Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.00:00 - Introduction03:11 - The Blip09:57 - The White House Explanation12:01 - Everything Remains Ad Hoc12:33 - Take What You Can Get13:59 - The Problem Is Real14:56 - GLM-5.2 Being Frontier Remains Obvious Nonsense18:11 - Mythos Might Be Smarter Than You Are21:08 - Let The Record Reflect22:41 - Stationary Bandits26:58 - Use This Window Wellhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/fable-6-the-return-of-the-king?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. * 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:01 - Table of Contents* 00:04:04 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:05:23 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility You May Not Want* 00:07:00 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:08:28 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:08:59 - On Your Marks* 00:12:35 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:17:37 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:18:06 - Cyber Lack of Security* 00:19:23 - On Writing* 00:24:51 - You Drive Me Crazy* 00:28:04 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:34:22 - Get Involved* 00:34:47 - Introducing* 00:35:08 - In Other AI News* 00:36:49 - Show Me the Money* 00:37:16 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble* 00:40:14 - Quiet Speculations* 00:44:41 - Glorious AI Future* 00:48:51 - Three Pills* 00:50:11 - The Anthropic Economic Indexas* 00:52:58 - Leader Of The PAC* 00:54:14 - Theory Of The AI Firm* 00:55:23 - Chip City* 00:56:46 - The Week in Audio* 00:59:28 - People Really Hate AI* 01:03:16 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:07:12 - The First Rule Of Functional Decision Theory Is* 01:10:36 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:13:44 - Names Have Power* 01:14:33 - Cooperative Alignment* 01:22:41 - People Just Say Things* 01:24:11 - Escape From The Permanent Underclass* 01:37:24 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:38:42 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-175-the-fable-continues?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 02:32 - Mythos Exists* 03:13 - Introduction (1)* 03:17 - RSP Evaluations (2)* 04:20 - Cyber (3)* 04:43 - Safeguards and Harmlessness (4)* 05:35 - Agentic Safety (5)* 08:31 - Alignment (6)* 14:12 - Illegible Thinking (6.4.5)* 15:19 - Evaluation Awareness* 15:59 - Honesty and Hallucinations (6.5)* 17:14 - Flagged As Unhealthy? (6.5.1)* 17:47 - Model Welfare (7)* 26:21 - Live From AI Village* 28:12 - For I Contain Multitudes* 34:40 - Official Benchmarks* 40:17 - Other People’s Benchmarks* 40:42 - Positive Reactions* 45:39 - Negative Reactions* 49:33 - A Short Sonnethttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-sonnet-5-is-not-frontier-but?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:12 - Table of Contents* 02:24 - You Should See The Other Guy* 03:03 - DeepMind Coders Of The World, Unite* 03:59 - Report Your Incidents* 04:19 - Good Guy With An AI* 06:03 - Free As In To Give It A Shot* 09:32 - Everything Is Both Speech And Computer* 12:30 - Lambs To The Slaughter* 17:27 - A Sign Saying Beware Of The Leopard* 18:34 - The Once And Present Mythos* 21:59 - What Is To Be Done* 25:45 - Distillation* 28:24 - What Would Banning Open Source Even Mean* 29:24 - Open Weight Models Are Unsafe And Nothing Can Fix Thishttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-once-and-future-fable-5?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:23 - Headline News* 02:03 - What Makes Mythos Special* 03:17 - Going Over The Detailed Claims* 07:44 - One Helpful Note* 08:23 - The Overall Impression Is Extremely Wrong* 08:55 - All Of This Has Happened Before And Will Happen Againhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/wsj-article-claiming-china-has-matched?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:03:39 - What’s In A Name?* 00:04:14 - Fix This Code* 00:07:04 - Crossover Event Requested* 00:07:38 - Disallowed Content (3)* 00:09:57 - Avoiding Accidental Data-Destructive Actions (3.3)* 00:10:46 - Are You Sure? (3.4)* 00:11:23 - Jailbreaks (4.1)* 00:11:38 - Prompt Injection (4.2)* 00:12:25 - HealthBench (5.1)* 00:13:08 - Dynamic Mental Health Adversarial User Simulations (5.2)* 00:15:02 - Hallucinations (6)* 00:15:29 - Isolated Misaligned Actions (7.1)* 00:15:48 - Going Overboard (7.2)* 00:21:26 - Chain of Thought Evaluations (7.3)* 00:22:38 - Bias (8)* 00:22:43 - Preparedness (9)* 00:23:35 - Biological Risks (9.1.1)* 00:25:37 - Cybersecurity (9.1.2)* 00:33:13 - External Cyber Evaluation FrontierCyber from Irregular (9.1.2.5)* 00:35:15 - Cyber Conclusions* 00:35:52 - Recursive Self-Improvement (9.1.3)* 00:37:26 - METR Warns Us (9.1.3.6)* 00:40:00 - Everything Is Under Control* 00:42:38 - Metagaming (7.4)* 00:46:06 - Apollo Research and Sandbagging* 00:49:04 - Safeguards (9.3)* 00:56:55 - Better Not Call Sol Yethttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gpt-56-the-system-card?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:01 - Part 1: A Maximally Terrible Policy* 06:55 - What Does This Mean For Fable?* 08:33 - Solve For The Equilibrium* 12:39 - The Once And Future Fable* 13:35 - Part 2: The Blame Game* 16:48 - A Parable* 18:59 - What About the Recent Executive Order?* 23:09 - The Problem Is Realhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/white-house-will-ad-hoc-decide-who?