Aaron Bergman 🔍 ⏸️ (in that order)

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oh no

All in all — way better than I expected! Vastly more sensible than the rhetoric from the Trump admin so far suggested. whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…

I am so glad my brain doesn’t have whatever switch this is supposed to turn on

I bought these face-masks for my family. In a future pandemic they offer: • the comfort of a surgical mask (can confirm) • the protection of an N95 mask or better • can use every day for a year, so much cheaper Every adult in a rich country should own one IMO.

Almost all plausible moral views fall under the “utilitarianism” umbrella

My contribution to the discourse is that I don’t like the term “save” in an altruistic context Prevent from dying? Ok when’s the counterfactual death? How’s their quality of life before then? Saved from some other fate? Well say that!

Twitter this past week

planes are still by far the coolest form of transport ever conceived. it’s crazy how you can get whisked away to the other side of the globe in a metal tube that floats above the clouds.

I think, regardless of your take on the 80k strategy pivot, it's a sign of epistemic health for EA, perhaps? I've seen many individuals switch on cause prio, which is arguably one of the whole points of EA, but it's cool to see that an org can successfully do this

I see the Shrimp Welfare debate has got us doing this version of utilitarianism discourse this morning.

🚨 BREAKING: ICE secretly deported Luis Leon, an 82-year-old torture survivor and U.S. legal resident of nearly 40 years, after he walked into an immigration office to replace a lost green card. Instead of processing the request, ICE handcuffed him, detained his wife for 10…

When will an AI win a Gold Medal in the International Math Olympiad? Median predicted date over time July 2021: 2043 (22 years away) July 2022: 2029 (7 years away) July 2023: 2028 (5 years away) July 2024: 2026 (2 years away) metaculus.com/questions/6728…

I agree Hamas bears most responsibility for the Gaza deaths, I just think that this is too tenuous a link to support not being worried about the deaths of 50,000 people. Some intuition pumps I ask myself: - Is there any amount of death that could happen in Gaza that we would…

This is an unimaginably bad take in the @guardian. (1) because air conditioning is (at least in the UK) actively helpful for greening the grid, and (2) because there are no points for needless suffering in a climate crisis.