Justin Tiehen
@jttiehen.bsky.social
Philosophy Professor at the University of Puget Sound. Working on philosophy of mind, AI, science.
The England/Croatia game is incredible. The Croatian goalkeeper has given up 3 but has played heroically.
I sort of think this is the whole finals right here. If the Spurs win tonight, they win the series. If the Knicks do, they do.
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.
Appreciate this letter from MN State Sen Jim Abler (R-Anoka) to POTUS
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 )
The News Tribune@thenewstribune.com · 12mo agoDoes AI lack consciousness? Is that a dealbreaker when it comes to “dating” it? University of Puget Sound professors say it’s complicated.
I will support any New York mayoral candidate who admits bodegas are just convenience stores and everywhere in the world has them
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
Philip Bump@pbump.com · last yr.I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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.
Laurie! Live!@laurie-merrell.bsky.social · last yr.If you still know anyone who imagines that Pritzker or Johnson will order police under their command to arrest federal agents, you can send them this (1hr12min42sec timestamp). They are explicit that they will not and they view courts as only venue for enforcement. www.youtube.com/live/vqP4YFV...
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. 🧵
I think the “somewhat useful” category is u helpful. If they asked me personally, I would say it’s “somewhat 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.
John Gramlich@johngramlich.bsky.social · last yr.So far at least, Americans are lukewarm about AI summaries in search results. Relatively few who have seen them think they're extremely or very useful (20%) or have a lot of trust in the information they get from them (6%). New data from @pewresearch.org: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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
Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.
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.
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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...
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.
Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · last yr.it's a great interview, and what's striking is that at the end of the day both klein and coates believe in winning people over. the difference is that coates thinks you do this by telling them the truth, and klein thinks you do it by empathizing with them and recognizing their concerns as Real
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).
@lastpositivist.bsky.social · last yr.Oh. My. God. www.popsci.com/environment/...
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...
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CNN@cnn.com · last yr.A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died. https://cnn.it/4ndDYbl
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.
Trump just likes dropping bombs and committing war crimes so I don't think we'll be invading Afghanistan
Bluesky policy discussion: “You’ve got this detail wrong but it’s cool that you’re even here.” Twitter policy discussion: “I just told your boss you wanna fuck kids.”
One of the natural consequences of blurring the line between state censorship and “cancel culture” was making it easier to engage in state censorship. I leave it to your imagination whether the people who did that intended that result or were merely recklessly indifferent to it.
Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · last yr.This isn’t “cancel culture,” it is markedly way worse