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Justin Tiehen

@jttiehen

Philosophy Professor at the University of Puget Sound. Working on philosophy of mind, AI, science.

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A bad game but a great win. Go Seahawks!

09.02.2026 03:35 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My favorite genre of Epstein emails are powerful people emailing WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN about how MeToo has gone too far and the woke mob must be stopped.

04.02.2026 02:22 πŸ‘ 19713 πŸ” 4217 πŸ’¬ 433 πŸ“Œ 179

The quoted post invites people to think of cases where they don’t know the moral status of the people they’re engaging with. But by 2013 Epstein had already been convicted, let alone all the time that’s passed since then for disclosure.

01.02.2026 02:39 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

08.01.2026 01:19 πŸ‘ 33726 πŸ” 8700 πŸ’¬ 809 πŸ“Œ 548
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Opinion | When A.I. Took My Job, I Bought a Chain Saw

This is really grim. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...

30.12.2025 15:49 πŸ‘ 145 πŸ” 45 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 15

I think this is a good point. There are tradeoffs between diversity of views and shared assumptions, and no universal answer as to which trade is worth making.

29.12.2025 06:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Appreciate this letter from MN State Sen Jim Abler (R-Anoka) to POTUS

12.12.2025 03:11 πŸ‘ 2515 πŸ” 551 πŸ’¬ 64 πŸ“Œ 69
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They’re calling him the world’s most sober man:

04.12.2025 05:55 πŸ‘ 1350 πŸ” 221 πŸ’¬ 133 πŸ“Œ 192

We delivered the Regester lecture at Puget Sound last week and The News Tribune discussed it and our work on AI romantic companions and philosophical accounts of consciousness (w/ @jttiehen.bsky.social )

18.11.2025 07:21 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

I will support any New York mayoral candidate who admits bodegas are just convenience stores and everywhere in the world has them

04.11.2025 02:05 πŸ‘ 5010 πŸ” 543 πŸ’¬ 170 πŸ“Œ 81
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AI ETHICS QUESTION: Is this good?

01.11.2025 01:42 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Mariners!!

18.10.2025 01:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is also bad in that it's not a one off op-ed writer. These articles are coming from the editorial board.

People really need to cut their subscriptions to WaPo and move on to supporting other outlets

09.10.2025 02:11 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

As Gov. Pritzker says in his opening statement, ICE and CPB are attempting to provoke a reaction by their actions in Chicago. And as he says -- more or less -- at the time stamp below, he won't order state police to physically confront them, b/c he can't.

07.10.2025 01:50 πŸ‘ 495 πŸ” 92 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 5
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If you could win a prize by guessing the number on a die 🎲 hidden under a cup, would you want to guess before the die was rolled, or after?
The odds of winning are the same in both, but they can feel different. 🧡

06.10.2025 21:03 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I think the β€œsomewhat useful” category is u helpful. If they asked me personally, I would say it’s β€œsomewhat helpful,” because there are some benefits, but also that on balance it’s more harmful then helpful, because the costs of the inaccuracies and hallucinations outweigh the benefits.

05.10.2025 17:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

genuinely its really funny that the "online american catholic" position is that the pope is wrong about the bible and the "online american secular" position is that the pope is always right about the bible

02.10.2025 14:50 πŸ‘ 153 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4
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Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.

Once again, it is *faculty*β€”not administratorsβ€”who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

01.10.2025 01:18 πŸ‘ 874 πŸ” 271 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 12
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According to Oregon, Trump got the idea that Portland is on fire because Fox News illustrated a September 5 story on protests of ICE with video from the George Floyd riots in 2020.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

28.09.2025 23:53 πŸ‘ 1416 πŸ” 450 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 83

My most controversial post-ejection take is that treating voters as adults with agency and telling them the truth isn’t looking down on them, while telling voters things you know to be false to validate their feelings in an attempt to manipulate them is considerably more condescending.

28.09.2025 18:23 πŸ‘ 1076 πŸ” 217 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 8

Maybe it was still worth it, and Dems should load up to make a similar move again even if longterm consequences ensue. Or maybe it wasn’t worth it, and so there should be lessons learned. Feels like the material for an important, interesting conversation.

28.09.2025 15:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

An irony is that a very obvious cause of why Dems are in trouble in the senate is the passage of Obamacare, which directly resulted in various Dem red state senators getting voted out. Given how central Klein was in supporting Obamacare, this could generate an interesting discussion.

28.09.2025 15:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry, I’m being dense. Can you explain what you mean?

27.09.2025 01:35 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ariela Tubert & Justin Tiehen, Authentic Artificial Love - PhilPapers Often in romantic relationships, people want partners whose moral, political, and religious values align with their own. This article connects this point to the project of value alignment in AI resear...

Along very similar lines, but from a Beauvoir-inspired existentialist view. philpapers.org/rec/TUBAAL

25.09.2025 14:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i keep rereading this

23.09.2025 19:07 πŸ‘ 257 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 1

My Bluesky profile image is taken from a student artwork of me painted grue (the student was doing an art project on philosophical thought experiments and I had mentioned that grue was my favorite).

23.09.2025 15:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin

Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

21.09.2025 18:06 πŸ‘ 879 πŸ” 587 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 58

actually that checks out

21.09.2025 21:59 πŸ‘ 1452 πŸ” 188 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 0

In the American League, there are 6 playoff spots but 7 different teams that have more than a 50% chance of making the playoffs. Mathematically possible but counterintuitive.

21.09.2025 21:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, I very much stand behind that. I would jokingly say of the campus critics, β€œthey hate us for our freedom.” Campus free speech failures, when real, are cases of colleges falling short of free speech ideals that basically no ordinary workplace makes an effort to meet.

21.09.2025 16:46 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0