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Anthony Aguirre

@anthonyaguirre.bsky.social
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Executive Director of Future of Life Institute. Physicist & cosmologist at UCSC. Co-founder, Foundational Questions Institute and Metaculus. Pro-human.

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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · 04/03/2026
Today, a broad coalition issued the Pro-Human AI Declaration, defining the goals of the growing Pro-Human Movement in response to Silicon Valley's destructive race to replace humans. 🧵1/3
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Anthony Aguirre @anthonyaguirre.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Fantastic new paper by Schindler et al. generalizing the notion of "observational" entropy. I've previously claimed obs. entropy is just the right way to think about "entropy" physics, as it encompasses/unifies many other versions. This is the even more right way. arxiv.org/pdf/2503.15612.
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Anthony Aguirre @anthonyaguirre.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Keep The Future Human is out today. (🧵, link at end) Humanity has got about a year or two left to decide whether we're going to replace ourselves with machines – starting individually, then as a species.
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Anthony Aguirre @anthonyaguirre.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Fortunately for humanity, it is only simulating doing professor-level mathematics and passing tests specifically targeting AGI.
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Anthony Aguirre @anthonyaguirre.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Posting this illustrative graph from Epoch AI's nice new dashboard in case anyone doubts that there has been major progress in AI since GPT-4 launched. This "PhD-level" science benchmark goes from slightly above guessing to expert human level.
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