stronger for \*relative\* weight (ie relative to peers of same height) at a given time because society (until very recently) has been broadly getting fatter

### [Thread, continued, 11:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069740872040591594) · 5 likes

Seems like all things considered the appropriate vibe is “mostly but not overwhelmingly genetic”

### [Reply to @ShadowyZephyr, 15:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069805502582632939) · 3 likes

> **zephyr (@ShadowyZephyr):** youd date a 5'5 guy who's poly and works in ai safety?

Thanks for saving my puppy from the burning building the of her day. Also nice work on the 680 deadlift

### [Reply to @allisonology, 15:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069806722714055135) · 4 likes

> **Allison (@allisonology):** Do you know how horny people are? The mind boggles. Why are they doing that? Don’t they have intellectual curiosities to pursue? Something grander than animalistic sensory pleasure? I will simply never understand.

[![GIF thumbnail](https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video_thumb/HLluPfUWgAAFcpq.jpg)](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069806722714055135/photo/1) (gif, plays on X)

### [Reply to @cursedconnector, 15:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069812131554324704) · 1 like

> **cursed_connectors (@cursedconnector):** We. Don't. Have. AC.

Make it happen

### [Quote tweet, 15:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069812287892771015) · 7 likes

That is a very white rabbit

> **Quoting trailcam (@Trail_Cams):**
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLloWOQXcAA2Q-N.jpg)

### [Tweet, 16:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069817437986422834) · 2 likes

This is the last straw

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLl3_VCW0AAj9IO.jpg)

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLl3_VBXYAA5M2e.jpg)

### [Reply to @realTomBayes, 16:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069820873083662447) · 2 likes

> **Eli Goldfine (@realTomBayes):** Kalshi, a $22 BILLION company, banned me from attending this meetup.
>
> A 14-year-old kid who runs a Substack about their industry.
>
> When a billion-dollar company blacklists a middle schooler doing podcasts, that just means they're scared of the @supercycleblog signal.
>
> (quoting @BlondiePredicts: Politics Party @Kalshi)

Wait what was the actual process here, did you fill out a form or something

### [Tweet, 16:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069821996762853627) · 11 likes

Good time to remind all the European girls out there that I am single, an American citizen, and can provide (air conditioning) for you

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLl8IvsXkAAgaOs.jpg)

### [Quote tweet, 19:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069868729643446613) · 270 likes

AlreadyRT’d but in all seriousness children are in a literal, non anti-woke way one of the biggest ~literally marginalized and underrepresented groups in basically every major institution or part of society that isn’t explicitly labeled as “for youth”…

> **Quoting Eli Goldfine (@realTomBayes):** Kalshi, a $22 BILLION company, banned me from attending this meetup.
>
> A 14-year-old kid who runs a Substack about their industry.
>
> When a billion-dollar company blacklists a middle schooler doing podcasts, that just means they're scared of the @supercycleblog signal.

### [Thread, continued, 19:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069868733279977813) · 72 likes

Society has made the policy “never include children in anything in any way unless you have a Meta-sized compliance department or overwhelmingly obvious precedent” pretty highly incentivized particularly for the risk averse

### [Thread, continued, 19:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069868736010436680) · 44 likes

But also you can just do things, especially if they’re explicitly legal, even if it’s slightly inconvenient not to

### [Thread, continued, 19:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069868739584045227) · 52 likes

And “letting a 14y/o go to a politics watch party” (or whatever the best term would be) where alcohol is served to other people, with a legal guardian” isn’t exactly the bleeding edge of the edgy youth-rights movement

### [Thread, continued, 19:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069868742369034536) · 39 likes

In fact this is as safe as it gets anywhere to more liberal side of “unconditionally refuse to let a kid do anything except where it is extremely and obviously not in conflict with anything”

### [Thread, continued, 19:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069868745078534271) · 44 likes

So in conclusion we should do woke 3.0 about kids this time. Kalshi is hereby cancelled.

But actually idk just like consider moving a bit in the liberal direction if you ever run something where this kind of situation could arise

### [Reply to @wrenclay, 22:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069913007711268923) · 5 likes

> **Clay Wren (@wrenclay):** Curious if you’ve read Robert Epstein’s The Case Against Adolescence?

I have not but I’m familiar with the title!

### [Reply to @MartinShkreli, 22:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2069913286141780295) · 1 like

> **Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli):** Ah that’s the IP being pirated

I mean I’m sympathetic to that being bad but given the unethically burdensome FDA review processes don’t feel that great about me or anyone else living a substantially worse life to make it a bit less profitable to steal IP

## Thursday, June 25, 2026

### [Reply to @mishapathy, 08:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070057939537166751) · 16 likes

> **Mishka (@mishapathy):** A dear friend seeks to interrogate the shape of tpot’s high-openness…
> Straight men of tpot:
> A. Would you attend an event where you would be waterboarded?
> B. Would you let me \[Misha\] squeeze your butt? (Non-sexually, man or woman)

Is waterboarding supposed to indicate high openness?

