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My research focuses on large-scale structures in society and technology. I'm mostly trying to understand them as networks. Read more about it on the research interest page. CV Positions & postdocs Professor, Department of Computer Science, Aalto University.
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I don't want to hear your elevator pitch
… but I'd love to talk science with you for hours, on the shores of Sakhalin or in the bars of Beirut, or in the nearest available seminar room. This is a short armchair-philosophical elegy to slow science. The background is Olga Rozanova's 1914 "Cityscap
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Superintelligence, collective stupidity, and the AI agents of the future
First and foremost, James Evans and his colleagues are my greatest role models at the moment, and I can't think of a better research plan than to follow in their footsteps. This blog post is thus merely friendly chatter about their recent Science essay, b
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The eureka fallacy of optimization
When we learn things by studying or doing research, we perceive understanding as coming to us in step-like a-ha moments.1 I will argue that these moments happen more likely when we recognize (or map our observations to) specific patterns of explanation. T
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The embers of collective intelligence in science
In this blog post, I'll explore reasons to call science a product of collective intelligence. I'll look for something more than the sum of its parts, something more than a Cartesian or Baconian view of science as an edifice built by the contributions of m
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The eureka fallacy of symmetry
This post continues the theme of how quirks of the human psyche limit our advancement of knowledge1-quirks that are very much avoidable if you are aware of them, but if you aren't, they move the goalposts for scoring that Eureka feeling. I'll entertain th
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