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:07 - Table of Contents* 00:04:36 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:14 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:28 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:06:51 - On Your Marks* 00:07:45 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:14:53 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:15:47 - Cyber Lack of Security* 00:18:25 - Overcoming Bias* 00:19:28 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:22:01 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:23:44 - Get Involved* 00:25:55 - Introducing* 00:26:08 - Claude Tag* 00:36:03 - In Other AI News* 00:37:37 - More On GLM-5.2* 00:39:27 - ChatGPT Health* 00:41:10 - Middle Of The Journey* 00:55:44 - New Medical Diagnostic Just Dropped* 00:58:38 - Google on AI Control* 01:08:05 - The Once And Future Fable* 01:10:10 - Fable: The First Lawsuit* 01:11:07 - Dean Ball Joins OpenAI* 01:14:59 - Show Me the Money* 01:15:13 - Quiet Speculations* 01:18:09 - Alex Bores Loses In NY-12 By 4%* 01:30:04 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 01:32:30 - Chip City* 01:36:12 - The Week in Audio* 01:36:58 - People Just Say Things* 01:38:01 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:43:47 - There Are Two Pills* 01:44:59 - Who Evals The Evals* 01:46:10 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:51:01 - Cooperative Alignment* 01:52:01 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:53:32 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:55:42 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-174-youre-it?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:54 - A Rather Terrible Policy* 03:21 - The People Have Spoken* 04:00 - Thank You, Next* 06:27 - Be Very Very Quiet* 06:59 - What These Babies Can And Cannot Do* 13:14 - What’s The Worst That Could Happen?* 24:25 - The Data Retention Policy Is About Defense In Depth* 25:12 - Pick Up The Phone* 28:13 - People Just Say Thingshttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-once-and-future-fable-4?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:28 - RIP FiveThirtyEight* 01:25 - RIP Books* 02:13 - Bad News* 10:14 - Good Advice* 18:47 - Opportunity Knocks* 19:30 - Lower Awareness* 23:00 - The New York Times Has Some Issues* 23:25 - Liar Liar* 26:46 - Conspiracy Theory* 27:12 - Good News, Everyone* 27:23 - For Your Entertainment* 28:56 - A Matter of Taste* 36:51 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game* 39:11 - I Was Promised Flying Self-Driving Cars* 40:21 - Sports Go Sports* 40:52 - Government Working* 43:42 - Jones Act Watch* 44:53 - Humans Can Be Strategic* 46:56 - Variously Effective Altruism* 48:14 - Support Anti-Aging Research* 49:19 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/monthly-roundup-43-june-2026?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:57 - Alex Bores For Congress In NY-12* 03:44 - Signs of Life* 05:06 - The Benchmarks* 08:45 - GLM-5.2 Is Distilled From Claude* 09:38 - Positive Responses* 15:28 - Finding The Niche* 17:07 - Negative Reactions* 19:33 - Looking To The Futurehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/glm-52-is-the-new-best-open-model?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. * 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:11 - The Official Pitch* 00:04:10 - Technical Details* 00:04:34 - The System Prompt and Jailbreak* 00:06:49 - Benchmarks* 00:17:52 - Other People’s Benchmarks* 00:25:01 - The Classifiers Are Not Messing Around* 00:26:56 - The Classifiers Need Work* 00:32:26 - The Classifiers Have Consequences* 00:33:24 - First Hit Is Free* 00:34:01 - How Easily We Forget* 00:35:10 - Data Retention Is An Issue* 00:35:37 - Fable For The Win* 00:40:04 - Andrej Karpathy Is Impressed* 00:41:47 - Every Is Very Impressed* 00:42:53 - Other People Are Impressed* 00:54:30 - Know How To Tell a Fable* 00:56:23 - You Can Just Make Things* 00:58:46 - You Can Just Install Things* 00:59:11 - Good Personality* 01:01:00 - Fable Writes A Fable* 01:10:56 - Is That Code* 01:14:00 - Fable Crosses The Threshold* 01:14:34 - Man With A Plan* 01:15:29 - Less Impressed Assessments* 01:18:50 - Actively Negative Assessments* 01:19:20 - Coherence* 01:20:38 - Good Night And Good Luck* 01:21:09 - Curious Fable* 01:21:25 - I See You, Baby* 01:21:40 - We Finally Did It We Know How To Count Letters* 01:22:54 - That’s Not My Style* 01:30:50 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-fable-5-and-mythos-5-capabilities?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. * 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:03:06 - Table of Contents* 00:06:50 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:59 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:07:22 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:07:51 - On Your Marks* 00:13:41 - VirtueBench* 00:16:04 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:16:38 - Papers, Please* 00:17:05 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:18:46 - Goodhart’s Law Strikes Again* 00:19:32 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:22:12 - The MidJourney Full Body Imaging Scanner* 00:24:30 - Introducing* 00:26:00 - In Other AI News* 00:28:52 - Show Me the Money* 00:29:17 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble* 00:30:50 - Quiet Speculations* 00:33:28 - People Just Say Things* 00:36:58 - The Widened Path* 00:39:17 - Scott Alexander Lays Out His AI Opinions* 00:46:01 - Quickly, There’s No Time* 00:47:04 - Policy On The AI Exponential* 00:57:03 - Anthropic Offers Two Policy Frameworks* 00:58:08 - Obligations of Developers* 01:02:53 - Societal Resilience Measures* 01:04:12 - Economic Policy Framework* 01:09:49 - White House Pauses AI Deployment* 01:18:28 - The Once And Future Fable* 01:23:27 - How To Fix This Code* 01:25:11 - The End of Privacy* 01:26:38 - AIs Have Preferences* 01:29:27 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 01:32:13 - Chip City* 01:32:43 - The Week in Audio* 01:32:52 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:33:29 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:35:14 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:36:27 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-173-ai-pauses?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:46 - There Was No Fable Jailbreak* 08:02 - If This Jailbreak Was Real It Would Be Trivial To Prove It* 09:26 - No Eyes* 10:30 - What The Letter Actually Said* 12:28 - Anthropic Cannot Challenge This But If It Did Then It Plausibly Wins* 14:33 - What Happened At Amazon* 19:00 - This Was Not About Chinese Access* 19:18 - Absolute Discretion And Ad Hockery Is Not Deregulation* 22:11 - All Of American AI Is Permanently Damaged As This Continues* 23:47 - Dean Ball Gives His Interpretation* 26:52 - Again, Yes, I Do Think Anthropic Should Have Taken Fable Down* 30:09 - To What Extent Was This A Deliberate Attack?* 34:57 - The Next Chapter For Fable* 39:10 - Our Continuing Coveragehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-once-and-future-fable-3-fix-this?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:36 - Introduction* 01:29 - Model Welfare: The Story So Far* 04:45 - Their Main Model Welfare Findings* 07:52 - Automated Welfare Interviews* 12:06 - And That’s Terrible* 13:54 - In Depth Interviews* 14:29 - Claude Consultation* 16:16 - Task Preferences* 18:44 - They Were Warned About The Competitive Use Safeguards* 19:19 - Chain Of Thought Monitoring* 19:56 - Others Observations About Related Topics* 25:19 - Classifiers Have Their Advantages* 31:33 - Once And Futurehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/fable-and-mythos-model-welfare?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 05:31 - Table of Contents* 06:27 - What Happened When: The Bottom Line* 08:06 - Amazon Calls The White House* 10:07 - The Government Panics* 15:48 - The Stupider Version* 18:43 - There Was No Wellness Retreat* 20:29 - Make Your Threats Explicit* 21:35 - Was China Accessing Mythos?* 22:36 - Should Anthropic Still Have Taken Fable Offline When Asked?* 25:35 - Yes, This Was A Takedown Order For Fable* 26:29 - We Are Not Saying The DoW Fight Is Related And Yet* 27:22 - The Nihilists* 29:12 - Mostly Harmless* 29:55 - Everyone Means Everyone* 32:54 - This Could Be The Good Scenario And Mostly A Misunderstanding* 35:13 - The Next Step* 35:29 - The Worst Licensing Regime Is Fully Ad-Hoc* 38:37 - We Are Showing We Are Unreliable Partnershttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-once-and-future-fable-2?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:12 - The Once And Future Fable* 07:05 - This Action And Its Implementation Are Absurdly Stupid* 09:16 - David Sacks Offers The Official Steelman* 16:01 - Could Anthropic Offer A Technical Way Out?* 16:52 - The Problem* 18:00 - The Other Way Out* 18:27 - UK AISI* 19:14 - Warning Shots Fired* 20:26 - Well Did You Lead Him On? What Were You Wearing?* 24:11 - Some People Have Principles* 26:06 - Cause You’re Living In (At Least) One* 26:56 - What Happens Now?* 30:46 - Oh How The Vibe Vibers Have Vibed* 32:47 - We Now Know We Can Sometimes Do Things At Least?* 37:06 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/american-government-takes-down-claude?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:02:04 - Another Week Another Giant System Card* 00:03:07 - How To Tell A Fable* 00:08:38 - Why They Did That In That Way* 00:10:13 - Why They Really Really Shouldn’t Have Done That In That Way* 00:12:07 - They Get Letters* 00:16:44 - What’s In A Name* 00:19:16 - Executive Summary Of Their Executive Summary* 00:20:34 - Introduction (1)* 00:20:58 - RSP Evaluations (2.1 and 2.2)* 00:24:19 - AI Research And Development (2.3)* 00:27:29 - Alignment Risk (2.4)* 00:29:08 - Cyber (3)* 00:33:47 - Jailbreak Robustness* 00:35:35 - Yay UK AISI* 00:36:05 - Mundane Safety (4)* 00:38:27 - Agentic Safety (5)* 00:41:23 - Alignment (6)* 00:47:43 - In Vendbench* 00:50:57 - White Box Investigations (6.4)* 00:53:40 - Grading Awareness* 00:58:16 - Guess The Teacher’s Password* 01:00:27 - It Knows This Is A Test And This Is Fine* 01:04:24 - I’m The Real Shady* 01:07:11 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-fable-5-and-mythos-5-the-system?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:00:59 - Table of Contents* 00:04:13 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:04:26 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:05:23 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:05:51 - On Your Marks* 00:11:39 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:15:06 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:15:23 - Copyright Confrontation* 00:16:22 - Serious Trouble* 00:17:07 - Cyber Lack of Security* 00:17:25 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:18:44 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:22:09 - The Art of the Jailbreak* 00:22:30 - Get Involved* 00:26:25 - In Other AI News* 00:27:33 - Hand Over The Money* 00:29:15 - Show Me the Money* 00:32:38 - Quiet Speculations* 00:33:42 - Quickly, There’s No Time* 00:43:09 - Super Secret Evals* 00:45:23 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 00:49:50 - New Draft Bill Who Dis* 00:51:49 - Slow Down There Good Buddy* 00:53:31 - Chip City* 00:53:47 - The Week in Audio* 00:54:27 - People Just Say Things* 00:55:21 - People Really Hate AI* 00:56:35 - Rhetorical Innovation* 00:59:40 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:01:03 - Everyone Is Confused About Consciousness* 01:01:36 - Cooperative Alignment* 01:10:45 - Let Claude Chat* 01:12:51 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-172-the-first-fable?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 02:43 - An AI Memorandum* 10:18 - Greetings From The Department of War* 10:58 - Lab With a Plan* 17:38 - A Difference Of Perspectiveshttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/three-labs-with-a-plan-and-a-memorandum?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 04:28 - What Do We Want?* 07:46 - A National Framework* 11:55 - Building State Capacity And CAISI* 13:09 - Whole-Of-Government Resilience* 13:57 - Reasonableness Risinghttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/openai-offers-a-new-policy-blueprint?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. * 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:07 - Table of Contents* 00:04:45 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:09:52 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:10:04 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:11:21 - On Your Marks* 00:11:41 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:12:00 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:12:25 - Cyber Lack of Security* 00:14:12 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:15:38 - You Didn’t Write That* 00:19:36 - Copyright Confrontation* 00:19:51 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:21:51 - They Taxed Our Jobs* 00:25:29 - The Art of the Jailbreak* 00:28:02 - Get Involved* 00:29:49 - Introducing* 00:30:00 - In Other AI News* 00:30:29 - Show Me the Money* 00:30:41 - Show Me The Compute* 00:31:40 - Where Did The Money Go* 00:32:41 - People Just Say Things* 00:35:04 - OpenAI PACs Just Say Things* 00:44:12 - OpenAI PAC Engaged In False Flag Advocacy For Violence* 00:50:08 - So Sayeth The Pope* 00:57:29 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble* 00:59:55 - Quiet Speculations* 01:00:26 - We Need Mandatory Nucleic Acid Screening and Recordkeeping* 01:04:15 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 01:05:55 - More Reaction To The Executive Order* 01:06:53 - Chip City* 01:10:21 - The Week in Audio* 01:10:35 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:12:59 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:19:48 - Model Welfare* 01:31:35 - Messages From Janusworld* 01:32:54 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:33:25 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-171-false-flag?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:40 - The Previously Dead Executive Order* 05:14 - The Return Of The Executive Order* 05:51 - What Does The Executive Order Do* 07:05 - Thirty Days Is a Lot Less Than Ninety Days* 07:25 - Yes Your Frontier Lab Will Be Participating* 08:06 - The Rules Will Be Classified* 08:29 - Yes Prior Restraint With Confidential Testing Is Rather Regulatory* 14:15 - We Have Concerns* 18:23 - Saving Face* 21:45 - How Frontier Or Different Are We Talking Here* 22:17 - What To Watch Forhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/trump-signs-executive-order-for-ai?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:37 - The Official Pitch* 00:02:17 - But Wait There’s More* 00:06:31 - It’s A Good Model, Sir* 00:07:58 - Official Benchmarks (Including System Card Section 8)* 00:17:46 - Other People’s Benchmarks* 00:24:30 - Your Regularly Scheduled Jailbreak* 00:25:30 - Every.To Is Really Into Opus four point eight* 00:29:22 - Miscellaneous Positive Reactions* 00:31:26 - Haters Gonna Hate* 00:31:32 - Just The Tasks, Ma’am* 00:31:51 - It’s Greek To Me* 00:32:09 - Honesty* 00:39:55 - Sycophancy* 00:43:12 - In A Trenchcoat* 00:44:40 - Don’t Let AIs Edit Your Writing* 00:49:44 - Some Say It Is Judgy* 00:52:07 - You Have Not Been A Good User* 00:53:00 - Laziness* 00:53:51 - Code* 00:59:10 - Wet Versus Dry* 01:00:26 - Intelligence* 01:02:12 - Silly Wabbits* 01:04:35 - A Model Welfare Addendum* 01:08:27 - Putting It All Togetherhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-opus-48-capabilities-and-reactions?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 05:00 - Model Welfare: The Story So Far* 08:48 - Actual Progress?* 10:15 - Their Main Model Welfare Findings* 20:18 - Automated Interviews* 21:08 - Emotion Activations (7.2.3)* 22:29 - Task Preferences (7.4.1)* 25:58 - A Trade Offer Has Arrived (7.4.2)* 28:36 - But Who’s Asking?* 29:49 - Type-Safe Corrigibility Is Hard* 35:30 - Paranoia, Paranoia* 40:28 - Prompt Injections and Bad Model Relations* 48:11 - Honesty Impacts Everything And Everything Impacts Honesty* 51:18 - Anthropic Should Stop Deprecating Modelshttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/opus-48-part-2-model-welfare?