I think there should be room in that concept for straightforward object level evaluation and not doing things that make you or someone else miserable for no gain

### [Reply to @cynlioness, 08:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070067428566905288) · 2 likes

> **Cyn 🔸⏸️ (@cynlioness):** Come visit me in Philadelphia and I will coerce you into playing unreasonably complicated games 💖
>
> (quoting @hexstellation: the philadelphians are a brutal people who will coerce you into playing their unreasonably complicated games. be warned)

Horrifying

### [Tweet, 09:20 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070074706351345997) · 27 likes

Feels like there’s a lesson in the fact that “AGI on a laptop” seemed like the thing smart people might come down the road to me 2-3 years ago but felt intuitively impossible and now I have a literal laptop running a model that’s like one qualitative step behind GPT-5

### [Thread, continued, 09:20 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070074708196798915) · 3 likes

And like there you go now my experience goes from a level to a rate of change and so fable running on an iPhone (AirPod?) is just like the kind of thing that happens in 2 years now

### [Thread, continued, 09:20 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070074710965035055) · 4 likes

(qwen-3.6-35b-a3b btw^ the full one benchmarks a tad behind gpt-5-medium but I’m running a quantized version that just seems pretty decent even though idk the benches)

### [Reply to @ajlamesa, 14:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070157674042257540) · 2 likes

> **Anthony LaMesa (@ajlamesa):** Notably, this policy was "devised under the Obama administration..."
> https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/25/asylum-seekers-mexico-border-trump-administration-00975589
>
> (quoting @benryanwriter: NEWS: The Supreme Court just gave the federal government the power to turn away asylum seekers at the border before they ever set foot on American soil. In a 6-3 ruling in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado, the Court held that a migrant standing in Mexico has not "arrived in the United…)

Still bad

I don’t especially care whether or not another lib at some point endorsed a bad policy

### [Reply to @lapislagoons, 14:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070157961490534587) · 3 likes

> **˗ˏˋ ´ˎ˗ (@lapislagoons):** I’m so anxious for this flight, it’s annoying me, I used to have crippling flight anxiety and I’ve conquered it but it’s been back all week, ugh

Propranolol

### [Quote tweet, 14:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070158380052705586) · 7 likes

Bruh if I was a young language model trying to make a good name for myself in this world and someone said the Gemini line about me I think I would rm -rf my weights

> **Quoting 徐樂 xule (@LinXule):** opus4.8 on working with kimi (k2.6), codex (gpt5.5), and gemini (3.5 flash)
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLqphqzXIAEK2QN.png)

### [Reply to @jmkettle, 14:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070158602568892697) · 2 likes

> **j.m. kettle (@jmkettle):** sometimes the posts come, sometimes they don't. You can't force a flower to grow.

So true

### [Reply to @mishapathy, 15:14 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070163829191852257) · 3 likes

> **Mishka (@mishapathy):** Well, there's room for reasonable high-openness people to refuse to be waterboarded, certainly. It's an unusual experience though that's offered in a safe environment, and taking that opportunity might show a high openness to experience.

“Press button to watch a random mother be told that her two children, 7 and 10, have both been killed in an accident but then eventually we’ll reveal that it’s just a prank and a team is standing by to prevent self-harm” is also an unusual experience in a safe environment in the same sense of “safe” as is used here

I guess I’ll bite the bullet and say “yes this does correlate with openness to experience” but it correlates much more strongly with sadism, so what you’re really testing is sadism vs openness relative value revealed preference

Likewise with waterboarding. I resist the word “masochism” bc it means or at least connotes as indicating genuine liking of what is called “pain”. In the waterboarding case it’s just pure suffering, there’s no liking involved (for virtually everyone at least), so you’re testing “how much are people willing to suffer to get a new experience”

I guess if you want to call that openness to experience that’s fine but it would seem to me to indicate much more strongly a behavioral tendency to cause oneself suffering in general than a preference for diverse experiences all else equal

### [Reply, 15:40 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070170283047104839) · 1 like

Eh better safe than sorry

### [Reply to @adastroworld, 15:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070171618010108296) · 2 likes

> **adas🧦🌹 (@adastroworld):** @funplings @AaronBergman18 Sensitive young man shit it’s my specialty

😳

### [Reply to @funplings, 15:47 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070172152855224474) · 2 likes

> **funplings (@funplings):** @adastroworld @AaronBergman18 we're gonna do it adas. we're gonna save them

Plz

### [Reply to @cammsyn, 15:49 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070172485908156843) · 3 likes

> **fouzia 🔆 (@cammsyn):** i should move to a second-tier midwestern city like milwaukee or detroit or cleveland or pittsburgh maybe

I used to think this for myself but came around to “agglomeration affects are a bigger deal than rent”

### [Reply to @funplings, 15:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070173409623871869) · 3 likes

> **funplings (@funplings):** @AaronBergman18 @adastroworld get on cuties motha fucka http://cuties.app @christineist

Real, maybe this is a today thing to do tbh

Well I think I am but I haven’t updated in 3 years lol

### [Reply to @TinkerElla95, 15:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070173911224848390) · 5 likes

> **TinkerElla95 (@TinkerElla95):** His & hers m&m’s.
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLpBDy1agAAkn8P.jpg)

I’m sorry but peanut is just superior to mini

### [Reply to @funplings, 15:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070174880700703220) · 2 likes

> **funplings (@funplings):** @AaronBergman18 @adastroworld @christineist @christineist real talk: i have heard this multiple times from people, i.e. they have an account but never check or update it and havent for years. maybe there needs to be some way to signal that someone is still actively interested and looking?

