Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:00:35 - Table of Contents
* 00:02:17 - Levels of Friction
* 00:06:42 - The Art Of The Jailbreak
* 00:08:17 - The Quest for Sane Regulations
* 00:14:20 - People Really Hate AI
* 00:20:47 - A Very Bad Paper
* 00:28:16 - Rhetorical Innovation
* 00:35:40 - The Most Forbidden Technique
* 00:37:03 - Everyone Is Or Should Be Confused About Morality
* 00:39:01 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
* 00:48:35 - We’ll Just Call It Something Else
* 00:51:10 - Vulnerable World Hypothesis
* 00:56:10 - Autonomous Killer Robots
* 00:58:05 - People Will Hand Over Power To The AIs
* 01:02:09 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone
* 01:04:20 - Other People Are Not Worried About AI Killing Everyone
* 01:05:35 - The Lighter Side
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-156-part-2-errors-in-rhetoric?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:02:34 - Table of Contents
* 00:05:31 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
* 00:05:54 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility
* 00:08:48 - Terms of Service
* 00:09:31 - On Your Marks
* 00:10:37 - Choose Your Fighter
* 00:12:03 - Fun With Media Generation
* 00:14:58 - Lyria
* 00:16:43 - Superb Owl
* 00:17:25 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer
* 00:17:33 - Deepfaketown And Botpocalypse Soon
* 00:20:05 - You Drive Me Crazy
* 00:20:19 - Open Weight Models Are Unsafe And Nothing Can Fix This
* 00:23:32 - They Took Our Jobs
* 00:29:13 - They Kept Our Agents
* 00:30:06 - The First Thing We Let AI Do
* 00:41:34 - Legally Claude
* 00:44:12 - Predictions Are Hard, Especially About The Future, But Not Impossible
* 00:50:11 - Many Worlds
* 00:52:55 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
* 00:53:48 - A Bold Prediction
* 00:54:13 - Brave New World
* 00:57:40 - Augmented Reality
* 00:59:19 - Quickly, There’s No Time
* 01:02:59 - If Anyone Builds It, We Can Avoid Building The Other It And Not Die
* 01:04:48 - In Other AI News
* 01:08:46 - Introducing
* 01:09:26 - Get Involved
* 01:12:42 - Show Me the Money
* 01:14:07 - The Week In Audio
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-156-part-1-they-do-mean-the-effect?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:02:19 - Bad News
* 00:04:10 - Government Working
* 00:15:37 - The Epstein Files
* 00:17:47 - RIP Scott Adams
* 00:19:51 - News You Can’t Use But Click On Anyway
* 00:21:04 - We’re Putting Together A Team
* 00:21:28 - You Can’t Retire, I Quit
* 00:24:17 - Jones Act Watch
* 00:35:00 - Variously Effective Altruism
* 00:36:23 - They Took Our Jobs And Now I Can Relax
* 00:37:28 - While I Cannot Condone This
* 00:39:29 - Good News, Everyone
* 00:41:26 - Use Your One Time
* 00:44:38 - Hands Off My Phone
* 00:47:26 - Fun Theory
* 00:48:57 - Good Advice
* 00:50:46 - For Your Entertainment
* 00:53:52 - Plur1bus
* 00:55:00 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game
* 01:00:38 - Sports Go Sports
* 01:05:23 - The Revolution of Retroactive Rising Expectations
* 01:06:54 - I Was Promised Spying Cars
* 01:07:44 - Prediction Market Madness
* 01:11:40 - The Lighter Side
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/monthly-roundup-39-february-2026?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 03:16 - Table of Contents
* 03:52 - Bounded Distrust
* 06:19 - IN SPACE
* 11:01 - The AI Will Follow You To Mars
* 23:46 - xAI Business Plans
* 27:11 - Optimus Prime
* 28:22 - Beating China
* 31:06 - SpaceX and How To Run a Company Elon Style
* 34:37 - DOGE
* 37:04 - TeraFab IN SPACE
* 37:20 - Postscript: Safety Third at xAI
* 41:56 - Elon Serves Back Saying That Which Is Not
* 44:31 - Elon’s Army
* 45:38 - Children Are Our Future
* 49:29 - Where Do We Go From Here
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/on-dwarkesh-patels-2026-podcast-with-850?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 01:40 - Table of Contents
* 01:52 - The Pace of Progress
* 09:44 - Continual Learning
* 15:17 - Does Not Compute
* 17:07 - Step Two
* 25:25 - The Quest For Sane Regulations
* 28:54 - Beating China
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