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Andrew Critch (🤖🩺🚀)

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Andrew Critch (🤖🩺🚀)

@AndrewCritchPhD

CEO @ theMultiplicity.ai. AI Researcher @ Berkeley. Views my own. I also post my favorite healthy+tasty foods for free.

California

Joined April 2014

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Andrew Critch (🤖🩺🚀)
@AndrewCritchPhD
May 2
Confirmed: "cents on the dollar" is all the pork industry saves by using these inhumane gestation crates and farrowing crates. Here are some estimates from frontier AI models, INCLUDING THE TRANSITION COST amortized over 5 years: grok-4.3: 4 ¢/$ opus-4-7:
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Tomi Lahren
@TomiLahren
May 2
China owns the big pork industry here in the United States. China also owns way too much land here in the United States. And guess what, they own our Republican politicians too. Hence, the “save our bacon act” pushed by @RepAshleyHinson It’s not about saving “bacon” it’s about
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Andrew Critch (🤖🩺🚀)
@AndrewCritchPhD
Jul 16, 2023
Without internationally enforced speed limits on AI, humanity is very unlikely to survive. From AI's perspective in 2-3 years from now, we look more like plants than animals: big slow chunks of biofuel showing weak signs of intelligence when undisturbed for ages (seconds) on end.
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Andrew Critch (🤖🩺🚀)
@AndrewCritchPhD
Jan 1, 2024
When I count on my fingers, I use binary, so I can count to 31 on one hand, or 1023 on two. It took me about 1 hour to train the muscle memory, and it's very rhythmic, so now my right hand just auto-increments in binary till I'm done, and then I just read off the number.
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Daniel Filan 🔎
@freed_dfilan
Jan 1, 2024
FYI: you can count up to 100 on your fingers like so: - right hand is ones - left hand is tens - thumbs are 5/50, fingers are 1/10. This is convenient enough that it's the way I count by default. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisanbop
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Andrew Critch (🤖🩺🚀)
@AndrewCritchPhD
Mar 11, 2024
AI safety's most concise summary ever, from @AndrewRousso. And they said it couldn't be explained...
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Andrew Critch (🤖🩺🚀)
@AndrewCritchPhD
Mar 16, 2023
Dear everyone who wants to regulate and slow down AI: please stop fighting over who has the Most Correct Reason for the slow down. Just work together and make it happen! Reasons in alphabetical order: * autonomous weapons * bias * biosecurity * children's safety (more...)
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Andrew Critch (🤖🩺🚀)
@AndrewCritchPhD
Oct 4, 2023
My followers might hate this idea, but I have to say it: There's a bunch of excellent LLM interpretability work coming out from AI safety folks (links below, from Max Tegmark, Dan Hendrycks, Owain Evans et al) studying open source models including Llama-2. Without open source,
Wes Gurnee
@wesg52
Oct 4, 2023
Do language models have an internal world model? A sense of time? At multiple spatiotemporal scales? In a new paper with @tegmark we provide evidence that they do by finding a literal map of the world inside the activations of Llama-2!
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Andrew Critch (🤖🩺🚀)
@AndrewCritchPhD
Oct 16, 2023
Reminder: Without internationally enforced speed limits on AI, I think humanity is very unlikely to survive. From AI's perspective in 2-3 years from now, we look more like plants than animals: big slow chunks of biofuel showing weak signs of intelligence when undisturbed for
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Andrew Critch (🤖🩺🚀)
@AndrewCritchPhD
Mar 16, 2023
Replying to @AndrewCritchPhD
* cybersecurity * discrimination * existential risk * fake news * global conflict * harassment bots * human extinction * mental health * national security * social media addiction * terrorism * unemployment I don't agree with all these, but I endorse the conclusion: regulate AI!
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Andrew Critch (🤖🩺🚀)
@AndrewCritchPhD
Nov 29, 2023
Yann LeCun is calling the list of scientists and founders below "idiots" for saying extinction risk from AI should be a global priority. Using insults to make a point is a bad sign for the point… plus Hinton, Bengio, and Sutskever are the most cited AI researchers in history:
Yann LeCun
@ylecun
Nov 29, 2023
The AI doomers are the "useful idiots" of the proprietary AI industry.
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Andrew Critch (🤖🩺🚀)
@AndrewCritchPhD
Jul 23, 2023
From my recollection, >5% of AI professionals I’ve talked to about extinction risk have argued human extinction from AI is morally okay, and another ~5% argued it would be a good thing. I've listed some of their views below. You may find it shocking or unbelievable that these
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Andrew Critch (🤖🩺🚀)
@AndrewCritchPhD
Dec 12, 2023
Belated congrats to @ilyasut for becoming the third most cited AI researcher of all time, before turning 40… huge! He's actually held the spot for a while — even before GPT-4 — but it seems many didn't notice when it happened. Go Canada 🇨🇦 for a claim on all top three 😀
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Andrew Critch (🤖🩺🚀)
@AndrewCritchPhD
Dec 4, 2024
I'm really not looking forward to the "Are AIs human?" culture wars that will intensify in 2027+. The answer is "No, but some AIs will have moral value, but it's still wrong to betray humanity for AI," and each clause there will have a different faction that's too extreme :-/
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Andrew Critch (🤖🩺🚀)
@AndrewCritchPhD
Sep 6, 2024
As recently as last year I attended a tech forecasting gathering where a professional geneticist tried to call bullsh*t on my claims that protein-protein interaction modelling would soon be tractable with AI. His case had something to do with having attended meetings with George
Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️
@ESYudkowsky
Sep 5, 2024
DeepMind just published AlphaProteo for de novo design of binding proteins. As a reminder, I called this in 2004. And fools said, and still said quite recently, that DM's reported oneshot designs would be impossible even to a superintelligence without many testing iterations.
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Andrew Critch (🤖🩺🚀)
@AndrewCritchPhD
Jan 1, 2024
Reminder: "Mitigating the risk of (human) extinction from artificial intelligence should be a global priority", according to… The CEOs of the world’s three leading frontier AI labs: • Demis Hassabis — CEO, Google DeepMind • Dario Amodei — CEO, Anthropic • Sam Altman — CEO,
Jürgen Schmidhuber
@SchmidhuberAI
Nov 27, 2023
AI boom v AI doom: since the 1970s, I have told AI doomers that in the end all will be good. E.g., 2012 TEDx talk: youtu.be/KQ35zNlyG-o: “Don’t think of us versus them: us, the humans, v these future super robots. Think of yourself, and humanity in general, as a small stepping
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