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Ben Bushong

@benbushong.com
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Visiting Harvard University and HBS, 25-26 Associate Professor at Michigan State. Formerly: Harvard, Caltech, Oregon. Using psychology ✕ economics to explore people's beliefs and choices. All opinions my own. 🐶 + 🧠 + 📚 + 🏃🏽+ 🌈 + 🩵 web: benbushong.com

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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 29/09/2026
"Yeah, dawg. We're worth like, $2 trillion. Easily. We have these two customers that are *really* rich. But enough about that. Our god-in-a-box is going to kill us all! Please invest." - Anthropic, probably.
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Anthropic warns of ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO prospectus
Long-awaited S-1 filing reports Claude maker lost $8bn last year on $4.6bn in revenue
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 29/09/2026
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 24/09/2026
I had a similar issue with my monograph "Time-Series Analysis of My So-Called 'Research' Fund: A Lamentation on the State of the Profession".
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 23/09/2026
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Perfect I Think You Should Leave Tim Robinson Hot Dog
ALT: Perfect I Think You Should Leave Tim Robinson Hot Dog
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 21/09/2026
60 minutes is noticeably worse in its current form. Might be time to put it down.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026
“our ai broke out and hacked some organisations” = "we failed to set up appropriate safeguards, failed to continuously monitor our experiments, and ignored a basic principle of reinforcement learning: if hacking gets rewarded, the system learns to hack"
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 18/09/2026
In the past I have found it frustrating that you cannot filter AEA JOE listings by some sense of "top schools" versus "non-top". Here's an attempt to address that. Feel free to share. econjobs.netlify.app
econjobs.netlify.app
Econ Job Tracker
Search for economics jobs by ranking. Postings from major listing sources; historical data from AEA JOE.
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 17/09/2026
Fantastic.
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 16/09/2026
I was this many years old when I learned that Alex Winter is a true G.
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 14/09/2026
Oh no... I agree with the President. ...well, like, the first sentence. The rest is brainrot nonsense.
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 07/09/2026
As always, he *gets it*.
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 04/09/2026
Yeah... I watched the Stewart + Fetterman interview and was like "this dude is not one of us".
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simine vazire @simine.com · 02/09/2026
Psych Science has retracted Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002). The second author requested the retraction. Both authors agreed to it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... So grateful to @datacolada.bsky.social for these blog posts and the work behind them: datacolada.org/138 and datacolada.org/139 1/2
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 02/09/2026
Part II.
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 31/08/2026
Quelle surprise.
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 30/08/2026
I am Professor Sisyphus. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/pro...
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Professor Sisyphus Begins a New Semester
“Professor Sisyphus learned a slang word. He was excited to impress his students. Then he discovered that as soon as he uttered slang in class—poof! It would...
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 10/06/2026
Another profile in courage from the heroes on the @wsj.com editorial board.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29/05/2026
This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵
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Economics LMU Munich @econmunich.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🔵Coming up this Monday! Join us on June 01 at the 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 with @benbushong.com (𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆) who will present "Belief Sequences, Prior Recovery, and (Non-)Bayesian Updating" 🔗https://www.benbushong.com/ #EconSky
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
You’ve got to be bookmaxxing. You have to be knowledgepilled and on that information grind. Checking in and looking things up and citing sources. Dont let them bookmog you. Read.
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 21/04/2026
[Rage face] we already live in a transportation hellscape. We need the exact opposite of all of this. My campaign promise is to destroy thousands of miles of roads and re-wild them into prairies and forests and also push to make cities denser with trains for everyone HOW HARD IS THIS?!
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 19/04/2026
Oh cool it's Infrastructure Week again...
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 12/04/2026
I can think of some reasons.
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Someone Has to Be Happy. Why Not Lauren Sánchez Bezos?
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The markets continue to be an idiot
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 06/04/2026
Smash that buy button. Confuse your enemies. Arouse your friends.
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 04/04/2026
This is a good take. Endorse.
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 01/04/2026
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a man in a suit and tie stands in a crowd
ALT: a man in a suit and tie stands in a crowd
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 01/04/2026
Sure seems like it's TACO Tuesday... on a Wednesday.
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 27/03/2026
This fella is good at politics.
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 23/03/2026
Fam, who else loves TACOs?
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 21/03/2026
Stay classy, San Diego.
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 10/03/2026
Hey, internet. Anyone else notice that GPT 5.4 loves specific words to an almost psychotic degree? "Gremlin" is like, the word of the day. It's bizarre. If you've seen anything like this, add the word below.
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 09/03/2026
Guys what are we doing here? @wsj.com : Trump Says Iran War Is ‘Very Complete, Pretty Much’
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 08/03/2026
I know there is a lot going on in the world but I just want to focus our collective rage and earnestly say fuck you to spring forward.
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 24/02/2026
Fifteen percent*. You want global economic stability and certainty? It’s fifteen percent.* *Plus or minus five percent. Ish. We think.
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 24/02/2026
I love this take. 🔥
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 23/02/2026
Anthropic got its intellectual property stolen? Oh, gosh.... sorry to hear. That's.... awful?
A tweet from @AnthropicAI: We’ve identified industrial-scale distillation attacks on our models by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax.

These labs created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude, extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models.
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
NEW Summer School in Theory-based Experimental Economics + follow-on conference @Caltech 15-19 June 2026 Please spread the word.
call for experimental economics conference 15-19 June 2026 for PhD students in economics
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 20/02/2026
When I’m two weeks behind on my grading.
"I seem unreliable, but I'm actually very reliable.
You just have to trust the process."
Alysa Liu, U.S. Olympic figure skater
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 26/01/2026
It's almost as if the administration is bad at the law...
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 25/01/2026
Through it all, Fox News gonna Fox News.
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 25/01/2026
My goodness the correct headline is coming from [checks notes] TMZ of all places?! Media... get your act together.
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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 24/01/2026
We cannot trust our own government.
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 24/01/2026
Prof. Litman's viewing is accurate. I do not encourage watching the video, but it clearly captures one agent firing at least four shots into a defenseless man on the ground.
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 21/01/2026
It's okay, Europe. Just sell the Treasuries. I know this will be bad for millions of people. But appeasing the crazy person is bad for billions.
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 21/01/2026
Do. Not. Negotiate. With. The. Madman.
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 07/01/2026
This is normal, right? Everything is great? Golden Age? www.whitehouse.gov/j6/
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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · 03/01/2026
Can we PLEASE do actual protests now?
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