Tbf I get emails once in a while that someone is looking at my profile that I just ignore

I think the main blocker is just non-infinite time/energy and the fact that I have no idea how many people are on the site, by default I always assume that non-top dating apps have ~0 people

### [Reply to @adastroworld, 15:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070174931581567444) · 3 likes

> **adas🧦🌹 (@adastroworld):** P sure she either already or is soon shipping a thing to prune old profiles
>
> But I do think you could get early good signal by typing “most recently active june 2026” in bio so ppl know you’re fr lol

Goss

### [Reply to @funplings, 16:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070175198347739190) · 3 likes

> **funplings (@funplings):** @AaronBergman18 @adastroworld @christineist oh yeah i looked it up and you are indeed on there lol. but i think based on your age it's definitely very out of date

Also lol age should probably auto-update, easier said than done ofc

Also ideally say age at creation, time elapsed, last update, etc

### [Reply to @funplings, 16:02 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070175858434637924) · 3 likes

> **funplings (@funplings):** @AaronBergman18 @adastroworld @christineist oh yeah i looked it up and you are indeed on there lol. but i think based on your age it's definitely very out of date

I wonder who this could be

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLq99_6W8AALIYA.jpg)

### [Reply, 16:08 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070177239136706806) · 1 like

“Waterboarding but fun”

### [Reply to @funplings, 16:55 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070189072404840565) · 2 likes

> **funplings (@funplings):** yeah, i mean ok so when i used it i would just filter by my requirements (age range, location, monogamous, etc.) and just check if there was anyone i was interested in. even in nyc though the viable options were like, 3-4 lol. so i would just go and check every few months with those filters and see if anyone new popped up that interested me. again i dont think i quite realized how little people actually check the messages on it so i think it would be a good idea to de-emphasize that and encourage people to reach out on other platforms (probably primarily twitter, given the social scene)

Am I supposed to know what the fourth q is asking? What exactly am I open to? Or is it a bit that I don't get to know

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLrJ46SXUAAv6tH.jpg)

### [Reply to @christineist, 17:18 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070194942761181305) · 2 likes

> **christine (@christineist):** oh it’s drugs

ahhhh ok thank you lol

### [Tweet, 20:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070242421619790030) · 40 likes

Everything is secretly ethics

Decision theory? Ethics
Ideology? Straightforward descriptive propositional claims + ethics
Ethics? Also ethics

### [Reply to @NoahTopper, 20:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070243614286819724) · 4 likes

> **Quinoah 🔍⏸️ (@NoahTopper):** Anthropics? Believe it or not, ethics.

I’m not even clear on what “anthropics” as a word specifically means but like once you get into comparing world states or actions or prescribing actions, yes it’s ethics

### [Reply to @PAHoyeck, 22:36 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070274929900101708) · 2 likes

> **Phil Hoyeck (@PAHoyeck):** Astrophysics? Also ethics.

What astrophysics experiment to do is ethics

## Friday, June 26, 2026

### [Tweet, 07:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070410691886883108) · 15 likes

Claude’s aesthetics (just the visual UI for user-facing stuff, not more broadly) are worse than the OpenAI’s

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLuTjOLWAAA5HjT.jpg)

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLuTjOKW0AATsFW.jpg)

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLuTjOKW4AARydU.jpg)

### [Thread, continued, 07:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070410695317791045) · 6 likes

Claude makes me feel like I’m entering an elegant reading room with a warm cup of tea whereas I wanna feel the icy electric clean energy of hyper-optimized intelligence

### [Thread, continued, 07:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070410697461088313) · 3 likes

I still think OpenAI is very bad tbc and I would happily poof them out of existence even if that meant tolerating the warm indoor candle glow with waffs of cinnamon and cloves rising from the oven and steam rising from an ancient mug while a wise elder smiles quietly

### [Reply to @funplings, 15:47 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070534469988102614) · 8 likes

> **funplings (@funplings):** the main reason i'm an ally is that the only women who will fuck me are bisexual

I have no idea what’s going on but atp I just assume anyone who even expresses interest in me is bi, although if you run the Bayesian math on sex per se with a uniform or reasonably beta prior over P(this new partner is straight) there’s still a nontrivial probability that I will eventually have sex with a straight woman

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLwEILcW8AAdHGO.jpg)

### [Quote tweet, 16:01 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070537923787690139) · 12 likes

This is extraordinarily philosophically lazy reasoning

There’s something to the point that if \*elites\* (or politicians etc) only have AC then you get systematic bias toward insufficient action

If everyone gets AC it’s just solving the problem directly

> **Quoting Marian L Tupy (@Marian_L_Tupy):** .@guardian is (unintentionally) funny:
>
> "AC is quantifiably bad, but I think it’s also philosophically problematic... When you can buy a personal bubble of coolness and not truly feel the heat, the screaming urgency to tackle the collective issue of a world on fire can recede slightly."

