Posts from June 2024

4PM — Pictures from Joel Meyerowitz’ 1960s road trip in Europe. I don’t think you could take some of these pictures today. So much less life is happening on the streets these days.

3PM — Chinatown at 50.

It’s never easy for a writer to get credit over a director – especially a director as skilled as Roman Polanski at peak form – but Towne’s voice reverberates strongly through a film that perfectly intersects Old Hollywood glamor with New Hollywood revisionism. It’s one of the decade’s true benchmarks.

Great movie, great script.

11AM — OpenAI founder Ilya Sutskever starts new a company called “Safe Superintelligence Inc.” with the goal building, yeah, safe superintelligence. Whatever that means.

Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our​​ time.

We have started the world’s first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.

It’s called Safe Superintelligence Inc.

SSI is our mission, our name, and our entire product roadmap, because it is our sole focus. Our team, investors, and business model are all aligned to achieve SSI.

We approach safety and capabilities in tandem, as technical problems to be solved through revolutionary engineering and scientific breakthroughs. We plan to advance capabilities as fast as possible while making sure our safety always remains ahead.

Isn’t that what OpenAI initially set out to do? We all know how this went once the VCs deepened the company’s pockets. Love the old-school vibe on the website, though.

4PM — Chilly Gonzales rapping in German. Not a Schappsidee at all, this song slaps.