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The eureka fallacy of optimization
https://petterhol.me/2025/12/10/the-eureka-fallacy-of-optimization/
Published: December 10, 2025 12:40
When we learn things by studying or doing research, we perceive understanding as coming to us in step-like a-ha moments. I will argue that these moments happen more likely when we recognize (or map our observations to) specific patterns of explanation. The…
Searching for collective intelligence in science
https://petterhol.me/2025/06/26/searching-for-collective-intelligence-in-science/
Published: June 26, 2025 14:40
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…
Symmetric, orderly, wrong
https://petterhol.me/2025/05/07/symmetric-orderly-wrong/
Published: May 7, 2025 11:26
This post continues the theme of how quirks of the human psyche limit our advancement of knowledge—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 the…
Essay time: AI and science’s happy ending
https://petterhol.me/2025/02/09/essay-time-ai-and-sciences-happy-ending/
Published: February 9, 2025 19:23
I’ve been a bit disappointed with the debate about the future use of AI in science. Either it has been short-sighted: “Wow, let’s try this thing we’ve always been doing, but with chatbots instead” or pessimistic without any real arguments. So, in remedy, I…
Book & music parings. Vol. 1.
https://petterhol.me/2025/01/23/book-music-parings-vol-1/
Published: January 23, 2025 21:57
The premise is simple: just six fantastic science books and their spirit animals in the zoo of music. “1” because it feels like I forgot some obvious ones. Claude Lévi-Strauss – The Raw and the CookedVague Imaginaires – L’île D’or Mysterious, eclectic,…