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Aaron Bergman

@aaronbergman18.bsky.social
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👎: suffering | 👍: EA, AI alignment, decoupling, R, cringe, amateur pharmacology + programming | Georgetown '22 (math+econ+phil) | Career status: 🤷‍♂️

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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Nice good job everyone
$69k nice
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Hello Bluesky I’m here bc someone linked goss
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Alright, 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
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Legally obligated to share this now that it has 1000 likes
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
My new cost effectiveness model (details forthcoming) robustly indicates that purchasing treats for therapy bunnies is the single best use of time and money
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Twitter down, who’s up
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I’ll keep using twitter predominantly, but may as well share things that do well there that people find interesting
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Import tweet
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
@posit.co RStudio app plz
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
New LLM wrapper just dropped Multiple models estimate a single figure, see the stats and results Link below
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Watch out Dustin, new big money donor is coming through
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
If 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?
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
We 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!
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Peter Wildeford @peterwildeford.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Interesting: 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.
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Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
The 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:
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Sean O hEigeartaigh @sean-o-h.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
This 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.com
Time's Up for AI Policy
AI 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.
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oh beloved lion 🦁🔸 @tortle.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I was the one who came up with "Vegan Hot Ones" so if we don't hit that goal it means you personally hate me
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Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
It'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/...
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
It’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!
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Max Alexander @absurdlymax.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
It'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)
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Binyamin Appelbaum @bcappelbaum.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
One 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.com
Opinion | Blue States are Unaffordable. The Price Will be Political.
Americans are fleeing unaffordable blue states — and they’re taking the electoral college with them.
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Grace @gracekind.net · 11/12/2024
New term for programmers just dropped
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Marinating tofu instead of turkey? Baste
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
The 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
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Hello I am posting this message on both twitter and b*sky at the same time
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Similarish: 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...
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I wanna be friends with citibike data guy Being a data weirdo is a lonely path
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I will post this over here so all you nerds can tell me how to survive COVID-25 or whatever
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
probably good to put my related take here too
OpenPhil defunding basically all my favorite cause areas means that if you have similar values to me, it would be highly effective for you to get as rich as possible
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Take
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Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Shoutout to @aaronbergman18.bsky.social for making this hilarious but also somewhat inspiring shrimp stunning counter shrimpcalc.neocities.org
shrimpcalc.neocities.org
ShrimpCalc 🦐 - Calculate Your Impact
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Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Cooking up a banger forum post
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Oof (this is slightly old news but still)
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Ha
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Some cursorslop pngs on my Bluesky timeline
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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
In 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.uk
In debates about assisted dying, remember those who have lost the ability to choose
Parliament will vote this week on a momentous issue: should assisted dying be legal?
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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I was really pleased to find my local library has a "Philosophy" section. Less pleased to see the three subsections: "Angels", "Ghosts" and "Astrology".
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Obviously 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?!
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
It was and remains a good and honest question
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
My skircle skircle.me
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Does 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
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
If 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?)
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
So Bluesky is open source with an API. What Claudeslop would be cool to see? docs.bsky.app
docs.bsky.app
Bluesky Documentation | Bluesky
Explore guides and tutorials to the Bluesky API.
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Maybe 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
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
As 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
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Should I cultivate a totally different persona on this app Perhaps a post-rat or incorrect opinion-haver
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Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Hello Fake Twitter
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