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. * 00:00:00 - Introduction * 00:01:02 - Table of Contents * 00:02:45 - Quiet Speculations * 00:06:18 - The Goalposts Are Dyson Spheres * 00:09:55 - People Just Say Things * 00:10:22 - Three Pills * 00:16:32 - The Quest for Sane R...

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 * 00:00:47 - Table of Contents * 00:03:08 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility * 00:05:35 - Language Models Gain Unexpected Affordances * 00:08:40 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility * 00:0...

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 * 00:21 - Table of Contents * 00:45 - EdTech * 07:16 - NonEdTech * 08:42 - Do Not Ban Social Media Outright * 13:43 - Some Modern Kids Media Is Pretty Great * 15:31 - Ban Phones In Schools (1) * 18:51 - Yo...

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 * 00:20 - Through A Different Lens * 01:59 - Establishing J-Space As A Global Workspace * 05:56 - Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering? * 10:08 - Assistant J * 11:05 - The Power Of Virtuous Thinking * 19:2...

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 03:11 - The Blip 09:57 - The White House Explanation 12:01 - Everything Remains Ad Hoc 12:33 - Take What You Can Get 13:59 - The Problem Is Real 14:56 - GLM-5.2 Being Frontier Remains Obvious Nonsense 18:11...

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 Uti...

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 -...

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 I...

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...

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:...

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 P...

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 * 00:07:4...

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 Coul...

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...

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 - Neg...

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 Ar...

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 * 00:13:4...

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 Th...

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 Intervie...

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 Wellne...

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?...

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 *...

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 * 00:11:3...

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 Perspectives https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/three-labs-with-a-plan-and-...

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 Rising https://open.substack.com/pub/...