I am not surprised to learn that Disney is now selling homes in communities that it is building. They are uniquely qualified to design living experiences. I’m sure I could look it up, but have they ever done something like this before that’s not part of their theme park business?
Very excited to be attending XOXO one more time. This will be my 4th time attending.
I will definitely be reading Leopold Aschenbrenner’s paper, which lays out a path from GPT-4 to superintelligence and just how insanely difficult it will be to align it with humans. He should know. He worked on OpenAI’s superalignment team – the team responsible for ensuring that super artificial intelligence (AI) systems, which surpass human intelligence in all domains, act according to human values and goals. He was fired for allegedly leaking information in April of this year.
From Everyone Into The Grinder by Hamilton Nolan (h/t Kottke)
Cancer patients in England are getting fast-tracked to become the first patients in the world to receive personalized cancer vaccines. Literally brought tears to my eyes. Yay, science! I hope they work.
Steve Levitt, the Freakonomics guy, or at least one of the two guys that wrote the Freakonomics books, has podcast called People I (Mostly) Admire, which I enjoy listening to every once in a while. The latest episode was a re-broadcast of his interview with John Green, who, prior to this interview, I didn’t really know anything about. I looked him up and realized he’s the brother of Hank Green, who I sort of knew from YouTube. So anyway, yeah, somehow I missed John Green, which feels weird for a very online person. I guess I need to read his books with my kids.
Fellow parents, let me tell you… We were rushed getting out the door this morning all because I decided to make whipped cream for the strawberries. I don’t regret it. Make the whipped cream.
I love reading Ted Gioia. He’s not only insanely knowledgeable about so many things, but the passion with which he writes about topics is so much fun as a reader. His conversation with David Perrell for the How I Write podcast was a lot of fun. David always has great questions and doesn’t seem to care as much about looking cool. This is a topic they cover, at least from Ted’s perspective, in their conversation.
Just after a morning meeting at Gjusta.
Been enjoying Kali Malone’s latest album this morning.