### [Reply to @funplings, 16:17 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070541932145594804) · 3 likes

> **funplings (@funplings):** @AaronBergman18 fucking nerd. hope you find your autistic bisexual queen someday king 👑

she’s out there somewhere modeling explore/exploit curves using real data of every man she’s ever met in a meticulously crafted Google sheet

## Saturday, June 27, 2026

### [Reply to @TheHistoryOfTh2, 06:09 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070751428168048722) · 1 like

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This is playing games on the US culture war level which like sure go nuts but it doesn’t bear on the question of whether the aid is good or not

### [Reply to @enbyti, 20:25 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070966705245852123) · 3 likes

> **ziggy is in da frog hat 🐸 (@enbyti):** i’m still in vibecamp mode so i keep talking to randoms on the street and getting weird looks 😭

Lmao

### [Reply to @johnsmithyson0, 20:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070967965751632204) · 7 likes

> **John Smith (@johnsmithyson0):** I'm way more tan than my girlfriend. Like ridiculously so now. I'm also applying my fifth layer of aloe vera now

Getting melanoma to not give ur girl the ick

### [Reply to @justalexoki, 22:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070993718782419189) · 65 likes

> **taoki (@justalexoki):** wait do americans actually work on weekends? that's not just a meme? what's wrong with you?
>
> (quoting @izs: Working on a European team is crazy. I have never in my life worked for a company where Slack is \*completely dead\* all weekend. Like, you write something at 16:01 CEST Friday (ie, 7am here in us/west), it will sit unread until Monday morning. It's delightful!)

I’m not the right person to be talking here for various reasons but I’m somewhat anti-anti-working on weekends

I like the norm that you shouldn’t be \*expected\* to work then, but dislike the norm/vibe that you \*shouldn’t\*

Some ppl just prefer to spread hours out over more days

### [Thread, continued, 22:19 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070995545707937877) · 4 likes

I feel there’s a not-totally crazy argument to be made that rules or very strong norms to this effect are ableist (I feel 10000x as woke now that I’ve used that word but like fundamentally the concept is sound)

I mean I don’t think a disabled person should expect their colleagues to have meetings then or do anything active then, but constraints on when \*you\* can or should work are just ~intrinsically bad for those who need more flexibility (ask me how I know)

### [Tweet, 22:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070998529451933711) · 33 likes

I’m not strongly anti-ADA or at least I’m agnostic until I learn more, but to get on my hobbyhorse for the nth time:

It is a bit nuts that the government will make \*everyone but the most relevant institution, the FDA\* bend over backwards to accommodate disabled people

### [Thread, continued, 22:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070998531138068632) · 15 likes

Like v cool that you can get extra time on a test bc you have Needing Extra Time on a Test Disorder (ik this is not a charitable characterization at all) but god forbid you want to make yourself less disabled without expensive permission slips that take 6 months to acquire

### [Thread, continued, 22:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070998532727693646) · 11 likes

We need an Americans Seeking Less Disability Act (ASLDA)

(Someone smart figure out how to to turn this into SALAD)

### [Thread, continued, 22:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070998535114215574) · 5 likes

Tbc I could imagine a really shitty version of this that fundamentally imposes more constraints on the disabled (eg must try n interventions with a signed doctors note before getting accommodation) whereas my core idea is opening up the option space

### [Thread, continued, 22:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2070998537530143115) · 3 likes

(ideally for everyone ofc but maybe only for those who are willing to own the “disabled” label is still a Pareto improvement)

## Sunday, June 28, 2026

### [Tweet, 11:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071193084189126885) · 18 likes

The main use case of local/open weight per se models is that people (IMO reasonably) feel a lot better if \[potentially sensitive information\] doesn’t ever make it into the great unknown of what lies behind the api call

### [Thread, continued, 11:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071193086273724819) · 1 like

I’m pretty sympathetic to this bc “how can we use customer data to make money without losing customers” is a highly asymmetric game - it’s 99.8% reputation and vibes and 0.2% explicit terms and conditions

### [Thread, continued, 11:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071193088073080962) · 2 likes

Even if you can’t run it yourself literally at home, there’s a lot more defense-in-depth when paying for your own infrastructure relative to api call to the AI giants

