Michael Andregg
151 posts
@michaelandregg
ceo of eon | human emulation pbc https://t.co/M7nhgJxMlO prev: optical supercomputers/networking/robotics, high-speed mass production electron microscopy
There's a fruit fly walking around right now that was never born. @eonsys just released a video where they took a real fly's connectome — the wiring diagram of its brain — and simulated it. Dropped it into a virtual body. It started walking. Grooming. Feeding. Doing what flies do. Nobody taught it to walk. No training data, no gradient descent toward fly-like behavior. This is the opposite of how AI works. They rebuilt the mind from the inside, neuron by neuron, and behavior just... emerged. It's the first time a biological organism has been recreated not by modeling what it does, but by modeling what it is. A human brain is 6 OOM more neurons. That's a scaling problem, something we've gotten very good at solving. So what happens when we have a working copy of the human mind?
Private advisor... and my most important (unheeded) advice was NOT to declare that you "uploaded a fly" unless you had damn good evidence. Because otherwise you would piss off the Drosophila research community. I take uploading seriously, so please point me to the publication that offers such good evidence.
Grateful to have been the first investor in @eonsys back in 2023. What @michaelandregg and team have achieved on a modest budget is incredible. Meanwhile hundreds of billions are flowing into AI compute while connectomics—the actual blueprint of intelligence—remains underfunded. The Overton window is shifting.
