Michael Andregg

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Michael Andregg

Michael Andregg

@michaelandregg

ceo of eon | human emulation pbc https://t.co/M7nhgJxMlO prev: optical supercomputers/networking/robotics, high-speed mass production electron microscopy

San Francisco Katılım Mayıs 2009
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Michael Andregg@michaelandregg·
We've uploaded a fruit fly. We took the @FlyWireNews connectome of the fruit fly brain, applied a simple neuron model (@Philip_Shiu Nature 2024) and used it to control a MuJoCo physics-simulated body, closing the loop from neural activation to action. A few things I want to say about what this means and where we're going at @eonsys. 🧵
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Anthropic
Anthropic@AnthropicAI·
New Anthropic research: A global workspace in language models. Of everything happening in your brain right now, only a tiny fraction is consciously accessible—thoughts you can describe, hold in mind, and reason with. We found a strikingly similar divide inside Claude.
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Ward Plunet
Ward Plunet@StartupYou·
@michaelandregg "The emerging view is more like: memories are stored in neuron–synapse–astrocyte ensembles, where neurons carry the fast spiking/engram code, while astrocytes help gate, stabilize, retrieve, and possibly expand the storage capacity of the system." but this info will also be there
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Michael Andregg@michaelandregg·
Everything you've ever learned is stored in your synapses. Fixation locks them in place: in ~60 sec glutaraldehyde forms "a gel that traps essentially all proteins, DNA, lipids." The case for preserving the dying, even before revival is possible.
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Michael Andregg@michaelandregg·
Imagine all the people sharing all the world. I hope someday you’ll join us… And the world will live as one. new #Pluribus theme song 🔥🌍
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Michael Andregg@michaelandregg·
When it came out there was no digital version, so I cut the spine off and destructively uploaded it page by page through a scanner. @robinhanson signed that first uploaded copy, and now generously advises @eonsys. Congrats on ten years, Robin.
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Michael Andregg@michaelandregg·
The Age of Em has tons of predictions like this about the physical organization, infrastructure, and lifestyle of ems that are surprising, and then completely obvious once you've heard them.
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Michael Andregg@michaelandregg·
For an em running at a billionfold speedup, a ping to the other side of the Earth and back takes a subjective 3 years. Basically like sending a letter by sailboat. Which is why uploads will prefer to live very close to each other, especially when they're running really fast.
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Robin Hanson@robinhanson

ageofem.com was published 10 years ago this month.

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Michael Andregg@michaelandregg·
@Miles_Brundage These are all about uploading, which is why they help give a sense for why a digital being's experience matters
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Miles Brundage
Miles Brundage@Miles_Brundage·
Minimum (fictional) reading/watching material on AI welfare if you have like 3 hours: - Lena by qntm - White Christmas (Black Mirror) - San Junipero (Black Mirror)
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Michael Andregg@michaelandregg·
@ohlennart In order of most relevant to least relevant: devs, pantheon, transcendence, the matrix. Lots more stories: luminous, crystal nights...
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Lennart Heim
Lennart Heim@ohlennart·
someone was trying to trick me into watching a movie. unfortunately my niche interests cannot be fulfilled. “Films where a data center is genuinely central to the plot (not a single scene, not "Al lives somewhere") is a vanishingly small category.”
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Kane 謝凱堯
Kane 謝凱堯@kane·
Waymo is so good at saving lives that if it were a new drug in trial, it would hit the bar for being unblinded and made immediately available to the control group for ethical reasons. @MorePerfectUS would prefer to keep killing pedestrians.
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More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS

NEW: If Waymo gets its way, 2 million workers will be out of work. When Waymo gets a firm hold on a city, wages go down. Some drivers now have to work 12 hours day, 7 days a week just to get by. This isn't inevitable — but Big Tech is spending millions to make you think it is.

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Andrew Critch (🤖🩺🚀)
Andrew Critch (🤖🩺🚀)@AndrewCritchPhD·
Necome actually allowed me to visit their lab. I watched them preserve a rat brain, and collected samples from it myself. I brought the samples to a third party to image and analyze, and another third party neuroscientist to confirm: they're indeed preserving connectomic detail.
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Michael Andregg
Michael Andregg@michaelandregg·
The flywire/janelia brain was preserved with aldehyde fixation. @aureliasong just published how she scaled the same approach to whole large mammal brains: every synapse (randomly sampled, and verified by BPF), connectomically traceable. Uploading is still years out. But preservation is step one, check out their article
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@StartupYou @robinhanson @eonsys @Miles_Brundage @joshalbrecht @beffjezos @ohlennart @MorePerfectUS