Why did we make a short film?
Storytelling is everywhere in tech. Slickly produced videos with A24 quality aesthetics announcing yet another massive round. Carefully crafted narratives designed to make companies feel inevitable.
Increasingly, these videos are being used to sell things that just don't matter. Or worse, shouldn't exist. "Prediction markets" that are really just online casinos. AI fake-influencer startups built to deceive people.
What civilization really needs are cures for disease, abundant clean energy, new scientific tools, and technologies that genuinely expand human capability. To achieve that, we need a different type of ambition.
This film is our response.
The opening satirical sequence leans heavily on generative AI and VFX in the polished style of the startup videos it parodies. The rest of the film moves in the opposite direction: single-camera, shot on location with vintage lenses, real actors in natural light.
We hope you enjoy it.
A República Tcheca fez até aqui o anúncio MAIS emocionante que já vi para uma Copa do Mundo 🇨🇿
A seleção revelou seus jogadores usando imagens da infância, enquanto familiares narravam seus nomes. Um vídeo simples mas carregado de emoção.
Assim como na geração anterior, o vício do cigarro levou a importantes consequências na vida das pessoas que só foi descoberto mais tarde, hoje começamos a entender as nocivas consequências dos smartphones.
Devemos analisar cada vez mais a “economia da atenção” não como uma questão comercial, mas sim como uma questão de saúde.
🚨New NBER WP (with @myklebest and Valdemar Neto). We study a quasi-experimental expansion of the world’s largest cash transfer program for the extreme poor.
A striking result: extra cash increased employment by about 5%, rather than reducing it. It also improved health. 1/3
AI is writing a growing share of the world's software. No one is formally verifying any of it.
New essay: "When AI Writes the World's Software, Who Verifies It?"
https://t.co/8zjS9FkdA8
O Fluminense terminou a janela de contratações com acertos:
Zagueiros: Jemmes (Mirassol) e Millán (Nacional Uruguai)
Lateral esquerdo: Arana (Galo)
Meia: Savarino (Botafogo)
Centroavante: Castillo (Lanús)
Zubeldía tem agora um elenco para disputar título 🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺
Excited to share our latest work: "Semi-Autonomous Mathematics Discovery with Gemini." We used Gemini to systematically evaluate 700 "open" conjectures in the Erdős Problems database.
The result? We addressed 13 problems marked as open—finding 5 novel autonomous solutions and identifying 8 existing solutions missed by previous literature.
Read the full case study here: https://t.co/y4WhkP4ETO
Child’s Writing Exercises and Doodles, from Egypt, c. 1000-1200 AD. this was made by a child who was practicing Hebrew, creating doodles and scribbles on the page as they worked, Cambridge University Library