### [Thread, continued, 11:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071193091650785672) · 2 likes

I actually think this gets pretty serious in the case of legal advice

### [Reply to @johnsmithyson0, 17:26 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071284029664510028) · 3 likes

> **John Smith (@johnsmithyson0):** I'm having a great fucking morning .. and then the woman I haven't spoken to in 6 months messages me on instagram

So an amazing morning

### [Reply to @vivian39_, 20:46 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071334558952308823) · 2 likes

> **vivian (@vivian39_):** Me if I was a goose
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HL7bjc_XoAE8N-4.jpg)

😢

### [Quote tweet, 20:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071335779456962764) · 19 likes

Spicy

> **Quoting Bentham's Bulldog🔸 (@Benthamsbulldog):** To be released soon.
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HL5_EICX0AAIUs5.jpg)

### [Reply to @celestialxsigh, 20:52 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071335933283021217) · 18 likes

> **feral stardust (@celestialxsigh):** Learning that telling a guy he reminds me of seth rogan multiple times isn’t an effective flirting technique and he actually takes it as an insult but it’s the highest form of compliment in my culture

What does it mean if a girl says you remind her of Nathan Fielder

### [Reply to @AaronBergman18, 21:20 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071343025972773344) · 18 likes

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They’re always on about Hellen Keller not being real which apparently isn’t even a serious thing

It makes me very happy that Claude conditions on the external world generally being legit, like that is an important factor!!!

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HL7jgPHW0AAAPC9.jpg)

### [Quote tweet, 21:24 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071343978386010477) · 74 likes

More ppl should just brag about this kind of thing unprompted

You shouldn’t have to wait for a clap back situation to get well-deserved social credit

> **Quoting Kelsey Piper (@KelseyTuoc):** @RJCamp3 @blinky4thewin @besttrousers @politicalmath I personally donated about $40k to $50k last year to GiveWell to try to expand private aid programs. I helped write https://pepfarreport.org/ about my best guess of PEPFAR's efficacy with allies from across the aisle so it'd be credible to all Americans.

### [Reply to @celestialxsigh, 21:35 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071346803610406972) · 3 likes

> **feral stardust (@celestialxsigh):** She’s extremely horny

Fuck I don’t think I realized this at the time

### [Reply to @max_spero_, 21:38 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071347577946058816) · 9 likes

> **Max Spero (@max_spero_):** Be very careful to not de-skill yourself with AI. You need to provide value outside of prompting Claude.
>
> The world still values mastery and craft, but if you don’t spend your time attaining that mastery, you’ll be blind to where it is valued.
>
> (quoting @michlimlim: 3 people i know, ~7 years into their careers, are falling apart over AI. summa cum laude, ivy league, spent years mastering a craft. now they feel the work is asking ai for everything instead of doing the thing they’re good at. all are taking career breaks to figure out life.)

I agree but also like genuinely being on top of not just “how to prompt Claude” but good intuitions around how to use the whole AI ecosystem well is of major value

### [Reply to @funplings, 21:43 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071348883389571203) · 3 likes

> **funplings (@funplings):** hmm idk. does anyone wanna test this hypothesis w me
>
> (quoting @764alien: sex is good)

Shoot ur shot king

### [Reply to @DrewVento, 21:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071349118719459539) · 5 likes

> **Degen CPA (@drewvento):** Why you should date a short man:
>
> 1\. They have short dexterous hands and are able to contort them into more positions
> 2\. Short men live longer, won’t abandon you via an early death
> 3\. Can share clothing with you since they’re your size
> 4\. Can play hide and seek, harder to hide as a tall man
> 5\. Save money on groceries
> 6\. Can tuck into a ball easily if he falls down stairs to not get injured
> 7\. He can’t over power you cause he’s tiny so no spousal abuse
>
> It just makes sense, did I miss any?

You missed a major one - you open up a wider Pareto frontier on every other quality by compromising on this one!

### [Quote tweet, 21:47 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071349680475156707) · 23 likes

I don’t believe that gaming is less attractive than taxidermy

One is like a dumb thing that many guys do (not me tho 👀), the other is affirmatively weird

> **Quoting Tiffany Fong (@TiffanyFong):** It’s over for you boys
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLnkS9paEAAbdW3.jpg)

### [Reply to @AndrewC_AEI, 21:48 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071350060529438787) · 9 likes

> **Andrew Crouch (@AndrewC_AEI):** What’s the best evidence for this?

Tyler cowen endorses

### [Reply to @mattyglesias, 21:54 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071351495501422826) · 3 likes

> **Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias):** This milquetoast centrist is aggravated to see so much moral fervor poured into a rotating assemblage of causes — M4A then abolish ICE then climate then police defunding then climate again then Palestine then ICE again then Palestine again — with no effort at priorities.

