@benbushong.com
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
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.
@nytimes.com : Hegseth Says Tuesday Will Be ‘Most Intense’ for U.S. Strikes on Iran
@nytimes.com : Trump Walks Back Idea That War Is Near End: U.S. Gains ‘Not Enough’
Guys what are we doing here?
@wsj.com : Trump Says Iran War Is ‘Very Complete, Pretty Much’
I should note that the awesome authors of the current NBER paper discuss the older work at length and the contrasts -- just wanted to throw some love to the "classics"
Someone else did too... with a fantastic title. A classic projection bias paper from @urisohn.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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.
Can't wait to see who joins the cast!
Fifteen percent*. You want global economic stability and certainty? It’s fifteen percent.*
*Plus or minus five percent. Ish. We think.
I am genuinely surprised by the delta between adoption / applications. The hype machine nonsense of "you can replace all COBOL engineers now" (see, e.g., IBM stock yesterday) seems... misplaced. Just make one thing unambiguously better, please, AI overlords!
I love this take. 🔥
The averages could be straight out of a paper on non-belief in the law of large numbers. (See e.g. Benjamin, Rabin, Raymond JEEA)
Great question; I appreciate how you've translated this into something concrete rather than, say, p(doom).
2%; 85%, 10%, 2%, something smaller than 1% but I am lazy
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.
Anthropic got its intellectual property stolen?
Oh, gosh.... sorry to hear. That's.... awful?
I noticed... the faculty list is 🔥 Congrats again.
Congratulations---excited to see what comes of this new school. Exciting opportunity.
call for experimental economics conference 15-19 June 2026 for PhD students in economics
NEW Summer School in Theory-based Experimental Economics + follow-on conference @Caltech 15-19 June 2026
Please spread the word.
"I seem unreliable, but I'm actually very reliable. You just have to trust the process." Alysa Liu, U.S. Olympic figure skater
When I’m two weeks behind on my grading.
This complaint was too long for my cooked attention span. Bluesky AI Whale, can you summarize?
Acoustics on point.
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.
It's almost as if the administration is bad at the law...
Imma argue the harder line: seahorses ain't real. Like, have you ever even spoken to one? That shit is AI.
Through it all, Fox News gonna Fox News.
My goodness the correct headline is coming from [checks notes] TMZ of all places?!
Media... get your act together.
Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
We cannot trust our own government.
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.
Maybe your readers were engaged in the time-honored tradition (often modeled by Justice Kavanaugh) of not understanding the definitions of common English words!
