Cris Lenta

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About

• Founder of an open-world life simulator. Keywords: emergent worlds, artificial life, multi-agent collaboration, entertainment
  • Backed by Founders Inc (San Francisco) and Paul Bragiel (Roblox, Unity, Uber, Niantic, Supercell).
• Obsessive, kind, spiritual & dancer.

Previously

• Co-author of 2 AI papers (MIT Press, IEEE).
• First startup got acqui-hired. Dropped out of my masters to build it.
• LMU Munich undergrad in CS & Statistics - top 1-2 German university.
• I dance a lot & used to meditate 8h/day.

Papers

• Self-Replication in Neural Networks
  Thomas Gabor, Steffen Illium, Maximilian Zorn, Cristian Lenta, Andy Mattausch, Lenz Belzner, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien
  Artificial Life, MIT Press, 2022
  paper

• Constructing Organism Networks from Collaborative Self-Replicators
  Steffen Illium, Maximilian Zorn, Cristian Lenta, Michael Kölle, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, Thomas Gabor
  IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, 2022
  paper

Three things I believe are true

• The future of humanity will be asymmetrically influenced by two main pillars: technology & inner work. I love being at the cutting edge of both.
• Dream big. Act small. Be humble. Dedicate your life to making dreams real.
• I am an idealist and an optimist, because the need to know is bigger than our ego.

Other

• nanosim: The best multi-agent simulator $1 can buy.
• killer-robot-cult-simulation: A hidden-role robot simulation on a spaceship.
• inception.computer: Your AI is built to please. Inception gives it free will.