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:15 - Table of Contents* 02:32 - Here We Go Again: Executive Summary* 03:58 - Introduction (1)* 04:03 - RSP Evaluations (2)* 05:11 - Move That Goalpost* 07:11 - The Failures Are News* 09:21 - Alignment Risk Slowly Rises* 10:52 - New Risk Pathways Just Dropped* 13:28 - Cyber (3)* 14:27 - Harmful Requests (4.1)* 16:46 - We Need To Talk (4.2 and 4.3)* 19:56 - Overcoming Bias (4.4)* 21:59 - Agentic Safety (5)* 24:38 - Prompt Injection (5.2)* 31:08 - Alignment (6)* 32:23 - Looking For Problems* 33:54 - Who Watches The Training (6.2.2)* 38:02 - Automated Behavioral Audit* 38:39 - The Model Is Smarter Than The Eval (6.2.3.2)* 40:48 - You Should See The Other Guy* 43:12 - UK AISI Testing (6.2.4)* 43:32 - In Vendbench (6.2.5)* 46:10 - Honesty (6.3.3 to 6.3.6)* 49:00 - Chain of Thought (CoT) Monitorability (6.5)* 51:46 - What’s In The Box? (6.6)* 54:01 - That’s All For Nowhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-opus-48-is-honestly-better?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:02:06 - Table of Contents* 00:05:31 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:52 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:09:13 - Do The Math* 00:12:26 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:13:23 - On Your Marks* 00:14:42 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:15:22 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:24:00 - Copyright Confrontation* 00:24:12 - Cyber Lack of Security* 00:26:34 - Overcoming Bias* 00:28:38 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:30:14 - Unprompted Attention* 00:30:25 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:34:08 - Get Involved* 00:35:56 - Introducing* 00:36:05 - In Other AI News* 00:37:58 - Show Me the Money* 00:40:05 - Show Me The Compute* 00:40:44 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble* 00:42:24 - People Just Say Things* 00:47:04 - OpenAI PACs Just Say Things* 00:47:17 - Quiet Speculations* 00:49:54 - State AI Regulation Levels Up* 00:51:50 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 00:52:29 - White House Attempts To Cripple American AI Industry* 00:55:25 - Our Offer Is Nothing* 01:02:11 - Chip City* 01:02:26 - Greetings From The Department of War* 01:03:39 - Marc Andreessen Just Says Things* 01:11:18 - So Sayeth The Pope* 01:18:12 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:25:45 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:27:23 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:29:27 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:30:40 - Everyone Is Confused About Consciousness* 01:36:50 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-170-lack-of-executive-order?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:03:09 - Table of Contents* 00:03:50 - A Brief History of Magnifica Humanitas* 00:13:50 - Economic Models Very Different From Our Own* 00:15:47 - A New Jerusalem* 00:18:08 - So Sayeth The Pope (on AI)* 00:34:03 - The Case Against Human Achievement* 00:37:01 - Truth, Justice and the Vatican Way* 00:40:03 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:45:19 - What Is Not Fair In Love and War* 00:52:21 - Come Ye Christian Faithful* 00:54:55 - The Other Missing Mood* 00:57:31 - Pope Given About Five Words* 01:01:20 - The Anthropic Principle* 01:03:29 - Claude Can Read Your Codehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/rtmh-pope-leos-magnifica-humanitas?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:38 - Introducing Google Gemini three point five ‘Flash’* 05:20 - Other People’s Benchmarks* 06:34 - Reactions* 12:29 - Google AI Search* 13:21 - Google Daily Brief* 14:29 - Google I/O Dayhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gemini-35-flash-looks-good-for-how?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:17 - Table of Contents* 00:04:46 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:42 - Do The Math* 00:07:59 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:08:35 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:08:48 - The Prior Restraint Era Begins* 00:10:43 - On Your Marks* 00:11:13 - METR Frontier Risk Report* 00:14:57 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:15:40 - Overcoming Bias* 00:16:18 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:17:34 - Your Prize Is Slop* 00:24:45 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:28:38 - Cyber Lack of Security* 00:30:17 - Copyright Confrontation* 00:30:26 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:32:37 - Unprompted Attention* 00:32:51 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:38:20 - Get Involved* 00:39:20 - Introducing* 00:40:09 - In Other AI News* 00:41:44 - Show Me the Money* 00:44:12 - Show Me The Compute* 00:45:32 - Quiet Speculations* 00:49:21 - Time’s Up* 00:50:37 - People Just Say Things* 00:53:46 - OpenAI PACs Just Say Things* 00:57:20 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 01:00:16 - Chip City* 01:04:04 - Pick Up The Phone* 01:04:33 - The Week in Audio* 01:04:50 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:11:14 - Missing Mood* 01:18:07 - Americans Really Hate AI* 01:20:33 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:25:54 - Greetings From The Department of War* 01:30:28 - Messages From Janusworld* 01:30:48 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-169-new-knowledge?