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Aaron Bergman

Independent technical consultant

Interests: effective altruism, AI, philosophy (consciousness, ethics, metaethics), economics, rationality, data, medicine, pharmacology, and walking around

Against: suffering

Washington DC currently; Berkeley CA soon


Selected Writing


Projects & Tools

Data Liberator

A native Mac app that exports your own data into open, portable files.

NightMode DMG

MacOS app to adjust night mode color intensity.

Pledge Tool

Interactive charitable giving pledge calculator.

Gemini Watermark Remover

CPU-based infilling model to remove Gemini watermarks. Please use responsibly.

Substack Rec Network

650k recommendations across 130k Substack blogs.

Congressional Records

Up-to-date, freely accessible US Congressional transcripts since 2017.

ATC Communications

190 intense ATC audio logs with LLM explanations.

Community Notes Dataset

370k+ tweets and 700k+ community notes. Open-source.

PhilPapers Survey Data

7GB of correlation data from the 2020 PhilPapers survey.

Otter Export Extension

Browser extension to liberate audio from Otter.ai.

Emergency Prep Spreadsheet

Comprehensive emergency preparedness resource list.

Global Diet & Obesity Panel

~14M regressions: % calories from carbs robustly predicts overweight prevalence.


Audio Projects

Things I've turned into podcast feeds — books, talks, debates, and original content.

Pigeon Hour

Pigeon Hour

My podcast. Long-form EA/rat conversations.

Slow Boring — Unofficial AI Narration

Slow Boring (Unofficial)

Matt Yglesias's free posts. Spotify · RSS

Edge of Sentience

The Edge of Sentience

Jonathan Birch. TTS audiobook.

Weighing Animal Welfare

Weighing Animal Welfare

Rethink Priorities report. TTS audiobook.

Dario Amodei

Dario Amodei's Writings

Unofficial audio feed.

Deciding to Win

Deciding to Win

TTS audiobook.

EAG Talks

EAG Talks

EA Global talks as audio RSS.

EA and the Human Mind

EA and the Human Mind

Schubert & Caviola. TTS audiobook.

Eleos AI

Eleos AI

Podcast feed.

AGI and Animals

AGI & Animals Debate Week

Best of. Not hosted on platforms yet.


Contact

Email

Schedule a Chat

Calendly (experimental / tentative)

Anonymous Feedback

admonymous.co/aaronbergman

Tell me things. As long as it's true and not literally an infohazard.

Elsewhere

Twitter · LinkedIn