Beau Sievers
@beausievers.bsky.social
Psychology, neuroscience, music, game design.
He’s talking about an invisible mechanical duck
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
He’s talking about an invisible mechanical duck
believe in automatons, believe they can sing and dance and play Chess,—even at the end of the Turn, when the latch is press’d and the Midget reveal’d, and the indomitable Hands fall still.”
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
believe in automatons, believe they can sing and dance and play Chess,—even at the end of the Turn, when the latch is press’d and the Midget reveal’d, and the indomitable Hands fall still.”
Say “Goodheart’s Law” one more time; I dare you
November 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Say “Goodheart’s Law” one more time; I dare you
These days I just try not to take the bait, and to stay consistent, but I’ve got to admit I feel a compulsive sense of loss which puts me at risk of falling into some deep circle of social media hell
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
These days I just try not to take the bait, and to stay consistent, but I’ve got to admit I feel a compulsive sense of loss which puts me at risk of falling into some deep circle of social media hell
For me, it’s the antimony between left politics and quantitative measurement, broadly construed. Many folks I feel aligned with on The Issues seem to genuinely believe that measuring outcomes is either impossible or morally wrong, and who point to specific cases of bad measurement as justification
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
For me, it’s the antimony between left politics and quantitative measurement, broadly construed. Many folks I feel aligned with on The Issues seem to genuinely believe that measuring outcomes is either impossible or morally wrong, and who point to specific cases of bad measurement as justification
🚨 New paper (with Kasey Rhee & Nico Studen). We use a new within-precinct design to isolate how ideology affects vote choice holding turnout fixed, analyzing 3.4M precinct observations across state & fed elections (2016-2022).
tldr: Ideological moderation affects vote shares, but not by much. 🧵⬇️
tldr: Ideological moderation affects vote shares, but not by much. 🧵⬇️
The Electoral Consequences of Ideological Persuasion: Evidence from a Within-Precinct Analysis of U.S. Elections
Most research on the electoral penalty of candidate ideology relies on betweendistrict or longitudinal comparisons, which are confounded by turnout and ballot c
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November 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Which makes me roll my eyes a bit at the pejorative “positivist.” Like, I’m not sure that what makes the shallow pro-moderation camp bad is that they are positivist per se, it’s that they’re sidestepping reasonable criticism from their peers for some uh assuredly complicated reasons
November 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Which makes me roll my eyes a bit at the pejorative “positivist.” Like, I’m not sure that what makes the shallow pro-moderation camp bad is that they are positivist per se, it’s that they’re sidestepping reasonable criticism from their peers for some uh assuredly complicated reasons
Same with The Great Gatsby. It's not a mistake, it's mockery. Calling them illiterate misses the point
November 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Same with The Great Gatsby. It's not a mistake, it's mockery. Calling them illiterate misses the point
We’re watching a very poignant and personal protective ritual unfold here
October 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
We’re watching a very poignant and personal protective ritual unfold here