Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Hello Bluesky I’m here bc someone linked goss 260
Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Alright, a few times recently I’ve made the case that it’s fine to use Twitter actually and finally thought to check how much your use personally enriches Elon Musk o3 estimates $0.15/year. It’s basically just not a thing 210
Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Legally obligated to share this now that it has 1000 likes 130
Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 01/04/2025My new cost effectiveness model (details forthcoming) robustly indicates that purchasing treats for therapy bunnies is the single best use of time and money 130
Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 22/03/2025I’ll keep using twitter predominantly, but may as well share things that do well there that people find interesting 2130
Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 14/01/2025New LLM wrapper just dropped Multiple models estimate a single figure, see the stats and results Link below 190
Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Watch out Dustin, new big money donor is coming through 160
Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 03/01/2025If you are a potential big money donor ($3k) please suggest incentives that would get you over the finish line? - want to be a guest on the world famous pigeon hour podcast? - A bunch of sticker ideas that are slightly cringe to make for yourself? 140
Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 03/01/2025We are near the finish line and need just $3k to turn my room into an EA Paradise (which will of course be posted on twitter) If there ever was a time for manifesting aka evidential decision theory (u donating is evidence that others will) aka acausal coordination, it’s now! 030
Reposted by Aaron BergmanPeter Wildeford @peterwildeford.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Interesting: According to The Information, OpenAI and Microsoft's agreements had formally defined AGI as reaching $100 billion in profits. OpenAI has told investors they expect to reach this in 2029. 3203
Reposted by Aaron BergmanMatt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 23/12/2024The fundraiser is now over $12.5k! To celebrate, here's a look back at all the crazy antics we did as a result of last years, which raised $35k in the end: 1103
Reposted by Aaron BergmanSean O hEigeartaigh @sean-o-h.bsky.social · 21/12/2024This is absolutely spot on by @Miles_Brundage . It should be read by as many people as possible. milesbrundage.substack.com/p/times-up-f...milesbrundage.substack.comTime's Up for AI PolicyAI that exceeds human performance in nearly every cognitive domain is almost certain to be built and deployed in the next few years. We need to act accordingly now. 052
Reposted by Aaron Bergmanoh beloved lion 🦁🔸 @tortle.bsky.social · 19/12/2024I was the one who came up with "Vegan Hot Ones" so if we don't hit that goal it means you personally hate me 0112
Reposted by Aaron BergmanMatt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 19/12/2024It's that time of year again 🎉. @absurdlymax.bsky.social, @aaronbergman18.bsky.social, @laura-duffy.bsky.social, and I are returning to raise funds for the EA Funds Animal Welfare Fund! Donate to help the animals and create some silly antics! www.givingwhatwecan.org/fundraisers/... 131
Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 19/12/2024It’s back and it’s not exactly bigger than ever yet but hopefully it will be! @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social, @absurdlymax.bsky.social, Laura Duffy and I are once again raising money for the EA Animal Welfare Fund in this year’s Terminally Online EA Giving Season Fundraiser! 3132
Reposted by Aaron BergmanMax Alexander @absurdlymax.bsky.social · 19/12/2024It's that time of year again 🎉 Another virtual fundraiser for the EA Animal Welfare Fund! Help reduce the suffering of animals while maybe increasing ours a bit (drinking huel) 2132
Reposted by Aaron BergmanBinyamin Appelbaum @bcappelbaum.bsky.social · 12/12/2024One consequence of the housing crisis: Every year, roughly one electoral vote shifts from blue states to red states. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Blue States are Unaffordable. The Price Will be Political.Americans are fleeing unaffordable blue states — and they’re taking the electoral college with them. 22402130
Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 08/12/2024The OpenAI corporate governance shitshow doesn’t really inspire confidence, but I think the general idea of a nonprofit controlling a for-profit entity sounds pretty cool and good 351
Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Hello I am posting this message on both twitter and b*sky at the same time 3220
Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Similarish: if you have an a uniform prior on something (ie all probabilities in (0,1) equally likely), and then the thing does happen, you should then think that the ex ante probability was 2/3 If it doesn’t happen, you should think it was 1/3 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomia... 140
Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I wanna be friends with citibike data guy Being a data weirdo is a lonely path 140
Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I will post this over here so all you nerds can tell me how to survive COVID-25 or whatever 120
Reposted by Aaron Bergmandawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 03/12/2024probably good to put my related take here too 091
Reposted by Aaron BergmanMatt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Shoutout to @aaronbergman18.bsky.social for making this hilarious but also somewhat inspiring shrimp stunning counter shrimpcalc.neocities.orgshrimpcalc.neocities.orgShrimpCalc 🦐 - Calculate Your Impact 131
Reposted by Aaron BergmanMatt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Cooking up a banger forum post 5351
Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Some cursorslop pngs on my Bluesky timeline 010
Reposted by Aaron BergmanJonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 25/11/2024In debates about assisted dying, we should remember those who currently die from withdrawal of food and water because no faster alternative is legal. There should - I argue here - be a legal alternative. www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...lbc.co.ukIn debates about assisted dying, remember those who have lost the ability to chooseParliament will vote this week on a momentous issue: should assisted dying be legal? 1475
Reposted by Aaron BergmanJonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 24/11/2024I was really pleased to find my local library has a "Philosophy" section. Less pleased to see the three subsections: "Angels", "Ghosts" and "Astrology". 251497
Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Obviously idk what I’m talking about, but I find it weird that the market hasn’t solved period issues better Like women have a lot of money, and seem not to like their period very much. What gives?! 330
Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 22/11/2024It was and remains a good and honest question 8130
Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Does anyone understand why it’s so easy to clone twitter with no IP issues? It’s hard to understand qualitative legal thresholds, but the UI looking ~exactly the same both here and on threads intuitively seems like the kind of thing that could violate a copyright if twitter had pursued one 231
Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 20/11/2024If Bluesky becomes a serious challenge to twitter it would be cool if there was an easy way to pay like $3/mo to support it, patreon style (is there?) 2783
Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 20/11/2024So Bluesky is open source with an API. What Claudeslop would be cool to see? docs.bsky.appdocs.bsky.appBluesky Documentation | BlueskyExplore guides and tutorials to the Bluesky API. 040
Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Maybe I’m supposed to be chill and not weird about this but Dustin is here and he should follow me so I can nudge him into having .1% better takes which is equivalent to making and giving away a quadrillion dollars 190
Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 20/11/2024As soon as this app has circles and community notes it’s over This is a slight exaggeration but I do think circles could make a compounding difference 1100
Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Should I cultivate a totally different persona on this app Perhaps a post-rat or incorrect opinion-haver 590