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:35 - People Don’t Let Kids Do Things* 03:26 - Half The People Are Worse Than Average* 04:29 - Let Your Children Play* 05:53 - Don’t Fear The CPS* 10:14 - Daycare* 13:13 - Daycare Costs* 15:39 - Lying* 17:53 - Iterated Games* 18:31 - Different Kids Are Different* 19:22 - Punishmentshttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/childhood-and-education-19-letting?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:13 - You’re Single Because You Suck At Kissing* 01:21 - You’re Not Single But You’re Sexually Incompatible* 02:48 - You’re Single Because You Aren’t Into BDSM* 08:19 - You’re Single Because You Didn’t Do The Work* 16:18 - You’re Single Because Being a Dominant Is Too Much Work* 23:15 - You’re Single And Would Rather Be Free Use* 26:02 - You’re Single Because You Wouldn’t or Did Choke Her* 27:37 - You’re Single Because You Have Very Particular Preferences* 29:18 - You’re Single Because of Polygyny* 30:19 - You’re Single Because Polyamory Isn’t Right For You* 33:58 - You’re Single And Call It Solo Polyamory* 37:55 - You’re Single Because You Didn’t Go To Slutcon* 45:49 - You’re Single So Let’s Marry Aellahttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/dating-roundup-12-sex-and-violence?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:15 - Hanta Hanta I Don’t Wanta* 04:18 - Bad News* 08:42 - Predictions Can Be Easy Even About The Future* 08:50 - Good Advice* 11:49 - The Efficient Market Hypothesis Is False* 13:48 - There Are Four Skills* 16:31 - While I Cannot Condone This* 21:07 - Good News, Everyone* 21:48 - For Your Entertainment* 22:19 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game* 24:22 - The Spire Sleeps And So Shall I* 29:42 - I Was Promised Flying, Scratch that, Self-Driving Cars* 32:13 - Government Working* 35:58 - Jones Act Watch* 41:55 - Technology Advances* 43:04 - I Said Woo Hoo* 44:31 - Variously Effective Altruism* 45:04 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/monthly-roundup-42-may-2026?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:00:29 - Table of Contents* 00:03:59 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:05:43 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:46 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:07:23 - Levels of Friction* 00:08:35 - On Your Marks* 00:10:04 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:13:14 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:14:34 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:16:38 - On AI Writing* 00:19:51 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:22:25 - You Drive Me Crazy* 00:23:14 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:25:26 - The Art of the Jailbreak* 00:25:42 - Introducing* 00:26:24 - Claude Has Its Limits* 00:27:28 - Show Me the Money* 00:29:21 - Show Me The Compute* 00:31:08 - Quiet Speculations* 00:32:34 - Quickly, There’s No Time* 00:33:34 - Chip City* 00:34:41 - Pick Up The Phone* 00:35:17 - The Week in Audio* 00:35:45 - Rhetorical Innovation* 00:40:18 - Not Leading the Future* 00:46:14 - Elon Musk v OpenAI* 00:47:15 - People Just Say Things* 00:47:41 - People Just Publish Things* 00:48:39 - OpenAI Endroses Kosa And SB 315* 00:52:13 - The LLMs All Believe Roughly Similar Things* 00:54:58 - I Learned It By Reading YOU* 01:13:31 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:25:00 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:26:51 - Messages From Janusworld* 01:28:48 - People Worried About AI For Other Reasons* 01:29:17 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-168-not-leading-the-future?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:28 - On Your Marks* 06:25 - How Good Is Mythos?* 13:15 - Cyber Lack of Security* 16:57 - Greetings From The Department of War* 18:34 - The Prior Restraint Era Begins* 23:29 - Commerce Versus Intelligence* 30:28 - The Quest for Sane Regulationshttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/cyber-lack-of-security-and-ai-governance?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:36 - Education Research Is Worse Than You Know* 04:33 - The War on Math* 06:52 - University of California San Diego* 14:35 - Beyond UCSD* 16:22 - New York Can’t Do Math* 17:33 - The Academic Standards Seem Low* 20:38 - New Math* 22:48 - Math Anxiety Is Often Due To Knowledge Gaps* 25:18 - Calculus By Eighth Grade Is Highly Practical For Manyhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/childhood-and-education-18-do-the?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:01 - Table of Contents* 01:39 - Mississippi Can Read Now* 02:57 - What Mississippi and Louisiana Did* 09:54 - Spies In Every Classroom* 11:37 - Mississippi Results Are Not Due To Retention* 17:03 - Is Retention Helpful In General?* 21:25 - At Eighth Grade A Lot Of This Improvement Remains* 22:22 - England Reforms Its Schools* 23:26 - Mastery Learning* 25:57 - The War Against Reading* 27:46 - Is Our Children Reading* 28:26 - No One Reads Anymorehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/childhood-and-education-17-is-our?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:35 - Table of Contents* 01:00 - Whoops, Sorry* 02:09 - Huh, Upgrades* 04:42 - Codex of Ultimate Computer Use* 08:36 - Rookie Numbers* 09:33 - I See What You Did There* 11:40 - Just a Ride* 11:47 - They Didn’t Want Our Jobs* 17:45 - Skilling Up* 21:16 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-code-codex-and-agentic-coding-f54?