Aaron Bergman
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Aaron Bergman
@aaronbergman18.bsky.social
👎: suffering | 👍: EA, AI alignment, decoupling, R, cringe, amateur pharmacology + programming | Georgetown '22 (math+econ+phil) | Career status: 🤷‍♂️
Omg cat
May 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
but I’m far from certain

Could be doing some motivated reasoning here too idk
April 19, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Intuitively to me, at least, removing good takes and likes and such causes the whole system to get worse, not better

(although yeah it gets messy if you think that you joining causes other people to join who then see misinformation. My intuition is that this effect is smaller than the other one
April 19, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Maybe this is a naive analysis and idk what people actually care about but object level on your point, it’s not at all obvious to me which direction joining points in terms of non-monetary social consequences

Like you contribute your take and vote with your likes!
April 19, 2025 at 4:30 AM
(By all means, check the math chatgpt.com/share/68031c...)
ChatGPT - Elon Musk Twitter MAU Estimate
Shared via ChatGPT
chatgpt.com
April 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
And FWIW I’m personally making about $30/mo = $360/year via monetization and premium on sale was $100 IIRC

Doing my part to bankrupt the man, all in a days work
April 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Use Twitter or don’t, whatever you think is right for you, but know that benefitting Elon should basically not be part of the calculus
April 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
And perhaps more importantly, having good correct takes on ~X~ has positive externalities

It’s a relatively big and influential social network

*Almost none of the value is captured by Elon*
April 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
If the point estimate is off by an OOM and you use Twitter for 10 years, that’s $15

If you(‘d) get nontrivial value from it, as I really think I have, there’s virtually no chance that an altruistic boycott checks out
April 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I did really buy the rabbits treats for the charity via their Amazon gift registry unironically hope the rabbits enjoy them

Learn more and join me in making an impact: animalsasnaturaltherapy.org
April 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Oh huh, weird idea
March 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
RIP
March 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
llm-est-c18067b91d3b.herokuapp.com

aka

bit.ly/llm-est

If I actually make a nontrivial amount of money, I will buy a real domain lmao
January 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
You could have both of these and potentially more? Could be yours for only $2989
January 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM