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 - 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* 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* 00:03:06 - 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* 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* 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