Jonas Hallgren

AI was used to translate around 20 minutes of talking out the entire post. The post was then fully edited by a human (multiple times). In our phylogeny of agents post, we argued that different scientific fields evolved different conceptions of agency and that this would be useful to study....

I describe the philosophy of science that I follow when it comes to the research that I do. I firstly describe the underlying reasoning behind it by itself which I then follow by walking through how I apply it to my own assumptions about what is needed to make the...

Or: Todd Has a Presentation in London on Thursday and Three Academics (Some of Them Dead), Won't Stop Arguing About Root Fungi (The story follows the one in Seeing Like A State but applies a systemic perspective on AI Safety) Epistemic Status: Written with my Simulator Worlds framing. E.g I...

TL;DR AI disempowerment operates across markets, networks, and governance simultaneously, but our analytical tools don't cross those boundaries. We propose spectral graph metrics—spectral gap, Fiedler vector, eigenvalue distribution—as computable, cross-domain measures for tracking how the balance of influence shifts when AI enters coordination systems, and identify three specific quantities to...

Why DeSci should stop searching for universal verification and start building compositional translations. Introduction Here's a problem nobody talks about enough in decentralized science: how do you get a biologist and a physicist to collaborate without someone eventually muttering "well, actually, it's all just atoms" and the other person leaving...

This is the technical companion piece for Have You Tried Thinking About It As Crystals. Epistemic Status: This is me writing out the more technical connections and trying to mathematize the undelying dynamics to make it actually useful. I've spent a bunch of time on Spectral Graph Theory & GDL...

Epistemic Status: Written with my Simulator Worlds framing. E.g I ran simulated scenarios with claude in order to generate good cognitive basins and then directed those to output this. This post is Internally Verified (e.g I think most of the claims are correct with an average of 60-75% certainty) and...