Jonas Hallgren
jonashallgren.bsky.social
Jonas Hallgren
@jonashallgren.bsky.social
Your attitude changes the circumstances, both internally and externally. I'm trying to exhibit the curiosity and care that I want to see in my environment. Collective Intelligence Researcher, Meditator, Effective Altruist, Life Enjoyer.
Random LLM tip for the computer science wizards out there (and in general I guess): Make it pretend it is on a walk and simulating the perspectives of Donald Knuth and Bartosz Milewski and you get an AI that knows functional programming pretty well.
January 12, 2026 at 7:25 AM
Meditation TL;DR for computer scientists: Treat your life like it has the Markov Property, it will make you happier.
January 11, 2026 at 9:36 AM
I've been thinking about new forms of recommendation algorithms promoting things like curiosity and similar for a while. Is this possible to build on #atprotocol?

Like a Polis style sentiment analysis that creates a feed that maximises expressions of curiosity and wonder?
January 11, 2026 at 8:23 AM
Hmmmm, I feel quite bad at posting on social media but part of the plan this year is to at least try.

So uhhhh, I write a substack where I post weird shit about cognition, collective intelligence and where I talk too much about ants?: wizardryweekly.substack.com/p/collective...
Collective Wizardry Weekly #1: Uplifting Ant Colonies & Talking About Crystals
We are resetting the counting for easier reference. Also, the less optimisation pressure on you, the more crazy you can go, things went a bit weird.
wizardryweekly.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Reading Michael Nielsen's Reinventing Discovery and decided to check out innocentive which he mentioned, I found this and thought it had quite the great name. It's good to see what humanity's collective intelligence is used for: www.innocentive.com/challenges/c...
Chicken Sexing Grand Challenge
www.innocentive.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Reposted by Jonas Hallgren
Preprint time:
“Symmetries at the origin of hierarchical emergence”
arxiv.org/abs/2512.00984

On how symmetries generate hierarchical macroscales and shape the structure of our beliefs, making high-dimensional inference tractable
Symmetries at the origin of hierarchical emergence
Many systems of interest exhibit nested emergent layers with their own rules and regularities, and our knowledge about them seems naturally organised around these levels. This paper proposes that this...
arxiv.org
December 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Michael Nielsen follows a lot of cool people and now I also follow them :D

I had to find some cool people to follow and now I might be able to crinkle my brain up a bit more even though I won't get to the amount of folds as Michael has.
November 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I have decided that I should post more on social media so uhhh, here's an update from me and my org this week if you wanna check it out? (It's got weird fun stuff in it.)

open.substack.com/pub/wizardry...
Collective Wizardry Weekly #47: A Spectral Model of Collective Intelligence (+ some strategy based on watching EU5)
Jonas was sick, watched someone play Europa Universalis, got interested in Kazakh Steppe trade routes, and wrote two papers.
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM