@ryanhauser.bsky.social
Research Fellow @ GMU | AI Governance + PPE + HPS | Studying @ VT machineculture.io | ryanhauser.carrd.co | ◁▷◁
What I'm reading — chatbot spies, AI ethnography, and Bono.
www.machineculture.io/p/paperweig...
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.
09.11.2025 20:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Weekend reading on Michael Burry and AI. What does it all portend? machineculture.io/p/the-bot-s...
08.11.2025 08:27 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Weekend reading on Michael Burry and AI. What does it all portend? machineculture.io/p/the-bot-s...
08.11.2025 08:27 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Never got a response, so I asked my local Claude chatbot.
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.
06.11.2025 21:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The etymology of "wiki" can be traced to an airport shuttle on Honolulu.
06.11.2025 21:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's cool that Fairfax has ballots in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Korean. It's a culturally complex county! (Also great food.)
04.11.2025 18:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"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...
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.
31.10.2025 19:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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."
31.10.2025 19:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It is weird to me that this is no longer deeply weird.
31.10.2025 19:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congrats 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...
14.10.2025 19:11 — 👍 83 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1My ERC Project MODEL TRANSFER on bluesky!
24.11.2024 23:15 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci
30.10.2025 10:07 — 👍 43 🔁 54 💬 1 📌 1
🎙️ 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
🎉 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
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My foray into Threads is more whimper than bang thus far.
29.10.2025 16:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lawmakers & 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.
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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)
