Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

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* 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 Yet
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* 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 Real
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/white-house-will-ad-hoc-decide-who?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 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 Side
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-174-youre-it?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 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 Things
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-once-and-future-fable-4?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 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 Side
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/monthly-roundup-43-june-2026?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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