About

The Short Version

I’m a mathematician and AI researcher who writes about the mechanics of reality. Sometimes that looks like dissolving a classical philosophy problem in two minutes. Sometimes it looks like explaining why Detroit can’t build a cheap electric car. Sometimes it looks like poetry.

The throughline is always the same: find the structure, strip the noise, show the wiring.

The Long Version

We pretend the world is neatly partitioned — economics here, consciousness there, ethics in its own building, art somewhere across campus. But the underlying mechanics are shared. The same dynamics that trap a gifted student in a bad paradigm trap an automaker in a dead architecture and trap a philosopher in a pseudo-problem. The geometry is identical. The substrates differ.

I work across four domains:

HELY5 — “Hákon Explains Like You’re 5.” Jargon-free dissections of complex systems: economic, cultural, technological. The aim is clarity that doesn’t sacrifice precision.

Formal Systems — The technical work. Mathematical philosophy, AI architecture, and rigorous papers on topics ranging from Riemannian attention mechanisms to the dissolution of the is-ought gap via measure theory.

Fiction & Verse — Novels, short stories, poetry. Some structures are best explored through narrative. The novel I’m writing braids Norse cosmology, mathematical philosophy, and a contemporary love story because those three things are genuinely the same investigation from different angles.

Meditations — Essays on gratitude, sobriety, the good life, and what it actually looks like to rebuild from the ground up.

I don’t simplify. I clarify. There’s a difference, and it matters.

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