Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 01:15 - Table of Contents
* 02:32 - Here We Go Again: Executive Summary
* 03:58 - Introduction (1)
* 04:03 - RSP Evaluations (2)
* 05:11 - Move That Goalpost
* 07:11 - The Failures Are News
* 09:21 - Alignment Risk Slowly Rises
* 10:52 - New Risk Pathways Just Dropped
* 13:28 - Cyber (3)
* 14:27 - Harmful Requests (4.1)
* 16:46 - We Need To Talk (4.2 and 4.3)
* 19:56 - Overcoming Bias (4.4)
* 21:59 - Agentic Safety (5)
* 24:38 - Prompt Injection (5.2)
* 31:08 - Alignment (6)
* 32:23 - Looking For Problems
* 33:54 - Who Watches The Training (6.2.2)
* 38:02 - Automated Behavioral Audit
* 38:39 - The Model Is Smarter Than The Eval (6.2.3.2)
* 40:48 - You Should See The Other Guy
* 43:12 - UK AISI Testing (6.2.4)
* 43:32 - In Vendbench (6.2.5)
* 46:10 - Honesty (6.3.3 to 6.3.6)
* 49:00 - Chain of Thought (CoT) Monitorability (6.5)
* 51:46 - What’s In The Box? (6.6)
* 54:01 - That’s All For Now
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-opus-48-is-honestly-better?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:02:06 - Table of Contents
* 00:05:31 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
* 00:06:52 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility
* 00:09:13 - Do The Math
* 00:12:26 - Huh, Upgrades
* 00:13:23 - On Your Marks
* 00:14:42 - Get My Agent On The Line
* 00:15:22 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
* 00:24:00 - Copyright Confrontation
* 00:24:12 - Cyber Lack of Security
* 00:26:34 - Overcoming Bias
* 00:28:38 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer
* 00:30:14 - Unprompted Attention
* 00:30:25 - They Took Our Jobs
* 00:34:08 - Get Involved
* 00:35:56 - Introducing
* 00:36:05 - In Other AI News
* 00:37:58 - Show Me the Money
* 00:40:05 - Show Me The Compute
* 00:40:44 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
* 00:42:24 - People Just Say Things
* 00:47:04 - OpenAI PACs Just Say Things
* 00:47:17 - Quiet Speculations
* 00:49:54 - State AI Regulation Levels Up
* 00:51:50 - The Quest for Sane Regulations
* 00:52:29 - White House Attempts To Cripple American AI Industry
* 00:55:25 - Our Offer Is Nothing
* 01:02:11 - Chip City
* 01:02:26 - Greetings From The Department of War
* 01:03:39 - Marc Andreessen Just Says Things
* 01:11:18 - So Sayeth The Pope
* 01:18:12 - Rhetorical Innovation
* 01:25:45 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
* 01:27:23 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone
* 01:29:27 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone
* 01:30:40 - Everyone Is Confused About Consciousness
* 01:36:50 - The Lighter Side
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-170-lack-of-executive-order?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:03:09 - Table of Contents
* 00:03:50 - A Brief History of Magnifica Humanitas
* 00:13:50 - Economic Models Very Different From Our Own
* 00:15:47 - A New Jerusalem
* 00:18:08 - So Sayeth The Pope (on AI)
* 00:34:03 - The Case Against Human Achievement
* 00:37:01 - Truth, Justice and the Vatican Way
* 00:40:03 - They Took Our Jobs
* 00:45:19 - What Is Not Fair In Love and War
* 00:52:21 - Come Ye Christian Faithful
* 00:54:55 - The Other Missing Mood
* 00:57:31 - Pope Given About Five Words
* 01:01:20 - The Anthropic Principle
* 01:03:29 - Claude Can Read Your Code
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/rtmh-pope-leos-magnifica-humanitas?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 00:38 - Introducing Google Gemini three point five ‘Flash’
* 05:20 - Other People’s Benchmarks
* 06:34 - Reactions
* 12:29 - Google AI Search
* 13:21 - Google Daily Brief
* 14:29 - Google I/O Day
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gemini-35-flash-looks-good-for-how?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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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
* 00:01:17 - Table of Contents
* 00:04:46 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
* 00:06:42 - Do The Math
* 00:07:59 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility
* 00:08:35 - Huh, Upgrades
* 00:08:48 - The Prior Restraint Era Begins
* 00:10:43 - On Your Marks
* 00:11:13 - METR Frontier Risk Report
* 00:14:57 - Choose Your Fighter
* 00:15:40 - Overcoming Bias
* 00:16:18 - Get My Agent On The Line
* 00:17:34 - Your Prize Is Slop
* 00:24:45 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
* 00:28:38 - Cyber Lack of Security
* 00:30:17 - Copyright Confrontation
* 00:30:26 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer
* 00:32:37 - Unprompted Attention
* 00:32:51 - They Took Our Jobs
* 00:38:20 - Get Involved
* 00:39:20 - Introducing
* 00:40:09 - In Other AI News
* 00:41:44 - Show Me the Money
* 00:44:12 - Show Me The Compute
* 00:45:32 - Quiet Speculations
* 00:49:21 - Time’s Up
* 00:50:37 - People Just Say Things
* 00:53:46 - OpenAI PACs Just Say Things
* 00:57:20 - The Quest for Sane Regulations
* 01:00:16 - Chip City
* 01:04:04 - Pick Up The Phone
* 01:04:33 - The Week in Audio
* 01:04:50 - Rhetorical Innovation
* 01:11:14 - Missing Mood
* 01:18:07 - Americans Really Hate AI
* 01:20:33 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
* 01:25:54 - Greetings From The Department of War
* 01:30:28 - Messages From Janusworld
* 01:30:48 - The Lighter Side
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-169-new-knowledge?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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