Andy Crouch

Partner @praxis_hq // Author, The Life We’re Looking For | The Tech-Wise Family | Strong & Weak | Playing God | Culture Making

[Andy Crouch @ahc]

With apologies for the late notice! I get to talk with Tish Harrison Warren about her beautiful new book, WHAT GROWS IN WEARY LANDS, today at 1pm EDT. You can join for the Zoom seminar here: https://t.co/d7wJYJTNxb

[Andy Crouch @ahc]

@tomagain Alas, no — I met her a few years ago and was very intrigued by her approach to things, but have not kept up!

[Andy Crouch @ahc]

By far the best thing I've read on the encyclical. https://t.co/nIdErCaiWX

[Andy Crouch @ahc]

I love Catholic Social Doctrine and am glad to see its core principles reiterated — but in the end MH feels too indebted to existing frameworks to really address the res novae of our time. Yuval's piece gets much closer to the heart of the matter.

[Matthew Loftus @matthew_loftus]

Extremely good interview between two very sharp people (@nwilliams030 & @ahc) on technology, the family, co-living, and much more!
https://t.co/WNThg2Hg6z

[Andy Crouch @ahc]

@natenorberg I truly meant "unforeseeable" . . . who knows. I just expect that there will be a dramatic event that shifts the policy landscape. At least one fiction writer conceived of the Butlerian jihad!

[Andy Crouch @ahc]

I expect (vs predict) that there will be a 9/11-level event (causing grievous harm to >thousands of people) that will change the direction of AI policy in ways that are genuinely unforeseeable right now. Biosecurity is a strong candidate for the vector, though there are others.

[Leah Libresco Sargeant @LeahLibresco]

So much of our biosecurity infrastructure is built around assuming we will retain the moats / signals of suspicious activity we've relied on in the path.

That is very, very unlikely.

Biosecurity, not job loss, remains my expected cause of a strong AI backlash.

[Andy Crouch @ahc]

@natenorberg Very hard to say. But if GPUs became as difficult to obtain as, say, uranium centrifuges . . .

[Andy Crouch @ahc]

@michaelhilton Yes, that's fair, but I suspect it won't be just a handful of brave astronauts harmed, and in that sense much more like 9/11.

[Andy Crouch @ahc]

@DavidFish7 oof

[Andy Crouch @ahc]

I get an out-of-the blue email from someone wanting to connect. Seems like a nice guy but man, it sure reads like AI at least co-wrote it. In any case, these days I have to decline most such requests (to my frustration). I write back, personally, saying so as kindly as I can.

[Andy Crouch @ahc]

@dwchurchwell I use it a lot for research broadly, especially getting reasonable depth on new-to-me concepts (recently e.g., entrainment, literacy acquisition theory, neurophysiology of addiction) — just not for generating any words I would use verbatim in another context.

[Andy Crouch @ahc]

@RobbieSap90 "asymmetric leverage" . . . VERY suspicious . . . :)

[Andy Crouch @ahc]

@RobbieSap90 did an ai write this 😂

[Andy Crouch @ahc]

@michaelhilton And people are also starting to (unconsciously) write like LLMs!!

[Andy Crouch @ahc]

I don't even use spell check, and never use AI in personal correspondence, or for that matter any writing that will see the light of day in any form (I use it for lots of other things). But soon enough we are just going to assume that everything is a bot. Sigh.

[Andy Crouch @ahc]

He accidentally replies to me instead of his business partner, speculating that my email may be an "AI-generated template email response."

This dynamic is going to be the death of all remaining trust on the Internet.

[Andy Crouch @ahc]

The ISO 216 standard for paper sizes is so beautiful. That is all.

[Andy Crouch @ahc]

@DavidDecosimo @lukeburgis Oh, I agree. Though I should mention one other thing — I have never in my life imagined SV tech folks begging to be regulated the way that I have heard multiple times on recent visits (not just to Anthropic). It's wild. Not universal of course.

[Andy Crouch @ahc]

Just spent two days with senior staff at Anthropic and a group of Christians deeply committed to finding redemptive paths for AI. Encouraging on many fronts. Above all I think the guests were unanimously blown away by the humility and moral seriousness of Anthropic's leadership.

[Andy Crouch @ahc]

It is SO fascinating that one of the most popular podcasts ever, ACQUIRED, completely changed their focus, from their original title to stories of enduring, often multigenerational brands.

Impact (Force / Time) is way overrated. Influence (force ^ time) is so much better.