Ryan Hauser
@ryanhauser.bsky.social
Research Fellow @ GMU | AI Governance + PPE + HPS | Studying @ VT
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Ryan Hauser
@ryanhauser.bsky.social
· Oct 27
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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Apply to the best PPE Graduate Summer Workshop in the biz.
November 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Apply to the best PPE Graduate Summer Workshop in the biz.
Happy Think-Tanksgiving to all who celebrate! 🍂🍁
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Happy Think-Tanksgiving to all who celebrate! 🍂🍁
“All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception.”
― Simone Weil
― Simone Weil
November 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception.”
― Simone Weil
― Simone Weil
One of the weirder episodes in pop music history — the Pet Shop Boys vs Roger Scruton.
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
One of the weirder episodes in pop music history — the Pet Shop Boys vs Roger Scruton.
Apply to the best PPE Graduate Summer Workshop in the biz.
November 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Apply to the best PPE Graduate Summer Workshop in the biz.
The all-seeing eye of Snoopy — 1988 Macy’s Day Parade, photo by Elliott Erwitt.
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The all-seeing eye of Snoopy — 1988 Macy’s Day Parade, photo by Elliott Erwitt.
"I finally got around to watching 1984 — ya know, the one with John Hurt? Anyway, it was bleak, like really grim. You could feel the totalitarian system grinding this poor guy into a powder. So, I turned to my friend and I said to him, 'This movie is outrageous, man. I mean, it's really Orwellian!'"
November 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
"I finally got around to watching 1984 — ya know, the one with John Hurt? Anyway, it was bleak, like really grim. You could feel the totalitarian system grinding this poor guy into a powder. So, I turned to my friend and I said to him, 'This movie is outrageous, man. I mean, it's really Orwellian!'"
To drive out bad political theology, you need to articulate good political theology.
Matthew Hamilton (@Sir_Matthew_D) — Managing Director of Georgetown's Initiative for AI & Democratic Citizenship — does exactly this in his launch essay. Recommended.
thepeaceofthecity.substack.com/p/friends-e...
Matthew Hamilton (@Sir_Matthew_D) — Managing Director of Georgetown's Initiative for AI & Democratic Citizenship — does exactly this in his launch essay. Recommended.
thepeaceofthecity.substack.com/p/friends-e...
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 AM
To drive out bad political theology, you need to articulate good political theology.
Matthew Hamilton (@Sir_Matthew_D) — Managing Director of Georgetown's Initiative for AI & Democratic Citizenship — does exactly this in his launch essay. Recommended.
thepeaceofthecity.substack.com/p/friends-e...
Matthew Hamilton (@Sir_Matthew_D) — Managing Director of Georgetown's Initiative for AI & Democratic Citizenship — does exactly this in his launch essay. Recommended.
thepeaceofthecity.substack.com/p/friends-e...
Shrinkflation has gotten out of control. A "bailout" used to get you billions in direct subsidies, now all you get is an EO.
November 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Shrinkflation has gotten out of control. A "bailout" used to get you billions in direct subsidies, now all you get is an EO.
A very cultivated pun from the FT.
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A very cultivated pun from the FT.
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Bono as Guide to the post-AGI cosmos...
November 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Bono as Guide to the post-AGI cosmos...
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A moratorium on state laws and comprehensive federal legislation on AI are dead in the water without sustained, focused leadership from the White House. More is needed if this has any hope of getting through.
November 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
A moratorium on state laws and comprehensive federal legislation on AI are dead in the water without sustained, focused leadership from the White House. More is needed if this has any hope of getting through.
Bono as Guide to the post-AGI cosmos...
November 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Bono as Guide to the post-AGI cosmos...
"About as good as it comes... up here, the brain power. The greatest power of them all, the brain power." 🦾🇺🇸
November 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
"About as good as it comes... up here, the brain power. The greatest power of them all, the brain power." 🦾🇺🇸
Michael Richards on Miami Vice — the truth behind Kramerica Industries.
November 20, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Michael Richards on Miami Vice — the truth behind Kramerica Industries.
A moratorium on state laws and comprehensive federal legislation on AI are dead in the water without sustained, focused leadership from the White House. More is needed if this has any hope of getting through.
November 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
A moratorium on state laws and comprehensive federal legislation on AI are dead in the water without sustained, focused leadership from the White House. More is needed if this has any hope of getting through.
Expecting comprehensive AI legislation by year's end reflects "the triumph of hope over experience."
www.machineculture.io/p/dont-expe...
www.machineculture.io/p/dont-expe...
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Expecting comprehensive AI legislation by year's end reflects "the triumph of hope over experience."
www.machineculture.io/p/dont-expe...
www.machineculture.io/p/dont-expe...
Check out the latest edition of Paperweights over at Machine Culture.
machineculture.io/p/paperweig...
machineculture.io/p/paperweig...
November 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Check out the latest edition of Paperweights over at Machine Culture.
machineculture.io/p/paperweig...
machineculture.io/p/paperweig...
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Some professional news.
Excited to start today as chief economist at
Stripe. Looking forward to working with & learning from the brilliant people there to produce data-centered insights and research.
Excited to start today as chief economist at
Stripe. Looking forward to working with & learning from the brilliant people there to produce data-centered insights and research.
November 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Some professional news.
Excited to start today as chief economist at
Stripe. Looking forward to working with & learning from the brilliant people there to produce data-centered insights and research.
Excited to start today as chief economist at
Stripe. Looking forward to working with & learning from the brilliant people there to produce data-centered insights and research.
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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