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Dmitri Gallow
@dmitrigallow.bsky.social
Philosopher @ USC
Last semester, I taught a graduate seminar on Bayesian epistemology. Here are my lecture notes:

jdmitrigallow.com/teaching/epist25/aitbe.pdf
jdmitrigallow.com
June 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Video of a talk I gave at USC's Information Science Institute. It's meant to give an opinionated overview of the developments in the philosophy of causation over the past 30 years.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rqt...
Causation and Influence in Causal Influence Models
YouTube video by USC Information Sciences Institute
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February 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Reposted by Dmitri Gallow
Next was a thought-provoking talk by @dmitrigallow.bsky.social on recent developments in the philosophy of causation at the USC Information Sciences Institute www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rqt... (3/6)
Causation and Influence in Causal Influence Models
YouTube video by USC Information Sciences Institute
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February 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Reposted by Dmitri Gallow
This paper, offering two game-theoretic arguments against Uniqueness in epistemology, is now forthcoming in Erkenntnis.

#philsky

brian.weatherson.org/quarto/posts...
Epistemic Permissiveness and Symmetric Games – Brian Weatherson
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January 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Reposted by Dmitri Gallow
Just submitted the completed manuscript of The Book of Infinity to MIT Press. Hoping for the best! #BookOfInfinity
December 31, 2024 at 7:35 PM
youtu.be/EjZB81jCGj4?...

A nice video on John Norton's dome
The Dome Paradox: A Loophole in Newton's Laws
YouTube video by Up and Atom
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December 26, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Budget shortfalls are a real issue and they need to be addressed with cuts somewhere. I do hope my erstwhile colleague Ann Cudd considered taking a pay cut herself before hanging actual philosophers out to dry.

www.portlandmercury.com/news/2024/12...
PSU Lays Off 17 Academic Faculty Members As Union Talks of Potential Strike
Amid an $18 million budget deficit, Portland State University is laying off 17 non-tenure track faculty, citing “changes in programmatic and curricular needs.” The university issued layoff notices on ...
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December 26, 2024 at 4:51 AM
I really wish Americans could get as excited about improving our laws as they get about vigilante justice
December 10, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Incredible video on rainbows from Veritasium

www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Gf...
You're Probably Wrong About Rainbows
YouTube video by Veritasium
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December 2, 2024 at 8:11 AM
My paper "instrumental divergence" is now available online:

rdcu.be/dDXHR

(If you want a typo-free version, you can go to philpapers.org/rec/GALIDB)
Instrumental divergence
rdcu.be
April 7, 2024 at 6:37 AM
How am I just learning about this amazing paper?
Four Colors Do Not Suffice on JSTOR
Hud Hudson, Four Colors Do Not Suffice, The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 110, No. 5 (May, 2003), pp. 417-423
www.jstor.org
March 12, 2024 at 2:36 PM
FEW 2024 is going to be held in Australia, at the ANU.

Submit!

sites.google.com/view/few-202...
FEW 2024
The 2024 Formal Epistemology Workshop will be hosted by the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University in Canberra, ACT, Australia. It will be held from 15th-17th July, 2024.
sites.google.com
February 4, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Big if true
January 5, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Here's video of a talk I gave on AI x-risk in Hong Kong last month.

youtu.be/caj2DVOufYw?...
Existential Risk from the Artificial Will (November 3, 2023)
Speaker: Dr Dmitri Gallow, Dianoia Institute of Philosophy, Australian Catholic University
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December 27, 2023 at 1:50 PM