Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

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* 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 Side
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/housing-roundup-14-you-cant-build?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 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 Side
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-166-google-sells-out?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 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 Know
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-most-important-charts-in-the?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 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 Notes
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gpt-55-capabilities-and-reactions?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 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


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