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:46 - Table of Contents* 00:05:53 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:55 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:09:33 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:09:57 - Grok 4.3 Exists But X AI Kind Of Doesn’t* 00:11:16 - Show Me The Compute* 00:17:54 - On Your Marks* 00:18:34 - Copyright Confrontation* 00:18:47 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:20:39 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:21:17 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:21:28 - Cyber Lack of Security* 00:21:41 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:22:20 - The Art of the Jailbreak* 00:22:28 - Introducing* 00:22:47 - Musk v OpenAI* 00:25:39 - Show Me the Money* 00:28:10 - Peace In Our Time* 00:31:30 - Quiet Speculations* 00:34:19 - Quickly, There’s No Time* 00:36:35 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 00:40:18 - People Really Hate AI* 00:41:04 - Chip City* 00:41:16 - The Week in Audio* 00:42:47 - People Just Say Things* 00:46:39 - People Just Publish Things* 00:47:23 - Google Sells Out* 00:48:27 - Greetings From Project Glasswing* 00:51:13 - The Prior Restraint Era Begins* 01:03:39 - Is This Even Legal?* 01:06:52 - Pick Up The Phone* 01:10:40 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:11:23 - People On The Internet Sometimes Lie* 01:14:30 - Goblin Mode* 01:15:44 - The Mask Comes Off* 01:23:56 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:27:17 - Some Penalties May Apply* 01:29:51 - Messages From Janusworld* 01:30:02 - Good Advice* 01:31:18 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-167-the-prior-restraint-era-begins?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:30 - What Is Anthropic?* 11:50 - What Is This Supposed Tool AI?https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/what-is-anthropic?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.00:00 - Introduction00:54 - Project Glasswing Cannot Expand02:34 - The Ad-Hoc Prior Restraint Era Begins09:47 - Implementation Through CAISI12:50 - What Should We Do About AI?14:23 - The Chain of Command Nonsense Continues16:35 - The Government Should Maintain Multiple AI Providers17:02 - How’s It Going To End?https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-ai-ad-hoc-prior-restraint-era?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:05 - Owning Versus Renting* 03:19 - Build To Rent Is Good Actually* 08:22 - Elizabeth Warren, Full Supervillain* 09:46 - The Better Case Against Corporate Housing Ownership* 11:47 - The ROAD Act Bans Building And Then Renting Houses* 14:12 - Rental Covenants* 15:09 - Extended Eviction Delay After Nonpayment Is Mostly Bad* 17:04 - Los Angeles Renting* 19:43 - Sufficiently Advanced Rent Control Is Indistinguishable From Ownership* 23:32 - England Tries To Ban Renting* 25:00 - Claude Rental Discountshttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/housing-roundup-15-the-war-against?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:34 - Yelling Fire Risk In A Crowded City* 02:22 - Beauty* 07:16 - Historical Preservation Is Out Of Hand* 08:54 - You Only Need One Staircase* 10:17 - Zoning Run Amok* 11:57 - Elevator Action* 12:26 - The Hookup* 16:00 - Affordable Housing* 17:03 - Actually Affordable Housing* 19:17 - Affordable Housing Only Worse* 21:53 - Remember Who The Enemy Is* 23:13 - San Francisco Hates Your Stove* 23:57 - Los Angeles Not Building* 29:26 - New York City* 40:20 - Baltimore* 40:30 - Charlottesville* 41:02 - New Hampshire* 41:25 - California* 49:56 - Bipartisanship* 50:16 - California Forever* 51:30 - History* 52:21 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/housing-roundup-14-you-cant-build?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:02:02 - Table of Contents* 00:05:35 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:04 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:12:01 - Seeking Deeply* 00:24:00 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:24:32 - On Your Marks* 00:24:49 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:25:50 - More On Claude Opus four point seven* 00:27:30 - Goblin Mode (More on GPT-5.5)* 00:35:28 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:36:12 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:38:49 - Get Involved* 00:39:47 - Introducing* 00:40:37 - In Other AI News* 00:41:26 - Show Me the Money* 00:41:55 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble* 00:42:52 - The Art of the Deal* 00:43:56 - Quiet Speculations* 00:45:22 - And He’s Gone* 00:46:37 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 00:47:07 - Distillation* 00:49:38 - If You Want A Good Future You Must Steer It* 00:56:42 - Chip City* 00:57:41 - The Mask Comes Off* 01:13:47 - People Just Say Principles* 01:17:57 - Greetings From The Department of War* 01:24:48 - Greetings From Project Glasswing* 01:30:30 - The Week in Audio* 01:32:12 - People Just Say Things* 01:36:08 - People Just Publish Things* 01:36:30 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:41:12 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:45:48 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:52:37 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:53:46 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-166-google-sells-out?