https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-co-founder-sutskevers-new-safety-focused-ai-startup-ssi-raises-1-billion-2024-09-04/

http://web.archive.org/web/20240904174555/https://ssi.inc/

I have nothing witty or insightful to say, but figured this probably deserved a post. I flipped a coin between sneerclub and techtakes.

They aren’t interested in anything besides “superintelligence” which strikes me as an optimistic business strategy. If you are “cracked” you can join them:

We are assembling a lean, cracked team of the world’s best engineers and researchers dedicated to focusing on SSI and nothing else.

  • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    Tangent: As a first time participant in an early access game, I came across the term “overtuned” which made me irrationally angry. My understanding is that it is supposed to mean “you buffed this because of feedback but maybe a little too much” but I have rarely seen it used to mean other than “this needs a nerf, and I won’t justify my position, but I want to sound like I’m reasonable”

    never, ever, ever play EVE. you might pop a vein in apoplexy

    (CCP demonstrates some of the most stunning lack of systemic thinking and basic hypothesis testing on the very damn thing they control, and it frequently does my head in)

    • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      I think I’ve seen a bit of it and thought that it was a game that could kill me in that manner!!!