Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Issuing a correction on this tweet: game theory people have pointed out that this more closely resembles a stag hunt than a prisoner's dilemma. The @zackbeauchamp feed regrets the error and apologizes to any game theorists whom it has offended. — PolitiTweet.org

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Worse, it's not really iterated — parents don't really talk to each other about sending in a sick who has a slight fever but is otherwise fine. Unfortunately for us, defecting isn't an option because @phylliskessel is an unbendingly ethical rule follower. — PolitiTweet.org

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My daycare's sick policy — kids need to stay out if they run a fever at home — creates a prisoner's dilemma for parents. It's in everyone's best interest to keep all sick kids home. But you can't know if other parents are doing it, so you have incentives to send your kid in sick — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @dylanmatt: Speaking my truth as a teen Marxist turned 30-something EA https://t.co/DCkGRAhGM9 https://t.co/fR1fFAOGWA — PolitiTweet.org

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Imagine being the world's richest man and feeling the need to reply "im not owned" to an account with 601 followers https://t.co/7hXMTWYE1t — PolitiTweet.org

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If I worked at a chicken slaughterhouse, but then claimed I was really vegan because I didn’t eat animal products at home, people would not take that claim very seriously — PolitiTweet.org

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There is only so long you can devote your professional identity to being “the leftist that thinks other leftists are bad” before people conclude that you are simply on the right — PolitiTweet.org

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This is funny as hell https://t.co/GkGrz1sdrh https://t.co/xUiwxw2gzE — PolitiTweet.org

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See this is why the media is out of touch. I’m a Cowboys fan, and thus a Real American. — PolitiTweet.org

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Why did 25 QAnon-influenced weirdos just attempt to make a minor noble the new king of Germany? To find out, I spoke with @PeterRNeumann, who has been studying the movement behind the bizarre coup plot for over a decade. https://t.co/9OrVB4S4G8 — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattPolProf @MattFlisfeder @victorbruzzone "The rise of liberal Maoism" is a Jacobin (or Compact) article begging to be written — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattPolProf politics as aesthetics — PolitiTweet.org

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You also have to wonder about a theory that predicted the future would look like Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia everywhere — PolitiTweet.org

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Burnham’s theory of the managerial revolution seems fundamentally at odds by the emergence of the mega-wealthy tech capitalist class, and yet the idea is very popular among certain sectors of Silicon Valley. Curious. — PolitiTweet.org

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But ham’s theory of the managerial revolution seems fundamentally at odds by the emergence of the mega-wealthy tech capitalist class, and yet the idea is very popular among certain sectors of Silicon Valley. Curious. — PolitiTweet.org

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@binarybits though you could also get traffic by writing things that made people in those categories angry, i remember this pro-trade piece i wrote did good numbers https://t.co/1EzjU00XFV — PolitiTweet.org

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Between this, restricting the right of return, and de facto annexation, Israel's incoming coalition is doing its damndest to blow up diaspora support — PolitiTweet.org

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@tico_tonito expand on that? feel like there's an interesting thought here — PolitiTweet.org

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So if I'm reading this correctly, the president of Peru has just attempted to do a coup by dissolving Congress — and the armed forces told him no, actually, that's illegal — PolitiTweet.org

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So if I'm reading this correctly, the president of Peru has just attempted to do a coup by dissolving — and the armed forces told him no — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin <looks at book proposal draft, tugs collar nervously> — PolitiTweet.org

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Liberal theorists have long held that certain rights protections are necessary for baseline democracy to function, looks like reality is proving them right — PolitiTweet.org

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The global tend towards electoral authoritarianism suggests that “illiberal democracy” is not a sustainable form of government, but a pit stop on the road to autocracy — PolitiTweet.org

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The Y-axis on this chart is completely busted — it goes from 1.97 to 2.13 (on a survey that used a 1-3 scale). What looks like huge jumps between years are probably just statistical noise — PolitiTweet.org

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@JHWeissmann Fair, but they see it as part of the broader pattern (the Times hates us and our values) — PolitiTweet.org

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@JHWeissmann I know that some people in that world were mad about the NYT's Slate Star Codex piece — PolitiTweet.org

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If you are not capable of looking out at a very complicated world and saying "hey, I might be wrong about stuff," then your political opinions may not be worth taking seriously — PolitiTweet.org

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I used to write a weekly column at ThinkProgress — nowadays it would be a newsletter — highlighting things I read in the conservative press that were smart or challenging. It was a good exercise! It's good to remind yourself that there are smart and generous people who disagree. — PolitiTweet.org

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I used to write a weekly column at ThinkProgress — nowadays it would be a newsletter — highlighting things I read in the conservative press that were smart or challenging. It was a good exercise! Wish we did this more with people we disagree with. — PolitiTweet.org

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Things like Mastodon try to do something new, and in the process overcomplicate things and break something that wasn't broken. By contrast, Truth Social is just a straight Twitter ripoff and thus much more intuitive for a new user — PolitiTweet.org