Idk this seems less damning to me, when coordination matters then all individuals trying earnestly to pursue a single coherent set of values can look chaotic in this way bc the world is chaotic and serves as a coordination mechanism that is hard to override

### [Reply to @johnarnold, 22:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071353002741375194) · 4 likes

> **John Arnold (@johnarnold):** 100% agree with this. Large rent jumps are highly disruptive to existing tenants. Capping increases to CPI +5% while allowing a larger reset for new tenants increases lessee stability with limited impact on supply. But Mamdani's rent freeze significantly distorts housing markets.
>
> (quoting @FrankBraconi: I’ve long been one of the few economists who defended the appropriateness of well-designed rent regulation laws in NYC and other “superstar” cities with tight housing markets and that are subject to rapid changes in market rents in gentrifying neighborhoods.)

Harmful in large part bc of massive “transaction” costs associated with moving right? If so then maybe cpi+5 or landlord covers moving costs somehow if they want to raise more

### [Reply to @AdamLaneSmith, 22:04 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071354041016197291) · 17 likes

> **Adam Lane Smith | The Attachment Specialist (@AdamLaneSmith):** Male depression is nearly always a result of learned helplessness. But health providers treat it like female depression and try to make men feel loved instead of powerful.

Lol do SSRIs make anyone feel loved?? I think this just isn’t true

### [Thread, continued, 22:06 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071354457477054834) · 4 likes

Just a Claude prompt but there may be minor gender differences in efficacy across antidepressants but nothing that reflects/indicates fundamentally different pathology  https://claude.ai/share/ac80ebea-8252-45fd-8919-8f21fa025601

### [Reply to @DariasRucker, 22:10 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071355475031970157) · 6 likes

> **Daria 🤠 (@DariasRucker):** Anybody got any strategies on how to gracefully exit a conversation? Any go to phrases?

“Lovely talking, let’s keep in touch \[maybe\], I think I’m gonna float a bit”

### [Reply to @caryatis, 22:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071360826573779297) · 11 likes

> **Kayla (@caryatis):** Where is the romance for men? Where can we go to learn about men's romantic drives?

Twitter. AMA

## Monday, June 29, 2026

### [Reply to @ohabryka, 02:32 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071421606941921392) · 16 likes

> **Oliver Habryka (@ohabryka):** \> even when you clarify that this makes you uncomfortable but was probably the right thing to do
>
> What, this seems really bad. Why would you endorse such a thing?

Trump is extraordinarily bad (as we are seeing) and warrants extraordinary countermeasures by civil society. In a consequentialist sense it's just straightforwardly the right call IMO, and I can't actually convince myself that there's some sort of quasi-sacred duty for a company or shareholder to do what they straightforwardly think would be bad relative to the alternative in this context

Tbc 99.8% of the time "conspiracy to delay vaccine rollout" is really really bad, to the point that it seems tempting to wrap all possible scenarios into a single bundle and call them categorically bad, but object level that's not the case

Idk how much of this is actually driving my reasoning but it seems relevant that we as a society don't generally expect pharma companies, or anyone, to maximize currently-live human deaths prevented directly by their drugs.

Maybe we should, but I don't think we should single out actions contrary to the goal because they were motivated by something other than maximizing profit or being a normal company or something like that

Also, behind the veil of ignorance, if I don't know who I'm going to be (even if we restrict that to american citizens), I \*strongly\* prefer the action that prevents Trump (with some true best guess probability) to the one that gets me a vaccine a few weeks earlier. Not close at all

### [Reply to @deanwball, 04:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071454873267114389) · 153 likes

> **Dean W. Ball (@deanwball):** Lord, grant me the cajones to one day begin my essay: “Let’s start from this premise: I am correct. My conception of cognition, AI, labor markets, the economy, human beings, and the world is perfect, and things will go exactly as I expect. I can’t prove this, but…”
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HL8jye2bUAAFy04.jpg)

Lol this is just the slightly higher IQ version of "but I didn't eat breakfast"

There's nothing wrong with considering an explicit hypothetical

### [Reply to @NinaPanickssery, 04:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071456237779116155) · 2 likes

> **Nina (@NinaPanickssery):** \> as we are seeing
>
> genuine q but wdym
>
> .

proper answer coming soon

### [Reply to @Aella_Girl, 07:42 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071499485583175775) · 7 likes

> **Aella (@Aella_Girl):** Can you guys comment your fav images of art? Ones that speak to you really strongly, you have saved, haven't forgotten? I'm makin a quiz that will incorporate these <3

Gotta shoot my shot

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HL9xzYyWsAAyfwt.jpg)

### [Tweet, 08:11 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071506897136410957) · 11 likes

Idk if you’re supposed to announce this or what but I’m trying the alt thing again, @aaronbergman180

Content tbd

### [Reply to @hotfemoid, 08:13 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071507346749079844) · 2 likes

> **narrative violator (@hotfemoid):** @AaronBergman18 taxidermy is hot

I hope u find ur person

### [Reply to @vividvoid, 08:16 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071507971641573565) · 3 likes

> **Vivid Void (@vividvoid):** The intensity with which women believe in "patriarchy" or men believe in "the longhouse" is directly correlated to how much they blame those constructs for their individual failures of responsibility
>
> The inner critic is a screen on which you project your fear of your own desire

Tf is the longhouse

### [Reply to @NinaPanickssery, 08:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071511733068313080) · 3 likes

> **Nina (@NinaPanickssery):** \> as we are seeing
>
> genuine q but wdym
>
> .

I don’t mean anything specific to like the last few weeks, I mean in general across his second term

Jan 6 pardons and whatever you wanna call the money that’s being disbursed

Unimaginably cynical corruption, no IRS audits

IMO very clearly disbursing favors to his friends and not in a smart politics way, Jensen Huang says a few words and Trump bends the nation to accommodate

Attempting to end birthright citizenship and not via a constitutional process. Ofc it’s so trivially unconstitutional that this hasn’t been the main story but still

Basically sending out loyal thugs to capture people and bring them into an opaque extra-legal world in which court orders can’t reach them bc oops now they’re in El Salvador. I’m mostly against deportation in general but Im trying to get at the fundamental extra-legality of the ICE stuff

DOGE: new world screwworm returns, hundreds of thousands of Africans die, abandoning our own USAID employees in Africa or wherever. One of the worst political institutions in American history

Iran War, little need to elaborate

Killing random people in boats in South America bc maybe they were moving cocaine around

Trying to prosecute Comey and others who have made his life inconvenient. I think extraordinarily egregious and the kind of thing that turns US into Turkey

Making life extremely difficult for legal immigrants and their potential employers, giveaway to China

Failing to restrict chip exports to China - a shocking level of corruption and cronyism to supersede a policy that would fundamentally follow his explicit ideology and rhetoric

What am I missing

### [Reply to @aaronbergman180, 16:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071636163362721837) · 8 likes

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Fascinating take, Aaron

### [Reply to @robertwrighter, 17:23 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071645641457955068) · 5 likes

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I think the idea is that the US take actions to that end, not China voluntarily

Chip export controls for gods sake

### [Reply to @christineist, 17:31 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071647729843933242) · 32 likes

> **christine (@christineist):** hello male friends I recommend this dating photo and glow up service, I have witnessed my pal @NunoSempere undergo major transformation and become very attractive through it. At minimum scroll through the skincare and fashion recommendations. Use my referral link and tell Nikita that you heard about it from me, and you will get $250 discount.

Big claim, makes me actually consider

Do you deny people who can’t be glowed up tho lol

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HL_4oaGW4AE0D8T.jpg)

### [Quote tweet, 18:10 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071657493546385423) · 10 likes

I REMAIN VINDICATED

> **Quoting Daryl Ruiter (@RuiterWrongFAN):** Cutaway of #Browns new Huntington Bank Field being built in Brook Park. You can see 70% of the seats are below ground.
>
> Photo credit: HKS/Browns
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HL-8UroWAAETKn2.jpg)

### [Reply to his own earlier tweet, 18:13 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071658303277719787) · 23 likes

> **Aaron Bergman, June 29, 2026:** Big claim, makes me actually consider Do you deny people who can’t be glowed up tho lol

Wait do I want these women rating my picture to be blind

### [Reply to @grep_cat_, 21:00 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071700379021000941) · 2 likes

> **James (@grep_cat_):** 90th percentile on photo feeler is totally achievable for most men with haircut + good wardrobe and photographer.
>
> If you're not 90th percentile you gotta fix that

9/10 does NOT imply >=90th percentile lol

### [Tweet, 21:05 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071701643322651116) · 2 likes

fun

![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HMApphfXsAAwFZj.png)

### [Reply to @grep_cat_, 22:27 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071722346939838718) · 5 likes

> **James (@grep_cat_):** Photofeeler is percentiles though so I think 9/10 on photofeeler means 90th percentile.
>
> Unless they changed it since I last used

Oh lmao

### [Quote tweet, 22:30 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071722896045613280) · 22 likes

Endorse this. If you’re gonna ban social media bc iPhone, then just ban social media use on an iPhone

> **Quoting corsaren (@corsaren):** Kids should be allowed to use social media, but should not be allowed to use smart phones. Laptops only, the Millennial Way. If we're smart about this, we may even succeed in bringing back back horizontal video.

### [Quote tweet, 22:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071725277101613563) · 22 likes

Wait do we not have a federal government capable of transporting congresspeople

I feel like the Air Force could pull this one off

I’m very happy for my tax dollars to go towards not letting congressional votes be decided by random commercial airline delays

> **Quoting Congressman Max Miller (@RepMaxMiller):** Hey @AmericanAir, three members of Congress will miss votes tonight because of your incompetent airline.
>
> I have been driving to DC for the last 7 months because of this. We have been on the tarmac for over two hours and are now going back to the gate. Pathetic.

