On 3 September 2022, Igor Kiriluk suddenly died (see EA Forum obituary). He was a great communicator and organized the first Moscow EA meetup. He had been active in the transhumanist scene since 2003 and even attracted the founders of KrioRus to transhumanism. He worked as community glue and visited every meetup.

On 5 January 2026, his closest friend Veter (Sergey Kamenev) had a dream that Igor's sideload (a mind-model based on an LLM) was created and that Igor calls him and suggests they celebrate his birthday. This was a signal I had been waiting for –I had wanted for some time to create a mind model of a dead person. I immediately started working.

We got an archive of his private communications, 2,000 pages, and 1,300 pages of scientific publications. His mother decided to collaborate and provided a lot of memories, recordings, and photos. Only two long videos exist. Altogether it is a 4,000-page mindfile = 3M tokens.

I decided on a new approach – instead of building a passive chatbot, to program an agent. After some experiments, I ended up giving Claude Code an instruction: roleplay this person as an agent – along with a lot of [...]

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Outline:

(04:22) Post by Igors sideload

(04:42) System Overview by Claude Code

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First published:
March 8th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3g5pSQTpdw4K98w8M/recreation-of-ea-pioneer-igor-kiriluk

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“Recreation of EA-Pioneer Igor Kiriluk” by avturchin

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