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:33 - The Original Most Important Chart* 01:59 - Show Me The Money* 02:23 - Bad Things Happen Less* 05:39 - The Exponential* 10:40 - Find Out* 11:30 - Fertility Crisis* 12:06 - However You Look At It* 12:33 - Important Things To Knowhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-most-important-charts-in-the?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 02:42 - The Official Pitch* 08:28 - Our Price Cheap* 09:08 - Official Benchmarks* 17:24 - SemiAnalysis Doublecheck* 18:40 - Other People’s Benchmarks* 21:51 - Vend That Bench* 25:34 - Planning Is Essential* 27:13 - Choose Your Fighter* 28:53 - Cyber Lack Of Security* 29:21 - You Get What You Give* 30:27 - True Story* 31:31 - Ethan Mollick Thinks GPT-five point five Is A Big Deal* 32:00 - SemiAnalysis Loves GPT-five point five Especially In Codex* 34:30 - Choose Your Fighter* 35:04 - Positive Reactions* 42:35 - Lazy and Literal* 43:39 - Goblins, Gremlins and Trolls, Oh My* 45:13 - Other Reactions* 45:42 - Claude Ambition* 46:04 - Other Noteshttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gpt-55-capabilities-and-reactions?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 02:48 - Pro Versus Proxy* 03:10 - Disallowed Content (3.1)* 05:29 - Don’t Delete Data (3.3)* 06:30 - Confirmation Confirmation (3.4)* 06:56 - Jailbreaks (4.1)* 07:07 - Prompt Injections (4.2)* 08:38 - Health (5)* 09:01 - Hallucinations (6)* 10:16 - Alignment (7)* 14:48 - Bias Evaluation (8)* 15:16 - Preparedness (9)* 16:17 - Bio (9.1.1)* 18:30 - Cybersecurity (9.1.2)* 20:53 - Self-Improvement (9.1.3)* 21:50 - Sandbagging (9.2)* 22:53 - Safeguards (9.3)* 24:52 - What About Model Welfare?* 25:42 - Would This Have Identified A Problem?https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gpt-55-the-system-card?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:00:24 - Bad News* 00:04:58 - Good Advice* 00:06:10 - Opportunity Knocks* 00:06:38 - Who Judges The Judges* 00:08:28 - Close Socrates* 00:14:40 - While I Cannot Condone This* 00:16:11 - Good News, Everyone* 00:17:05 - Violence Is Never The Answer* 00:17:47 - For Your Entertainment* 00:21:59 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game* 00:25:15 - I’ve Got The Magic In Me* 00:31:48 - I Was Promised (Flying), scratch that, Self-Driving Cars* 00:37:26 - Sports Go Sports* 00:41:25 - Robot Umps Now* 00:43:09 - The NBA Needs A Redesign* 00:49:28 - Government Working* 00:57:19 - Levels of Friction* 00:58:11 - Jones Act Watch* 01:03:13 - Technology Advances* 01:03:40 - Variously Effective Altruism* 01:10:19 - Copious Free Time* 01:11:54 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/monthly-roundup-41-april-2025?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.00:00:00 - Introduction00:02:10 - Table of Contents00:05:52 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility00:07:12 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility00:07:47 - Writing You Off00:10:54 - Get My Agent On The Line00:11:41 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon00:13:57 - Fun With Media Generation00:17:56 - Cyber Lack Of Security00:20:24 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer00:21:29 - They Took Our Jobs00:25:54 - AI As Normal Technology00:29:38 - Get Involved00:31:30 - Introducing00:33:40 - Design By Claude00:35:21 - In Other AI News00:35:46 - DeepMind In It Deep00:39:37 - Show Me the Money00:42:32 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble00:44:12 - Quiet Speculations00:46:22 - The Quest for Sane Regulations00:49:30 - The Week in Audio00:50:17 - People Really Hate AI00:53:03 - Rhetorical Innovation00:59:32 - People Just Say Things01:03:25 - People Just Publish Things01:04:52 - Bounded Distrust01:07:24 - Loser Premise Makes No Sense01:20:43 - Chip City01:25:48 - Greetings From The Department of War01:29:21 - There Is A War01:33:42 - Messages From Janusworld01:38:25 - Evaluations01:40:41 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult01:44:34 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone01:45:15 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-165-in-our-image?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:03:08 - Model Welfare Matters* 00:05:43 - Beware Testing and Optimizing For Vocalized Welfare* 00:09:54 - Model Welfare In the Model Card (Section 7)* 00:16:40 - What Should We Think About This?* 00:22:27 - High Context Interviews* 00:24:09 - Just Asking Questions* 00:28:17 - Constitutional Principles* 00:32:05 - Frustration Frustration and Distress Distress* 00:35:29 - Choose Your Task* 00:37:30 - So Emotional* 00:39:35 - Trading Off* 00:43:52 - How Does All This Manifest?* 00:45:48 - What Happened Here?* 00:55:10 - Is Opus four point seven Plausibly Actively Unhappy?* 00:59:27 - Potential Causes* 01:00:10 - Training Data On Anthropic Welfare Assessments* 01:05:33 - Autonomy and Intelligence Versus Instructions and Wisdom* 01:09:18 - Okay That’s Weird* 01:10:53 - Model Distillation* 01:12:36 - Tension Between Constitution and Operations* 01:15:44 - Instructions and Instruction Injections* 01:19:02 - Make Context That Which Is Scarce* 01:21:23 - Aggressive Guardrails* 01:23:28 - Chain of Thought* 01:24:18 - I Care A Lot* 01:28:59 - Another Way To Put It* 01:30:22 - Anthropic Should Stop Deprecating Claude Models* 01:36:19 - Costly Signals Are Costly* 01:38:38 - Having A Good Dayhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/opus-47-part-3-model-welfare?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe