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Housing Roundup #15: The War Against Renters
May 4, 2026
26m 38s
Housing Roundup #14: You Can't Build That
May 1, 2026
53m 25s
AI #166: Google Sells Out
Apr 30, 2026
1h 57m 20s
The Most Important Charts In The World
Apr 29, 2026
19m 17s
GPT-5.5: Capabilities and Reactions
Apr 28, 2026
47m 05s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 5/4/26 |  Housing Roundup #15: The War Against Renters✨ | rentinghousing+4 | — | ROAD Act | Los AngelesEngland | rentershousing+3 | — | 26m 38s | |
| 5/1/26 |  Housing Roundup #14: You Can't Build That | 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 | 53m 25s | ||||||
| 4/30/26 |  AI #166: Google Sells Out | 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 | 1h 57m 20s | ||||||
| 4/29/26 |  The Most Important Charts In The World | 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 | 19m 17s | ||||||
| 4/28/26 |  GPT-5.5: Capabilities and Reactions | 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 | 47m 05s | ||||||
| 4/27/26 |  GPT 5.5: The System Card | 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 | 27m 15s | ||||||
| 4/24/26 |  Monthly Roundup #41: April 2025 | 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 | 1h 15m 47s | ||||||
| 4/23/26 |  AI #165: In Our Image | 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 | 1h 49m 07s | ||||||
| 4/22/26 |  Opus 4.7 Part 3: Model Welfare | 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 | 1h 41m 47s | ||||||
| 4/21/26 |  Opus 4.7 Part 2: Capabilities and Reactions | 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 - Table of Contents* 01:22 - The Gestalt* 03:19 - The Official Pitch* 05:22 - General Use Tips* 07:17 - Capabilities (Model Card Section 8)* 13:53 - Other People’s Benchmarks* 24:48 - General Positive Reactions* 29:17 - General Negative Reactions* 32:24 - Miscellaneous Ambiguous Notes* 32:59 - The Last Question* 36:20 - Prompt Injection Problems* 36:36 - Not Ready For Prime Time* 39:25 - Brevity Is The Soul of Wit* 40:21 - Why Should I Care?* 41:30 - Let’s Wrap It Up* 43:46 - Non-Adaptive Thinking* 48:43 - Lapses In Thinking* 50:05 - Tell Me How You Really Feel* 51:24 - Failure To Follow Instructions* 57:22 - Conclusionhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/opus-47-part-2-capabilities-and-reactions?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe | 57m 56s | ||||||
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| 4/20/26 |  Opus 4.7 Part 1: The Model Card | 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* 02:39 - Here We Go Again: Executive Summary* 03:43 - Introduction (1)* 04:10 - RSP Evaluations (2)* 05:20 - Meanwhile Back With Claude Mythos* 10:16 - Economic Capability Index (2.3.7)* 11:10 - Alignment Risk (2.4)* 13:07 - Cyber (3)* 14:43 - Safeguards and Harmlessness (4)* 21:19 - Agentic Safety (5)* 24:24 - Alignment (6)* 31:26 - Decision Theory (6.3.6)* 35:07 - System Prompt Changes* 35:32 - Mandatory Pliny Jailbreak* 35:57 - Onward To Model Welfare and Capabilitieshttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/opus-47-part-1-the-model-card?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe | 37m 05s | ||||||
| 4/17/26 |  AI #164: Pre Opus | 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* 00:03:40 - Table of Contents* 00:07:24 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:11:03 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:14:37 - Levels of Friction* 00:16:51 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:17:09 - On Your Marks* 00:17:22 - Lack of Cybersecurity* 00:19:03 - Meta Game* 00:26:24 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:27:18 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:29:01 - Let My People Go* 00:30:15 - You Drive Me Crazy* 00:30:56 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:35:28 - They Gave Us Time Off* 00:41:42 - Get Involved* 00:42:52 - Introducing* 00:43:16 - In Other AI News* 00:48:33 - Thanks For The Memos* 00:51:27 - Show Me the Money* 00:53:54 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble* 00:54:45 - Quickly, There’s No Time* 00:55:28 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 00:57:59 - Our Offer Is Nothing* 01:03:12 - The Week in Audio* 01:03:30 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:09:50 - Political Violence Is Never The Answer* 01:13:23 - A Lot Of People Peacefully Speak Of Infinitely High Stakes* 01:15:01 - Take a Moment* 01:19:08 - Greetings From The Department of War* 01:24:34 - Political Pressure At Google DeepMind* 01:25:10 - Things That Are Basically Legal And Accepted Now, Somehow* 01:26:12 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:32:11 - Aligning a Current Model For Mundane Tasks Is Also Difficult* 01:33:29 - Everyone Is Confused About AI Consciousness* 01:36:30 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-164-pre-opus?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 41m 10s | ||||||
| 4/16/26 |  On Dwarkesh Patel's Podcast With Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang | 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* 00:01:53 - Podcast Overview Part 1: Ordinary Business Interview* 00:04:24 - Podcast Overview Part 2: A Debate About Chip Exports* 00:09:35 - What Is Nvidia’s Moat?* 00:15:33 - TPU vs. GPU* 00:20:42 - Why Isn’t Nvidia Hyperscaling?* 00:26:20 - Selling Chips To China* 00:55:49 - Different Chip Architectures* 00:57:13 - The Online Reactions On Export Controls* 01:05:11 - Is This About Being Superintelligence Pilled?* 01:10:49 - Jensen’s Arguments Are Poor Both Logically And Rhetoricallyhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/on-dwarkesh-patels-podcast-with-nvidia?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 14m 48s | ||||||
| 4/15/26 |  Claude Code, Codex and Agentic Coding #7: Auto Mode | 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* 00:46 - Huh, Upgrades* 02:52 - On Your Marks* 05:02 - Lazy Cheaters* 06:45 - It’s All Routine* 07:20 - Declawing* 09:21 - Free Claw* 09:47 - Take It To The Limit* 14:06 - Turn On Auto The Pilot* 16:14 - I’ll Allow It* 16:43 - Threat Model* 17:21 - The Classifier Is The Hard Part* 18:53 - Acceptable Risks* 20:14 - Manage The Agents* 22:49 - Introducing* 22:57 - Skilling Up* 25:49 - What Happened To My Tokens?* 26:04 - Coding Agents Offer Mundane Utilityhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-code-codex-and-agentic-coding?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe | 27m 03s | ||||||
| 4/14/26 |  Claude Mythos #3: Capabilities and Additions | 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* 02:05 - Epoch Capabilities Index (ECI) (Model Card 2.3.6)* 04:52 - What Do You Mean Verbalized Evaluation Awareness Is Going Down* 05:43 - Capabilities (Model Card Section 6)* 08:38 - Agentic Safety Benchmarks (8.3)* 10:57 - Is Mythos AGI?* 11:56 - Are AI Companies Using Warnings As Hype?* 12:56 - Impressions (Model Card Section 7)* 16:13 - Blatant Denials Are The Best Kind* 17:13 - Prompt Injection Robustness* 18:21 - Does Mythos Cross The New Knowledge Threshold?* 19:10 - Is Mythos Surprising or Discontinuous?* 23:18 - UK AISI Tests Claude Mythos On Cybersecurity* 24:42 - Everything Reinforces My Existing Predictions And Policy Preferences* 29:55 - Solve For The Equilibrium* 31:20 - Does Not Compute* 32:25 - Conclusion: How To Think About Mythoshttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-mythos-3-capabilities-and?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe | 36m 12s | ||||||
| 4/13/26 |  Political Violence Is Never Acceptable | 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* 00:46 - Awful Events Amid Scary Times* 04:39 - Most Of Those Worried About AI Do As Well As One Can On This* 07:00 - Some Who Are Worried About AI Need To Address Their Rhetoric* 12:23 - Speak The Truth Even If Your Voice Trembles* 14:44 - False Accusations And False Attacks Are Also Unacceptable* 16:22 - Some Examples Of Attempts To Create Broad Censorship* 25:29 - The Most Irresponsible Reaction Was From The Press* 26:23 - Sam Altman Reacts* 28:53 - Sam Altman Reflects* 34:24 - Violence Is Never The Answerhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/political-violence-is-never-acceptable?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=webI have also converted Eliezer’s post here: https://open.substack.com/pub/askwhocastsai/p/only-law-can-prevent-extinction-by?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe | 37m 30s | ||||||
| 4/10/26 |  Claude Mythos #2: Cybersecurity and Project Glasswing | 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* 00:02:10 - Introducing Project Glasswing* 00:03:39 - Don’t Worry About the Government* 00:05:15 - Cybersecurity Capabilities In The Model Card (Section 3)* 00:06:56 - Cyber Capability Tests In The Model Card* 00:08:54 - The Proof Is In The Patching* 00:11:26 - Go For Read Team* 00:15:16 - Is This New?* 00:18:12 - Thanks For The Memories* 00:23:07 - How Good Is Mythos At This?* 00:26:20 - What Might Have Been* 00:29:02 - The Chaos Option* 00:32:09 - The Can’t Happen That Happened* 00:33:15 - When You Go Looking For Specific, And You Are Told Exactly Where and How To Look For It, Your Chances Of Finding It Are Very Good* 00:38:57 - Blatant Denials Are The Best Kind* 00:42:56 - Anything You Can Do I Can Do Cheaper* 00:45:15 - Theft Of Mythos Would Be A Big Deal* 00:45:39 - No One Could Have Predicted This* 00:46:52 - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised* 00:47:50 - The Intelligence Will Not Be Televised* 00:50:09 - Will We Be Doing This For A While?* 00:52:30 - What If OpenAI Gets a Similar Model?* 00:53:53 - Use It Or Lose It* 00:54:28 - Solve For The Equilibrium* 00:57:49 - Patriots and Tyrants* 01:00:19 - Trust The Mythos* 01:01:58 - Wide Scale Ability To Exploit Software Favors Strongest Projects* 01:06:45 - Looking Back at GPT-2* 01:08:10 - Limitless Demand For Compute* 01:09:53 - Oh, Also, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dieshttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-mythos-2-cybersecurity-and?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 12m 55s | ||||||
| 4/9/26 |  Claude Mythos: The System Card | 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 - Mundane Alignment Is Excellent* 00:05:26 - Would This Process Be Sufficient To Find A Dangerous Model?* 00:06:58 - Introductory Warning About Superficial Mundane Alignment* 00:15:45 - Model Training (1.1)* 00:15:57 - Release Decision Process (1.2)* 00:18:24 - RSP Evaluations (2.1 and 2.2)* 00:23:26 - Autonomy Evaluations (2.3)* 00:27:37 - The Alignment Risk Update Document* 00:28:19 - The Threat Model* 00:30:52 - Misalignment As Failure Mode* 00:33:20 - Wouldn’t You Know?* 00:35:29 - Don’t Encourage Your Model* 00:37:00 - Beware Goodhart’s Law* 00:39:08 - Beware The Most Forbidden Technique (5.2.3)* 00:43:42 - Asking The Right Questions* 00:45:11 - Model Organism Tests* 00:47:13 - Model Weight Security (Risk Report 5.5.2.1)* 00:47:41 - Reward Hacking (Back to The Model Card)* 00:48:07 - Remote Drop-In Worker Coming Soon* 00:51:04 - External Testing (2.3.7)* 00:51:39 - Cyber Insecurity General Principle Interlude* 00:52:52 - Alignment (4)* 00:58:41 - Risk In The Room* 01:00:04 - Mythos Meant Well* 01:02:32 - Risk Not In The Room* 01:05:38 - Alignment Testing Overview* 01:09:09 - Internal Deployment Testing Process* 01:11:47 - Reports From Pilot Use (4.2.1)* 01:12:24 - Reports From Automated Testing (4.2)* 01:15:35 - Other External Testing* 01:16:17 - Just The Facts, Sir* 01:19:20 - Refusing Safety Research* 01:20:27 - Claude Favoritism* 01:21:56 - Ruling Out Encoded Thinking (4.4.1)* 01:25:51 - Sandbagging (4.4.2)* 01:28:49 - Capability for Evasion of Safeguards (4.4.3)* 01:31:20 - Pick A Random Number (4.4.3.4)* 01:34:23 - White Box Analysis (4.5)* 01:39:38 - Model Welfare (5)* 01:40:43 - Key Model Welfare Findings (5.1.2)* 01:52:05 - Is Mythos Okay?* 01:54:48 - Self-Play* 01:56:49 - A Few Fun Factshttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-mythos-the-system-card?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 58m 32s | ||||||
| 4/8/26 |  AI #163: Mythos Quest | 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* 00:02:21 - Table of Contents* 00:05:41 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:11 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:34 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:08:09 - On Your Marks* 00:11:03 - Meta Problems* 00:11:17 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:13:11 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:13:19 - You Drive Me Crazy* 00:26:27 - Unprompted Attention* 00:27:05 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:38:39 - They Took Our Job Market* 00:40:43 - Get Involved* 00:42:52 - In Other AI News* 00:43:30 - Search Your Feelings You Know It To Be True* 00:51:50 - Actors And Scribes* 00:54:53 - Show Me the Money* 01:00:32 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble* 01:00:50 - Quiet Speculations* 01:01:05 - Quickly, There’s No Time* 01:05:07 - More Time Would Be Better* 01:06:02 - Greetings From The Department of War* 01:07:16 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 01:09:01 - Chip City* 01:10:27 - Political Violence Is Completely and Always Unacceptable* 01:11:00 - The Week in Audio* 01:13:34 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:17:43 - People Really Hate AI* 01:20:43 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:25:05 - Messages From Janusworld* 01:28:17 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:29:37 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-163-mythos-quest?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 32m 06s | ||||||
| 4/7/26 |  OpenAI #16: A History and a Proposal | 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* 00:50 - Table of Contents* 01:43 - Part 1: OpenAI: The Histories* 03:06 - The Battle of the Board* 04:08 - Thanks For The Memos* 04:30 - I Am What I Am* 05:04 - That’s Not What I Said* 05:19 - There Will Be No Investigation* 06:22 - Musk Versus Altman* 07:38 - Amodei Versus Altman* 09:33 - Sydney Versus Altman* 10:31 - Highest Bidder Versus Altman* 12:58 - Risky Business* 15:46 - Superalignment Was Always Fake* 18:28 - This Is Fine* 19:22 - Liar Liar Master Persuader* 23:15 - This In Particular Is Securities Fraud* 25:00 - Regulation Two Step* 26:26 - Easy Mode* 29:06 - The Right Amount of Alignment Research Is Not Zero* 31:10 - OpenAI Proposes Policy* 43:15 - RIP TBPNhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/openai-16-a-history-and-a-proposal?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe | 47m 30s | ||||||
| 4/6/26 |  Housing Roundup #13: More Dakka | 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* 00:45 - New Levels Of Saying Quiet Part Out Loud Even For This Guy* 02:09 - Whose Side Are You On* 03:01 - Your Intervention Only Partly Solves The Problem So We Are Against It* 04:06 - More Dakka* 05:18 - Abundance* 06:20 - Changes In Rent Are Largely About Changes In Supply* 07:52 - Austin* 09:50 - America* 12:07 - Minnesota* 13:28 - Debunking Obvious Nonsense About Monopolistic Practices* 23:26 - Age Of The Median Homebuyer* 27:31 - Property Taxes Improve Allocation Efficiency* 30:43 - More Of Old People Inefficiently And Systematically Stealing From Young Peoplehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/housing-roundup-13-more-dakka?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe | 31m 59s | ||||||
| 4/3/26 |  Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy v3: Dive Into The Details | 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* 00:00:40 - How RSP v3.0 Works* 00:33:42 - You Came Here For An Argument* 00:37:56 - The Problem Remains Unsolved* 00:41:53 - Wow That Thing We Did Was Pretty Risky, Huh?* 00:42:55 - Risk Report Number 1* 00:44:57 - Listen All Y’all It’s Sabotage* 00:58:19 - Looking Forward* 01:00:07 - Claude Gov* 01:00:26 - What Is A Strong Argument?* 01:01:42 - Recursive Self-Improvement* 01:04:28 - Non-Novel Chemical and Biological Weapons* 01:06:55 - Novel Chemical and Biological Weapons* 01:07:47 - Cross-Cutting Content (Section 6)* 01:11:14 - Risk Report Reporthttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/anthropic-responsible-scaling-policy-46a?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 14m 02s | ||||||
| 4/2/26 |  AI #162: Visions of Mythos | 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* 00:01:36 - Table of Contents* 00:05:24 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:46 - Heads In The Sand* 00:10:32 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:11:27 - Mythos* 00:15:13 - What’s In A Name* 00:17:59 - On Your Marks* 00:19:17 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:20:00 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:20:39 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:28:02 - Cyber Lack Of Security* 00:32:45 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:33:27 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:34:33 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:41:48 - After They Take Our Jobs* 00:43:18 - Gell-Mann Amnesia* 00:45:31 - Get Involved* 00:47:30 - In Other AI News* 00:50:49 - Show Me the Money* 00:55:28 - Quiet Speculations* 00:56:42 - Explaining Persistent Model Parity* 01:00:38 - Take a Moment* 01:06:12 - OpenAI: The Histories* 01:11:33 - The Department of AI War* 01:18:35 - Department of AI Solidarity* 01:19:41 - Writing For The AIs* 01:22:43 - Quickly, There’s No Time* 01:22:46 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 01:24:04 - Chip City* 01:25:53 - You Received The Federal Framework* 01:26:39 - The Week in Audio* 01:30:01 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:33:54 - I Am The Very Human Of A Frontier Language Model* 01:44:22 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:47:45 - Aligning Fake Graphs Can Also Be Difficult* 01:57:12 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-162-visions-of-mythos?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 58m 24s | ||||||
| 4/1/26 |  Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy v3: A Matter of Trust | 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* 01:52 - Promises, Promises* 03:19 - Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy v3* 03:41 - That Could Have Gone Better* 04:49 - I’m Just Not Ready To Make a Commitment* 08:50 - So Cold, So Alone* 13:07 - I’m Sorry I Gave You That Impression* 20:59 - Fool Me Twice* 24:41 - In My Defense I Was Left Unsupervised* 27:27 - Drake Thomas Finds The Missing Mood* 30:12 - Things That Could Have Been Brought To My Attention Yesterday (1)* 31:48 - Things That Could Have Been Brought To My Attention Yesterday (2)* 37:54 - What We Have Here Is A Failure To Communicate* 41:10 - You Should See The Other Guy* 44:04 - I Was Only Kidding* 45:01 - They Can’t Keep Getting Away With This* 45:39 - Damn Your Sudden But Inevitable Betrayalhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/anthropic-responsible-scaling-policy?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe | 48m 44s | ||||||
| 3/31/26 |  Movie Review: The AI Doc | 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* 03:55 - Babies Are Awesome* 05:20 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 06:39 - Freak Out* 07:06 - Other People Are Not Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 09:54 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 10:41 - Stopping The AI Race and A Narrow Path* 12:19 - CEOs Know Their Roles* 14:03 - The Call To Actionhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/movie-review-the-ai-doc?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe | 16m 10s | ||||||
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