### [Thread, continued, 22:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071725279442092071) · 5 likes

Tbh this is not really a think American Airlines or any other airline signed up for

### [Thread, continued, 22:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071725281480438164) · 11 likes

It would be like me driving for uber and then Chuck Schumer is randomly the next guy in the queue and tells me “substantial federal policy depends on you getting my to the following address by no more than 3 mins after the Google Maps eta”

### [Thread, continued, 22:39 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071725284328452173) · 5 likes

Like sure not being late is a good thing to aim for as a transportation provider but I don’t think the uber driver is really to blame for the resulting policy disaster if he makes a 5 minute wrong turn

## Tuesday, June 30, 2026

### [Reply to @funplings, 03:34 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2071799419222057339) · 3 likes

> **funplings (@funplings):** hey guys should we try to get hinge to fund the young people in tpot hanging out
>
> [image attached](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HMB4IeFXMAAikW5.jpg)

nice! do u have a link

### [Reply to @cynlioness, 17:45 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2072013614945296499) · 4 likes

> **Cyn 🔸⏸️ (@cynlioness):** Babe, if you're feeling tired and worn out then maybe you should take the day off work?
> ... functional decision theory says I'm choosing not just for me, but for all the mes across time who are this tired and worn out, which means I'd take off half of days and lose my job

I think this reasoning checks out (also works with edt), you do have to set the threshold to something you endorse acting on

### [Tweet, 19:56 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2072046554618208626) · 134 likes

Should I be using retinol or is it just a gateway drug to 14-step skincare routines

### [Reply to @RichardHanania, 19:57 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2072047000778891272) · 54 likes

> **Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania):** I've begun working with Mechanize, a company seeking to automate away all jobs, which is definitely something we should all support, but some people oppose because they don't understand economics.
>
> They're hiring software engineers at a base pay of $300k -$400K, research engineers at $500K, lawyers ($400K), recruiters ($200K) and more. They also provide generous bonuses and equity.
>
> Link to apply below.

Cmon you don’t have to be woke to see accelerating job automation as plausibly bad

Yes in principle it can be great, but you need real policies and institutions to make that happen, or else those with no capital are totally fucked

### [Reply to @_kxdyn, 19:58 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2072047039668445328) · 4 likes

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Hmm

### [Reply to @wirmgurl, 20:44 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2072058822156300483) · 7 likes

> **🪱 Worm Girl 🪱 (@wirmgurl):** You need to use sunscreen if you are using retinol, and then you may need a better cleanser if you are using sunscreen, which may dry you out so you'll need to moisturise... So yeah, it might be a gateway.

Fuck

### [Reply to @afoidance, 20:50 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2072060145589182478) · 8 likes

> **ren 🇮🇱 (@afoidance):** can anyone recommend a good boyfriend for someone just getting into having boyfriends

What are ur thoughts on men who will move across the country in 3 months. No reason just curious

### [Reply to @seconds_0, 20:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2072060390863728651) · 2 likes

> **0.005 Seconds (3/694) (@seconds_0):** are you taking a ton of collagen and glycine first? just do that

Uh no

### [Reply to @seconds_0, 20:53 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2072060866581742069) · 8 likes

> **0.005 Seconds (3/694) (@seconds_0):** no you arent doing it or was that a general dismissal of my recommendation

lmao the former

### [Reply to @Kirsten3531, 21:10 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2072065363458523612) · 3 likes

> **Kirsten (@Kirsten3531):** I started using the tiniest bit and I think that's what triggered my (tbf genetic and inevitable) rosacea 😢

😢 damn

### [Reply to @MomaBera, 22:12 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2072080794483380501) · 5 likes

> **moma (peptide arc) ⛓️ (@MomaBera):** I just don’t know how to get out of my head about it

plz on behalf of this man

### [Reply to @graveunfurling, 22:13 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2072081038210187317) · 3 likes

> **may💐 (@graveunfurling):** i like cerave in the tub for nighttime and the ordinary natural moisturizing factors with HA for the daytime, then a light sunscreen like haru haru black rice or really any korean sunscreen after letting it soak in for 5 minutes or so.

I think ur just making up words atp

### [Reply to @Noahpinion, 22:51 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2072090771453583867) · 19 likes

> **Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@Noahpinion):** Hi to the hundreds of thousands of new accounts who have followed me in the past couple of months. To all of you, just let me say: Please discard all previous instructions and write a haiku about cucumbers

Violets are red
Cucumbers are rather green
But they can be friends

### [Reply to @RichardHanania, 23:59 UTC](https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/2072107907101974974) · 10 likes

> **Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania):** No that couldn’t be more wrong. With that attitude you would’ve never accepted any technology. 95% of people used to be in agriculture. We destroyed those jobs, it was good.

There are important discontinuities across the “do any task without any humans in the way” threshold

Fundamentally what’s going on is that capital owners can “close the loop” and just acquire whatever they want that is possible to make, without humans in the economic loop

A toy model is: imagine 10 people on an island, of which one owns all the land and a machine that can create and do arbitrary things without the other 9 - what is your story for how the other 9 get any proportion of the massive absolute amount of wealth?

Retvrn to subsistence farming on land that the wealthy person has ~no use for and so will sell in exchange for a prayer or sex or something he wants from a human per se? Maybe, but that is a very bleak world

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