Ryan Hauser
@ryanhauser.bsky.social
Research Fellow @ GMU | AI Governance + PPE + HPS | Studying @ VT
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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.
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."
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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...
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Check out the latest edition of Paperweights over at Machine Culture.
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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...
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."
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.)
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (JFK's eldest brother) died tragically after one such BQ-8 robot exploded prematurely en route to a V-3 (large-caliber gun) development site at the Fortress of Mimoyecques in northern France.
October 31, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (JFK's eldest brother) died tragically after one such BQ-8 robot exploded prematurely en route to a V-3 (large-caliber gun) development site at the Fortress of Mimoyecques in northern France.
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.
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.