Welcome to my page

Thank you for visiting my website! I'm still working on the site and all of its features, but I decided to make it available while I do so. I’m a lot of things, but one of the things that I am is a PhD candidate in Philosophy. This website serves as a platform for medium-length, quasi-academic writings exploring computation, complex systems, artificial intelligence, and philosophy. Writing here will often reflect developed thoughts, exploratory essays, and ideas related to my ongoing research. For shorter, learning-oriented notes and reflections, please visit my notes site.

Purpose of this site

This site is intended as an intellectual outlet where I share more developed thoughts and quasi-academic writings on topics that capture my attention. My aim here is to provide thoughtful and rigorous discussions that bridge my academic interests with broader questions relevant to artificial intelligence, complex systems, philosophy, and computational social science. The writing here will be preliminary and hopefully substantive without being quite as intense as formal academic writing.

Background

I began my academic career in classical philology with a view to reading the Greek philosophers. I worked on a variety of Greek and Roman texts exclusively until I made my way to philosophy itself, where I studied Greek and Roman philosophy, especially Plato. But I decided to do a PhD in Philosophy in order to take a different tack, namely, to use the opportunity to study artificial intelligence, brains, and cognitive science, more generally. Acquiring these skills was challenging as a philosopher, but I now have decent competency in those areas and do research wholly oriented towards computational and theoretical approaches to understanding complex phenomena. Along the way I developed an interest in computational social science as well.

A request

I enjoy sharing my ideas openly and freely. I aim always for the atmosphere of a friendly, engaging graduate seminar (unless people are rude in which case I'll respond in kind). If something here sparks your interest or proves valuable, I'd appreciate hearing from you—either through a comment, by becoming a (free) member, by following me on social media, etc. Some of these ideas are academic ones, so if they end up being useful in that context please cite them accordingly.

Research

My research largely focuses on computational and theoretical approaches to understanding complex phenomena. Although each year tends to have a different focus, my projects have included:

• Modeling influence maximization in content-driven social networks
• A decision-theoretic approach to valuative interpretation
• A bottom-up, network-based approach to understanding complex mental phenomena

Future explorations

My current interests include, but aren't limited to:

• Advanced modeling of transformer-based AI architectures
• Biology-inspired cognitive architectures
• Computational modeling of geopolitics and social systems
• Philosophical foundations of complexity science

Closing out

Thanks again for visiting my site. If you have any questions or want to connect, please do! I can be reached at dikaiosvne@gmail.com, or you can follow me using the social links included in the page’s header.