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Beau Sievers
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Psychology, neuroscience, music, game design.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
beautiful film-making, everyone but the screenwriter did a great job lol

Super impressed by Emma Stone, who added a lot of nuance to a character who just wasn’t written with much depth at all.
November 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
lots of people deeply want a better world, but give up. They get jaded as they age without the opportunity or the will to join in an optimistic common project. An easy read of this movie dignifies that cynicism.

Anyway, astonishing craft on display. Brilliant performances,
November 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
At once we see an authentic-feeling portrayal of grief and isolation pushing someone into psychosis, and also a weak disavowal of that caring impulse, a shrugging “lol we’re a fallen species and we deserve what we get.” I think this is a
pretty popular moral attitude—
November 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
conspiracy ideation, and opening the faint possibility that the corporation might have altruistic goals. But then there’s a “re-flattening,” as both the CEO and the conspiracist are revealed to be motivated by rageful self-regard and do increasingly awful things to each other.
November 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I’d add that many don’t seem aware that the takes on offer are first-pass
November 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
He’s talking about an invisible mechanical duck
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 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.”
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Say “Goodheart’s Law” one more time; I dare you
November 7, 2025 at 4:15 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
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 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
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM