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Christian Tarsney

@christiantarsney.bsky.social
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Philosopher interested in ethics, decision theory, AI, and time, among other things.

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Mike Geruso @mikegeruso.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
So excited that this will be out in the world tomorrow! And grateful to everyone who helped make it happen.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I really enjoyed this. Separate from how you feel about population, I repeatedly had assumptions overturned by their really deep stats. Maybe my favorite pop sci read during the last year. This is one of those "most of your intuitions are wrong" books.
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Christian Tarsney @christiantarsney.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
New paper forthcoming in Phil Review, w @LedermanHarvey and Dean Spears -- read all about it in Harvey's thread!
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Christian Tarsney @christiantarsney.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
New paper, "Expected Value, to a Point", now out in Noûs! The aim is to give a principled justification for the intuitively attractive claim that we're required to maximize expected value in "ordinary" situations, but not in "Pascalian" situations involving tiny probabilities of extreme outcomes.
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Expected value, to a point: Moral decision‐making under background uncertainty
Expected value maximization gives plausible guidance for moral decision-making under uncertainty in many situations. But it has unappetizing implications in ‘Pascalian’ situations involving tiny prob...
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