Ryan Hauser
@ryanhauser.bsky.social
Research Fellow @ GMU | AI Governance + PPE + HPS | Studying @ VT
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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
— T. S. Eliot, "Little Gidding" (1942)
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
— T. S. Eliot, "Little Gidding" (1942)
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So interesting, Georg! Thank you. Looking forward to the Neurath thread, reminds me of this by Uebel www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
So interesting, Georg! Thank you. Looking forward to the Neurath thread, reminds me of this by Uebel www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Michael Burry's Scion Asset Management has closed...
I wrote recently that hedge funds "keep the techno-financial ecosystem healthy by keeping it honest... even when the investors like Burry get it wrong."
tinyurl.com/3cbr64k9
I wrote recently that hedge funds "keep the techno-financial ecosystem healthy by keeping it honest... even when the investors like Burry get it wrong."
tinyurl.com/3cbr64k9
The Bot Short
Burry's bet doesn't mean a long-run AI bust
www.machineculture.io
November 14, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Michael Burry's Scion Asset Management has closed...
I wrote recently that hedge funds "keep the techno-financial ecosystem healthy by keeping it honest... even when the investors like Burry get it wrong."
tinyurl.com/3cbr64k9
I wrote recently that hedge funds "keep the techno-financial ecosystem healthy by keeping it honest... even when the investors like Burry get it wrong."
tinyurl.com/3cbr64k9
The AI sand god waking up only to tell us it is a trinitarian theist.
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The AI sand god waking up only to tell us it is a trinitarian theist.
So much about my home state of Ohio is explained by this amazing paragraph.
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
So much about my home state of Ohio is explained by this amazing paragraph.
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them."
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them."
November 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them."
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them."
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Paperweights, 1st Edition
Chatbot Spies, AI Ethnography, and Bono
www.machineculture.io
November 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Paperweights, 1st Edition
Chatbot Spies, AI Ethnography, and Bono
www.machineculture.io
November 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Free idea for streaming: "So You Think You Can Fight," an MMA reality show drawing exclusively from male Buffalo Wild Wings patrons north of 30 years of age.
November 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Free idea for streaming: "So You Think You Can Fight," an MMA reality show drawing exclusively from male Buffalo Wild Wings patrons north of 30 years of age.
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Weekend reading on Michael Burry and AI. What does it all portend? machineculture.io/p/the-bot-s...
The Bot Short
Burry's bet doesn't mean a long-run AI bust
www.machineculture.io
November 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Weekend reading on Michael Burry and AI. What does it all portend? machineculture.io/p/the-bot-s...
Weekend reading on Michael Burry and AI. What does it all portend? machineculture.io/p/the-bot-s...
The Bot Short
Burry's bet doesn't mean a long-run AI bust
www.machineculture.io
November 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Weekend reading on Michael Burry and AI. What does it all portend? machineculture.io/p/the-bot-s...
Never got a response, so I asked my local Claude chatbot.
The reply: "The alignment team stopped answering emails."
The reply: "The alignment team stopped answering emails."
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Never got a response, so I asked my local Claude chatbot.
The reply: "The alignment team stopped answering emails."
The reply: "The alignment team stopped answering emails."
The pre-history of Wikipedia traces its origins to none other than Vannevar Bush, who led the US Office of Scientific Research & Development (OSRD) during WWII. Bush was instrumental in the creation of the National Science Foundation.
November 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The pre-history of Wikipedia traces its origins to none other than Vannevar Bush, who led the US Office of Scientific Research & Development (OSRD) during WWII. Bush was instrumental in the creation of the National Science Foundation.
The etymology of "wiki" can be traced to an airport shuttle on Honolulu.
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The etymology of "wiki" can be traced to an airport shuttle on Honolulu.
It's cool that Fairfax has ballots in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Korean. It's a culturally complex county! (Also great food.)
November 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
It's cool that Fairfax has ballots in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Korean. It's a culturally complex county! (Also great food.)
"At a basic level, all technology is 'dual-use' because the human toolmaker is divided between good and evil — not in equal parts, but by inclination and desire."
www.machineculture.io/p/toward-pe...
www.machineculture.io/p/toward-pe...
Toward Perpetual Violence
Progress cannot exorcise our demons
www.machineculture.io
November 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"At a basic level, all technology is 'dual-use' because the human toolmaker is divided between good and evil — not in equal parts, but by inclination and desire."
www.machineculture.io/p/toward-pe...
www.machineculture.io/p/toward-pe...
Really appreciate this mural across the street from #MasonSquare at GMU in Arlington. The B-24 Liberator depicted here later became one of the first drones — a radio-controlled flying bomb called the BQ-8 "robot."
October 31, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Really appreciate this mural across the street from #MasonSquare at GMU in Arlington. The B-24 Liberator depicted here later became one of the first drones — a radio-controlled flying bomb called the BQ-8 "robot."
It is weird to me that this is no longer deeply weird.
October 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
It is weird to me that this is no longer deeply weird.
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Congrats to all involved in the production of the massive Oxford Handbook of cultural evolution. You can read our paper The Cultural Evolution Of Science here: cailinoconnor.com/wp-content/u...
October 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Congrats to all involved in the production of the massive Oxford Handbook of cultural evolution. You can read our paper The Cultural Evolution Of Science here: cailinoconnor.com/wp-content/u...
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My ERC Project MODEL TRANSFER on bluesky!
Welcome to the Bluesky account of the ERC-funded project “MODEL TRANSFER and its Challenges in Science: The Case of Economics.” The project, led by Catherine Herfeld, is hosted by the Institute of Philosophy at the Leibniz University Hannover.
Our webpage:
model-transfer.uni-hannover.de/en/
Our webpage:
model-transfer.uni-hannover.de/en/
Homepage – MODEL TRANSFER: Model Transfer and its Challenges in Science: The Case of Economics – Leibniz Universität Hannover
model-transfer.uni-hannover.de
November 24, 2024 at 11:15 PM
My ERC Project MODEL TRANSFER on bluesky!
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A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note
www.cam.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci
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🎙️ New HPS Pod!
I chat with Prof. Lydia Patton about HOPOS — the history of philosophy of science. From her editorship of the journal to the future of the discipline, Patton shares why a historical lens reshapes core philosophical questions.
🎧 Link in bio!
#HOPOS
I chat with Prof. Lydia Patton about HOPOS — the history of philosophy of science. From her editorship of the journal to the future of the discipline, Patton shares why a historical lens reshapes core philosophical questions.
🎧 Link in bio!
#HOPOS
S5 E7 - Lydia Patton on HOPOS
open.spotify.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🎙️ New HPS Pod!
I chat with Prof. Lydia Patton about HOPOS — the history of philosophy of science. From her editorship of the journal to the future of the discipline, Patton shares why a historical lens reshapes core philosophical questions.
🎧 Link in bio!
#HOPOS
I chat with Prof. Lydia Patton about HOPOS — the history of philosophy of science. From her editorship of the journal to the future of the discipline, Patton shares why a historical lens reshapes core philosophical questions.
🎧 Link in bio!
#HOPOS
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🎉 50,000 listens! Thanks to everyone supporting The HPS Podcast, we're so grateful
We're proudly graduate-run— & work hard to provide episodes that reflect our community’s questions and passions, and the richness of ideas across HPS
Lots to come! Including some exciting developments for S6
(1/2)
We're proudly graduate-run— & work hard to provide episodes that reflect our community’s questions and passions, and the richness of ideas across HPS
Lots to come! Including some exciting developments for S6
(1/2)
October 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
🎉 50,000 listens! Thanks to everyone supporting The HPS Podcast, we're so grateful
We're proudly graduate-run— & work hard to provide episodes that reflect our community’s questions and passions, and the richness of ideas across HPS
Lots to come! Including some exciting developments for S6
(1/2)
We're proudly graduate-run— & work hard to provide episodes that reflect our community’s questions and passions, and the richness of ideas across HPS
Lots to come! Including some exciting developments for S6
(1/2)
My foray into Threads is more whimper than bang thus far.
October 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
My foray into Threads is more whimper than bang thus far.
Lawmakers & voters often doubt entrepreneurs will step into new, risky markets to boost self-regulation. But this is exactly what's happening in AI! (Also many other sectors historically.) We still need good legislation, but it should encourage bottom-up advocacy, not squash it.
x.com/typewriters...
x.com/typewriters...
October 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Lawmakers & voters often doubt entrepreneurs will step into new, risky markets to boost self-regulation. But this is exactly what's happening in AI! (Also many other sectors historically.) We still need good legislation, but it should encourage bottom-up advocacy, not squash it.
x.com/typewriters...
x.com/typewriters...
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
— T. S. Eliot, "Little Gidding" (1942)
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
— T. S. Eliot, "Little Gidding" (1942)
October 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
— T. S. Eliot, "Little Gidding" (1942)
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
— T. S. Eliot, "Little Gidding" (1942)